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Metro Pulse’s Online Archives Vanish Overnight
September 23, 2015 In Other No Comment

We’d been wondering when this shoe might fall. Last week we learned that someone associated with the Journal Media Group, the News Sentinel’s corporate owner, disconnected or allowed to lapse several years’ worth of the archives of Metro Pulse, removing […]

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Knox Heritage’s Critical Role in Saving Knoxville’s Historic Buildings
September 17, 2015 In Other No Comment

Without preservationist organization Knox Heritage, the city of Knoxville would lack many of its now-familiar landmarks. The nonprofit began in 1974 as a group of volunteers gathered to save the Bijou Theatre, at a time when it appeared the 1909 […]

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Documentation: Nina Simone, and From Paper to Pixels
September 16, 2015 In Other No Comment

The new documentary about Nina Simone is making the rounds. It may not ever reach local theaters (it’s a Netflix production, available for streaming), but several weeks ago the Pilot Light, the Old City nightclub that usually hosts interesting live […]

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Bruce McCamish’s Facebook-Famous Photos Give a New Perspective on Knoxville
September 16, 2015 In Other No Comment

Bruce McCamish draws second glances when he’s raising an expensive camera several fathoms above his head on a busy downtown street corner. The slender telescoping pole he uses was actually designed for house painters, not photographers—and when it’s fully extended, […]

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Knox County Public Library Foundation’s Ambitious Paper to Pixels Project
September 11, 2015 In Other No Comment

The Knox County Public Library Foundation is taking on its most ambitious project: to digitize all the copies of one Knoxville newspaper from 1922 to 1990. Why digitize a newspaper? Almost all modern history depends on newspaper research. Although any […]

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Keith Bellows, 1951-2015
September 9, 2015 In Other No Comment

In the wake of his sudden death Saturday before last, dozens of travel-writing professionals have been hailing Keith Bellows as a giant in the industry: “brilliant, a creative genius,” “always scanning the horizon for the next great thing,” “a pusher, […]

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The Birth of Tennessee Football
September 3, 2015 In Other 1 Comment

Knoxville was not always crazy about football. Although college football is most popular in the Southeast, the new sport, which evolved in the Northeast in the 25 years after the Civil War, caught on in other parts of the nation […]

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Michael Kearney, the Child Actor of ‘All the Way Home,’ Revisits Knoxville
September 2, 2015 In Other 2 Comments

This Friday at 7 p.m., at the East Tennessee History Center, the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound will be showing the 1963 film All the Way Home. It’s based on James Agee’s autobiographical story about his father’s death […]

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End-Of-Summer Reflections on a Few Recent Transitions
August 26, 2015 In Other No Comment

Over this hot summer, I noticed the UT bookstore, known perhaps more accurately as the VolShop, on Henley Street had closed. I was walking over from UT one searing day in July, and thought I’d pop in there for a […]

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