The list of awards, featured on Twitter on Friday afternoon, turned out to be good news for Navalny. The film looks at Alexei Navalny, an anti-Putin dissident who survived a poisoning plot in 2020. The film won the People’s Choice Award for American Documentary Program. It was also named FestivalRead More →
Mark Levine, a pillar of the Bay Area jazz music community for decades, died Jan. 27 of pneumonia. The acclaimed musician, who was also a noted educator and author, was 83. News of his death quickly spread on social media, with his many friends and admirers posting tributes to theRead More →
Now in its 10th year, SFFILM has awarded four up-and-coming film crews $60,000 to support feature-length documentaries. The SFFILM Documentary Film Fund (DFF) has officially named the 2021 winners. Now in its 10th year, DFF has awarded a total of $60,000 in grants to four documentary projects, in increments ofRead More →
In 1959, saxophonist Ronnie Scott opened a small basement club in London’s West End. Scott and fellow saxophonist Pete King dreamed of opening a club modeled after New York’s 52nd Street jazz scene. From its humble beginnings 60 years ago, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club would become the cornerstone of theRead More →
Beegieadair.com Jazz musician and WKU alumnus Bobbe Gorin “Beegie” Adair died on Sunday, January 23 at the age of 84. Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to the Jazz Hero Award as the International Jazz Hero Award. The Herald regrets this error. Jazz musician and WKURead More →
Beegieadair.com Jazz musician and WKU alumnus Bobbe Gorin “Beegie” Adair died on Sunday, January 23 at the age of 84. Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to the Jazz Hero Award as the International Jazz Hero Award. The Herald regrets this error. Jazz musician and WKURead More →
Celebrating the inaugural class of rabbis graduating from the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College in 1883, a famous dinner party in Cincinnati offered an outrageously decadent menu. Known to history as the Trefa Banquet, his courses represented a culinary challenge to kosher laws, featuring trif – or non-kosher – foodsRead More →
Kanye West Requests ‘Final Editing and Approval’ of New Documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy. West, who is now legally known as Ye, wrote about instagram: I’ll say it nicely for the last time I must obtain final editing and approval of this document before it is released on Netflix ImmediatelyRead More →
INDIANAPOLIS, January 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Conversations about school choices have had a critical impact on communities of color, but have traditionally been led by people outside the black community. That’s starting to change this National School Choice Week, as community leaders and families come together for the first ofRead More →
INDIANAPOLIS, January 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Conversations about school choices have had a critical impact on communities of color, but have traditionally been led by people outside the black community. That’s starting to change this National School Choice Week, as community leaders and families come together for the first ofRead More →
World-famous Minnesota jazz musician to headline music festival in Cuba Nachito Herrera, an internationally acclaimed jazz musician and resident of White Bear Lake, returns to his homeland for the first time since recovering from a near-fatal case of COVID-19. WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minnesota (FOX 9) – A great honor forRead More →
The 19th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival unveiled its lineup Thursday from February 18-27, with in-person screenings at venues across Missoula and a virtual festival available to anyone, anywhere from February 21-March 3. A total of 50 non-fiction feature films and 95 short films from around the world will beRead More →
FORT EDWARD – The Little Theater on the Farm has produced a documentary film called “The Little Theater That Made!” “The little theater that did!” is a feature-length documentary filled with information about this little corner of Fort Edward. It explores origins, development and modern rural theatre. Produced by JasonRead More →
James Mtume, a jazz/R&B artist, producer and percussionist who performed with Miles Davis and scored a 1983 pop hit with “Juicy Fruit”, died at 76 over the weekend. No official cause of death was available at press time, with Fork first reporting the musician’s passing and an official statement fromRead More →
There’s no such thing as a true story, whether it’s a wild, chaotic tale so weird it can only be true or an informative, revelatory thread. It’s the cinematic bread and butter of the Antenna Documentary Film Festival, with the Sydney-based event rolling out a new lineup of factual filmsRead More →
TO BUY TICKETS There’s no such thing as a true story, whether it’s a wild, chaotic tale so weird it can only be true or an informative, revelatory thread. It’s the cinematic bread and butter of the Antenna Documentary Film Festival, with the Sydney-based event rolling out a new lineupRead More →
The Minot Symphony Orchestra will host an exclusive screening of the documentary film, “Route 2 Elsewhere”, Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Ann Nicole Nelson Hall at Minot State University. After the 90-minute film, attendees are encouraged to participate in a community discussion with filmmaker Dirk Wierenga and localRead More →
James Taylor and Carole King in Washington, MA at James Taylor’s The Barn recording studio in 2010, before the start of The Troubadour Reunion Tour. James O’Mara CNN Movies/HBO Max Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call My Name (9 p.m., CNN) – This documentary explores more than 50 yearsRead More →