OPENING THIS WEEK: For Movies Opening Nov. 18

'Happy Feet Two,' 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1,' 'Another Happy Day,' and more

2011-11-18

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun         Read the complete article

Travel Website Builds on Black Blogger's Love for the Great Outdoors

Rue Mapp's OutdoorAfro.com blazes trails through the web

2011-11-17

Lisa Loving Of The Skanner News

Rue Mapp travels around the country as a blogger for her website, www.OutdoorAfro.com. But just this year her efforts at encouraging more people to get active and shape a relationship with nature has taken off, with invitations to the White House and an advisory role on Fist Lady Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ initiative Read the complete article

Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun

'Immortals,' 'J. Edgar,' Jack and and Jill,' and more

2011-11-14

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

Weekly summaries of new releases Read the complete article

Film Review: ‘J. Edgar’

Biopic uncovers skeletons in closet of legendary FBI director

2011-11-14

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) served as director of the FBI from its founding in 1935 until his death in 1972. Over the course of that tenure, the legendary G-Man singlehandedly built the agency into an intimidating espionage and crime-fighting operation feared by gangsters and law-abiding citizens alike. Read the complete article

Film Review: 'Tower Heist'

Victims turn tables on Wall Street crook in Murphy-Stiller buddy comedy

2011-11-10

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

By the time Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) was charged with running a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, it was already too late for the authorities to find the fortune that he had ostensibly hidden in offshore accounts. As a condition of being released on bail before trial, he was ordered kept under house arrest in his luxury penthouse at The Tower, an exclusive high-rise located on Central Park West. Read the complete article

New Documentary Goes Behind the Scenes with Choreographer Bill T. Jones

American Masters series screens Bill T Jones A Good Man Nov. 11

2011-11-09

Of The Skanner News

Public Broadcasting will unveil a portrait of America’s foremost choreographer, Bill T. Jones, Friday, November 11 at 9 p.m. The documentary ‘Bill T. Jones: A Good Man’ is broadcast as part of the American Masters 25th anniversary season. Read the complete article

OPENING THIS WEEK: For Movies Opening Nov. 4

Tower Heist, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, Dragonslayer and more

2011-11-04

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

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Film Review: 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas'

Holiday-themed sequel features “pot”-pourri of stoner hijinks

2011-11-02

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

As with Cheech and Chong’s string of classic stoner comedies of a generation ago, it looks like longevity might also be in store for relatively-nerdy Harold & Kumar’s series of similarly-themed, Marijuana misadventures. Read the complete article

Kal Penn: The ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas’ Interview

From Hollywood to the White House and back to the big screen

2011-11-02

By Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

Here, he talks both about acting and about taking a break from his career to work for President Obama an associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement. Read the complete article

Lady Gaga Launches Foundation With MacArthur, Harvard

Singer’s Born This Way nonprofit focuses on youth empowerment

2011-11-02

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lady Gaga is launching a foundation with the help of the MacArthur Foundation and Harvard University. Read the complete article