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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Am I the last movie fan in the universe to discover “The History Boys?” No matter – it’s one of those movies you just stumble across by accident, and suddenly remember why you love cinema. And if you are enamored of character development, crazy about the clever…
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Column by Jim Bishop The clean-cut group, The Brothers Four, hit the music scene in a big way in 1960, and then quietly disappeared with the advent of folk-rock and the British invasion. Members Bob Flick, John Paine, Mike Kirkland and Dick Foley formed in 1957 as fraternity members at the University of Washington in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Don’t get your hopes up about seeing the New York Yankees when they come to Blacksburg next month. There will be no tickets available to the general public for the March 18 exhibition game between Virginia Tech and the Yankees at English Field. The school is making 3,000 free general-admission…
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Story by Jim Bishop Crossroads magazine at Eastern Mennonite University won a major award this year from the southeast district of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Competing against dozens of magazines produced by larger institutions, Crossroads received a “special merit award” in the category of “magazine publishing improvement.” The other winners…
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Story by Theresa Curry AGratefulSeason.com Remember Graham Kerr? The irrepressible Englishman was one of the first celebrity television cooks. His “Cooking in Concert” shows with the aging but still hilarious Julia Child are as funny as they are instructive. I especially like one where they debone and cook a duck while talking about the joylessness…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve just about had it with watching political rallies and big speeches on TV and that kind of thing. “O-bah-ma! O-bah-ma! O-bah-ma!”
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Column by Jim Bishop While everyone else is decking the halls and wrecking the walls, yours truly needs to climb up on the rooftop and unclog my Chinese chimney so Santa won’t catch the Hong Kong flue (I’m well-sooted for the job).
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen If you’re a fan of those Coke commercials featuring cuddly polar bears, “The Golden Compass” will be your holiday pleasure. But if you’re grownup and just too weary to invest in another kid fantasy franchise, you’re liable to walk out like I did, thinking: So what?
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Sensing the time was ripe to stab Caesar in the back, over half the print film critics in America dissed Jerry Seinfeld’s “Bee Movie,” now buzzing about in neighborhood cinema hives from coast to coast.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Slathered with high-falutin’ talk and dripping with shaky history, “Elizabeth: The Golden Years” sails into Staunton, drops anchor at the Visulite, and tells the glorious tale of England as only those Brits can tell it.
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