Leaf-peeping season is peaking throughout much of the Western North Carolina. And the spectacular natural phenomenon is well covered by local and national media outlets alike, from ongoing features in the Asheville Citizen-Times to a call from Mountain Xpress for reader photos, like this one submitted by Brian Deas and Larry McCallen.
I’m looking down the barrel of a gun marked, “The Weekend from Hell”—in movie reviewing terms, that is. Somewhere between now and Monday morning, five full movie reviews and five special screening reviews have to appear as if by magic. That adds up to ten—assuming “New Math” is not involved—and, yes, it’s been done before, but it’s daunting. To add to the daunt factor, I’ve only seen one of the full movies (I’ll be taking a break from this and heading out to take in a couple more in a little while). To make it just that much more entertaining, three of the special screenings are of movies I’ve never seen before. This means that seven movies have to be watched, digested and written about—and then there’s this “Screening Room” thingie. What does this mean to the reader? Simply that the “Screening Room” is going to be of the short and hopefully sweet variety.
This month at Flood Gallery, electronic-media artist Gene Felice demonstrates what happens when rapid-prototyping technology gets caught up in the visual-arts realm.
Last week, we featured singer/songwriter Chris McCune performing one of his many original tunes. Today, we’re revisiting McCune’s performance. Here’s his original track “Country.”
