The Tech Players opened their newest production, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” to a packed Backdoor Playhouse.Director Mark Creter explained he expected a large turnout after the final rehearsal before last night’s show. “We expect a large crowd for this show,” Creter said. “Musicals tend […]
Month: November 2010
Proceeds from art auction benefit boy with cancer
Art for Heart is a charity art auction in which all proceeds go to the family of a 12-year-old boy with stage IV brain cancer. Sam Fallos, sophomore psychology major and creator of the event, said she heard the story through one of her oldest friends, the sister of the […]
Right of way confusion causes two collisions
Look both ways-it’s a fundamental mantra of life on earth. Yielding to pedestrians is equally basic.Then again, when you repeat something over and over again, it tends to lose its poignancy, as demonstrated on North Dixie Avenue recently. During the past few weeks, two students were hit by vehicles while […]
Tech offers state’s first agritourism concentration
Next semester, classes will be offered for a new concentration as part of the bachelor’s degree in agriculture.Tech is the first university in Tennessee to offer a degree concentration in agritourism, the combination of agriculture and tourism, the state’s top two income-producing industries. The concentration will partially merge agriculture with […]
Local Honey covers Evan Donohue
I went out on a limb this week to review something that I hadn’t discovered myself – something I was completely unfamiliar with until a week ago. “The album is called ‘Rhythm & Amplitude. It’s amazing,” my friend told me on the patio at the Mercy Lounge in Nashville. The […]