'The Lone Ranger': Summer Fun With Manifest Destiny
Director Gore Verbinski and star Johnny Depp have turned in a busy, expensive take on the masked lawman of the Wild West. It's long, tone-deaf, and ultimately crushingly bad.
Arts
An Appalachian Music Festival
An Appalachian Summer Festival 2013 kicks off July 5th and runs through August 1st on the Appalachian State campus in Boone with an exciting and diverse mix of music, dance, theatre, visual arts and film. For nearly a decade, the festival has been named one of the "Top Twenty Events in the Southeast" by the Southeast Tourism Society.
The Tragic Story Of 'Traviata' Muse Marie Duplessis
The 19th-century courtesan died at 23 of tuberculosis, but her legacy inspired a successful play, several movies and the great Italian opera La Traviata. In The Girl Who Loved Camellias, Julie Kavanagh tracks her journey from Normandy peasant girl to romantic heroine.
American Mystery Finds A New Voice On 'The Bohemian Highway'
This is the second mystery in Sara Gran's series featuring 40-ish bad-girl detective Claire DeWitt. Critic Maureen Corrigan says that reading a noir novel written by a Brooklyn-born author gave her a rush of private-eye, patriotic pride.
Steamy Novel An 'Education' In Youth, Love And Mistakes
Susan Choi departs from research-heavy books to write about people and relationships — and winds up writing about love and sex. My Education looks at a graduate student who doesn't learn what she anticipated.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn
The Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro is in full swing. The 52nd season includes a featured performance by world renowned soloist, and Professor of Music at Curtis Institute, Ignat Solzhenitsyn. The concert will be this Saturday night, July 6, at 8:00 p.m.
Taking High-Heat Tandoor Techniques To The Backyard Grill
It's not easy to set up a tandoor oven in the backyard. But chef and writer Madhur Jaffrey says cooking at high heat does something magical to meat, which makes it worthwhile to adapt her tandoor recipes for gas or charcoal grills.
Bill Hader On Sketch Comedy, Classic Hollywood
This weekend will be Hader's final romp on Saturday Night Live. He joined the cast in 2005 and has been nominated for an Emmy for his character Stefon, an obsessive clubgoer. Hader talks about not understanding how people do standup and about watching old films, which sparked his interest in Hollywood.
Branagh Imagines Mozart's 'Magic Flute' In Wartime
Director Kenneth Branagh has given us fresh Shakespeare and witty modern comedies of manners, and some years ago he turned to opera, with an adaptation of Mozart's classic set in World War I. It's finally available in the U.S., and critic Lloyd Schwartz says the results are disappointingly mixed.
From Kids' Books To Erotica, Tomi Ungerer's 'Far Out' Life
The famed author and illustrator broke the rules of American children's literature in the '50s and '60s, but many Americans have never heard of him. A new documentary, Far Out Isn't Far Enough, looks at his life and work.