Where Y'at

In our anxious times with omnipresent negativity abounding on multiple screens all the time, sometimes an escape to more simple pleasures is just what the doctor ordered.   For a holiday from reality this season, set your GPS for the purity of Dollywood, the 150-acre theme park set in Tennessee’s Smokey Mountains.  The award-winning amusement park complex continues to delight travelers year after year...

Much has been said, written, and sung about this city. Some people become enamored with this place because of its rare and enticing culture that allows them freedoms that they can’t experience anywhere else. Others detest the city because they find it too indulgent and vulgar. One way or another, this 300-year-old city knows how to leave a mark on everyone who sets foot within it. Authors, actors, and artists of all kinds have left a...

Director Steve McQueen makes a solid return to the silver screen with the heist thriller Widows, five years after his last effort, 12 Years a Slave, took home the Oscar for Best Picture. Based on a 1983 British TV mini-series by the same name, Widows starts with four Chicago criminals (led by Liam Neeson) killed in a $2 million heist. Neeson’s wife Veronica (Viola Davis) is threatened by Jamal Manning...

Filmed in New Orleans, director Peter Farrelly’s Green Book is a charming addition to local theater programming during the holiday season. Based on a true story, the film follows Tony (Viggo Mortensen), a gruff Italian-American bouncer in early 1960s New York City. He is asked to escort a fastidious African American concert pianist (Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali) in a tour throughout the racially segregated Deep...