CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Images of fanciful birds dressed in colorful fine clothing depicting their individuality and personalities are the basis of A MRead more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Grammy Award winner Chip McNeill will perform at Marshall University’s Jomie Jazz Forum at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, as part of the Jomie Jazz Guest Artist Series. McNeill will be accompanied by Dr. Sean Parsons (piano), Phil Bowden (bass) and Steve Hall (drums). The group will be performing jazz standards as well as original compositions. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) As the tenth year of remembrance for the 9/11 attacks is still piercing the hearts and minds of Americans, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Lawrence Wright will discuss his first-hand experience traveling through the Middle East, his interviews with al-Qaeda members and the events that lead to physical assault on our country, September 11, 2001. Read more
DAD: hello son. I need you to call me as soon as you get this. I am using good grammar because your mom says it bugs you when I dont. Sorry I didnt use an apostrophe. I dont know how. I also dont know how to do a zero. I still use a capital O. Actually you dont have to call me anymore.
Me: How long did that take you to write?
DAD: lets just say funniest home videos is almost over. --- From "When Parents Text"
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UPDATE: Landau Eugene Murphy won first place in the televised contest Wednesday. Over 500 fans cheered him on as his performance was shown at Logan's Fountain Square Cinemas. A homecoming celebration is planned, but the Hatfield/McCoy Convention and Visitor's Bureau has not confirmed a date that Mr. Murphy will be present. Read more
The City of Huntington Foundation and 5thAvenue Theatre Company presents the hilarious comedy “Noises Off!” this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. This hysterical play that the New York Times called “one of the funniest plays ever written” will be performed at the Jean Carlo Stephenson Auditorium in Huntington’s City Hall on 5thAvenue.
“Contagion” is a tale we’ve seen told several times before on smaller scales, but this time it’s brought to us with perhaps the largest Oscar-nominated/winning cast in history and it’s even directed by another Oscar winner, Steven Soderbergh. You would think that with so much talent involved behind and in front of the camera that “Contagion” would be something uniquely special, but sadly that’s not what we end up with.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN (HNN) - Although no war planes arrived too late to have any impact on the 9/11 air attacks, ten years later two fighter jets nabbed a plane. It seems that two of the passengers on the Frontier Airlines flight engaged in "suspicious activity." Read more
I feel the earth - move - under my feet I feel the sky tum-b-ling down - tum-b-ling down -- Carole King, from her 1971 hit song "I Feel The Earth Move" from her "Tapestry" album Read more
RICHMOND, VA (HNN) Of all the films released thus far in 2011, none has been discussed more than Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life.” From its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, there were reports of the film being booed, but also reports of applause, which ended up winning in the end as the film took the prestigious Palme d’Or (Best Picture). The polarized reaction continued as some hailed the film as a masterpiece while others found it to be an indecipherable enigma that didn’t warrant the time to sit through it. Having finally seen the film, I’m left with a strange, mixed reaction as it’s quite a lot to take in at once.Read more
"Our best colleagues, the honour and pride of the FSB, don't do their work for the money… there is one very special characteristic that unites all these people, and it is a very important quality, it is their sense of service. They are, if you like, our new ‘nobility.'" —Nikolai Patrushev, former Director of the FSB, in a 2000 message when he was director of the FSB, succeeding Vladimir Putin Read more
I'm a disappointed idealist. I think of myself as a skeptic, a realist. I think the cynics are the people who left the gas tank on the Ford Pinto, companies that kill people and just cross them out because they can't afford to retool. That's a cynical position. But the saying goes, if you scratch a cynic, you find a disappointed idealist, and that's what's going on with me. Down deep and underneath, the flame still flickers. I wish for an idealist, utopic world but the realist in me says it's never gonna happen because of the way they've structured power and money and control and the hierarchies they've established. -- George Carlin (1937-2008) in a 2004 Salon interview Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV- Due to rising waters and a rainy forecast, organizers have moved the location of the Cee Lo Green concert on Thursday, September 8th from Harris Riverfront Park to the Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Downtown Huntington.Read more
When I open a package from a publisher and a review copy of a business book drops out, I let out a groan -- and I mean a GROAN! -- and usually toss it on a pile of books to be read sometime, in a distant parallel universe future. Sometimes I even read the publisher's handout, which usually reveals the book to be like all the rest. Read more
Go ahead and take a last swim in the lake. “Shark Night” (3D) does not fulfill its premise of creating fear ofdiving into the waters of a pond, river or beach. Harking back to the “Jaws” filmsthat turned vacationers into raw meat and scolded authorities for withholding shark sighting warnings, “Shark Night” fails to deliver a scream orempathy for the co-eds stranded in a man-eating shark infested lake.Read more
I'm guessing that even those who pride themselves on their knowledge of the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers probably don't know much about Ethan Allen. I didn't until I read Willard Sterne Randall's "Ethan Allen: His Life and Times" (W.W. Norton, 617 pages, 16 pages of illustrations, including maps, notes, bibliography, index, $35.00). Read more
I wanted to tell her that I had never loved anyone, and ask her to explain how a woman incapable of giving love could ever be expected to be a mother, a good one. ---VictoriaRead more
RICHMOND, VA (HNN) - “The Debt” is a spy thriller that was originally supposed to be released at the end of last year, and while the reason given for its move is the studio changing to new owners, the film offers up more conclusive reasons for why it specifically would have been delayed.Read more
As the ten year anniversary of 9/11 approaches, here's footage that you can not see anymore, except on tape. These are the Towers of the World Trade. People worked there. Visitors rode an elevator to an observation floor 110 stories in the air. Diners could enjoy an entree in the clouds. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - The Dutch Miller Summer Concert Series concluded with a performance Thursday from Sister Redden Hair and Crisp & Davis. A good crowd was on hand to round out the free Pullman concert series. Read more
“I want to be a killer,” an emphatic ten year old tells her new guardian. She came to America from Columbia after enduring the deaths of her mom and dad by crime kingpins.Read more
No serial killer. No simple explanation. No psycho seeking revenge. Here’s a creepy ole’ house flick that elicits squeals of delight and fear from audiences. Leading you into the foyer of a prior hell house, “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” sucks a restoration-minded architect (Guy Pearce) and his interior decorator hottie ( Katie Holmes) into a pit filled with paranormal poltergeist.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Two musical festivals happen in Huntington this weekend. Friday the Diamond Teeth Mary Blues Festival starts at Heritage Station. Live music, food, drink, and lots of artisan-vendors. Admission is free.Read more
For the weekend before Labor Day, the cinemas continue with a little something or anyone who has had their fill of super heroes. It's also one of those "split" weeks, as "The Debt" debuts on Wed. Aug. 31 for a jump start on the holiday weekend. Read more
The writing team behind the great thriller “Taken” brings us another out-for-revenge film with their latest collaboration, “Colombiana.” It’s being marketed as a non-stop action-thriller with a main character not letting anyone get in here way as she tries to complete her mission, and while that is what we get in part, it’s certainly not the whole film.Read more
CLEVELAND, OHIO (HNN) - Pittsburgh has the Dark Knight, but Marvel has selected Cleveland, Ohio for the Avengers shoot. Actually, they have so much of this secretively under way, few images have escaped. But, here are a few glimpses. Read more
Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about a science book Don't know much about the French I took -- Sam Cooke, "Wonderful World (Don't Know Much)" Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Unlike most independent films, “Doughboy” received a two week engagement at WV’s largest theatre chain. Producer Kristin Selbert hopes this will allow them to skip the “film festival” route and obtain national distribution courtesy of publicity generated during the two week engagement.Read more
If you suspect that TV spy shows like "Covert Affairs," and "Burn Notice" don't tell the real story of spies, you might want to pick up a copy of "The Company We Keep: A Husband and Wife True-Life Spy Story" *(Crown, 320 pages, $26.00) by Robert Baer and Dayna Baer. Read more
Steve Free and his Band – Award-winning singer and songwriter Steve Free has charted 14 songs on the national and international independent charts.His breezy folk-rock style makes him a Camden Park favorite.He will perform some of the songs from his CD “Coming Home” which is a blend of road-tested songs with influences of Native America and Appalachia.
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Racing on the highway chasing an unfathomable American road dream has placed the "cyclist" in the spotlights since movie making began. Often used as the mode of transportation for the young male rebel (think James Dean or John Travolta in “Grease”) .... but with him will be 'gang,' and his woman. Depending on the theme, especially in the last 20 years bloodsucking zombie or vampire stripping ladies may lurch nearby.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV(HNN) - Good movies strongly advocate a new perspective making you think. Better movies expose the viewer to new ideas allowing them to form opinions. The best movies often change your mind about a subject while coaxing a tear or two from your eyes. ‘Doughboy” is the latter.Read more
