Take a journey to another country and experience a foreign culture from the comfort of the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center during the Fall International Film Festival.Read more
I'm calling my assessment of "The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and The Failures of Great Powers" (PublicAffairs, 912 pages, $39.99) a "Book Notes" instead of a "Book Review" because I skimmed the book; I didn't read every word -- which is my requirement for doing a book review. Read more
I was one of the millions of moviegoers who rejected the reviews of film critics and contributed to the $27.3 million weekend gross for "Real Steel" -- which won the box office sweepstakes. Read more
Huntington author Carter Taylor Seaton will be signing her new novel, “amo, amas, amat…an unconventional love story” at Stadium Bookstore on Friday, October 14 from 2 pm to 5 pm and at the Marshall University Bookstore on Saturday, October 15 from 11 am to 1:30 pm. Read more
Slither, crawl or hop your way down to the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center on Tuesday Oct.11 for a return visit from Jack Hanna that you won’t be able to forget. Jack Hanna is returning to Huntington, WV with his fascinating animal friends in tow.Read more
Kicking off the Fall International Film Festival is a special presentation from West Virginia Native and award-winning documentary film maker MORGAN SPURLOCK.Read more
A lot has happened since the 2010 hardback publication of Suzanne McGee's "Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Down Wall Street...and Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again", now in a trade paperback edition (Crown Business, a Random House imprint, 448 pages, $16.00), but some things haven't changed, including the same Gordon Gekko "Greed Is Good" "chasing Goldman Sachs" philosophy that contributed to the 2007-2008 financial meltdown. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Fall settles in and it’s inching closer to brisk nights and thoughts of goblins and scares on the big screen. Thriller is THE word for this week as George Clooney unveils the significantly buzzing , Ides of March. Add, Real Steel, Hugh Jackson’s tough guy boxing dramathe mix too. Next week, two non-interrelated genres face-off, the new “Footloose” opens with a (prequel ) “The Thing.” And , hold your screams, “Paranormal Activity III” will be unleashed before the trick or treaters go asking for candy.Read more
George Clooney’s “The Ides of March” is a stark look at the ruthlessness involved in the world of politics. It presents two candidates vying for one position. Only one can have it. Those candidates and their campaign managers are willing to do whatever it takes to get it and are not shy when it comes to playing games of manipulation, backstabbing, and blackmail in order to accomplish their goals, whether it’s for the benefit of the campaign or their own personal ambition.
DOLLY SODS,WV (HNN) On Thursday bright fall colors were gone at the higher elevations in West Virginia in places like Dolly Sods, Canaan Valley and Black Waterfalls. Reports of freezing temperatures about two weeks earlier may be to blame. Read more
Former Department of Justice attorney J. Christian Adams in his "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department" (Regnery, 256 pages, $27.95) says the "racialization" of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department has reached a point where the best solution might be to disband the division and disperse its 800 employees around the DOJ. Read more
(HUNTINGTON,WV (HNN) Clear Channel held Oktoberfest at Pullman Square on Saturday on a cold rainy overcast day that kept away large crowds like in previous years. Even so Oktoberfest went on with entertainment, vendors and those there seemed to be having fun.Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Student Government Association is encouraging participation in the annual homecoming parade, which takes place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in downtown Huntington. Prizes will be awarded to the top floats and bands. Read more
HUNTINGTON,WV (HNN) First Stage Theatre Company presented "School House Rock Live," at the Renaissance Center in Huntington to an appreciative audience. The show started running on September 23 and concluded on Sunday October 2 with an afternoon performance.Read more
Sir Richard Branson's memoirs have been updated in a trade paperback "Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way" (Crown Business, a Random House imprint, 624 pages, $17.00, illustrations, index) that made me perspire and shake with fear (thinking about his adventures in long-distance ballooning). I made it through to page 295 before I quit reading, so I'm calling this "Book Notes" instead of a "Book Review." Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Having earned a third week on the 3D screen, “Lion King” has three more pieces of cinematic meat challenging it for King of the Week’s Movies. 50/50, stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a 27 year old dude approaching his cancer battle with a comedic spirit. The remaining contenders, include “What’s Your Number,” Anna Faris stars as a picky female reexamining her past 20 relationships to see if she overlooked Mr. Right; and, finally, Dream House has Daniel Craig moving his family into a new home where a brutal crime happened. Haven’t on-screen real estate purchasers yet learned to check a mansion’s historic record before plucking down bucks? Naomi Watts also stars.
And, for the first time, here's the just release trailer for the 9/11 drama, "Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close," (c) by Warner Bros. Stars Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock.
You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott? No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. -- Ransom Stoddard (played by James Stewart) to Maxwell Scott in the 1962 movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" Read more
Pulitzer Prize Winner Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 will participate in a book signing after his appearance on the Keith Albee stage September 29. Wright will sign autographs and books immediately following his performance Thursday night. The Marshall Artists Series is partnering with Empire Books to make copies of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 available for purchase. Read more
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear -- 1997 to be exact -- to find out what made elite U.S. Army Military Policeman Jack Reacher the scruffy vigilante he is today in Lee Child's "The Affair" (Delacorte Press, a Random House imprint, 416 pages, $28.00), the 16th Reacher novel and the one that explains everything you need to know. Read more
Most people have read something somewhere -- or more likely heard it on TV -- about the declining populations of European countries, with each year seeing fewer young people in the workforce to sustain the welfare state safety net of health care and pensions that keep the retirees of Germany, France, Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries so prosperous. Read more
Robert Rizzo -- nicknamed "Ratzo Rizzo" by L.A. Times Columnist Steve Lopez -- is featured prominently in a new book that rivals Machiavelli's famous "The Prince" in its scope, while being much more relevant to the 21st Century. Written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics" (PublicAffairs, 352 pages, $27.99) is a good introduction to an academic discipline I'd never heard of, selectorate theory. Read more
Four new flicks fly into cinemas, including the awaiting Brad Pitt "Moneyball" drama which pertains to professional baseball. Lion King 3D will be facing "Dolphin Tale." Action/suspense fans have "Abduction" and Killer Elite. Last week's weakest debut came from "I Don't Know How She Does It," so expect a short run. Read more
Ebenezer Medical Outreach, Inc. and Clear Channel Communications announce the Third Annual Dancing with the Tri-State Stars, Friday, October 7th, Big Sandy Superstore Arena, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Huntington, WV. The doors will open at 7:00 p.m. with competition starting at 8:00 p.m.Read more
Without Alice Cooper, there might never have been the NY Dolls, KISS, Marilyn Manson, or Rob Zombie. The iconic hard rocker, who literally invented the concept of the rock concert as theater, returns to what he does best on Along Came a Spider, the 25th studio album of a long and illustrious career which began in 1969 with the release of Pretties for You on Frank Zappa's Straight label.Read more
Back in the early 2000s, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, was faced with a tough problem. Using only the small payroll at his disposal, he had to attempt to put together a team that could compete in the big leagues. Now his story is being retold in Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball,” a film that, at first looked like your typical, uplifting sports film, but thanks to the talent involved, it ends up being something a little more than that.Read more
HUNTINGTOTN, WV (HNN) - Thousands of people were on Third Ave in front of Pullman Square for the 28th. Annual ChiliFest that took place on Saturday with ideal weather for the festival. Some vendors even ran out of chili!Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University’s Gallery 842 has become home to a university and community improvisational music effort known as General Sound Unit (GSU). Read more
Preying upon left over recollections of the H1N1 pandemic hysteria, director Steven ("Oceans Eleven," "Good Night and Good Luck") Soderbergh crafted “Contagium” into a scientifically plausible viralthriller.He avoids the military ‘nuke it’ option that infects many biological outbreaks ,instead, concentrating upon an unstoppable mutation that has multiple global hot spots.
Game Stop & Marquee Cinemas have teamed to bring the third “Gears of War” to 50 foot giant screens across West Virginia. For $5 admissions game players can beginning at 9 p.m. play “Gears of War II” with the third installment available at 12 midnight for big screen play.Read more
It's possible to be too modest, to lack the ability to make one's case with the news media, a characteristic that ill served Gen. Omar N. Bradley (1893-1981), an outstanding World War II commander who finally gets a biography that he deserves with Jim DeFelice's "Omar Bradley: General At War" (Regnery History, 451 pages, illustrations, notes, maps, bibliography, index, $29.95). Read more
