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Rusty Odom, publisher of BLANK Newspaper, is still keeping you filled in

Posted by Amelia Bartlett
|Date: October 26, 2025
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Rusty Odom, publisher of BLANK Newspaper, is still keeping you filled in

“What am I gonna call it? I just kept drawing a blank...” We meet on Rusty Odom’s home turf in South Knox ...

“What am I gonna call it? I just kept drawing a blank...” We meet on Rusty Odom’s home turf in South Knoxville, at the back of SoKno Taco’s patio, for a conversation we’ve been dancing around for year ...

October 26, 2025
| by Amelia Bartlett

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When you’re with BLANK, it’s family business

Posted by BLANK
|Date: October 24, 2025
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When you’re with BLANK, it’s family business

Corrections: Amelia Bartlett's company a/b studios produced the Sweetwater-set romantic comedy short How ...

Corrections: Amelia Bartlett's company a/b studios produced the Sweetwater-set romantic comedy short How to Get the Girl, attached to the campaign and feature film concept called Falling for Sweetwate ...

October 24, 2025
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BeachLife Festival 2024 – Day 3 Recap

Posted by Michaela Marchardt
|Date: May 07, 2024
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BeachLife Festival 2024 – Day 3 Recap

High Winds and High Spirits We managed to get to the festival grounds early on day 3, and thankfully so, ...

High Winds and High Spirits We managed to get to the festival grounds early on day 3, and thankfully so, as high winds later led to the unfortunate cancellation of the evening's performances. However, ...

May 07, 2024
| by Michaela Marchardt

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BeachLife Festival 2024: Day 2 Recap

Posted by Michaela Marchardt
|Date: May 06, 2024
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BeachLife Festival 2024: Day 2 Recap

Medicine for the Music-Loving Soul The infamous SoCal May Gray was not on the official bill but definit ...

Medicine for the Music-Loving Soul The infamous SoCal May Gray was not on the official bill but definitely made an appearance on day two of BeachLife Festival 2024 at Redondo Beach. Seeing multiple ...

May 06, 2024
| by Michaela Marchardt

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BeachLife Festival 2024 – Day 1 Recap

Posted by Michaela Marchardt
|Date: May 05, 2024
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BeachLife Festival 2024 – Day 1 Recap

Returning to Our Beach Roots After a memorable inaugural blast in 2019, your Blank News crew made its way ...

Returning to Our Beach Roots After a memorable inaugural blast in 2019, your Blank News crew made its way back to the familiar sands of Redondo Beach for the annual BeachLife Festival. As we stepped o ...

May 05, 2024
| by Michaela Marchardt

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BeachLife Festival 2024: ’90s Icons Hit the Shore!

Posted by Michaela Marchardt
|Date: April 09, 2024
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BeachLife Festival 2024: ’90s Icons Hit the Shore!

Dive Into the Ultimate Beach Bash of 2024 BeachLife Festival is making waves again! Picture yourself unde ...

Dive Into the Ultimate Beach Bash of 2024 BeachLife Festival is making waves again! Picture yourself under the sunlit skies of Southern California, feet in the sand, rocking out to the legendary sound ...

April 09, 2024
| by Michaela Marchardt

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Vols Dominate Tide in Most Balanced Game of Year

Posted by Bill Foster
|Date: January 20, 2024
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Vols Dominate Tide in Most Balanced Game of Year

The Tennessee Volunteers put together their best all-around game of the season Saturday afternoon as they ...

The Tennessee Volunteers put together their best all-around game of the season Saturday afternoon as they smothered Alabama 91-71. It was a game where something had to give as Alabama has scored over ...

January 20, 2024
| by Bill Foster

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Saturday review: Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion

Posted by BLANK
|Date: September 20, 2023
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Saturday review: Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion

Music, food, shopping, more make 22nd edition of Tennessee/Virginia festival a destination event (Editor' ...

Music, food, shopping, more make 22nd edition of Tennessee/Virginia festival a destination event (Editor's note: Our team always has a wonderful time covering festivals like Bristol Rhythm & Roots ...

September 20, 2023
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Railbird Recovers on Day Two

Posted by Bill Foster
|Date: August 30, 2021
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Railbird Recovers on Day Two

Words and Photos by Bill Foster Well, folks, let’s get the business out of the way first: I am happy to r ...

Words and Photos by Bill Foster Well, folks, let’s get the business out of the way first: I am happy to report that the second day of Railbird Festival in Lexington, Kentucky, was a vast improvement o ...

August 30, 2021
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Railbird’s Stellar Music (In Spite of Some Challenges)

Posted by Bill Foster
|Date: August 29, 2021
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Railbird’s Stellar Music (In Spite of Some Challenges)

Words and Photos: Bill Foster Here at Blank, we try to focus on the positives. We know very well how diff ...

Words and Photos: Bill Foster Here at Blank, we try to focus on the positives. We know very well how difficult it is to put on a festival and how hard a festival team works to provide us with a good t ...

August 29, 2021
| by Bill Foster

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Melissa Etheridge Ignites Tennessee Theater

Posted by BLANK
|Date: August 23, 2021
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Melissa Etheridge Ignites Tennessee Theater

Words and photography by Bill Foster Melissa Etheridge is the first musician I ever took a picture of, fi ...

Words and photography by Bill Foster Melissa Etheridge is the first musician I ever took a picture of, first at a little bar in Norfolk, VA, in 1988 or so and then when she opened a benefit at the Sco ...

August 23, 2021
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Springtime Is for the Hopeless and Other Ideas

Posted by Michaela Marchardt
|Date: July 06, 2020
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Springtime Is for the Hopeless and Other Ideas

An Unearthed Time Capsule From 2002 It's April 2020 and a novel coronavirus just pulled the rug out from ...

An Unearthed Time Capsule From 2002 It's April 2020 and a novel coronavirus just pulled the rug out from underneath the entire music industry. Like so many others, Tim Regan, co-owner of Nine Mile Rec ...

July 06, 2020
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Homebound: Matt Rankin

Posted by Matt Rankin
|Date: April 16, 2020
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Homebound: Matt Rankin

Books, video games and lots of music to sustain you in these trying times Editor’s note: In the aftermath ...

Books, video games and lots of music to sustain you in these trying times Editor’s note: In the aftermath of the unfortunate yet completely understandable and responsible decision to scrap this year’s ...

April 16, 2020
| by Matt Rankin

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Homebound: Recommendations from the BLANK staff

Posted by Matt Rankin
|Date: April 11, 2020
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Homebound: Recommendations from the BLANK staff

How to keep yourself and others afloat during these quarantimes Homebound: Bill Foster • Homebound: Wayne ...

How to keep yourself and others afloat during these quarantimes Homebound: Bill Foster • Homebound: Wayne Bledsoe • Homebound: Matt Miller • Homebound: Luke Brogden • Homebound: Amelia Bartlett • Home ...

April 11, 2020
| by Matt Rankin

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Homebound: Steve Wildsmith

Posted by Steve Wildsmith
|Date: April 10, 2020
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Homebound: Steve Wildsmith

Finding solace and serenity in the majesty that is John Luther Adams Editor’s note: In the aftermath of t ...

Finding solace and serenity in the majesty that is John Luther Adams Editor’s note: In the aftermath of the unfortunate yet completely understandable and responsible decision to scrap this year’s iter ...

April 10, 2020
| by Steve Wildsmith

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