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MOVIE REVIEW OF THE "BANDIT'' If you crave true-life crime sagas, “Gridlocked” director Alan Ungar’s “Bandit” (*** OUT OF ****), should intrigue you. This lightweight but entertaining, action...

CHRIS BOTTI THE FINEST JAZZ TRUMPETER TODAY Chris Botti has a Grammy Award and a stellar reputation as one of the finest jazz trumpeters working today. What he doesn’t have is something most jazz...

MOVIE REVIEW OF THE ''BEAST" An avenging lion turns into a maneater in “Contraband” director Baltasar Kormákur’s exotic animal opus “Beast” (** OUT OF ****) after African poachers armed with...

5 Tips To Keep Your Brain Healthy Changes to your body and brain are normal as you age. However, there are some things you can do to help slow any decline in memory and lower your risk of developing...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''THERE ARE NO SAINTS" A nihilistic exercise in misogyny, sadism, murder, and revenge, Hispanic helmer Alfonso Pineda Ulloa’s unsavory actioneer “There Are No Saints” (**1/2...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING" Movies made from bestsellers rarely live up to their literary origins. Happily, “Where The Crawdads Sing” (*** OUT OF ****) qualifies as an...

CODY CANNON PREVIEWS THE NEXT WHISKEY MYERS ALBUM, "TORNILLO"  From the first notes of the song “Tornillo,” which opens the new album of the same name that Whiskey Myers released in July, it’s apparent...

MOVIE REVIEW OF "WOLF HOUND" The spectacle of watching vintage World War II era aircraft perform aerial maneuvers in writer & director Michael B. Chait’s “Wolf Hound” (*** OUT OF ****) should make...

 INTERVIEW WITH DOUG GRAY OF THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND  The Marshall Tucker Band had its hits in the ‘70s. But when singer Doug Gray looks out at the audiences at the band’s shows, he doesn’t...

UMMA//MOVIE REVIEW Some of the best scary sagas involve the occult. The filmmakers need not resort to jarring jump scares, shrieking musical cues, and/or prosthetic gore to induce fear. Our heroine tangles...