A year and a half ago, the Coq Chante orphanage in Haiti got its first light bulb. To celebrate, the some 18 children there stayed up until midnight playing board games.
The bulb was powered by solar panels on the roof. The children also had filtered water to drink. And someone made sure their education continued.
Who [...]

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“Convertibles are swell but they sure do call attention to your comings and goings.” — Nancy Drew in “The Haunted Showboat”
“Don’t force your date to go to a ballet or another activity that may not be to his liking if he was knocked unconscious earlier in the day.” — Nancy Drew in “The Double Jinx [...]

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More than150 folks donned “Rosy’s Diner” baseball caps and filed into the ballroom of the Crowne Plaza hotel Friday night for a laugh-filled celebration of News Sentinel editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel’s 80th birthday.
Rosy’s Diner is a staple location for much of the action that takes place in Daniel’s cartoons. Good sport Donna Colburn of the News Sentinel put [...]

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“Good communities don’t just happen,” Patrick Birmingham told area leaders last week. “This is a great community because the people in this room have worked hard to make it great.”
 
Birmingham is the new publisher of the Knoxville News Sentinel. Bruce Hartmann, the former publisher who recently was promoted to a larger role in the News [...]

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“In writing about ordinary people, you’ll find the extraordinary.”
So says Rheta Grimsley Johnson, a syndicated columnist whose work has been running in the Knoxville News Sentinel for 27 years. Her column is in about 50 other papers as well.
Johnson was in town last week speaking at the Friends of Literacy Writers Hall of Fame at [...]

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The other day, Rusty Coats, the new vice president for content and marketing for the E.W. Scripps Company, shed some light on the recent reorganization of the firm’s newspaper division, which includes the Knoxville News Sentinel.
And, he revealed that it centers around a recognition by the company that there have been “tectonic shifts” in the [...]

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How can a place have a personality? How can a place be organic?
He doesn’t know the answers to that. But Jack Neely knows that Market Square has those qualities.
Neely, Knoxville’s unofficial historian, made those observations Wednesday night at a book-launching party for his new paperback, “Market Square: A History of the Most Democratic Place on [...]

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Michael Ginsburg picked up his black flute and began playing the haunting theme to the “Heartland Series” clear and sweet. Thousands of folks sweating it out in 94-degree heat at the Museum of Appalachia Saturday fell into a reverent hush. The melody was sad and lonely and it seemed to hang in the air.

The atmosphere [...]

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People have a strong response to anything written about downtown.

People like really personal stories about others in the community.

Damn spammers will try to attach their links to anything!

These are just some of the interesting tidbits I’ve picked up since starting this blog a few months ago.
Every week we get a so-called “analytics” report that provides all [...]

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We are all about new media here at Moxley Carmichael. I started twittering in May ‘08 and got on Facebook shortly thereafter. We have this blog and are about to launch a second one. We were the first PR firm in town to hire a new media specialist. We have either met with or have [...]

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