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Awesome TAMIS Videos -- featuring The Reed Sisters
Every so often, the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound opens its video vault and allows to grab some nuggets of gold to post...Read More Published 10/30/2009 at 5:06 PM 0 comments -
Living Jazz in a Small Southern City Trailer
The folks behind the Knoxville Jazz Festival have a documentary in the works about Knoxville's jazz history. (MP staff writer Chris Barrett has been pitching...Read More Published 10/29/2009 at 2:42 PM 0 comments -
Lil Wayne Talks S**t Like Lane Kiffin
Lil Wayne, who was the biggest rock star in the world in 2008, is known for his prolific recording schedule. One of his most recent...Read More Published 10/29/2009 at 11:26 AM 0 comments -
Corker Sponsors Global Children's Health Bill
Proving not everything in Washington today is partisan politicking, Sen. Bob Corker has joined liberal lion cubs Sens. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Dick Durbin(D-Il) in...Read More Published 10/29/2009 at 9:51 AM 0 comments -
Halloween Hijinks at the South Carolina/UT Game
Having Steve Spurrier in town for the South Carolina/UT game scheduled for Halloween is probably enough horror, but what about Halloween fun? Seems the athletic...Read More Published 10/28/2009 at 12:59 PM 0 comments -
But Agee Don't Sell No Supraderm Salve
Saturday night's viewing of the 1952 film Bride Comes to Yellow Sky at the Square Room was maybe a once-in-a-lifetime event. It was at least...Read More Published 10/27/2009 at 7:06 PM 0 comments -
Murder Coverage for Automobile Fatalities?
For the last several days, the most popular stories on the 24-hour blogs and the websites for the daily and for the local television stations...Read More Published 10/26/2009 at 5:50 PM 0 comments -
Drip Drop Goes the Gun Guidance
The state attorney general recently issued another opinion(pdf) to further clarify the mess that is the guns and parks legislation. This one explains that properties...Read More Published 10/26/2009 at 10:12 AM 0 comments -
The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock
Errol Morris, the famous and highly regarded documentary filmmaker (The Thin Blue Line, Standard Operating Procedure, The Fog of War, and A Brief History of...Read More Published 10/23/2009 at 5:30 PM 0 comments -
bring your brain
The newly formed Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present--ASAP, an inter-disciplinary academic society--begins its first international conference today, in Knoxville. You...Read More Published 10/22/2009 at 2:17 PM 0 comments -
Satterfield Twitter Follow-Up
Yesterday I wrote about a contentious online conversation about News Sentinel court reporter Jamie Satterfield's Twitter coverage of the Christian/Newsom trial. Part of what prompted...Read More Published 10/22/2009 at 2:10 PM 0 comments -
Twittering the Christian/Newsom Murder Trials: Satterfield Defends Tone
News Sentinel court reporter Jamie Satterfield's been getting some flak on Knox Blab about her Twitter coverage of the Christian/Newsom murder trials. A few posters...Read More Published 10/21/2009 at 12:01 PM 0 comments -
Laugh Along With Cormac McCarthy
Whether you think he's a pretentious blowhard or a literary prophet (or a little bit of both), Cormac McCarthy is a perfect target for this...Read More Published 10/21/2009 at 11:52 AM 0 comments -
Alexander Warns Obama, 'Don't Pull A Nixon'
Senator Lamar Alexander had a lengthy speech this morning on the Senate floor admonishing President Obama's administration to learn the lessons of the Nixon administration,...Read More Published 10/21/2009 at 11:50 AM 0 comments -
Alexander Joins the Liberal Media(for a Week)
Our very own Lamar Alexander, current Republican senator, former education secretary, governor and president of UT, joins the liberal media in this week's edition of...Read More Published 10/20/2009 at 2:02 PM 0 comments -
Balloon Boy II: The Aftermath
Reports revealed over the weekend that the story of a boy thought by his parents to be trapped in a balloon as it sailed over...Read More Published 10/19/2009 at 9:41 AM 0 comments -
GOP Picks up Seat in Special Election
The News-Sentinel's Tom Humphrey today explains how Republican Pat Marsh's victory in House District 62's special election last week changes the arithmetic for two House...Read More Published 10/19/2009 at 9:33 AM 0 comments -
Best Rain Songs?
After posting this song yesterday, I've been seeing rain songs all over thesixtyone.com. Here's another one by Soko. What are your favorite songs about rain?...Read More Published 10/15/2009 at 10:09 AM 2 comments -
Can't Stand the Rain
Chris Barrett's piece on how the steady rains are affecting farmers seems appropriate today. So does this song I came across on thesixtyone.com, a site...Read More Published 10/14/2009 at 2:15 PM 2 comments -
More Details on Catalyst Closing
Official word about the closing of the Old City nightclub Catalyst has come down from the club's owners. According to a press release issued this...Read More Published 10/14/2009 at 2:00 PM 0 comments -
S&W Delay & The Catalyst Closes
Two quick tidbits for followers of downtown business news:• The S&W Grand's long-, long-, long-awaited reopening scheduled for Monday, Oct. 19 has been postponed. The...Read More Published 10/13/2009 at 5:30 PM 0 comments -
Third Man Trio, Thursday @ Square Room
Han Bennink is one of the world's most musical drummers, with a style so vast and far-reaching it's more like a philosophy. He spends little...Read More Published 10/13/2009 at 5:09 PM 0 comments -
When History Calls, History Calls
Not the same as when nature calls, I'm told.Sen. Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, said today she will vote for the Senate Finance Committee's health...Read More Published 10/13/2009 at 1:45 PM 0 comments -
National Equality March's Knox Connection
Last Sunday's National Equality March in Washington D.C. made plenty of waves: it was the biggest gay rights march in a decade (with around 150,000...Read More Published 10/13/2009 at 11:27 AM 0 comments -
Donna Brazile to Speak Oct 19
For all those Clinton/CNN lovers out there -- Political strategist Donna Brazile will speak next Monday. Here's the press release: KNOXVILLE -- Veteran Democratic political...Read More Published 10/13/2009 at 10:17 AM 0 comments -
Gov. Bredesen:Time to Pay the Piper
It's Monday. It's raining. And apparently our state is entering a ten-year slump. Yep, Gov. Bredesen says tax revenues are down 5.7 percent over a...Read More Published 10/12/2009 at 10:37 AM 0 comments -
Gameday: Just Like New York
(Reposting Jack Neely's entry after fixing a few technical difficulties:)When the Vols are playing in town, Knoxvillians live like people live in big cities. They...Read More Published 10/10/2009 at 11:14 PM 0 comments -
Movies on Market Square Canceled
Tonight's showing of Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit on Market Square has been canceled due to expected rain, according to a...Read More Published 10/09/2009 at 3:11 PM 0 comments -
What Do You Think of Obama's New Prize?
This morning the news of President Obama winning the Nobel Prize for Peace was greeted with surprise, mostly. As NPR noted, the nominating window closed...Read More Published 10/09/2009 at 10:57 AM 0 comments -
CBO: Health Proposal Would Decrease Deficit
Last night it was reported that the Congressional Budget Office, the non-partisan agency tasked with projecting costs based on legislation before Congress, finds that the...Read More Published 10/08/2009 at 9:40 AM 0 comments -
Dollywood No Longer Favored by God
The News Sentinel reported today that Dollywood's attendance is down 5 percent and that rains have impacted 40 percent of the days the theme park's...Read More Published 10/06/2009 at 10:49 AM 0 comments -
Mayberry KPD
Saw this outside the office today....not sure what it's about but had "Mayberry, TN" written on the side....Read More Published 10/05/2009 at 4:35 PM 0 comments -
Visiting Knoxville's Solar Tour & Fair
Last Saturday, the city of Knoxville presented a solar power fair in Krutch Park and at the East Tennessee History Center. Held in conjunction with...Read More Published 10/05/2009 at 1:22 PM 1 comments -
TVA Gets the 60 Minutes Treatment
As Coury mentioned Friday, last night on CBS' 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl investigated the Kingston coal ash spill and the consequences of the government's decision...Read More Published 10/05/2009 at 9:42 AM 1 comments -
60 Minute's Ash-Spill Show This Sunday
As we noted last August, 60 Minutes sent Lesley Stahl to Kingston to interview people for a report on TVA's ash-spill disaster, asking "How Safe...Read More Published 10/02/2009 at 3:16 PM 0 comments -
Correction and Apology
Yesterday I blogged about UT Former General Counsel Ron Leadbetter throwing his hat into the primary race to fill Tim Burchett's state senate seat. In...Read More Published 10/02/2009 at 9:11 AM 0 comments -
Treasury to Trade Gold Reserves for Cash
Today's News Sentinel article about a couple trying to put the class back in the gold exchange business reminded me of this great Onion video...Read More Published 10/01/2009 at 9:46 AM 0 comments -
State Senate Challenger Steps Forward
No sooner had we posted this Ear to the Ground yesterday about Stacey Campfield running unopposed in the Republican primary to replace Tim Burchett in...Read More Published 10/01/2009 at 9:31 AM 1 comments
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