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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was nominated this year for seven Academy Awards, and won two, for Best Actress Frances McDormand and Best Supporting…
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…
Read MoreThere’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…
Read MoreAt the third Tryon International Film Festival this month, horses will quite literally be prancing in the streets. Six equine performers and their trainers,…
Read MoreNature photographers are a special lot. They can wait for days, weeks, to catch the perfect shot of a leaping lion, or the flutter…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreThere’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…
Read MoreIn 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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