The Dragon Painter. 1919. USA. Directed by William Worthington. Screenplay by Richard Schayer. With Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr. New York...
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William “Bill” Worthington Ivey, Sr., age 86 passed away on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. He was born on the family farm, “The Ivey Grist Mill” in Parrott, Georgia.
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The UK premiere of the new restoration of Werckmeister Harmonies at Cinema Rediscovered 2024 launches a retrospective.
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When searching through Alameda's history, two names stand out—Chipman and Aughinbaugh. Dive into these founding families.
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Dennis Evanosky sets the Way Back Machine to November 1887, when the editor of the 'Alameda Semi-Weekly Argus' published a fascinating map.
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Fernside Is the finest property in the Bay district. Let us prove it," proudly declared a 1925 Oakland Tribune advertisement from Fred Wood.
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Sessue Hayakawa was the first Asian male star in Hollywood, became a "foreign" silent film sex symbol, and ran his own company while the "natives" remained...
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Grand Street presents a textbook of architectural styles that made Alameda so attractive—none of them “Victorian...
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The twentieth edition of MoMA's festival of film preservation features classics and fresh discoveries from around the world.
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In the sequel to his best-selling book, The New Science of Technical Analysis, Tom DeMark refines the most popular and precise of his indicators with...
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