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You can dip your toe into the water or you can run screaming and do a cannonball. The Hangout Music Festival has undeniably chosen the latter.
To ignite a child’s curiosity and imagination, nothing replaces a good book in hand. And even with all of our electronic devices, there’s no substitute for the fascination and wonder a live musical theater brings to young audiences.
Even Taylor Hollingsworth finds the words tough to come by when trying to pigeonhole his music.
BURBANK, Calif. — The Los Angeles coroner's office says "The Lost Boys" actor Corey Haim is dead at 38.
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Loyal fans recognize Drivin’ n’ Cryin’s sound right away, from the unique, high-pitched voice of lead singer Kevn Kinney to the strong, true-to-rock guitar riffs.
Jacksonville, as even the most loyal of residents would admit, is a far cry from places like Chicago, St. Louis and Washington, D.C.
As a child of the latest millennium who has been spoiled by cable television and its myriad syndicated sitcoms, it should come as no surprise that I have come to view 1950s America like a suburban kid views an ice cream truck through a bedroom window as it passes by on a hot summer day.
Think Lorenz Tate in the movie Love Jones or Michael Myers in So I Married an Ax Murderer. Think amateur poets on a nightclub stage reciting their own original poetry for an audience of patrons who snap their fingers or raise lit cigarette lighters in a show of approval.
Ready for a soothing Sunday afternoon? The music by a chamber quartet, mixed with a few very stimulating pieces by famous European composers — at Jacksonville’s First Presbyterian Church at 3 p.m. — will be just that.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s literary reputation is immense and well deserved. Often credited with being the most important writer of the Latin American Boom of the 1960’s and ’70’s and author of several classics studied in colleges everywhere, his literary reputation is matched only by his political connections— the most famous (infamous?) being his close relationship with Fidel Castro.
Breck Eisner’s insane-in-the-membrane update of the George A. Romero cult horror movie The Crazies opens with a brief shot of fire, devastation and small-town apocalypse, followed by a title card that takes us back to the same Iowa farm community two days earlier.
For his debut in the United States, M.R. Hall appears to be trying to introduce Jenny Cooper (the heroin of The Coroner, his first novel) to a whole new audience with his appropriately titled second novel, The Disappeared.
Anne Tyler’s new novel is a delicate rumination on both memory and coming of age. How both can complicate and eventually clarify the most ordinary lives in the most unexpected ways is at the heart of Noah’s Compass, one of Tyler’s most heartfelt books in a long time.
There may be trouble in River City, as the Broadway song goes, but there’s extra excitement coming from CAST this week as the community theater announced its spring musical will be The Music Man, with opening night scheduled for April 29.
It’s the age-old story of boy meets girl. That is, if said boy happens to be under an unfortunate spell that has turned him into a hideous beast.
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Sting Ray is a good time, rock-em-sock-em, wise-guy cop thriller by Anniston author Ron Miller, with cover art by local designer Ben Coleman.
The Decameron by Boccaccio is the kind of book you get for people who like to read, but who feel classics are essentially three things: long, dull, and dusty.
Fayro, Texas, is the scene. It’s a town sort of like ours — small, Southern, desperately in need of funds. To the rescue — of Fayro, not Anniston — are the Futrelle sisters, who have made it their duty to save the town by having, among other moneymaking ventures, a Civil War re-enactment to impress a rich prospector.
There doesn’t appear to be all that much happiness in the new collection of 10 stories, Too much Happiness from Alice Munro, the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize.