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
Huntington, WV (HNN) - Your Huntington Symphony Orchestra announced today that the next Picnic with the POPS will be Saturday Aug. 20, 2011. The theme for this Tailgating Orchestra Style event is, “A Tribute to the American Heroes”. Read more
If you've read Anne Perry's 2009 novel "Execution Dock" featuring William and Hester Monk, her new "Acceptable Loss" (Ballantine Books, 320 pages, $26.00) will sound familiar. If you haven't, not to worry: Perry has included more than enough information from the previous novel to make "Acceptable Loss" stand on its own two legs. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV- The wait is over! Individual tickets to all Marshall Artists Series 2011-2012 events will go on sale Monday, August 22nd at 10 a.m.! From musical powerhouses Elvis Costello, Michael McDonald and Glen Campbell, to Tony-Award winning Broadway musicals full of toe—tapping tunes,Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - This mid-August weekend will toss movies of nearly all genres at viewers, hoping that one will rise above "Planet of the Apes" and "The Help."
However, for many in our area, schools have opened earlier than normally due to the persistent bad winters with excessive snow days. As a result, cinemas have in some cases already switched to post-Labor Day schedules, i.e. no weekday matinees. Another impact of the early start of school, the Friday Night Lights schedules tend to impact flicks.Read more
Exercise and recreation ... are as necessary as reading; I will say rather more necessary, because health is worth more than learning. A strong body makes the mind strong. —Thomas Jefferson, W&M Class of 1762
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. -- George Carlin (1937-2008) Read more
The Hollywood production of “Doughboy,” set and shot in Wheeling, W.Va., will premiere nationwide in the Friendly City on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Highland Marquee Cinemas (Triadelphia), a day before the production opens in select W.Va. markets (Huntington, Charleston, Beckley and Wheeling). Read more
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse -- Bruce Cockburn, Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, from his 1981 song "The Trouble with Normal" Read more
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. -- George Bernard Shaw, preface to "Pygmalion" Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Harris Riverfront Park will be the scene of good eating and good entertainment , Aug 11-14, as the 16th annual Huntington Rib & Music Festival starts its late Summer run. Read more
BARBOURSVILLE, WV (HNN) – For those who miss the weekly doses of stand up comedy at Pullman Square’s Funny Bone, Tascali’s Decades Pasta & Grill , 6007 U.S. Rt. 60 East, hosts a show tonight at 8:30 p.m.Read more
