Posted on May 31st, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
There were pizza biscuits, bologna biscuits, orange cranberry streusel biscuits, and biscuits with jalapenos in them. There were celebrity chefs, including Michelle Bernstein and Nathalie Dupree, in addition to our own great chefs from Blackberry Farm. There were cooking demonstrations, bake-offs and a Mr. and Miss Biscuit contest. A $150-per-ticket dinner Friday and a $125-per-ticket [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Tom Mattingly, a former city of Knoxville employee before joining the UT Sports Information Office for 18 years (1987 to 2005), has for the past four years written a Sunday column and daily blog for the News Sentinel. Both are called “The Vol Historian” — and, naturally, that’s what Mattingly also has come to be [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
I love Times Square. Whenever we go to New York, I always want to stay right on Times Square. I leave the curtains open so that when I wake up at 3 a.m., which I always do, I can see all the beautiful lights.
It’s for that reason that I fully expected to be just as [...]
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Posted on May 18th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Just Ripe, the cute little half-grocery store/half-prepared food store located in the Daylight Building downtown, opened last Friday and, although the stock is still coming in, you can tell it’s going to be a great resource for folks who live, work or enjoy visiting downtown.
“We opened on Friday the 13th,” laughed Charlotte Tolley, one of [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
What is it with horses and me all of a sudden? I’ve already admitted I’m afraid of the huge things. (Click here to read about my last encounter with them.) And now it seems I’m being thrust into contact with them all the time. Usually when this kind of thing happens, it’s for a reason. [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
The bride and groom both live and work in Hollywood now. (She’s an actor and he acts, writes and directs.) So you knew the wedding would be dramatic. And, sure enough, the nuptials of Allison Nichols and Anthony Toich on Saturday night did not disappoint. To make it even better, the event was held in [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
If you are like me, you will find the fact that Bill Landry of WBIR’s “Heartland Series,” has written a book based on “Heartland” stories is very good news indeed. Titled, “Appalachian Tales and Heartland Adventures,” it contains, Landry said, “100 stories and 300 pages.” It is due out in September — in plenty of [...]
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