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      • Marble City Opera Presents “Royal Flush” March 11-13, 2021
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      • ‘Welcome Home’ exhibit focuses on experience of Asian female artists in Appalachia
      • Washington College Academy Spring 2021 Classes
    • Arts
      • Marble City Opera Presents “Royal Flush” March 11-13, 2021
      • Carter Railroad Museum Reopens
      • Knoxville Opera performing “Heavenly Opera”
      • 2021 Emerging Artists Fund
      • ‘Welcome Home’ exhibit focuses on experience of Asian female artists in Appalachia
      • Washington College Academy Spring 2021 Classes
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      • Marble City Opera Presents “Royal Flush” March 11-13, 2021
      • Band Booking
    • News
      • Carter Railroad Museum Reopens
      • ETSU offers free services to help with FAFSA
      • 2021 Emerging Artists Fund
      • Emory & Henry College opens The Kitchen Closet for students with food insecurities
      • Johnson City Reopening Community Centers, Athletics, Special Events
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    • *batteries not included
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Pop Life

The Christmas Chronicles 2

If you are needing some cheer of the holidays, I suggest taking in a viewing of “The Christmas Chronicles 2”, a sequel to the 2018 original. Kurt Russell reprises his role as Santa Claus, and actress Goldie Hawn joins him in the role of Mrs. Claus. This film did have a very limited release in […]

 

Batteries Not Included

The Diary of The Twelve Days of Christmas

Hello friends and loved ones! A very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all. Whatever it is that you celebrate at this time of the year, I hope you have as fine a celebration as possible, while being safe and smart. This week, I’m doing something a bit different. I’d like to share with […]

 

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Veteran of the Week: Bob Ledford

Bob Ledford was born in Johnson City, Tn.  At the young age of 4 years old his father passed away leaving his mother to raise him alone.  When Bob graduated high school in 2004 at the age of 17 his mother gave her consent for him to join the United States Army and he left […]

 

Tea Time with Appalachian Barbie

Starbucks to Starbroke

The day this article hits public consumption is going to be a very happy day for me.  That’s because December 15th is my next payday, and due to a variety of reasons, I somehow managed to turn the first half of this month into a fiscal dumpster fire and your girl is feeling the burn.  […]

 

Pop Life

Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square

Dolly Parton has done it to us again. With the many challenges of 2020, she is determined to put us in the Christmas spirit. First with the release of her new Christmas album ” A Holly Dolly Christmas”, and now with the new Christmas movie “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square.” Congratulations Dolly you did […]

 

Batteries Not Included

Christmas Parade: The Home Game

If anything, I am nothing but a jolly old elf. It even says so on my Tinder profile. That’s why a festive idea struck me the other night. I was looking at posts made in our neighborhood watch app. You know the one. It’s where everyone goes to complain about raccoons and squirrels. There was […]

 

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Veterans of the Week: Dog Tag Brigade

What comes to your mind when you pass a group of motorcycles on the road especially if they are burly, tattooed, bearded, leather wearing Harley riders?  I am willing to bet most people picture them sitting in a bar drinking and smoking or if you watched Sons of Anarchy maybe you think they are criminals.  […]

 

Tea Time with Appalachian Barbie

The Life of a Confirmed Bachelorette

Today is what a weirdo like me would consider a perfect day.  It’s snowing for the first time this season and the weather is finally cold and dreary enough to require boots, a heavy coat and kicking the thermostat over to “heat.”  Upon leaving a successful meeting with one of my accounts, I was strolling […]

 

Pop Life

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

It’s that time of year when holiday movies are popular fare and are part of our seasonal traditions such as cooking the turkey or decorating the Christmas tree. Several new top notch Christmas films have been released this year, including the new musical fantasy “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey”, written and directed by David E. […]

 

Batteries Not Included

A Seasonal Trio

Warner Archive brings a trilogy of seasonal favorites to blu-ray for the first time this month. One film is one of the all-time, well-established greats, “The Shop Around The Corner” with Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan. The other two films, “Holiday Affair” and “It Happened on 5th Avenue” are films that are largely little known, […]

 

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Veteran of the Week: Ted Roosevelt Blankenship

Ted Roosevelt Blankenship was born on October 25, 1932 in Chuckey, Tennessee.  He left home and high school in 1949 to join the US Air Force and they sent him home when they realized he was only 17 years old.  He really wanted to serve his country and was able to enlist in the US […]

 

Tea Time with Appalachian Barbie

Quitters Never Win

If you asked me what my biggest regrets were, I would like to say I have none, but that would be a lie.  Although I try to live my life to its fullest potential, I am human and daily I fall short on things I wish I’d accomplished with the time there never seems to […]

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