Newport High School Senior LacyAnn Howard has been announced as a winner of a major statewide art award.LacyAnn has won a Yes I Can! award from the Kentucky Council for Exceptional Children (KYCEC
A summer spent observing an osprey nest in Skagit County will be discussed via Zoom. Later, a stand-up paddleboarder will talk about his adventures in Marysville.
Expanded Cinema, by Gene Youngblood. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 464 pages.
WHAT IF FILM CRITICISM could be read as science fiction? The thought crossed my mind as I was revisiting Gene Youngblood’s influential 1970 survey,
Expanded Cinema. Republished by Fordham University Press on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary after decades out of print, it’s a book that functions as history and augury at once. Youngblood offers, as the title suggests, an integrative approach to some of the most radical nodes of moviemaking in the 1960s, bringing together bodies of work that might otherwise be understood in contradistinction Stan Brakhage meets Bell Labs and elucidating them with ideas drawn from communication and design theorists such as John McHale, Marshall McLuhan, and Buckminster Fuller, who provided the introduction to
People this Week: New hires, promotions, awards
Advertising/Public Relations
Creativity Justified has opened a second location in Slidell at 1310 Brownswitch Road, Suite D. The firm’s other location is at 330 Oak Harbor Blvd., Suite B.
Banking/Financial Services
Investar Bank has hired
Construction/Engineering
Dan Mills as its CEO.
Digital Engineering has hired
Buster Lyons as senior project manager.
Burgundy Hebert has been promoted to director of administration and finance.
Candice Cox has been promoted to director of human resources.
General Business
Meredith Hathorn, managing partner of Foley & Judell LLP, has been recognized by Women in Public Finance in honor of Women’s History Month.