FEATURED MUSIC Americana Duo Strangled Darlings Play Shaskeen Written By Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo The music of Strangled Darlings is filled with echoes of the past. Tom Verlaine and Television at CBGB — on mandolin instead of guitar — or Dr. John night tripping through tunes about gris-gris and gilded splinters. There … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Guitar Virtuosos Perform Alone & Together Written By Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Stock Photo A truly unique event, International Guitar Night is a summit of strings, a multicultural meeting of musical minds. Finger-style guitarist Brian Gore launched the event in 2000, as an acoustic concert starring four masters of the instrument … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM The Oscar Nominated Short Films Hit Area Screens Written By Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Stock Photo Three of the categories at the 89th Academy Awards on Feb. 26 are for short films — live action, animation and documentaries. Though lesser-known categories, the shorts make for fun viewing, offering a chance to … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (R) Written By Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Movie Screenshot Milla Jovovich’s Alice goes another round with the Umbrella Corporation in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. The sixth movie in a franchise that began in 2002, Final Chapter seems like even it has forgotten some of … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Harmony & Hot playing from Honest Millie Written By Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Honest Millie has harmony down six ways to Sunday. The interplay between Val Blachly and Ellen Carlson is just the beginning, topped off nicely by Lee Anne Ames’s singing. Things really begin to pop when Carlson … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Weekly Review Split (PG-13) Written By Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Movie Screenshot Three girls are kidnapped by a man with multiple personalities in Split, a fairly standard horror-thriller from M. Night Shyamalan. Three girls sit in a car in a parking lot after a birthday party. Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), the birthday girl, … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Bad Santa 2 Comic Jenny Zigrino Headlines Shaskeen Written By Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Success as a standup comic is often a three-stop journey. First, become a star on the local circuit; next, move to New York City. With a sufficiently toned comedy muscle, the final destination is often … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Andrew Merzi Showcases At Flying Goose Written By Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Nashville, packed with clubs, record labels and publishing houses, is a beacon of hope for singer-songwriters like Andrew Merzi. The New Hampshire native lived almost four years in Music City and spent many nights performing so-called “in … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review Live By Night (R) Written By Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Screenshot of Live By Night The son of a police officer gets tangled up in mob warfare in Live By Night, a pile of historic costumes and period-appropriate guns held together by the baling wire of Ben Affleck’s narration. Joe … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review Hidden Figures (PG) Written By Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Movie Screenshot Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson worked on complex math for NASA but still dealt with several flavors of workplace discrimination in Hidden Figures, a look at the African-American female mathematicians who worked in the space program. … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC People Skills Return To Concord Written By Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Replacing a bass player is hard for any band, even more so a trio and especially when the remaining members are sister and brother. But when People Skills lost its bassist of five years in late 2015, their … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review La La Land (PG-13) Written By Author (listings@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy/Stock Photo A hopeful young actress and a musician striving to keep jazz alive fall in love in La La Land, a fairy tale of Hollywood — with singing and dancing! Mia (Emma Stone) works at a coffee shop on … [Read more…]