by Brian Clarey Charlie Chaplin was a genius, of course. He laid the foundation for modern American cinema when the medium was a newborn thing. He created his signature Little Tramp character when he ...

Additionally, while Treasure Island established the cliché of “X marks the spot” on treasure maps, Lavery flipped the discovery of Captain Flint’s treasure completely on its head. Instead of a ...

The Downtown Greenway will help with pedestrian access to LoFi — when it’s all fleshed out, bicycle maybe the best way to get to LoFi from the north — and slowing the traffic flow. But that still ...

A 30-second television spot produced by the Keep Conservatives United super PAC contains at least six images that were evidently repurposed from the B-roll posted by the Berger Jr. campaign, including ...

“I am announcing on behalf of the curriculum committee that we will include consideration of a required African-American studies course as a part of our new high school course offerings process,” ...

It’s been almost a hundred years since vaudeville died out, laid to waste by movies and then television, with a concrete-like layer of digital media entombing it forever. Vaudeville was the great ...

Matheny, who ran for the same Congressional seat but lost in the primary last month, initially favored Berger’s hotter wings. Walker’s sauce was too sweet, he noted, and while Berger’s sauce was ...

It’s been more than 40 years since I stepped foot on the Asbury Park boardwalk in summer, and an awful lot has happened in the interim. My Uncle Tom was a newlywed then, and had recently bought the ...

The British are coming! The British are coming! And to a cinema or streaming channel near you. Actually, they are already here and they are a talented and well-trained lot. And lest you already knew ...

We just put out our annual Books Issue, and I’m taking this week off to relax at the beach. Together those factors led me to think about all the things I’ve been meaning to read, what I should pack ...

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An altweekly veteran of more than 20 years, Brian studied journalism at Loyola University New Orleans and wrote for the Gambit before moving to the NC Piedmont Triad. He has been covering this market ...