October 2010

On the Web: The Soldiers & Civilians Project

October 28, 2010

The web site, Soldiers & Civilians Project , has just gone live.  It is the home of an audio documentary and online forum that looks at the nature of military service, along with the impact…

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Proposed Doc on Marine Corps Hero

October 27, 2010

Mario Ybarra, Jr., a 45-year-old filmmaker whose Marine father (above) was killed in Vietnam in 1966 eight days before his son's first birthday, is working on a documentary that honors his father's service and also…

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VN War Music Conference in Wisconsin

October 27, 2010

Mark your calendars for November 18, 19, 20. Those are the dates for “…Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008, ” a three-day symposium examining the music of the Vietnam War sponsored by…

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A Piece of My Heart in Raleigh, N.C.

October 22, 2010

The University Theatre at North Carolina State University in Raleigh is presenting six  performances of the powerful Shirley Lauro play, A Piece of My Heart , which tells the stories of six women who served…

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National Veterans Creative Arts Fest On Now

October 18, 2010

This year's National Veterans Creative Arts Festival began today, October 18, and will run through October  24, hosted by the Tomah VA Medical Center and held in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Department of…

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New Apocalypse Blu-ray HD DVD

October 6, 2010

Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic 1979 film Apocalypse No w has been available over the years on all the various home video formats--as has Coppola's 2001 Apocalypse Now Redux (which added two long scenes and other…

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