PHOTO BY SARAH REDFORD The wonderland of the Avalon Faire in Kilgore takes a step back into the glorious days of old, and days that never were. The faire is found at 1076 FM 1252 W, Kilgore, 75662, and is open each weekend in April. Tickets may be purchased on-line or at the box office […]
Guest Director Jason Richards is a KC alum with a love for theatre. He and the KC theatre department will present Neil Simon’s classic American comedy, “Brighton Beach Memoirs” beginning April 20 in Van Cliburn Auditorium on the Kilgore campus. Richards has a long history in theater and said “It is why I’m on […]
Moments in life that paralyze us with pain to a point of getting stuck; all of us in some way or another know this reality. The Shack is a movie where we can all place our selves in Mackenzie Phillips’ (Sam Worthington) position and change the story to meet our own set of circumstances. […]
Before anything else, I have to tell you this: Logan deserves a second viewing, at least, before you can fully grasp the magnitude of the film. Logan, directed by James Mangold and starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and newcomer Dafne Keen, doesn’t feel like a superhero movie, at least, not in the blockbuster, “Marvel […]
The Netflix Original Documentary “13,” is an in-depth look of the 13th Amendment to present day. The 13th Amendment is the abolishment of slavery in the United States. Even though the act of slavery is gone in reality, through policies it has reinvented itself in different forms since the passing and ratification of the […]
In his play, Middletown, Will Eno provides us with a dark comedic look at the infinitely connected nature of our lives. Eno bookends seemingly mundane moments peppered with impressionistic existential accents. Our routine day today observations are infiltrated with splashes of absurdity as we are taken on a comedic pilgrimage throughout the many intersecting points […]
Question: As a newcomer to KC, how is your experience so far? Are you enjoying being a part of the KC team and do you plan on staying? A: KC has been wonderful; although, I’m no stranger to the campus. I started making a yearly pilgrimage every summer for TSF back in 2011 so […]
On any given day I would consider myself a pretty avid Lady Gaga fan, however I was not completely on board with her half time performance for the 2017 Super Bowl. Now that’s not to say she doesn’t have talent, the woman definitely has major set of pipes. I just wasn’t so keen on all […]
Micah Goodding, the director of the KC’s production of Middletown, has a personal connection with this production. As an actor in the Middletown premier in London while he was in graduate school, Goodding expressed the complexities that come with directing and the weight of responsibility that this role carried and is excited about this being […]
On February 13th at 7:30pm a group of Kilgore College Dance students will perform to Pirates of the Caribbean for the East Texas Symphonic Band at LaTourneau University Belcher center. This event is considered the grand winter celebration. The mission of the East Texas Symphonic Band is to raise appreciation and awareness of wind band […]
They Might Be Giants perform ‘Birdhouse in your Soul’ at their “Farewell for the Moment” tour in Brooklyn on January 2, 2016. Video shot by Bryan Patti. They Might Be Giants will celebrate the 16th anniversary of their classic album ‘Flood’ at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 31 at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin and 7 p.m. […]
May 1, 2015 was the best day of my life. I realized it after the initial emotional shock wore off, and I will never forget the date as long as I live. Myself, my boyfriend Bryan and my sister Kelly were taking our annual trip to the Texas Frightmare Weekend convention in Dallas, where horror […]
Filmed by Bryan Patti. Here is my interview with actor Malcolm McDowell on May 3, 2015 at the Texas Frightmare Weekend convention in Dallas. McDowell is an English actor whose career spans over five decades. He is known for his roles as Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick’s classic “A Clockwork Orange,” the title character in […]
From Fanpop/anadoring. With the unfortunate death of legendary British actor Alan Rickman today from cancer at age 69, I decided to focus my first Throwback Thursday article, which celebrates nostalgic things from childhood, on the Harry Potter book and film series and its effect on my life. Sowing the seeds of fandom Harry Potter […]