After successfully integrating their literacy DVD into all Richmond County elementary schools, GRU’s Walter Evans and Paulette Harris are developing a supplement to the digital storybook to feature video games and auditory vocabulary puzzles. They hope to have the supplement in all kindergarten rooms by the fall and believe it could boost literacy skills even higher than before.
Marco Movies owner Nick Campo has lots to be happy about on this Oscar night weekend. Our now digitally enhanced multi-screen cinema has had a flurry of fine films, several of which are nominated for Oscars in the big show this coming Sunday evening on AB
New DVD releases for Tuesday, Feb. 19, include Academy Award nominees “Argo†and “Anna Karenina.â€
Anyone who missed Petra Haden’s utterly charming performance recently at the Getty Museum with music from her new album, “Petra Goes to the Movies,†has another chance on Saturday at L.A.’s Unitarian Universalist Church.
New DVD releases for Tuesday, Feb.
The low-budget westerns, noirs, serials and other films were fast and entertaining and, for some, launch pads to stardom. Of today’s directors, Quentin Tarantino owes much to the genre. B-movies, those low-budget, low-prestige genre films that were fan favorites for decades, have an enduring place in Hollywood history.
A long, illustrious list of musicians have developed a fruitful connection (artistically and economically) to the Greek Theatre (hello, Neil Diamond).
New DVD releases for Tuesday, Jan. 29, include the animated “Hotel Transylvania,†“Paranormal Activity 4,†“Downton Abbey: Season 3†and more.
With a new Paranormal Activity every year, the quality isn’t keeping pace.