Danish-Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s most recent work, Sentimental Value, opens with aerial views of Oslo, Norway, and detailed scans of a handsome, richly finished, but aged Victorian home. This house…
Cameron Crowe wrote his first Rolling Stone cover story at the age of 15. By 21, he considered himself a “has been” as a rock music journalist. In between, Crowe…
Photo by Ryan Loyd, Rylo Media Design Between rushing home to family and shopping all month long, locals might want to take a moment to pause and welcome the…
Photo courtesy of Netflix Can a good film be based on an empty character? The answer can be found in Jay Kelly, a new movie written by Noah Baumbach…
It’s Only a Play, running for five performances only this weekend, November 20-23, at The Studio of Performing Arts in Grover Beach, is only one of playwright Terrence McNally’s many…
The plucking of strings intermingle with the high-pitched sounds of wind instruments echoing on stage. Audience members, dressed in flapper dresses and fedoras, crowd the Harold J. Miossi Cultural and…
Joyous singing. The warmth of a fire and of a fateful fairytale ending. Comical bits featuring mistletoe, memories, and misunderstood holiday song lyrics. What else could you ask for on…
Photos by Mark Velasquez When I was 13, I watched the movie Frozen with my sister as soon as it hit theatres. Naturally, as the younger sibling, I wore…
If you’ve seen the promos for the play currently being staged at the Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre, then you’re familiar with the question they pose: What would you…
Thomas Wolfe's novel famously advises You Can't Go Home Again. Ellen Sharpe seems determined to prove him wrong. Ellen is going nowhere fast. She fled the hardscrabble rural life of…