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Credit By Vicki Dameron
Richard Beard 2017
I was as surprised as anyone when I heard that the North Carolina Legislature, in the late 1980s, had mandated that citizens within our state should, and would, receive a National Public Radio signal generated within the state boundaries. I had been listening to NPR, and especially
Morning Edition, for decades on the WEPR affiliate of the South Carolina ETV network. Since no such network existed in North Carolina, both the far Eastern and Western portions of our state had no NPR representation. All of that was about to change.
It was through a series of events, some that now seem providential, that WNCW came into being, and was established on the campus of Isothermal Community College. We all take for granted, some almost three decades later, of the impact WNCW has had, not only in our region, but also on the public radio landscape nationwide, and in the new era of cyber broadcasting, on the International scene as well. Where a
The 411 Interview: Alan Ilanthirayan Arumugam
Alan Ilanthirayan Arumugam is a writer and director from Australia who recently directed his first feature film, the supernatural horror movie
Aiyai: Wrathful Soul released by Film Regions International. In this interview, Arumugam talks with this writer about making
Aiyai: Wrathful Soul, what it was like working with the cast and crew, what it took to actually get the movie made, and more.
Aiyai: Wrathful Soul to be your first feature film as a director? Alan Ilanthirayan Arumugam : Three years before we filmed
Aiyai: Wrathful Soul, I had many potential producers wanting me to make a film in the “supernatural” genre. I realized there is obvious commercial potential for horror-thriller Films, while at the same time they don’t need a large budget to make. It all started from this practical view, but when I came up with the concept of a realistic-supernatural thriller, which later became
Directed by Alan Ilanthirayan Arumugam
Screenplay by Alan Ilanthiryan Arumugam, Charles Benedict, and Mukund Ramanan
Distributed by Film Regions International
Not Rated https://www.aiyaifeaturefilm.com/
Aiyai: Wrathful Soul, directed and co-written by Alan Ilanthirayan Arumugam (Charles Benedict and Mukund Ramanan also participated in writing the screenplay), is a fascinating supernatural horror thriller that succeeds on just about every level. While the general story at play isn’t necessarily something horror movie audiences haven’t seen before (the movie has some quirks that are its own but “vengeful spirit” stories have been rampant since the inception of cinema),
Aiyai: Wrathful Soul will still freak you out and get under your skin a bit, which is what all good “vengeful spirit” movies do.
University of Maryland to name new dorms after first Black student and others who helped diversify the campus Lauren Lumpkin The University of Maryland in College Park will name two new residence halls after former students who helped diversify the campus in the 19th and 20th centuries, officials announced Monday. Whittle-Johnson Hall will honor Hiram Whittle, the first African American man to be admitted to the university, in 1951, and Elaine Johnson Coates, who in 1959 became the first African American woman to graduate with an undergraduate degree. Another building, Pyon-Chen Hall, will pay tribute to Pyon Su and Chunjen Constant Chen. Pyon served as a diplomat in Korea before moving to the United States, where he became the first Korean student to receive a degree from the Maryland Agricultural College now the University of Maryland or any American institution, in 1891, the university said. In 1915, Chen became the first Chinese student to enroll