Lawrence C. Connolly

Author: Lawrence C. Connolly

  • Fantasia Film Festival & Nightmare Cinema

     This summer, Nightmare Cinema will have its long anticipated premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal.  I’ll be posting more about this prestigious unveiling in the days ahead, but — for now — here’s a brief description from the Festival’s Facebook page: Five Forces of Fear Come Together for A Terrifying Dose of…

  • Getting our Irish on @ Riley’s Pour House

    The music started when Young John Gallagher took the stage before a packed house in Riley’s Outdoor Pavilion. An hour later, The Connolly-Davis Band followed suit before an SRO crowd inside the pub. For the rest of the day, Riley’s delivered a double-track of Irish-trad and Celtic-rock that also featured The Danny McGoo Duo, John…

  • Connolly-Davis Band:
    Ready to Shamrock the House for St. Pat’s

    The Connolly-Davis Band is ready to shamrock the house this Saturday. The place will be Riley’s Pour House, where we’ll be performing alongside The Wild Geese, Young John Gallagher, and the Danny McGoo Duo.  The music starts at Noon and continues nonstop on two stages until St. Patrick’s Day 2018 ends at midnight. Pittsburgh is…

  • Two Hundred Years Ago Today:
    First Publication of a Misunderstood Classic

    On New Years Day 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein first appeared in a press run of 500 copies. Though published anonymously, readers at the time assumed it was written by her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. That incorrect assumption proved to be only the first of many associated with Shelley’s greatly misunderstood novel. A few years ago,…

  • A Place at the Table with
    Lawrence M. Schoen & “Eating Authors”

    One of the more interesting blog themes to come down the pike in recent years is Lawrence M. Schoen’s Eating Authors, which features some of the biggest names in fantasy and sf reminiscing about memorable meals. Since launching the blog in 2011, Schoen has featured hundreds of stories by the likes of Gregory Benford, Brenda…

  • A Place at the Table with
    Lawrence M. Schoen & “Eating Authors”

    One of the more interesting blog themes to come down the pike in recent years is Lawrence M. Schoen’s Eating Authors, which features some of the biggest names in fantasy and sf reminiscing about memorable meals. Since launching the blog in 2011, Schoen has featured hundreds of stories by the likes of Gregory Benford, Brenda…