The polka dot is to Yayoi Kusama as the soup can is to Andy Warhol.
Redemption and hope are the themes of performances in three different venues this month. Two are choral presentations to be given in churches; the third is a drama on stage in a high school. All fuel the feeling of joy, salvation and a change for a better world.
The bright lights are going up and the Christmas bells are ringing! Each outdoor holiday display seems more colorful than the one before. But remember, some inside Yule events match this festivity.
Six days, seven parades. Can we make them all?
It was in 2005 that Markus Zusak first published in Australia what in this country a year later was touted as a book for young people. Adult readers quickly embraced it.
Finding Christmas early in the season is easily possible this week in two ways: Attend JSU’s A Cappella Choir and Chamber Singers concert today at 2:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Anniston, and see “The 1940s Radio Hour” by Theatre of Gadsden on the weekends of Nov. 30-Dec. 8 at…
Volunteers who are making holiday events happen are not only in the spirit but working with the spirit on a daily basis, using the performing arts to enhance the excitement of the season.
A rising star was in Birmingham to support a musical legend on Veteran’s Day. The wind whipped fierce rain across the entire state the holiday weekend and the sky was dark and moody. Inside the Lyric Theater, J.S. Ondara strode to the stage in a resplendent white suit carrying an acoustic gu…
Two of our area’s bountiful blessings are the series of concerts presented by the Foothills Piano Festival and the series of art exhibits at Nunnally’s Noble Street Frame & Gallery. Put them on your “thankful” list because they feature music and visual art on an ongoing basis with wide v…
When he steps outside his usual formula (feisty young attorney battles corrupt law firm/insurance company/government agency), John Grisham often achieves something singular.
Brazilian author Paulo Coelho is the author of “The Alchemist,” a book I haven’t read but understand is a book that many embraced.
Music will feed the heart and soul — and certainly the imagination — for those at the JSU Civic Symphony concert Nov. 13 at Anniston’s First United Methodist Church at 7:30 p.m.
The Record Company has consistently put out blues-based albums that are currently popular but would sound perfectly at place haunting a juke joint in the 1950s.
The Brat Prince is back, heaven help us.
Why not spend next Sunday afternoon with some uplifting music at the JSU Faculty Recital? Before that, next Friday evening enjoy dinner and a show band at the Empty Stocking Gala. The woodwinds and pianists will deliver contrasting qualities of brightness and brilliance at the faculty recita…
Too often in slasher movies, it’s the masked maniac who gets all the love. Not so for "Halloween's" Laurie Strode.
The past and the future are strong centerpieces for two October events, but in each event the theme deals with two entirely different sets of people and circumstances.
Barry is, of course, searching for the American Dream, searching for “Lake Success.”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” — Rudyard Kipling
This past August, Allison McElroy, a professor of art at Jacksonville State University, spent 10 days in another world: the Amazon rainforest.
Are you ready to see the Sugarplum Fairy again this holiday season? She’ll be coming to town, just like Santa Claus, but earlier than Dec. 25 so that she can guide Marie and the Prince in “The Nutcracker” through the Land of Sweets to usher in the holidays.
There’s an intense, austere moment at the end of Elliot Ackerman’s “Dark at the Crossing,” a finalist for last year’s National Book Award. It occurs as two people journey to their “crossing” in the Middle East. We experience it through the eyes of someone peering through a seam in the tarpau…
From haunted houses to festivals to costume contests for kids, grownups and dogs!
The literary prototype for this important and moving novel from Canadian author Esi Edugyan — her most recent work is “Half-Blood Blues” — is very much the picaresque: A naive youth wanders the world, observing its errant idiosyncrasies while coming of age. Think Candide. Think Huckleberry Finn.
