Perhaps more than any other branch of any nation's armed forces, air forces seem to get all the glory and publicity. And the other fighting forces -- Army, Navy and Marines -- are so blinded by the glamour of airpower that they've managed to create their own aerial branches.Read more
Deborah Digges, who took her own life in the spring of 2009, wrote poems of grief throughout her career—some painful and unsparing, but many with a silver lining of comfort and sly celebration. Here is "The Coat," written for her husband, from her posthumous collection The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart.
A return to childhood with Philip Levine, who is now in his eighties, and whose Detroit, before, during, and after the Second World War, has become a classic, frequently revisited setting in American poetry.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – The Huntington Symphony set a March 31, 2011 goal to raise $100,000to pay off their bills and guarantee the popular summer pops programs on the riverfront and a 2011-2012 season. at the beautiful Keith Albee.Read more
Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, was supposed to be just one more stop in the wanderings of 29-year-old American Conor Grennan. Instead, a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in a country wracked by civil war, turned his life around, and led to his meeting and falling in love with Liz Flanagan, who became his wife and the mother of their child, Finn. Read more
The life of Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) spanned a fascinating period in our art—he knew W. H. Auden and Sylvia Plath, served in the Second World War, and lived to see what came well after the flowering of post-war American poetry, of which he was a part. As the poetic landscape opened up onto a vista of increasinglyRead more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Get ready for a foursome weekend in many areas, flick fans. Arthur, Hannah, Soul Surfer, and Your Highness are the opening wide attractions.Read more
“Insidious” is fashioned after the good old haunted house films that we’ve seen several times before. If you were to compare it with some of the others of recent years, it would most accurately be described as a better version of “Paranormal Activity,” but not on the level of “The Others.”Read more
Charleston Stage Company will hold auditions for Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? this Saturday and Sunday, April 9-10, 2:00pm at the WVSU Capitol Center Theatre, 123 Summers St Charleston.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Daily is too strong a word, but frequent sweeps of the internet will derive hints --- both official and viral --- of the “Super 8” flick scheduled for June 2011 release. Shot in and around Weirton, WV, director J.J. Abrams (“Star Trek”) has cat and mouse previews gushing. If you think it’s a bit “Cloverfield,” well, the same marketing firm is handling “Super 8.”Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Percussion Ensemble will give a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 7, on the university’s Huntington campus.Read more
HUNTINGTON,WV (HNN)Arts Resources for the Tri-State continues Neil Simon's, "Barefoot in the Park," at the Renaissance Arts Theatre in Huntington located at 900-8th. Street on April 8-9-10.Read more
Would you have your mom or dad 'home school' you so you could be in a J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg flight? To use a Palin expression, "You bettcha." When lensing "Super 8" last fall near Weirton , WV, Abrams wanted "authentic kids," according to a story in the L.A. Times. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Here are the initial release of regional movie comings and goings effective April 1, 2011. Schedules are subject to change. Three new films open widely, “Hop,” “Source Code” and “Insidious.”
MARQUEE PULLMAN SQUARE ( All digital; 4 Real D auditoriums), Hop, 11:45-12:30-2:15-3:30-4:55-6:30-7:15-9:15-9:45; Source Code, 12:00-2:20-5:00-7:30-9:50;Insidious, 11:35-2:10-4:45-7;25-9:50;Read more
Director J.J. Abrams apparently enjoys laying out “clues” to tempt the movie going audience. Using an occasional gimmick to build interest in a film falls back to an era when quirky exploitation gimmicks (vomit bags for “Mark of the Devil,” or “no one admitted in the last 30 minutes,” for example) piqued curiosity in movie releases.
After an assemblage of two clips in NYC, the director had some filmstrips mailed to entertainment mags, including “Entertainment Weekly.”
Inside the box with a 70s postmark a filmstrip.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – March 1979 recalls a period in which downtown Huntington had three theatres on Fourth Avenue, the Keith Albee, the Cinema and the Camelot.Read more
If it didn't already have a state motto -- "Esse quam videri" ("To be rather than to seem" from Cicero's "On Friendship") -- North Carolina might consider native son Thomas Wolfe's famous "You Can't Go Home Again."Read more
The Huntington Museum of Art will welcome artist Sook Jin Jo as the second of two visiting Walter Gropius Master Artists this winter/spring. An exhibition of work by Sook Jin Jo will be on view at HMA from April 2-May 29, 2011.Read more
Huntington, WV (HNN)- With the current financial situation of the struggling Huntington Symphony Orchestra and the possibly the orchestra closing the HSO published its latest campaign numbers. The ‘Save the Music’ campaign started in mid January with a goal of raising $100,000.00 by March 31, 2011.Read more
"Extra" caught up with Brooke Mueller at the Argyle Salon while she was getting ready for the Starlight Children's Foundation gala on Saturday. Read more
Unfortunately, I was not one of the lucky group who received an invitation from Paramount Pictures to a New York City’s Walter Reade Theatre in Lincoln Center.Read more
HUNTINGTON -- The West Virginia State Police is investigating an armed robbery that occurred Saturday night in the 5800 block of Ohio River Road. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – A group of lucky film writers had an opportunity this week to view about 20 minutes of clips from “Super 8.” The movie shot last fall in and around Weirton, WV and due for release in June was directed by J.J. Abrams.Read more
MARQUEE PULLMAN SQUARE ( All digital; 4 Real D auditoriums), Sucker Punch, 11:30-2:05-4:40-7:20-10:00; Dairy of Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules, 11:40-2:05-4:30-7:00-9:30; Cedar Rapids, 12:20-2:40-5:00-7:25-9:40;Read more
HUNTINGTON,WV (HNN) Huntington celebrated St. Patrick's Day with Party on the Patio at Heritage Station on Thursday evening with music, free food, prizes and fun.Read more
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