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WPEC 3pm Newscast Set to Debut Today

It’s by no means a new thing among TV news stations but it is locally. WPEC CBS12 today is launching the area’s first 3pm weekday newscast. They call it CBS 12 News at 3 and it’s aimed at women, especially the stay-at-home mom crowd. Liz Quirantes will anchor the new show with Suzanne Boyd and Stephanie Wilson filing pre-taped stories daily.

3pm newscasts aren’t very common, we found only KMGH in…

Good Deeds: WPEC Anchor Suzanne Boyd, WIRK FM Crew, and a Giant Bunny Deliver Ice Cream to Kids

The Blue Bell Easter bunny along with WPEC morning anchor Suzanne Boyd, and the morning crew from WIRK 103.1 FM visited the kids in the pediatric unit at Palms West Hospital yesterday to cheer them up and deliver loads of ice cream goodies for everyone.

The Florida chapter of Little Smiles, a volunteer driven non-profit with a mission to help kids in local hospitals and other like facilities,…

RAFF 2014 took place at the TIFF Bell Lightbox from February 19th to the 23rd. At the opening night ticket holders got to see the world premiere of “An Economy of Grace”, a feature-length documentary about renowned artist, Kehinde Wiley and the process that goes into his successful pieces.

It was intriguing to see how he puts a twist on traditional concepts, taking random African-American people he meets from the streets and transforming them into classical painted portraits of white women and men of royal stature from older times. GQ describes Wiley as a “painter of portraits that borrow heavily from the old to make something blazingly new”.

It’s that juxtaposition between old and new concepts that makes his colourful portraits interesting and thought-provoking.

After the feature film, there was a Q&A conducted by Suzanne Boyd, EIC of Zoomer Magazine followed by a mix and mingle reception being able to rub elbows with Wiley.

Visit www.kehindewiley.com to learn more and check out Kehinde Wiley’s feature on GQ.

If you love visual arts and the stories and people behind them, be sure to catch North America’s only visual arts film festival. This year was another great job by the Canadian Art Foundation for connecting the visual arts to film and for also bringing in renowned international visual artists.

Kehinde Wiley with his entourage

Here’s some more photos from the RAFF opening night.

Click here to check out the great highlight reel of some of the films of RAFF 2014.

Also check out our coverage of last year’s 10th anniversary of RAFF with Dorothy Vogel in attendance:

The Reel Artists Film Festival Opening Night Celebrates 10 Years