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The Met Live in HD continues with Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”
Patricia Racette as Madame Butterfly. (Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
The Met Live in HD continues to captivate a worldwide audience, bringing live, high definition productions of the world’s greatest opera to millions of worldwide viewers. The series continues with Puccini’s hauntingly beautiful love story, Madama Butterfly, which will be screened at several Nashville venues on Saturday, March 7 at 12 noon (CST).
Opry Mills Stadium 20 Plus IMAX, 570 Opry Mills Drive and Green Hills Stadium 16, 3815 Greenhills Village Drive, both in Nashville, will screen the live broadcast. In addition, for those who will miss the Saturday showing, Green Hills will screen encore showings on March 18 at 7 p.m. and March 18 at 1 p.m. Running time is three hours and 21 minutes, with two intermissions. «Read the rest of this article»
Roxy Theatre presents “MacBeth”
William Shakespeare”s MacBeth steps onto the Roxy Regional Theatre stage tonight for a three week run, with performances slated for March 6,7,11,12,13 at 8 p.m. and March 14 at 2 p.m.
This theatre classic depicts the anatomy of the relationship between ambition and corruption. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most bloody and fear-filled tragedies. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. Based loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland many superstitions are centered on the belief the play is “cursed,” referring to it instead as “The Scottish play”. «Read the rest of this article»
Mission Clarksville partners with schools, business to launch youth initiative
Harvesting the season's lettuce crop
“…to develop a thoughtful and productive community of young people who can change the world in a lasting and positive way…”
With a $5,000 matching gift from the Dandridge Trust, “Mission Clarksville” made its formal debut Monday evening with a video presentation and a “meet and greet” with program administrators and more than two dozen representatives of Clarksville businesses, schools and media. The initial funding is directed to offset start-up costs for this ministry. The Dandridge Trust is a charitable organization closely related to the Episcopal Church.
Patrick Smith, Executive Director of Mission Clarksville, urged listeners to “raise expectations,” noting that our children “will rise to the occasion.” His message is simple: create a healthy outlook on life, on relationships, on leadership, on responsibility by working hard, working as part of a team and a community, and giving back to that community. «Read the rest of this article»
Fox Women’s Football team launches fundraiser
The Clarksville Fox Women’s Full Contact Football Team will be at Governor’s Square Mall Feb 27th – March 1st to raise funds for their 2009 Season.
The public is encouraged to stop by and get your picture taken with the team’s mascot “Trixy”, make a Donation, get your 2009 “Fox Fun Card”, and get your 2009 Season Fox Schedule and sign up for the Fox newsletter and register to win one of five 2009 season Fox home game ticket packages, and the grand prize of a $100 Governor’s Square Mall Gift Certificate. No purchase is necessary. «Read the rest of this article»
What is Karst topography and why should you care?
Karst Hydrology Initiative--Study area showing major karst hydrogeologic settings in the Interior Low Plateaus physiographic region. Areas underlain by Lower-Middle Ordovician limestones shown in brown, and areas underlain by Mississippian limestones shown in green. (USGS Map)
Karst topography describes a landscape abundant in sinkholes, disappearing streams and caves.
According to Dr. Phillip Kemmerly, professor of geology at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville sits in one of the most interesting areas of karst topography in the world.
Clarksville is part of a region known to geologists as the Western Highland Rim Plain. This region includes northern middle Tennessee and extends into western Kentucky where it is called the Pennyroyal Plain and Mammoth Cave Plateau. The only region in the world with more karst features is Slovenia in southern Europe.
Kemmerly divulges that of karst features, sinkholes pose the greatest risk to new and existing construction sites. «Read the rest of this article»
James D. Amos Shelter officially opened
The Salvation Army officially opened the doors to its new $500,000 Kraft Street Shelter on Sunday in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that also named the facility after its volunteer contractor, James D. Amos. Amos, in a very brief statement, said he saw the need for the building, but “God was the power” in getting the job done.
With a snip of the ribbon, the Salvation Army's new James D. Amos shelter is officially opened
Majors Grady and Shelly Pearson greeted over one hundred city and business leaders, along with the general public, gathered for tours of the building, a “dream” that became reality because of strong community support. «Read the rest of this article»
“Murder in the First” for Clarksville man changed in triple homicide
Gerrard Exeter Robinson
A Clarksville man who is also a registered sex offender, has confessed to the killing of a Clarksville woman and her two young children, and is being held at Montgomery County Jail without bond on a charge of First Degree Murder.
Gerrard Exeter Robinson (B/M), 31, whose address according to the Montgomery County Sex Offender Registry is listed as 205 Hermitage Road in Clarksville, will face 1st degree murder charges for the strangulation death of his former girlfriend, Natalie A. Vullo, 30, of 901 Cal Court in Clarksville late wednesday (2/18/09). Charges relating to the murders of her two children, Diamin Lynette Shanklin, 8, a third grade student at Minglewood Elementary School, and Paul Zacharius Vullo-Nelloms, 3, are being readied for presentation to the Grand Jury. Cause of death for the two children was withheld. «Read the rest of this article»
Paul Guest to read at APSU
Paul Guest
The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU invites you to the Paul Guest Poetry Reading on Tuesday, February 24th, at 4:00 pm, in the Morgan University Center, room 303. A reception will follow the reading.
Paul Guest is the author of three collections of poems, most recently, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge (Ecco, Nov 2008). He is also the author of The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, winner of the 2002 New Issues Prize, and Notes for My Body Double, winner of the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize.
Guest was awarded the Whiting Writers’ Award in 2007 for his first book of poems. In 2010, Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins) will publish his memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. He is a visiting professor of English at the University of West Georgia.
No leads in triple homicide; family history of domestic violence
Clarksville Police, with assistance from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, are continuing to investigate the murders of a woman and two children whose bodies were found during a “welfare check” late Thursday night.
Responding to a call from an individual concerned with the family’s wellbeing, police, having no response to their knocking, entered the home at 901 Cal Court, where they found the bodies of Natalie Ann Vullo, 30, and her two children, Diamin Lynette Shanklin, 8, a third grade student at Minglewood Elementary School, and Paul Zacharius Vullo-Nelloms, 3. According to reports, there are no suspects at this time. Investigators are checking a back window of the home and some fingerprints were taken from the scene. «Read the rest of this article»
Dunbar Cave premieres documentary of cave history
In a reception held Thursday evening at the Dunbar Cave Visitor’s Center, the Friends of Dunbar Cave premiered a new 15-minute documentary on the history of the cave. The film will run on days when the center is open.
Clean Cut Productions used four of 25 people filmed in this short introductory film. Cathy Lee and Jason Bagget were on hand to meet those attending this event. Following is the film by Clean Cut Productions of APSU.
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Blip.tv video. «Read the rest of this article»
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