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Ska Weekend
Ska Weekend is a music festival in Knoxville, TN, United States, that began in 2003 with only a few bands and has grown to be one of the largest gatherings of ska musicians in the country. Popularity The festival is touted as the largest ska festival in the country by its organizer Ben Altom. The event usually takes place during the spring, but the two most recent festivals have been moved to Summer (Ska Weekend 2008 was July 19) The Event draws some of the most popular ska, Punk rock, punk and rocksteady band (music), bands in Northern America (The Planet Smashers, The Know How, mu330, Catch 22 (band), Catch 22, Go Jimmy Go, Mustard Plug, Royal City Riot, SGR (band), SGR, High School Football Heroes, Last Martyrs of a Lost Cause, The Taj Motel Trio, 50:50 Shot and Perfect Orange have all played at the festival) it also routinely attracts more than 1,000 people. History Ben Altom held first ''Ska Weekend'' at Brick Yard Blues restaurant in Powell, TN in 2003. There were only abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third largest city after Nashville and Memphis.U.S. Census Bureau2010 Census Interactive Population Search. Retrieved: December 20, 2011. Knoxville is the principal city of the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 869,046 in 2019. First settled in 1786, Knoxville was the first capital of Tennessee. The city struggled with geographic isolation throughout the early 19th century. The arrival of the railroad in 1855 led to an economic boom. The city was bitterly divided over the secession issue during the American Civil War and was occupied alternately by Confederate and Union armies, culminating in the Battle of Fort Sanders in 1863. Following the war, Knoxville grew rapidly as a major whole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Orange
Perfect Orange was a third-wave ska band from Knoxville, Tennessee. They formed in 2002 and disbanded in 2005. The group never gained large national attention, although they did tour the nation three times playing small clubs and releasing independent albums. Altom was responsible for starting Ska Weekend, the largest ska festival in the country. It is an annual tradition, taking place in Knoxville each April (Though this recent years event took place in August, and might continue the same relative date.) Band members * Zac "Tater" Johnson - guitar, lead vocals * "Big" Ben Altom - trumpet, backing vocals * Travis "Gordo" Gordon - tenor saxophone * Brett Smith - bass guitar * Doug "32a" Griffey - drums * Doug Brown - bass guitar * Mike Agentis - bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuck Lucky
Stuck may refer to: Film and television *Stuck (2001 film), ''Stuck'' (2001 film), a short film directed by Jamie Babbit *Stuck (2002 film), ''Stuck'' (2002 film), a Canadian TV drama directed by Lindsay Bourne *Stuck (2007 film), ''Stuck'' (2007 film), a thriller directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Stephen Rea and Mena Suvari *''Stuck!'', a 2009 film by Steve Balderson *Stuck (2014 film), ''Stuck'' (2014 film), a 2014 romantic comedy film directed by Stuart Acher and started by Madeline Zima and Joel David Moore *Stuck (2017 film), ''Stuck'' (2017 film), a 2017 American film *Stuck (TV series), ''Stuck'' (TV series), a 2022 British sitcom starring Dylan Moran and Morgana Robinson *"Stuck", an episode of ''Hart of Dixie'' Music *Stuck (album), ''Stuck'' (album), a 2014 album by hard rock band Adelitas Way *Stuck (EP), ''Stuck'' (EP), a 1994 EP by Puddle of Mudd *Stuck (Caro Emerald song), "Stuck" (Caro Emerald song), 2010 *Stuck (Stacie Orrico song), "Stuck" (Stacie Orrico song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murphy's Kids
Murphy's Kids was a six-piece American ska punk band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 1999. The group has toured up and down the East Coast of the United States and is noted for organizing the yearly Happy Skalidays charity benefit show. The Band is also known for being politically active. Their album, '' The Anti-Corporate Beach Party'', was recorded in Petersburg, Virginia at Imagine Music Studios and had almost sold out its first pressing of 1,000 copies as of December 2006. In 2009, they released '' Departures''. History Murphy's Kids formed in suburban Midlothian, Virginia in the summer of 1999. The original lineup featured John Charlet (vocals, trumpet), Reid Attaway (guitar, vocals), David Haygood (bass), Paul Riley (trombone), and Will Thompson (drums). Despite several lineup changes over the years, the core songwriting team of John Charlet and Reid Attaway has remained intact. The band's size has fluctuated between five and seven members but has, in recent months ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigger Thomas
Bigger Thomas is a fictional character in the novel ''Native Son'' (1940) by American author Richard Wright. In the original 1951 film, Bigger is played by Wright himself, while he is portrayed by Victor Love and Ashton Sanders in the 1986 film and 2019 film, respectively. Darryl Lorenzo Washington wrote in ''The Crisis'' that the character's name suggests both Uncle Tom and the racial slur "nigger". Original novel Vincent Canby of ''The New York Times'' stated that Wright was aware "that he was taking a terrible chance with" the character. The Bigger in the original novel comes from a low socioeconomic background. Troy Patterson of ''The New Yorker'' argued that the character in the novel is a "thoughtless lunk" and "social problem". In all versions, Bigger accidentally kills Mary Dalton, the daughter of his boss. In the novel and in the first film, Bigger additionally murders his girlfriend, Bessie Mears. Jerrold Freeman, director of the 1986 film, stated that "The scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Disregardables
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Face
IN, In or in may refer to: Places * India (country code IN) * Indiana, United States (postal code IN) * Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN) * In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Businesses and organizations * Independent Network, a UK-based political association * Indiana Northeastern Railroad (Association of American Railroads reporting mark) * Indian Navy, a part of the India military * Infantry, the branch of a military force that fights on foot * IN Groupe , the producer of French official documents * MAT Macedonian Airlines (IATA designator IN) * Nam Air (IATA designator IN) Science and technology * .in, the internet top-level domain of India * Inch (in), a unit of length * Indium, symbol In, a chemical element * Intelligent Network, a telecommunication network standard * Intra-nasal ( insufflation), a method of administrating some medications and vaccines * Integrase, a retroviral enzyme Other uses * ''In'' (album), by the Outsider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50 Shot
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
America's Second Harvest
Feeding America is a United States–based nonprofit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other community-based agencies. Forbes ranks it as the second largest U.S. charity by revenue. Feeding America was known as America's Second Harvest until August 31, 2008. History In the mid 1960s, during rehabilitation in Phoenix, Arizona after a paralyzing injury, John van Hengel began volunteering at a local soup kitchen. He solicited food donations and ended up with far more food than the kitchen could use. Around this time, one of the clients told him that she regularly fed her children with discarded items from a grocery store garbage dumpster. She told him that the food quality was fine, but that there should be a place where unwanted food could be deposited and later withdrawn by people who needed it, like a bank. Van Hengel began to actively solicit unwanted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 World's Fair
The 1982 World's Fair, officially known as the Knoxville International Energy Exposition (KIEE) and simply as Energy Expo '82 and Expo '82, was an international exposition held in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Focused on energy and electricity generation, with the theme ''Energy Turns the World'', it was officially registered as a "World's Fair" by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). The KIEE opened on May 1, 1982, and closed on October 31, 1982, after receiving over 11 million visitors. Participating nations included Australia, Belgium, Canada, The People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany. It was the second World's Fair to be held in the state of Tennessee, with the first being the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897, held in the state's capital, Nashville. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knoxville News Sentinel
The ''Knoxville News Sentinel, also known as Knox News,'' is a daily newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, owned by the Gannett Company. History The newspaper was formed in 1926 from the merger of two competing newspapers: ''The Knoxville News'' and ''The Knoxville Sentinel''. John Trevis Hearn began publishing ''The Sentinel'' in December 1886, while ''The News'' was started in 1921 by Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard. The two merged in 1926, with the first edition of ''The Knoxville News-Sentinel'' appearing on November 22 of that year. The editor from 1921 to 1931, Edward J. Meeman, later was sent to Memphis to edit the since defunct '' Memphis Press-Scimitar''. In 1986, the ''News-Sentinel'' became a morning paper, with the other paper in Knoxville, the ''Knoxville Journal'', becoming an evening paper. The ''Journal'' ceased publication as a daily in 1991, when the joint operating agreement between the two papers expired. In 2002, the paper dropped the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old City (Knoxville)
The Old City is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located at the northeast corner of the city's downtown area. Originally part of a raucous and vice-ridden section of town known as "The Bowery," the Old City has since been revitalized through extensive redevelopment efforts carried out during the 1980s through the present.Melonee McKinney, "A Time of Transition an Avenue of Renaissance in Knoxville." ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 3 April 1994. Currently, the Old City is an offbeat urban neighborhood, home to several unique restaurants, bars, clubs, and shops. In spite of its name, the Old City is not the oldest section of Knoxville. Most of the neighborhood was not part of the city until the 1850s, when the arrival of the railroad encouraged the city to annex the areas north of Vine Avenue.Jack Neely, ''Market Square: A History of the Most Democratic Place on Earth'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: Market Square District Association, 2009), pp. 7, 18, 100. The railroad bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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