Nightcrawler: Apple Jam festival pairs local notables with nationals
Just when you thought it was safe to put your wallet away, out trots another apple product. But with more than two dozen bands cranking out more than 32 hours of music Aug. 21-23, Gary Phelps’ Apple Jam Roots Music Festival is a relative bargain, with three-day...
The New Chairman
About a year ago, I gained temporary possession of a chair. The thing was apparently full of weighty significance, stuffed with metaphors and bursting with prosody. The Poet’s Seat poetry contest awards the chair annually to a Franklin County poet via blindly judged...
Cinemadope: He Shoots, He Scores!
So often when we talk about film, we talk about the people on either side of the camera. We talk about the great actors and actresses whose performances touch some deep part of our secret selves, revealing surprising truths we didn’t know we knew. We talk about the...
Stagestruck: Play by Play by Playwrights
They call it a play, but it’s hard work. While staging a theater production is by definition a cooperative enterprise in a shared space, the script that provides its foundation is most often a solo undertaking created in a private room. Playwrights are the loners in...E-Edition
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