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Tri-State area packed with events to celebrate America's birthday
HUNTINGTON -- America is celebrating its birthday, and yeah, it's still partying like a teenager blasting the night sky and enjoy the rockets' red glare 'til the dawn's early light. Here are more then a few good places to enjoy your freedom and watch great fireworks shows.
MOVIES & MORE: ‘Proposal’ succeeds on slew of great performances
Movies & More reviewer John Gillispie thinks “The Proposal,” rated PG-13 and starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds and Betty White, is a fun romantic comedy that is worth watching despite a somewhat flat ending.
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READ ALL ABOUT IT: Derek Musgrave: Orson Scott Card’s ‘Pastwatch’ a sci-fi tale of time travel, history
Orson Scott Card is a well-known science fiction author, and his novel “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus” is one example of his work.
PICK A FLICK: ‘Public Enemies’ dazzles the eye but drags
With “Public Enemies,” all the pieces would seem to be in place for an epic gangster drama: director Michael Mann, who has an affinity for complicated criminals; stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, who are famous for immersing themselves in their roles; and a thrilling true story of brazen bank robbers on the run.
PICK A FLICK: ‘Ice Age’ is ‘yawn of the dinosaurs’ tale
There’s more action and cuddly creatures for kids to love in “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” than in the animated franchise’s first two installments. For their parents, it’s more of the same, a “Yawn of the Dinosaurs” adventure with some new faces and places but the same central characters rehashing the themes of the first two movies.
GOOD EATS: R.J. Kahuna's offers family-friendly sports bar atmosphere
CANNONSBURG, Ky. -- Located in the Kyova mall in Cannonsburg, Ky., R.J. Kahuna's is a sports bar with more than 30 television screens and a tropical theme.
Here are the Top 10 CDs sold this past week at Now Hear This. For more information, call the store at 304-522-0021.
HUNTINGTON -- Angie Fletcher is figuring she might as well pitch a tent downtown because she's here for the party.
Here are the top 10 songs currently being played on 92.7-FM, The Planet.
Here are the top 10 songs currently being played on 106.3-FM WAMX.
Here are the top 10 songs from Casey Kasem's American Top 40 that originally aired on July 19, 1986. The show will be rebroadcast Sunday afternoon on Magic 97.9-FM.
Here are the top 10 songs currently being played on 100.5-FM WKEE.
Charleston-based indie band puts out CD early
"Gravity" has to be released early, and Greg McGowan is taking that as a good sign.
Louisville, Ky.: Big city excitement for the whole family
Louisville is on the map as a “must-see” place these days with recent international coverage during the Kentucky Derby, a special excursion on Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker as well as the new Soap.net reality show, “The Southern Belles of Louisville.”
The Huntington Police Department benefit festival Wings and Wheels rolls into Harris Riverfront Park in Huntington from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
GOOD EATS: Amigo Porfis brings Mexican flavor to West End
HUNTINGTON -- Porfirio Morales opened his first restaurant Porfirio's in Barboursville in 1999. Unfortunately, a downturn in business combined with some bad breaks forced Morales to sell the restaurant last year. Morales has bounced back and recently opened up a new restaurant on the corner of 17th Street West and Washington Avenue.
PICK A FLICK: 'Sister's Keeper' raises tough questions
LOS ANGELES -- "My Sister's Keeper" is a shameless weepy, one of the most manipulative and fundamental of genres, but it also raises some surprisingly difficult and thought-provoking ethical questions.
PICK A FLICK: ‘Transformers’ shape-shifts into noise, nonsense
A joyless cacophony, an insistent and seemingly endless onslaught, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” director Michael Bay’s follow-up to the 2007 smash “Transformers” plays more like a parody of a Bay movie.
HUNTINGTON -- Local authors and dietitians, Brandi Sentz and Kellie Glass, will be signing copies of their book "How to Eat Fried Chicken and Be Thin Too!" from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at Empire Books and News at Pullman Square in downtown Huntington.
As a companion to "Ladybug Girl," "Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy," by David Soman and Jackie Davis, is a hit.
MOVIES & MORE: Nostalgia can inspire some questionable DVD buys
Movies & More reviewer John Gillispie thinks that people should think twice before shelling out big bucks for TV series on DVD. Some choices are definitely worth the price, but time has a way of dating those old programs from the past.