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50 Years Ago: Mountain Take a ‘Nantucket Sleighride’ Nantucket Sleighride appeared 10 months after their debut, Climbing!, and 10 months before third LP,  Flowers of Evil. And while the LP did satisfy their audience, it already offered warning signs about the band’s future. Songwriting-wise, singer and guitarist Leslie West had seemingly been encouraged to rip with his instrument instead of his pen. The result was some impressive playing but a different balance from that heard on Climbing! Bassist, co-singer and producer Felix Pappalardi came further to the fore, with seven cred...

50 Years Ago: Mountain Take a ‘Nantucket Sleighride’ Nantucket Sleighride appeared 10 months after their debut, Climbing!, and 10 months before third LP,  Flowers of Evil. And while the LP did satisfy their audience, it already offered warning signs about the band’s future. Songwriting-wise, singer and guitarist Leslie West had seemingly been encouraged to rip with his instrument instead of his pen. The result was some impressive playing but a different balance from that heard on Climbing! Bassist, co-singer and producer Felix Pappalardi came further to the fore, with seven cred...

“Slow West” must be counted one of the most unintentionally ridiculous Westerns to come down the pike in a long, long while. From first till last, this tale of a hard-boiled bounty hunter helping a Scottish lad on his quest to find the woman he loves, who’s on the lam in the old West, is a tissue of creaky contrivances and outright absurdities. Debuting director John Maclean is a Scottish musician, which no doubt helps explain some of the film’s peculiarities. The British movie’s production notes reveal that his knowledge of the American West derives from reading authors like Mark T...

The Fayette County Cultural Trust recently won a state award for the three murals painted on a building in Connellsville. The Pennsylvania Downtown Center announced the winners for their 2020 Townie Awards, and in the category of “Public Space Improvement,” Downtown Connellsville, an initiative of Fayette County Cultural Trust, won for “Connellsville Public Art – Leading the Way”. Daniel Cocks, the executive director of the Fayette County Cultural Trust, said they’ve been looking to have a public art mural on three sides of the Italian Social Club along Crawford ...