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YMCA East Tennessee Launches Capital Campaign for New West-Side Aquatics Center

In The Daily Dumpster Blog by Thomas StubbsMay 23, 2017leave a COMMENT

“Our purpose is deeper than a pool.” A poster proudly displaying those words served as the backdrop for YMCA of East Tennessee President and CEO Jim Dickson this afternoon as …

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Beck Center Wins Inaugural Rotary Club Peace Award

In The Daily Dumpster Blog by Jack NeelyMay 23, 2017leave a COMMENT

The Nobel committee is not the only organization that offers an annual Peace Prize. In a special ceremony Tuesday at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville’s Downtown Rotary Club, founded …

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My Life as a Teenaged Neomorph: Experiencing ‘Alien Covenant: In Utero’

In Movies & TV, The Daily Dumpster Blog by Thomas StubbsMay 19, 2017leave a COMMENT

Ahead of its wide release in the United States this weekend, Alien: Covenant is being hailed (by some critics) as a meticulously crafted and effortlessly thrilling reaffirmation of director Ridley Scott’s …

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Relics at Risk: Knox Heritage Names This Year’s ‘Fragile 15’

In The Daily Dumpster Blog by Thomas StubbsMay 17, 2017leave a COMMENT

It’s easy to think of history as something permanent and absolute, an eternal force that will persist and endure as surely as the past begets the present. For the written …

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KHFF Organizers Plan to Open a Community ‘Microcinema’ for Classic Films

In Program Notes, The Daily Dumpster Blog by Coury TurczynMay 16, 2017leave a COMMENT

In terms of moviegoing experiences, the Knoxville area has got most of the bases covered: multiplexes galore, an art house, cinema clubs, outdoor screens, film festivals, a movie palace, and a …

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