The new movie “Last Christmas” is a romantic comedy without romance. It stars Emilia Clark, known for her appearances in the “Game of Thrones” TV series and in films including “Me Before You,” and Henry Golding, an Anglo-Malaysian actor who starred in “Crazy Rich Asians” and “A Simple Favor.”
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As Roland Emmerich (the director of “Independence Day”) makes clear in his new film “Midway,” director John Ford was actually on the island during the famous World War II naval battle. Ford made a documentary about the 1942 fight between American pilots and the Japanese task force.
K-State Theater and director/choreographer/bit player Jerry Jay Cranford have again brought the Radio City version of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” to the stage of McCain Auditorium. And once again, taken as a children’s show, it works quite well.
The new movie that Mike Flanagan has written (based on a Stephen King novel) and directed is called “Doctor Sleep.” It functions as a sequel to maybe the greatest of all horror films, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” (1980).
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Like many other Native Americans, Manhattan Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1786 commander Dan Watkins doesn’t say “Thank you for your service” to veterans returning from deployment.
In times of stress, I find myself escaping into nostalgia, taking a break from my current existence and losing myself in a simpler time.
“A Queer History of the United States for Young People,” written in 2019, is adapted from a more academic book written in 2011. Looking at both books, I found this one, written for young people, much more appealing. This book is easy to read, interesting and informative. The book contains 33…
“Shamed,” set in the Amish country of rural Holmes County in central Ohio, is the 11th murder mystery by author Linda Castillo.
Painted with bold strokes of fuchsia, electric blue, and a variety of other expressive shades, an eye-catching mural now decorates the patio wall outside AJ’s NY Pizzeria on Poyntz Avenue.
33rd Annual German Mennonite Meal and International Craft & Bake Sale, noon-6 p.m.
What can we grow across Kansas? Wheat? Industrial hemp? Wind turbines? How about jobs and businesses? Today we’ll meet an organization which is devoted to the growth of entrepreneurship and small businesses across our state. It’s today’s Kansas Profile.
When folks list the things they like about the “Terminator” movies, one of the first items that ought to be mentioned is Linda Hamilton’s performances.
Victoria Guinevere Brown was born Nov. 6 to Sabrina Estey and Shawn Brown, Manhattan.
The new feature film, “Black and Blue,” seems to be based on a script hurriedly improvised on a hoary concept.
Pictures are what the new movie, “Maleficent, Mistress of Evil,” has to offer its audience. Kids who liked “Maleficent,” the first movie in the series, and some children who were too young for the original are going to find it a feast for their eyes.
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Beatriz Lopez has many titles, including mother of four, and now she can add award-winning bartender to that list.
C.E. and Dee (Delyoce VanNahmen) McKee III will celebrate their 50th anniversary on Nov. 15.
One of the things I love about Manhattan is how diverse it is. This is partially thanks to K-State and Fort Riley, but if we look back a bit further, we can see how Manhattan’s African-American community has been here from near the beginning of the town and really exploded when the “Exoduste…
Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, and among a small group of economists who study education. In the 1970s, Nobel Prize winners Kenneth Arrow and Michael Spence proposed that people with more years of education earn more not merely because of the skills and …
The K-State Theater production of Diana Son’s play “Stop Kiss” ran Oct. 24 through 27 in the cushy Purple Masque Theater (in the southwest end of Memorial Stadium). Directed by Teva Spencer, this laudable student production got as much as there was to get out of the script.
Bob Mohr advocates for people to take a step back, meditate or pray for an hour during the one-hour change with daylight saving time.
Readers old enough to remember Groucho Marx on the “You Bet Your Life” quiz program will remember how this sort of thing can go. The celebrity host engages members of the audience in conversation. Then he uses whatever openings occur as prompts for witticisms.
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, population 4 million. Yates Center, Kansas, population 1,417. These two contrasting towns do have something in common: They are each a site for film-making. Today we’ll meet a Kansas entrepreneur who recently produced a film highlighting rural Kansas. It’s…
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Heading to Lawrence for the Sunflower Showdown?
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Location doesn’t have to limit your menu.
Halloween is just three days away, and it’s time to get in the spirit. But if you haven’t chosen a Halloween costume just yet, you’ve come to the right place.
The Mercury’s news staff recently visited the Bluemont Elementary sixth-graders to talk about journalism and then actually make a newspaper together. I don’t know what they thought of us, but we were very impressed by them.
“Unto Us a Son Is Given” is the 28th novel in a popular series featuring Commissario (Detective) Guido Brunetti and his colleagues of the Venice, Italy, police. The series is somewhere between the humorous, sometimes silly, “cozy mysteries” from the British Cotswolds and the gritty ”Nordic n…
Katherine Coleman and Robert Echols Jr. announce their engagement.
Pick a major city anywhere in the world and you’re going to discover an active, all-season array of cultural attractions every season of the year. Museums and art galleries, concert halls and opera houses, large theaters and shoebox playhouses, they’ll all be there. But put together a series…
In 2014, a new movement began in children’s literature to increase the number of diverse characters found in books.
Donuts. Muffins. Scones. Hope. Wait a minute, what was that last one? Today we’ll meet a young entrepreneur who has started a bakery in her rural community. In addition to baked goods, coffee, and lunches, the ultimate item which she intends to provide to her community is hope for the future.
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A & H Farm Pumpkin Patch, Day Activities, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Local hero Bill Murray gets a couple of minutes to kill zombies in a flashback that shows right after the credits begin, at the end of the new sequel “Zombieland: Double Tap.” If you remember the original movie, now 10 years old, you’ll probably remember that Murray appears, playing himself,…
Oakley John Graff was born Aug. 12.
There were more than a couple of violations of conventional thinking occurring during the delightful though at one point irritating concert John Hiatt offered the crowd at McCain Auditorium last Wednesday night.
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Combining creativity and her adoration for Manhattan makes for a perfect occupation for April Wagnon, 52.
How do you write about a mild-mannered summer fling between an older, established man and his very young female assistant without sounding trite? Karen Dukess, in “The Last Book Party,” creates her fresh take on this dynamic through lovely, concise descriptions of an ephemeral relationship c…
“Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex” by Rupert Darwall is certain to raise the ire of the true believers of the climatology cult. Darwall is a British policy analyst and the author of “The Age of Global Warming: A History,” published in 2013 and …
K-State Homecoming Philanthropy 5K Run/Walk, 10 a.m. at the Alumni Center.
Every October, Adam Yell has a goal of making people wet their pants.
Every weekday at 4:02 p.m., after the NBC radio report runs at the top of the hour, the drum fill plays and a guitar fades into Zach St Clair’s afternoon radio show.
Suspense is defined as that state of uncertainty that makes us anxious. It’s an uncomfortable feeling, but one we often enjoy in books and movies. It’s related to surprise, but not exactly. Alfred Hitchcock explained the difference in this way. Surprise is when a couple is sitting in a café,…
100 to 1 return. Wow, that sounds like a remarkable return on investment. In this case, it doesn’t refer to a financial investment as much as it describes the process of growing a crop and multiplying the grain. Today we’ll learn about an innovative first-generation farmer who is finding his…
The appeal of “The Addams Family” is the formula’s light comic satire of how we live. “We.” The people surprised to meet the residents of the dark, spooky house.
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“Gemini Man” is not a bad movie. And given the recent form shown by director Ang Lee and star Will Smith, that’s a surprise.
If the four musicians in Russian Renaissance didn’t play so well, we would be tempted to talk about them as if they were a pop group rather than a chamber music outfit. They are young and attractive. They give evidence of having trouble with our language.
The first K-State Theater performance of the year is “Taking Steps.” It’s a farce. It’s funny. It’s in the comfortably intimate Chapman Theater in Nichols Hall. And it will run through Sunday.
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