Movies You Missed From 20 Years Ago: The Dreamers

The Dreamers (7/10 Rating) Released February 20, 2003 For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Drama, History, Sport NC-17: Explicit sexual content 1h 55m If you jumped right into this review and did not read the MPAA rating, I am going to start by stating that this movie is rated NC-17 and earns it... Read More

Movies You Missed

February 7, 2024

Inside the Method of Acting with Samantha Overton

At the spry age of 15, Samantha Overton knew she wanted to pursue performing while playing Mother Abbess in a production of The Sound of Music. Though she had been acting since the age of 8, it was not until this performance that her passion for the theatre was ignited. Overton was born and... Read More

Action

February 5, 2024

Valentine Dinner For Four (A Mamie and Solly Dialogue)

Scene: Mamie is making oatmeal for breakfast. Solly is drinking coffee and holding a file of papers. Mamie (stirring at the stove): So, Solly, tall man with salt-and-pepper hair and crooked smile, love of my life, what would you like to do for Valentine’s Day? Solly (thumbing through the file): It’s February? Already? M (frowning): ... Read More

Fiction

February 1, 2024

Don’t Be Late, or You Might Miss the Love of Your Life

A shared love of the arts led local creatives and married couple Jameel Rashad Austin and Shay Ayala to a chance meeting. Ayala elaborated, “I’d just moved back to Danville and was looking for photographers in the area, but there weren’t many on the level that I was hoping to find.” Someone suggested Ayala take... Read More

Cover Features

January 24, 2024

Agitation

Ant colonies, their busy carpenters unphased by clear glass walls at a museum, allow their construction to be my distraction just before I open your brief note. It burrows into my heart as if my ant-inspired vision had been watching as you wrote it.

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January 18, 2024

Movies You Missed From 20 Years Ago: The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect (7/10 Rating) Released January 23, 2004 For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller R: Violence, Sexual Content, Language, and Brief Drug Use 1h 53m The Butterfly Effect blew my mind when I saw it twenty years ago. It was a wild ride and an interesting take on time travel... Read More

Movies You Missed

January 16, 2024

Inside the Method of Acting with Ashlyn Rising

Ashlyn Rising is a ninth-grade student at Westover Christian Academy. Her favorite subjects include English, history, and most importantly, drama. Rising has been acting for over five years now. She got her start in the fourth grade, creating skits to perform for her teachers. Rising shared that she “loved the feeling of an entertained audience,... Read More

Action

January 11, 2024

It’s OK to Play in Your Good Clothes

The other day, on my way to my car, in Danville’s Westover Drive Food Lion parking lot, I saw something which “jumped out at me” (not literally, though). It began with something we all do (or should do) with our grocery carts when we’re through with them, but morphed into a sort of game. A... Read More

Essays

January 9, 2024

Time, Cooper, and Me

Time is our biggest asset, but also our greatest enemy. The start of a new year is a good time to think about what time means to us. In terms of assets, heightened awareness of time means making more choices about how to spend it. I’ve chosen to spend more time with the important people... Read More

Fiction

January 5, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Willow Gatewood

Some people are simply born with creative spark. Willow Gatewood is one such individual. “I can’t not create,” she told us when she sat down with us in mid-December. “Since I was young, I’ve had a hard time understanding my feelings about the world around me. Art is a way for me to explore that.”... Read More

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