Day: January 19, 2011
Elitist Bastards: Off-the-hook good movie reviews
In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review newly released films The Green Hornet and The Dilemma. They also chat about classic horror flicks The Devil Commands and The Return of the Vampire (this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show double feature) and the often-overlooked screwball comedy First Love (this week’s Asheville Film Society screening), and speculate about the quality of this week’s upcoming releases The Way Back and No Strings Attached.
Of ample hills: The 2011 Mountain Xpress Poetry Prize
Western North Carolina has long history as a mecca for the written word. From Thomas Wolfe to Wilma Dykeman, O. Henry to Charles Frazier, our mountains have been home to a diverse group of esteemed authors, many of them poets. Is it coincidence that the last three poets laureate of North Carolina — Fred Chappell, Katherine Stripling Byer and Cathy Smith Bowers — are from the mountains? And we know there are more poets in these hills.
