Kicking the Habit
Sometimes the more spiritual someone tries to be, the more human nature tests them. As if the higher the goal, the baser the temptation….
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A Look Behind the Holiness
Even 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…
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Ablaze with Contradictions
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was nominated this year for seven Academy Awards, and won two, for Best Actress Frances McDormand and Best Supporting…
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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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