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Plattsburgh Mayor’s Cup Movie: An Ode to Champ
Silhouette of “the Rhedosaur” from the 1953 film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the film chosen to feature in the first Mayor’s Cup Movie Night in honor of “Champ.” 10 years after The Gospel According...
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Champ Day Movie: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Silhouette of the “the Rhedosaur” from the 1953 film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The film featured in the first Plattsburgh Mayor’s Cup Movie Night this year and will encore in Port Henry on Champ...
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2nd Annual Plattsburgh Mayor’s Cup Movie Night
The 2nd-annual Mayor’s Cup Movie Night again celebrates Lake Champlain’s oldest enduring folklore, the internationally famous legend of “Champ,” but with a completely different approach this time. The...
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Mayor’s Cup Movie Night 2016 Honors Monster Seekers
Sandra Mansi’s 1977 Photo of Champ Mayor’s Cup Movie Night was christened in 2014 as the annual four-day festival’s first and so far only event recognizing Lake Champlain’s oldest and most enduring...
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Plattsburgh Mayor’s Cup Movie: An Ode to Champ
Silhouette of “the Rhedosaur” from the 1953 film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the film chosen to feature in the first Mayor’s Cup Movie Night in honor of “Champ.” 10 years after The Gospel According...
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Champ Day Movie: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Silhouette of the “the Rhedosaur” from the 1953 film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The film featured in the first Plattsburgh Mayor’s Cup Movie Night this year and will encore in Port Henry on Champ...
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2nd Annual Plattsburgh Mayor’s Cup Movie Night
The 2nd-annual Mayor’s Cup Movie Night again celebrates Lake Champlain’s oldest enduring folklore, the internationally famous legend of “Champ,” but with a completely different approach this time. The...
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Mayor’s Cup Movie Night 2016 Honors Monster Seekers
Sandra Mansi’s 1977 Photo of Champ Mayor’s Cup Movie Night was christened in 2014 as the annual four-day festival’s first and so far only event recognizing Lake Champlain’s oldest and most enduring...
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month Film Series at Newman Center
“Rashomon” will be shown as part of a double-feature on Saturday, April 22nd, starting at 7:00 pm at the Newman Center in Plattsburgh, NY. A recent Press Republican letter promoting my Newman Center...
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Mayor’s Cup Movie Night 2017
Champ hunters Katy Elizabeth & Dennis Hall in action on Lake Champlain. Mayor’s Cup Movie Night is back as the annual regatta and festival’s only nod to “Champ,” the blanket nickname for what many...
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Champ Day Movie Night Returns!
Champ hunters Katy Elizabeth & Dennis Hall in action on Lake Champlain. Champ Day Movie Night is back for another round of recognizing “Champ,” the blanket nickname for what many believe is a...
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Mayor’s Cup Movie Night Returns!
Mayor’s Cup Movie Night again recognizes “Champ,” the blanket nickname for what many believe is a colony of saurian cryptids inhabiting Lake Champlain. I’ve selected this summer’s creatured attraction,...
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Plattsburgh Mayor’s Cup Movie: The Creature of Stark Hills
Welcome to the 6th-annual Mayor’s Cup Movie. The first five showcased the legend of the Lake Champlain Monster. This summer we’re taking a break from “Champ” to give his shaggy landlocked kindred...
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Watch THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE July 13 at Newman Center
After taking July 6th’s “Bigfoot Break” from the focus on the Lake Champlain Monster (ever since the dawn of the Mayor’s Cup Movie in 2014), it’s time to resume concentration on that marvelous...
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Halloween Dracula Double-Feature
The (suspended) Newman Center Film Series (90 Broad St., Plattsburgh) is going on indefinite tour! Inactive since March 7, its inaugural reboot will be at City Well (home of Chapter One Coffee), 30...
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Newman Center Film Series-on-Indefinite Tour Presents Citizen Kane
Having recently begun its new campaign to sustain 16mm (celluloid) exhibition in the digital age, the (suspended) Newman Center Film Series-on-Indefinite Tour is heading across Plattsburgh. Following...
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Newman Center Film Series on Tour: THEATRE OF BLOOD
Spoiling to say “good riddance” to the incomparably wretched year of 2020 with 110% determination to celebrate 2021, including on behalf of my Newman Center Film Series on Tour, I wondered what movie...
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Newman Film Series on Tour: TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
As a lifelong movie geek who’s run the gamut of specialized interests from A to Z, presently there’s nothing more precious to me than prescient vintage cinema connecting to the here and now,...
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Newman Center Film Series-on-Tour: THE CREEPING FLESH
In my previous blog entry promoting a screening of Woody Allen’s “Take the Money and Run” I addressed concerns about the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in a satirical context, via the scene where...
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Newman Center Film Series-on-Tour: THE THING
Paging fans of prescient 1950s sci-fi cine-classics….two of them are coming soon to hotel conference rooms near you! First, I’ll mark the 70th anniversary of 1951’s original “The Thing” with a...
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