Meridian Audio is known for producing robust home theater systems and automotive sound systems, but its latest product is a considerably smaller device, a digital-to-audio converter.
But XBMC is clearly heading in a different direction, and one that might be better suited to those who want a truly robust home theater experience that can handle everything from a single living room computer.
New York City had a more robust black theater scene and better-established outlets for creative black people.
The opening salvo of the so-called Talley Trilogy, "Fifth of July," first produced in 1978, is receiving a robust outing at Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor, in a co-production with the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts.
Though they can appear compellingly fragile, figurative puppetry and nonfigurative-object theater are robust media for formal abstraction.
But no, that seems to be real boiled beef being dished out in the Maly Theater's robust two-part production of "Brothers and Sisters," which runs through this weekend at the John Jay College Theater as part of Lincoln Center Festival 2000.
"It is theaters like the Goodman that ensure a robust future for the American theater, for they have long trusted the presence of its playwrights and believed in their ability to make bountiful music," he said.
A 3-D conversion of the 20-year-old "Jurassic Park" (Universal) was close behind, taking in a surprisingly robust $18.2 million, with Imax theaters seeing a particularly large turnout.
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," left, an animated adaptation of the children's book, sold about $30.1 million in tickets at North American theaters, a robust total fueled partly by a marketing campaign involving images of raining noodles.
