Posted on September 1st, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
It’s September and, in Knoxville, that means one important thing: the season starts. And I don’t mean the football season. I mean the almost equally competitive charity fundraiser season.
This time of year, it seems that not a day goes by that we don’t open our mailboxes to find elegant invitations or “Save the Date” cards [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Today is the last day for us in the glass tower that has been our home for the past 15 years. It’s moving day and we are taking our toys and moving from First Tennessee Plaza, the tallest building in downtown, to the Miller’s Building, about four blocks north on Gay Street.
I will explain the reasons [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
There was so much material this year that the annual Front Page Follies show was bound to be funny! Held Saturday at the Knoxville Convention Center, it did not disappoint.
The Follies show is the annual performance by area journalists and PR folks to raise funds for communications scholarships and poke fun at area newsmakers in the [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
How’s this for a Saturday night party idea? An appetizer sampling!
Our friend Dawn Ford loves to entertain and she loves appetizers. So when she bought a new Harry & David appetizer cookbook the other day, she decided she should gather a bunch of guinea pigs (us!) and test some of the recipes.
Note to Dawn’s other [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
I’ve been to Asheville about a dozen times over the years and it is a place I really like. I’ve always been impressed by its creative restaurants, compact downtown and generally cool vibe.
Alan and I just got back from a long weekend there for a public relations conference that attracted the top PR agency leaders [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
We were a little nervous when former Sheriff Tim Hutchison and state Sen. Tim Burchett arrived at the Moxley Carmichael party at about the same time last Friday. The two men are locked in a not-all-that-friendly race to be the next Knox County mayor. But all was well. Soon the room filled with many other [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
“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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Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
At 6:45 on Tuesday night, I was cooking dinner (if you can believe it) when the phone rang. Against my better judgment, I picked it up. Sure enough. A political call.
“I’m sorry to call at dinner time,” the friendly woman said. “But I wanted to remind you to vote in the city election November third.” [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
When is pumping gasoline fun? When it’s for charity and you have a bunch of high-spirited local celebrities doing it!
That was the case the first three days of this week during Pilot Pumpers, the annual United Way fundraiser when more than 70 media folks and politicians pumped gas for customers at Knoxville area Pilots. Pilot [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
Although the Blue Streak sometimes discusses new media and journalism and public relations, it’s really a blog about Knoxville and Knoxville happenings.
We at Moxley Carmichael thought we also needed an outlet for discussing the exciting things going on in the field of communications. Not a day goes by when we don’t discuss in real life [...]
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