Opinion
Carolinian paired calypso and Christmas
It isn’t just the calypso syncopation that makes the song so memorable. The composer’s use of dialect and idiom lent the lyrics a charming distinctiveness.
News
Reagan: The Crusader
The life of Ronald Reagan is told through the eyes of a KGB analyst.
Opinion
N.C. film advocates’ ideal film incentive program a shocking mess
In 2018 Time, declared Georgia “the Hollywood of the South.” By then, Georgia had developed the largest film incentive program in the entire United States. “Hollywood East,” North Carolina, was already the site of many memorable films before the 2000s, the golden age of state film incentives. North Carolina started offering film production tax credits...
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Legislature makes film subsidy permanent, shifts appeals to AG
State Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover, bucked conservative critics who strenuously objected to making a $30-million taxpayer subsidy to Hollywood a permanent annual state allocation. In fact, he helped lead the charge to approve Senate Bill 582, an omnibus measure that repealed a sunset provision for the Film and Entertainment Grant Program that was scheduled...
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Bills would expand taxpayer subsidies to film industry
Film director Rob Reiner and other Hollywood notables have railed against North Carolina, threatened not to work in the state again, and raised the possibility of economic boycotts because of House Bill 2, the so-called bathroom bill. And yet separate but identical bills have been introduced in the House and Senate that would try to...
Opinion
Hard-Living Tar Heel Charlie Poole A Pioneer of Banjo Music
A mill worker from Randolph County became a national sensation during the 1920s.
Opinion
Ryskind Destroys Romantic Notions of a ‘Noble’ Blacklisted Ten
Veteran journalist Allan Ryskind notes how the Hollywood Ten defended Stalin and Hitler when their Communist Party bosses told them to.
Opinion
Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’ Returns Fire at Hollywood’s Leftists
"American Sniper" is openly patriotic and unapologetic about the U.S. military fighting in Iraq, both frontal attacks on the Hollywood Left.
Opinion
Giving Credit for Grants
The public is better served when spending is clearly spelled out in annual budget documents, where it can be evaluated against alternative uses of the dollar.
Opinion
Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick Book Recycles Stalinist Talking Points
From the outset the authors reject American exceptionalism and, as in Oliver Stone’s movies, the United States is always the villain.
News
Schwarzenegger’s Look Back Conveniently Omits Important Facts
When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California, his experience in Hollywood did not serve him well.
Opinion
‘Won‘t Back Down’ Glosses Over Some Big Problems
A film that's supposed to be an unblinking exposé of K-12 public schools ducks key questions and refuses to advocate scrapping a failed system.
