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Local filmmaker gets into Indie Grits with Reednew
Dorian Warneck's mother Petrea is an oboeist, and like many oboeists, she makes her own reeds. Carving tools, lacquers, and cane shavings were a normal sight during his childhood, so Warneck never thought twice about his mom's craft.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
04-18-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Unchained Tour's Peter Aguero talks about life on the busnew
It took only three days for the 1972 Blue Bird school bus to break down on the Unchained Tour's last jaunt in February. The vehicle, which transports a cluster of kooky storytellers and musicians to venues around the South, still had a ways to go. While most of the performers went ahead in a van, the bus perpetually lagged behind the rest of the day.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
09-19-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
According to Ira Glass, Making Movies Isn't So Funnew
A conversation with Ira Glass about Sleepwalk With Me.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
09-13-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Colin Quashie's pointed response to the world around himnew
It may be difficult to spot Colin Quashie's second-story studio if you aren't explicitly looking for it. An indistinct C and Q pasted to a glass door are the only clues that something else goes on in this standalone brick-and-concrete building on Upper King Street besides the haircuts that take place in the first-floor barber shop. It doesn't help that the logo gives a better impression of a cloud than a formal set of initials, the puffy and bulbous letters joined together in a cartoonish fashion. So instead, a better sign of what happens on the second story may be in the downstairs shop, where one of Quashie's works hangs on a wall near the wide windows.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
No, John Waters, Kaboom is not one of the best films of the yearnew
When I saw that director and Baltimorean John Waters had drawn up his own for the top films of 2011 for Art Forum, I perked up.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
01-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Twenty Years Later, Julie Dash's Film Daughters of the Dust Continues to Inspirenew
It is 1902, and the Peazant family is celebrating. Black women in white dresses twirl on the white sand, bordered by blue water and blue sky, clapping hands and playing games. They are preparing to pass over to the mainland, and what's past is prologue, says Viola Peazant. The Christian missionary and cousin is returning to her family to mark the occasion, photographer in tow. Meanwhile, Nana, the matriarch, sticks to her home in the woods. She fears what may be lost when her clan migrates north without her.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
09-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
How Our Lives Have Changed Since Harry Potternew
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone premiered on Nov. 16, 2001.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
07-14-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
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