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  • Featured
    • Cover Story
      • Virginia Creeper Fest: The Award-Winning Festival Returns
    • Events
      • Virginia Creeper Fest: The Award-Winning Festival Returns
      • Tee Off with Hope: Dawn of Hope Golf Classic
      • Tusculum Old Oak Festival: April 20-22
      • Journey Into The Unknown
      • Virginia Ground’s Band Camp Music Festival at Holston River Brewing
      • Jenny & The Hog Drovers at Carter Family Fold
    • Arts
      • ETSU to present Mr. Burns A Post-Electric Play
      • Award-Winning Murder Mystery, In The Heat Of The Night, Comes to Barter Theatre
      • The MIDTOWN MEN Perform at NPAC
      • Spoken Word Open Mic
      • May I Serve You? April 23 at 7p.m. with musical guest Aaron Jaxon
    • Music
      • Virginia Creeper Fest: The Award-Winning Festival Returns
      • Paul Edelman & Jangling Sparrows Back in Bristol
      • Tusculum Old Oak Festival: April 20-22
      • The MIDTOWN MEN Perform at NPAC
      • May I Serve You? April 23 at 7p.m. with musical guest Aaron Jaxon
      • Virginia Ground’s Band Camp Music Festival at Holston River Brewing
      • Jenny & The Hog Drovers at Carter Family Fold
      • Band Booking
    • Food & Drink
      • Virginia Creeper Fest: The Award-Winning Festival Returns
      • Tusculum Old Oak Festival: April 20-22
    • Free & Fun
      • Virginia Creeper Fest: The Award-Winning Festival Returns
      • Paul Edelman & Jangling Sparrows Back in Bristol
      • Tusculum Old Oak Festival: April 20-22
      • Journey Into The Unknown
      • Spoken Word Open Mic
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
    • News
      • ETSU to present Mr. Burns A Post-Electric Play
      • Tee Off with Hope: Dawn of Hope Golf Classic
      • Award-Winning Murder Mystery, In The Heat Of The Night, Comes to Barter Theatre
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Pets of the Week
      • Things To Do
    • Classifieds
      • Pets of the Week
      • Things To Do
  • Columns
    • Appalachian Wanderers
      • Springtime Hiking Safety
    • *batteries not included
      • The Awful Truth
    • The Casual Word
      • Gargoyle
    • Kelly’s Place
      • English 101: Out With THE OLD, In With THE NEW?
    • Mister
      • Man Up: Redefining Masculinity
    • Mountain Movers
      • Don Raines: The Interview
    • Outdoor Life
      • Is a 9mm pistol good enough for defensive use?
    • Pop Life
      • A Quiet Place
    • Skies This Week
      • Skies This Week
    • Stargazer
      • Astronomy Day this Saturday: Time to Look Up!
    • The Nerd’s Corner
      • Nano Metalfigs
    • The Trivial Traveler
      • The Ultimate Limited Access Road
  • Businesses
    • Restaurants
    • Services
    • Salons
    • Museums
    • Schools / Colleges
    • Stores
    • Bars
    • Medical
    • Activities
    • Automotive
    • Theatre
    • Hotels
  • Spotlight
  • Full Issues
  • Nightlife
  • A Night Out
 

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The Awful Truth

Other than Film Noir, Screwball Comedy is perhaps the most revered form of film made during Hollywood’s golden era. Director Leo McCarey’s 1937 screwball comedy “The Awful Truth” is one of the high watermarks of the genre. This charming, delightful film stars Cary Grant (swoon), Irene Dunne (swoon) and was a big hit upon its […]

April 17, 2018 More
 

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Ham Wash

As I sit in my office typing this, there is a repairman in my laundry room looking at my washing machine, which broke over the weekend. The weekend I’m talking about was Easter weekend, a weekend for family, eating a lot of food—and seeing how many hours long religious epics you can take in from […]

April 10, 2018 More
 

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T-Minus Five Hours and Counting

I had family come in last week over the holiday. From the time of their departure, it would be about five hours before they arrived at my house. I began preparing for their arrival three days beforehand. I inherited my mother’s desire for a presentable looking home and gave every single room of the house a […]

April 3, 2018 More
 

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King of Jazz

In 1929 Universal Pictures began work on what was to become their most ambitious project yet, and one of the most ambitious productions of its time. The film was the musical revue “King of Jazz” which starred bandleader Paul Whiteman and his orchestra—it’s important to note that during this time, the term “Jazz” was something […]

March 27, 2018 More
 

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The Harper Films

Between 1949 and 1976 Author Ross Macdonald wrote a series of novels that featured his private eye character Lew Archer. The first two novels in this series “The Moving Target” and “The Drowning Pool” were both adapted into motion pictures with Paul Newman in the role, however a few concessions were made as “The Moving […]

March 20, 2018 More
 

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Auntie Mame

It was sometimes last Spring, I think, when I was flipping around on a lazy Saturday afternoon at home and came across the 1958 film “Auntie Mame” on Turner Classic Movies about right in the middle of the movie. The film is such a delightful charmer that I usually stop and watch it when I […]

March 13, 2018 More
 

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Never Ending Risk

People often complain about how long it takes to play a game of Monopoly. Poppycock, I say! If you follow the actual printed rules of the game you can play games of Monopoly that end in just over two hours. But the longest games of Monopoly can’t hold a candle to the one game designed […]

March 6, 2018 More
 

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Tom Jones

One of the great joys of talking to you in these pages of new blu-ray editions of a classic film is that I get to see new to me films from time to time as part of it. Talking about movies has always been a part of this column since it began in 2006, I […]

February 27, 2018 More
 

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Night of the Living Dead

The late George A. Romero’s 1968 movie “Night of The Living Dead” is, undeniably, one of the most influential horror films ever made. Not many films can claim to have invented a genre, The Zombie Film, which laid the groundwork for a VERY popular cable TV series based on a certain comic book that features […]

February 20, 2018 More
 

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MARS Ain’t The Kind of Place to Drive Your Car

Last week, Tesla CEO and real-life mad scientist Elon Musk shot a car into space. Part of his SpaceX company testing the most powerful rocket in the world, The Falcon Heavy. The rocket is part of Musk’s hopes to eventually make space travel as common as taking a cross-country flight and other fun space ventures. […]

February 13, 2018 More
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