Waiting for the Kiss
Writer/historian James Fenimore Cooper was hiking with English friends in the Adirondack Mountains in northeastern New York, marveling at the magical, romantic caves beneath…
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Gary Oldman turns the tide in a thunderous Churchill biopic
Though 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…
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A Monstrously Good Buddy Movie
Thor: 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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An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Photographer Rosamond Purcell
There’s a fine line (one might say a fine-art line) between hoarding and high genius, and photographer Rosamond Purcell has been on top of…
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Equus Film Festival in Tryon
At the third Tryon International Film Festival this month, horses will quite literally be prancing in the streets. Six equine performers and their trainers,…
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Muse of Metamorphosis
Nature photographers are a special lot. They can wait for days, weeks, to catch the perfect shot of a leaping lion, or the flutter…
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We and Love and Them
In small-town Concord, NC, outside Charlotte in the state’s Piedmont area, Jim and Susie Avett raised two sons. Years later those boys would become…
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Making Mischief
There’s a reason the 2001 romantic comedy Amelie is France’s highest grossing international hit. It’s absolutely the most charming, magical, feel-good film ever made…
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Glory Days
In his latest film, The Hero, Sam Elliott plays an aging movie star facing end-of-life decisions and wishing he had handled his past in…
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Roses and Lies
For almost 80 years, Tryon, NC, population 1,646, has had its own movie theater — a rare architectural and cultural accomplishment in small-town America….
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