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Touching animated short Crowboy screens at the 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on February 8th!

by Anran Li
published 2025-02-07

Recently, I read that teenagers resist reading young adult fiction but instead look for adult material, while younger children, hoping to get a peek of teenagerhood, would read about high schools and puberty. According to this cycle, it makes me wonder if adults miss the comfort of children’s fairy tales.  This may be true in a way. Occasionally, when the exhaustion from work and life pile up on a rainy day or a Friday night, it is too easy to simply want to crawl under the blanket with a mug of hot soup and watch a little something. If that’s the case for you, perhaps you’d like to watch the short, animated film Crowboy.




 

Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Slight Return (Run That Shit Back)" by Chris Rockwell feat. Chill Smith and Izzy Miz

by Bob Makin
published 2025-02-07

The Makin Waves Song of the Week, "Slight Return (Run That Shit Back)," feat. Chill Smith and Izzy Miz, is the first single and video from Chris Rockwell's forthcoming LP, "Rebel Radio 2."



New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 02-07-25

Here is the morning update from New Jersey's arts newswire. We regularly publish between 8-15 new articles and news reports each day. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!





Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...2/6/25

by Danny Coleman
published 2025-02-06

"I'm in the middle of the Caribbean somewhere, I'm thrilled I have cell phone service so this is great," laughed extraordinary Blues artist Sue Foley as she telephoned from the Legendary Blues Cruise to discuss her upcoming February 7 South Orange Performing Arts Center show The South Orange International Blues Festival: Winter Edition 2025  organized by the talented Mike Griot also featuring Alexis P. Sutter and Rae Simone. 



Jersey Arts Podcast: New Jersey Symphony Puts the 'Tunes' in 'Looney Tunes'

by Maddie Orton, JerseyArts.com
published 2025-02-06

35 years ago–well before orchestras performing film scores became popular–George Daugherty and his husband and producing partner David Wong developed Bugs Bunny at the Symphony. The concept was new at the time: a world-class orchestra would play full cartoon scores live alongside the films. It was an instant hit.