You try to count seconds between lightning bolt and thunder, but there’s no interval. You’re inside the storm, baby, rain-beaten and pressed against the base ...
Truth to Power - CAUGHT INSIDE AN ELECTRICAL STORM, A TERRIBLE BEAUTY IS BORN
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Ranting and Raving - True Colors
Happy anniversary, reader! One year ago I began this column with my account of the Gay Pride festival in Atlanta and the Cyndi Lauper True ...
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Famous Praise - Workin' Man
With 30 40-pound bags of concrete in the back of my little truck, I was nearly doing a wheelie on the way out of Lowe’s. ...
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Music Underground
Documentation of the Music Underground, ...
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CAUGHT INSIDE AN ELECTRICAL STORM, A TERRIBLE BEAUTY IS BORNYou try to count seconds between lightning bolt and thunder, but there’s no interval. You’re inside the storm, baby, rain-beaten and pressed against the base of a dune topped with burnt and stunted shrubs, while ...
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True Colors
Happy anniversary, reader! One year ago I began this column with my account of the Gay Pride festival in Atlanta and the Cyndi Lauper True Colors Tour. As luck would have it, I spent last ...
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Workin' Man
With 30 40-pound bags of concrete in the back of my little truck, I was nearly doing a wheelie on the way out of Lowe’s. ...
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On the Trail
I’m only a few hours home from a 100-mile Appalachian Trail hike. My tent, sleeping bag, backpack and hammock are flapping on a line stretched ...
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Diplomacy Between Israel, Hamas May Start With Dialogue
How to do diplomacy is ...
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Religion Has No Place in School Programs
The recent report was brief, ...
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How would we (and Obama) fare if in the same game, on a level playing field?
Pennsylvania bothers me. I was ...
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Eating Out 24/7
In the middle of his most recent performance at the Bijou Theatre, musician Ryan Adams commented that Knoxville was one of the few towns he ...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
A transformation is underway on Scott Avenue, at its west end. It’s the part of Scott that falls under the Downtown North/I-275 Corridor Redevelopment Plan, ...
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Would a Democrat change U.S. Middle East policy?
Recently, when Vice President Cheney ...
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In the Campaign, the Unspeakable War
Iraq remains a significant concern ...
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Overeducation in America
By Steve Dupree
Several years ago, perhaps a year or 18 months after I got out of the United States Navy, I was hanging out in a bar just off the Cumberland Avenue strip ...
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I hate that I hate my hair
I hate the fact that I hate my hair. Trivial, yes, but it’s true. I’m a black woman living in a society dominated by images of white European standards of beauty. You know: hair that ...
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