
Unknown Lineage and Other Happy Endings
The fourth annual Tryon International Film Festival, held in Western North Carolina’s famous equestrian town, bursts onscreen with a rambunctious “woof” instead of a…
Read MoreThe fourth annual Tryon International Film Festival, held in Western North Carolina’s famous equestrian town, bursts onscreen with a rambunctious “woof” instead of a…
Read MoreThe best movies are like dear friends. You visit often and ask different questions each time. Most follow the classic, linear, three-act structure taken…
Read MoreFor no other reason than to have a goofy good time in a town that’s usually pretty well behaved, the Artisan of Flat…
Read MoreTryon film fans and art lovers are marking a red-letter day at the end of July. The historic Tryon Theatre, closed for months for…
Read MoreSometimes the more spiritual someone tries to be, the more human nature tests them. As if the higher the goal, the baser the temptation….
Read MoreEven if you haven’t read his six books, or don’t remember that he won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, most Americans have some idea…
Read MoreThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was nominated this year for seven Academy Awards, and won two, for Best Actress Frances McDormand and Best Supporting…
Read MoreWriter/historian James Fenimore Cooper was hiking with English friends in the Adirondack Mountains in northeastern New York, marveling at the magical, romantic caves beneath…
Read MoreThough only a mediocre student, the dreamy young freckle-faced lord discovered he loved literature. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill taught himself to think like Cicero…
Read MoreThor: Ragnarok, the third outing of Marvel Comics’ God of Thunder, is the best in the series and perhaps the silliest, most preposterous, most…
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