"As a director, film is about how you dole out the information so that the audience stays with you when they're supposed to sta...

NYU professor Clay Shirky teaches theory and practice of social media and has now decided he must ban the use of laptops, tablets and p...

While the media and the current political party debate seems to indicate a battle between "Conservative" and  "Liberal" ...

Tonight in East Tennessee brings the opening of Frightmare Manor, one of the highest-rated haunted attractions in the country. Plenty of ...

It's a guess, really, but trends and data available say that there is roughly one web site for every three people who use the web, a...

Real movies made on real 35mm film will live on thanks to a handful of modern filmmakers – and I hope their efforts last many years. ...

For the past few months, an unusual structure has been rising up on the grounds of the hit attraction of Frightmare Manor in Talbott. Al...

I noted some years back that folks were flocking to watch YouTube videos of the "unboxing" of numerous tech gadgets, phones an...

I feel your pain. Director/producer/movie mogul George Lucas doesn't want anyone to see the movie which launched the legend of Star...

Chris Wooden is serious about entertaining East Tennessee. His sprawling multi-attraction Frightmare Manor is a must-see attraction dr...

This is post number 2, 281 of yer Cup of Joe, which first published August 3rd 2005. Stats show 6 people saw that initial posting. Since the...

The photo is from backstage during the production of "A Wrinkle In Time" I directed this summer. There's me and the wei...

Hey now, prisons aren't a business -- they are an Industry!

"There are some knee jerk reactions to the phrase 'Dear White People' and I get it. No one wants to be called racist, and so...

A campaigner for Joe Carr arrives with signs and his pickup truck at exactly the moment Sen. Lamar Alexander arrives in Morristown for ...

My absence on this page is due to aliens, time-and-space travel, and even an evil brain. All are elements of Madeleine L'Engle's...

Why is a House Judiciary Committee holding hearings on theology? Seriously, why? It can't be legal. Just look at the reality here - some...

I suppose the above is not a surprising thing to see outside the Supreme Court. (via The Washington Post )

My Congressman, Republican Phil Roe, sent an email this morning echoing the party's press release with some words meant to gain attent...

I suppose I'm a Debbie Downer today, but the Supreme Court ruling yesterday giving privacy protections to smartphones and requiring ...