Let’s Take a Hike!
Each week here within our page of The Loafer, we have taken our readers on adventures across Tennessee and within our neighboring states as well. From amusement parks to museums and road trips, we’ve done it all. I think we get most excited when we get to include you on one of our many hiking […]
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Let’s Take a Hike!
Each week here within our page of The Loafer, we have taken our readers on adventures across Tennessee and within our neighboring states as well. From amusement parks to museums and road trips, we’ve done it all. I think we get most excited when we get to include you on one of our many hiking […]
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Play It (Again), Sam: Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of “Casablanca”
When the cameras stopped rolling on the “Casablanca” set on August 3, 1942, with the film’s premiere set for later that Fall, no one, particularly the actors and production crew, thought the movie would be long remembered. For them, it was just another film in the can, quickly shot in a little over two months […]
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man made his first appearance in comic books in 1962 in a series called “Amazing Fantasy”. Since that time the character has become Marvel Comics most recognized and beloved character. (Rated PG-13) 3 1/2 Webs (out of 4) Spider-Man has been in all forms of media including animation and live-action films over the years to […]
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Mildred’s Lodger
This week I have a pair of new blu-rays from The Criterion Collection to talk about. One stars one of the true giants of Classic Hollywood, Joan Crawford. The other is an early film directed by the man who would become The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. From 1945 “Mildred Pierce,” directed by the great […]
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Skies This Week
Celestial events in the skies for the week of July 18-24, 2017 as compiled for The Loafer by Mark D. Marquette. This is Apollo 11 week when in 1969 the world was mesmerized by the voyage of three brave American astronauts headed to the Moon to fulfill man’s greatest adventure. The Moon will be seen […]
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Sharing memories Photographs Capture a moment Words may or may not be able to describe But one can always Gaze upon These pictures And remember Jul 18, 2017The Casual Word Comments comments
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Apollo 11’s 48th Anniversary: Baby Boomer Reflections
Never to be forgotten in history is the date July 20, 1969. In fact, it should be a U.S. holiday as at no other time in history has so much been accomplished during so little time. That’s the day Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent a day at Tranquility Base on the Moon, the first […]
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