With “I Heart Huckabees,” “The Fighter” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” writer-director David O. Russell established himself as an adept imitator of genre classics with a flair for ensemble...

Record Store Day, held Saturday, is an annual music industry event during which distributors release limited edition vinyl pressings at random from lists of requests to participating shops, some of which...

The 30th annual Appalachian Summer Festival, which runs from June 28 through July 26, has released most of its 2014 lineup. The lineup includes veteran acts Nickel Creek and Sheryl Crow as well as returning...

  When Appalachian State University biology professor Annkatrin Rose moved to Boone from Germany in 2002 for a job teaching botany, she knew little about the area other than its scenery and hiking...

California-based musician David Portner, known by his stage name Avey Tare, has one of the most distinctive, intense voices in contemporary music. Portner’s overdriven yelp is one of the defining...

More than 100 students from 38 majors, including the graduate school and honors college, will perform the Broadway musical “Kiss Me Kate” Friday through Sunday. The production features costumes...

The Sexuality and Gender Alliance will hold its Spring Professional Drag Show on Saturday at Legends, featuring some of North Carolina’s most experienced drag queens. The show will be hosted by 26-year-old...

In the central moment of “Saving Mr. Banks,” Tom Hanks as Walt Disney implores Pam Travers, the author of the “Mary Poppins” series, to let go control and allow him to finish the film he promised...

The Lonely Biscuits, mtvU’s college artist of the year in 2013, will take to the Legends stage Friday. The band consists of members vocalist Grady Wenrich, vocalist and guitarist John Paternini, drummer...

Cloud Nothings’ moniker may evoke fluffy, wispy images, but for the past few albums their music has been anything but. Their 2012 breakout record, “Attack on Memory,” was the first to include...

by Casey Suglia, Intern A&E Reporter The fourth annual Trash N Fashion show on Friday brought its unorthodox styles to Strand Beads on King Street, bringing together arts and sustainability. The...