Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the few places in the world for mining high-purity quartz, a key component needed for making microchips, solar panels and fiber-optic cables. But destruction ...

On Google Maps they look like wide, white sandy beaches. Sibelco is one of two quartz mining operations in Spruce Pine, with a competitor named The Quartz Corp forming in 2011. While Sibelco is ...

Anyone who watches the Oscar-nominated live action short "Red, White and Blue" can probably figure out exactly when and why the film was written. The story of a single mother (Brittany Snow ...

SO KIND OF THE CLOUD SUN PATTERN. AND WE’LL HAVE OUR BEST CHANCE OF SOME IMPACT RAINS JUST A LITT After making landfall in Cuba Sunday as a hurricane, Oscar is now a remnant tropical storm.As of ...

Weekly Commentary (Updated Oct. 31, 2024): Are we headed towards a battle of previous Oscar winners, or will “overdue” narratives and breakout ingenues emerge? Mikey Madison is picking up ...

But that arson is misguided. The issue isn't under-representing minority artists - it's over-representing white ones. And regardless, the conversation shouldn't be about perfect statistical matches.

By Nicole Fell With abortion on the ballot in several states in Tuesday’s election, writer and director Nazrin Choudhury’s Oscar-nominated short film Red, White and Blue about a single mother ...

The sinister nature of the role harks back to his second Oscar win as the corrupt narcotics officer Alonzo in “Training Day.” Villain roles have traditionally performed well in the supporting ...

Hurricane Oscar formed Saturday in the Caribbean, surprising experts and prompting hurricane warnings for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas. A hurricane watch has been ...

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