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OUTDOORS: Best hiking guidebooks of the Smokies

Staff — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:42:03 +0000

BRYSON CITY–Jim Casada churns out an amazing amount of outdoors writing for the Smoky Mountain Times, and his current series of book reviews is invaluable. His most recent column takes a lengthy look at these hiking guidebooks of the Smokies: Ken Wise’s “Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains.” Russ Manning’s “100 Hikes in the [...]

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Food: Two Highlands restaurants in review

Bill Graham — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:19:16 +0000

HIGHLANDS–It’s been a couple of decades since I spent a summer in Highlands, waiting tables at the Old Edwards Inn and having many meals at the restaurants roundabout. The Old Edwards — and its Central House Restaurant — was under different ownership at the time, but the dining room served fresh seafood imaginatively done and [...]

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Worst movies of 2008

Bill Graham — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:41:17 +0000

NATIONAL–Raleigh’s Independent Weekly asked its writers to pick the worst films of 2008. As any observant visitor to a video store knows, movie badness is a mineshaft with no visible bottom, so it was kind of Indyweek’s editors to provide a “control”: “[we targeted] only movies that had pretensions to quality,” they wrote. Indyweek’s choices? [...]

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Bill Buries His Lead: A Review of the New Movie Religulous

Leah Hampton, Contributor — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:55:12 +0000

Some of us like Bill Maher. The rest of us think he’s kind of a jerk. No matter how you feel about the host of Real Time and Politically Incorrect, chances are you feel that particular way because Maher is always, unabashedly himself. He makes no apologies for his own insufferability-or any one else’s for [...]

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