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The inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium will take place in Dublin over four days, June 7-10. The symposium’s screenings, talks and events will center on Ford’s own films, in addition to other films and filmmakers inspired by his work and legacy. Ford, whose parents were born in the west of Ireland,  directed 137 films throughout his prolific career, including The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, Fort Apache, Rio Grande, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, How Green Was My V...

  Prior to Treat Her Right and Morphine, Mark Sandman, the father of “low rock,” formed Hypnosonics. Often referred to as his “secret band,” Hypnosonics remained a favorite side project until his untimely death in 1999.  On April 6, Modern Harmonic will release two never-before-heard Hypnosonics albums: Drums Were Beating: Fort Apache 1996 and Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions available on CD, LP and digital. In 1996, the same year that Morphine recorded Like S...

READ MORE By this time, Fox Pictures had become 20th Century Fox and Shirley was making four films a year for the company, while also working with other studios like Paramount Pictures. Shirley continued acting throughout the 1930s and 1940s, doing radio as well as film, though by the later years her popularity had decreased and she moved to MGM, but was released from her contract after one film. She had roles in Fort Apache with John Wayne and Henry Fonda but retired from acting on December 16...

Former bassist for Panic! at the Disco arrested on drug charges in Vegas JASON DECROW/AP Panic! at the Disco pose backstage during MTVs "Total Request Live" at the MTV Times Square Studios Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006, in New York. Left to right are Brent Wilson, Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, and Spencer Smith. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) By: KTNV Staff and last updated 2021-02-05 22:52:09-05 LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A founding member of the Las Vegas-born group Panic! at the Disco was arrest...

Bronx Irish Catholic By Peter Quinn, Contributor In the 1950s, the Bronx was a melting pot of immigrants and first-generation families: Jewish, Italian, and Irish alike. Peter Quinn shares his story of what it was like to be a Bronx Irish Catholic, commonly referred to as a B.I.C. ℘℘℘ “Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land! / Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, / As home his footsteps he hath turn’d…�...

Why this might not seem so easy Asked for a list of his favourite filmmakers, Orson Welles once replied, “I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford… He’s a poet and a comedian. With Ford at his best you get a sense of what the earth is made of.” Born on 1 February 1894, in the dying days of the old west he’d soon become synonymous with chronicling on screen, Ford was the pre-eminent popular artist of 20th-century American cinema,...

In normal circumstances, cinema-goers would be basking in a glut of high-quality films released to coincide with the awards season. Covid, the tiny spoilsport, has put paid to all that. Among the treats we’re missing through cinema closures is News of the World, a gritty, sprawling western directed by Paul Greengrass and starring the eternally Oscar-friendly Tom Hanks. Hanks, who has won two Academy Awards and been nominated six times, plays Jefferson Kidd, a former Confederate army captain w...

by Phil Wheat As is obligatory for the start of a new year, it’s time to look back at the sh*t-show that was last year and pick out our highlights of the year… This time round it’s Phil’s Top 10 DTV Horror Movies of 2020. Which are, in no particular order: AFRICAN KUNG-FU NAZIS Sometimes a film comes along and all you can say is what the actual f*ck?! African Kung-Fu Nazis is one such film… The plot of which goes something like this: Unlike history books tell us, Adolf Hitler did not ...

Landini’s Pizzeria Heads to the Southwest From San Diego’s Little Italy New York-style slices, pies, and panini debut soon Share this story Landini’s Pizzeria/Instagram San Diego’s Landini’s Pizzeria is currently hiring and promising they will very soon be serving up a menu of pasta, pizza, and thin-crust slices more than a year since signing a lease at the corner of Fort Apache and Russell Roads. Launched in 2009, Lanidini’s holds claim to being the first to sell individual New Yor...

by KSNX on December 11, 2020 at 5:58 pm NPC Friends and Family Announces Spring 2021 Scholarship Winners NPC Friends and Family, the non-profit foundation that supports Northland Pioneer College, is pleased to announce the winners of over $11,000.00 in scholarships for the Spring 2021 semester. All applicants are required to submit a 500-word essay describing their academic and career goals, and how they will use the scholarship. Applications are evaluated and awardees are selected by vol...