Cup Of Joe Powell
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Late Summer Night Music

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When it is a hot summer August night, like this one, and tomorrow looks to be even hotter, I often spend far too many hours searching for mu...
Friday, August 07, 2009

Camera Obscura: John Hughes, King of Comedy; 'Perfect Getaway'; 'Lovely Bones'; Vampire's Assistant

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I was talking just this week with a friend about writer/director John Hughes, who died suddenly on Thursday at age 59. Hughes made some of t...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

How To Improve Television - Drop Glenn Beck

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MediaMatters reports today that the jabbering madness of Glenn Beck is losing major advertisers. "Three companies who run ads during G...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Secret Deals Between Jefferson County Government and The Railroad

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Several citizens groups have formed to halt the plan to construct a Norfolk-Southern rail and truck facility, though the reporting via today...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Post-Peach; Or The Other News in the News

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After many Summer months working with some fantastic actors, this weekend saw the first and last appearance of "James and the Giant Pea...
Sunday, August 02, 2009

Last Chance Today to See James and The Giant Peach

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The final performance of "James and the Giant Peach" at Rose Center in Morristown is today with curtain time at 2 pm -- come early...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

'James and The Giant Peach' Opens Friday at Rose Center in Morristown

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This weekend is the ONLY chance to see the 18th annual theatrical production from the Rose Center Summer Players program, with "James a...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

"Heads Will Roll" In TVA Toxic Spill?

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From the very creation of the coal ash containment site in Kingston through decades of warnings about increasing risks of catastrophic failu...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Morristown Near 20% Unemployment

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The figures for months have shown a steady march upward on unemployment here in East Tennessee, and June's report shows Morristown near ...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Camera Obscura: Comic-Con News; Miyazaki's 'Ponyo'; Scorsese's 'Shutter Island'

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Filmmakers and fans and media reps from all corners have been busy at the Annual San Diego Comic-Con this week. When first held in 1970, a ...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Seduction and Scandal In The Tennessee Legislature

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State Senator Paul Stanley and one of his interns, McKensie Morrison, are at the center of a sex scandal and an alleged blackmail plot, a st...
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Newspapers: 180 Years of Not Charging For Content

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The newspaper business has - since it's earliest days - used a business model where readers are never really charged for the content the...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Fatal Flaws in TVA

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A very critical report on TVA's operations at their coal-fired plants, prompted by the disastrous spill of coal ash in December of last ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Better Living Thru Swearing and Bras?

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Science!! is always striving to improve our lives and last week two new developments pushed forward some ideas which science and business ar...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Apollo 11-- 40 Years Later

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Despite what I and many others thought on July 20, 1969, so far only 12 people have walked on the surface of the moon. The first two - Neil ...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Camera Obscura: Harry Potter Returns; Comic-Con News; 'Futurama' Fail; 'District 9'

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The newest Harry Potter movie opened this week with midnight shows and Cathy at Domestic Psychology has the skinny on what that event was li...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Congressman Zach Wamp's House of Secrets

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Shoot-Out Or Opt Out?

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Thanks to the short-sighted, political goofballery of the Tennessee State Legislature, any community in the state which has a public park ha...

Toxic Tennessee Valley

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The aftermath and current struggle of residents living in the midst of a full-blow disaster, the giant 1.1 billion gallon coal ash spill fro...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Best Blog In Tennessee - A Summer Full of Fun

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I'm not sure what the best blog in Tennessee might be, but it seemed a catchy headline to note that yes I have been most active in the n...
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