This holiday should be bigger than Christmas for me, but it isn't. And I don't know why. Maybe it's because drinking beer reminds me of drinking antifreeze (which I've heard is a terrible idea). It could be that the thought of corned beef triggers my gag reflex, and Celtic music makes my ears bleed. Or perhaps I can blame my old roommate, the leprechaun.
Did I mention that he was just about the worst roommate ever? Read full story
An intriguing assortment of new, classic and experimental moving-image presentations is on the program of the 17th James River Film Festival, reeling in Richmond from March 19 to 25.
Guests include the critic/teacher/writer/experimental-film champion Scott MacDonald, a Bard College-based film professor who first came to the JRFF in 1995. Celia Maysles presents Wild Blue Yonder about her father, the late David Maysles, who died when she was young. Maysles and his brother Alfred (a past Read full story
