It was marketed to a younger, mainstream audience; promotional items noted that it came from the producers of 2001's romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary before acknowledging its provenance as an Austen novel.
In their trademark bit, audience members bring items to be juggled, and three of those objects are chosen by applause.
There is an audience for these items, of course, though in this neighborhood, it probably didn't predate the store, which opened in 2008, replacing a short-lived Ohio Knitting Mills vintage sweater shop.
Last spring, she and a few other women created It Happens Here, a Web site about sexual violence at Amherst, and this month she drew a wide audience for two items she published on a student-run blog.
She reminded her audience of some items from the Republican record, hammering at the words and deeds of both Mr. Bush and his vice-presidential choice, Dick Cheney, and attacking their plans to keep the convention free of dissent.
On Tuesday night a supportive audience cheered each item.
After that, people talked about money, we saw a presentation about 7UP and THUMP's own Zel McCarthy shook up a media panel by gifting the audience a blind item here and there and speaking the truth about "Disco Sucks" and that EDM word.
This listicle approach was in keeping with the influence of Buzzfeed and Wikipedia in the lives of its intended audience, even if some items felt more end-of-the-pier than end of Milan fashion week.
One of the 2010 venues was the Ted Hughes Theatre itself, where the Northerner heard a tired poet, by then only one valley away from home, entertain his audience with (amongst other items) a startling poem about the alleged satanic goings-on in neighbouring Luddendenfoot.
Since the episode was broadcast across Viacom-owned networks, there were news items the audience didn't have to be political junkies to appreciate, perhaps a strategy to attract new viewers.
