Fabled maritime disaster drops anchor this month in 3-D film

BY MILAN PAURICH | SPECIAL TO THE METRO MONTHLY Are you ready to go back to “Titanic?” That’s the burning question James Cameron and Paramount Pictures executives are asking themselves these days. A spiffed-up, 3-D retro-fitted version of Cameron’s 1997 modern classic hits theaters April 4 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the actual [...]

Westminster College to screen French film on Chanel on Feb. 7

“Coco avant Chanel” (Coco before Chanel), the second film in Westminster College’s Tournées Film Festival, will be shown at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7 in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.  The event is free and open to the public. The contemporary film will be subtitled in English.  A discussion will follow the [...]

Milan Paurich’s Year-in-Review for Film

BY MILAN PAURICH | METRO MONTHLY ARTS WRITER Whoever said “all good things come to those who wait” must have been talking about the 2011 movie year. Until September, I didn’t even think I’d find 10 worthy contenders for a best list. By year’s end I had the opposite problem. The goodies (“We Need to [...]

Photographer chronicles working artists of the Mahoning Valley

By MARK C. PEYKO | METRO MONTHLY EDITOR Although it started as a feature on Facebook, a project by Youngstown photographer Tony Nicholas is rapidly becoming an important chronicle of the creative culture of the Mahoning Valley. Nicholas, who earned his master’s degree  from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005, didn’t plan on staying in the [...]

Can’t forget the Motor City: Motown hits 50

The following article was originally published in the Ann Arbor News following the sale of Motown Records to MCA Inc. in 1988. The article was subsequently cited in the bibliography of Gerald Posner’s 2003 book “Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power.” BY MARK C. PEYKO | METRO MONTHLY EDITOR During the heady days of the civil [...]