The Museum of Arts and Sciences in headed downtown to celebrate their 55th anniversary in high style! Join them Thursday, August 25th, at the Terminal Station in downtown Macon for this community fashion show showcasing our town’s fabulous shopping boutiques and restaurants.

For this issue of the new and improved MACON FOOD & CULTURE magazine, I wanted to add some variety as well as bring a different perspective to the FILM column. What I offer is a suggested double feature for the open-minded filmgoer. In no way are these two films perfect. In some aspects they shine and in other aspects they are heavily flawed, at times bordering on the ridiculous. But they work as a double feature for two major reasons...one, a common theme, and two, because I consider them the Alpha and the Omega of erotic film.

Lights! Camera! Action! The three finalists of the Macon Shorts film competition are:

‘Superhero’ by Kristen Wright of Atlanta follows the story of Margot, a young girl coping with the death of her parents by wearing a homemade Superwoman costume. She doesn’t know exactly when she started wearing the costume or why it makes her feel better, but somehow it has become her new skin. With the help of a few friends, and a unique comic book club, Margot takes her first steps back into the real world...and finds a new costume to wear.

Movies have always played with audience expectations...the so-called ‘twist’. The twist eventually became commercialized as a sacred piece of information available only to those willing to pay for it. “Psycho” marquees demanded that audiences not reveal the ending, although its biggest twist arrived just 40 minutes in.