Mark Bennett B-Sides
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MARK BENNETT: Hoosier horror comes to Linton
Sammy Terry's eerie stewardship of “Nightmare Theater” on Indianapolis’ WTTV — better known as “Channel 4” — scared and attracted kids and teenagers throughout the 1960s and ’70s, and periodically in the ’80s. The program featured vintage and bad B-movie horror flicks, with Sammy as studio emcee.
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MARK BENNETT: The Walk takes steps toward becoming a tolerated tradition
One of my favorite philosophers, Bugs Bunny, understood his predicament.
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MARK BENNETT: Hunger Challenge: ‘An exercise in empathy’
The prayer fit.
Two Fridays ago, John Etling — agency director for Terre Haute Catholic Charities — offered the prayer, for all inclined, at a lunch served to participants of a project called the Hunger Challenge. -
VIDEO: Mark Bennett: Terre Haute featured in ‘strange, offbeat, evocative, wonderful movie’
Some people hold a fond memory of Terre Haute. Some even dream of escaping to Terre Haute to start a new life.
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Mark Bennett: You can’t sing the blues without emotion
The 12th annual Blues at the Crossroads festival should bubble with emotion, especially when Jennie DeVoe takes the stage Friday night in downtown Terre Haute at Seventh Street and Wabash Avenue.
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VIDEO: Mark Bennett: Hoosier trio dodges ditches on way to Terre Haute Blues Fest
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band has a critically acclaimed new album and video, and will perform Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Blues at the Crossroads Festival in downtown Terre Haute.
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MARK BENNETT: Going behind the scenes with a behind-the-scenes star
If J.T. Corenflos stood in line at a supermarket in his hometown, few people — aside from friends and family — would recognize him.
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Mark Bennett: A Hoosier brand gets a shot at new life
Thank goodness, Paul Dresser wrote down the words and music to “On the Banks of the Wabash.” And that Max Ehrmann put “Desiderata” on paper. And that Walter Braun grabbed a pencil, scratched out the recipe to Champagne Velvet beer, and tucked it into the pages of his assistant brewmaster’s journal in 1901 at the old Terre Haute Brewery.
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MARK BENNETT: Vigo County continues to dwell at the bottom of child-poverty stats
This community offers lots of convincing reasons for people to call it “home.”
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MARK BENNETT: Rover sparks Curiosity about Mars
The name “Curiosity” fits the latest mission to Mars.
Humans’ fascination with the red planet dates back to ancient astronomers. Yet, for most of us, our knowledge of the fourth rock from the sun can be summed up in an episode of “My Favorite Martian.” -
MARK BENNETT: Sound preservation
Talent can be forgotten, overlooked or lost, until somebody takes an interest.
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MARK BENNETT: High & Dry: A skyview of the drought
Dust dominates the landscape now.
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MARK BENNETT: The art’s impressive, but the history? Not so much
Zeppo Marx gazed up at it.
Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt saw it, too. So did some of America’s most notorious mobsters. -
MARK BENNETT: Wanted: Young Professionals
Maybe it was a former classmate who skipped town on Graduation Day before the tears on his mom’s cheeks could dry.
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MARK BENNETT: Hoosier Blueberry Ranch helping local festival beat the drought
Most front yards look like a lunar soil sample from Apollo 11. So, it’s hard to imagine a blueberry festival being stocked by fresh fruit grown right here in Indiana.
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MARK BENNETT: Friends to remember Garfield Tower fire victim
Ideally, a first-time visitor to Terre Haute will spot the activities at the corner of Seventh and Poplar around dusk Saturday night and wander over, just to satisfy curiosity.
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B-SIDES: Andy let us live in his special world
Mayberry was America’s hometown.
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B-SIDES: After 37 years, Aerosmith still rockin’ his world
It’s more than a little surreal to see Steven Tyler sitting on the judges’ panel of “American Idol.”
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MARK BENNETT: Full circle
Waiting is a lost art.
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MARK BENNETT: Protecting the Wabash and ‘clean water all the way’
The only things missing were a volleyball net and a campfire.
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MARK BENNETT: A little pain, a lot of fun as Chauncey Rose fades into history
Greg Gauer sidesteps boxes on the floor of his office on a Tuesday afternoon.
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MARK BENNETT: 500 history runs in her veins, but she’ll pass on the buttermilk
Katy Balch appreciates tradition. The 20-year-old from Terre Haute understands how neatly her role as one of 33 Indianapolis 500 princesses fits her family.
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B-SIDES: Bloomington brain exhibit gives us something to think about
Most of us never think about our brain.
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MARK BENNETT: Read me to sleep, mom
She read. They listened, staring at the pages.
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MARK BENNETT: A lesson to be learned from Lugar’s loss
It can happen to one of the nation’s most revered, principled, effective, hard-working U.S. senators.
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MARK BENNETT: Despite challenges, 2012 grads have youth, tenacity on their side
Let the doomsday crowd line up like a scene from “Animal House.”
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MARK BENNETT: Political life imitates art
A movie plot typically touches the extremes of life.
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MARK BENNETT: When it came to artwork, ‘Salty’ always kept it real
The depth of my visual art expertise mirrors that of Neil Young.
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MARK BENNETT: Ongoing challenge: To keep Mother Nature from getting trashed
Soggy, mud-caked jeans and a formerly white T-shirt were my youngest son’s summertime uniform, as a kid.
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Playing a legend: Broadway actor practiced hundreds of shots, visited Terre Haute to play Sycamore legend in 'Magic/Bird'
Until now, the words “Larry Bird” and “Broadway production” simply would not appear in the same sentence.
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Oklahoma Gov: 'Hearts Are Broken' After Tornado
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Raw: House Burns After Massive Oklahoma Tornado
Pug Life on Display at Wisconsin Festival
Split-second Choice Ended With NY Student Dead
MLB Hoping for Large Replay Expansion in 2014
White House Backs 'Shield Law' for Media
Horse Saved From Slaughter, Goes on to Win Big
Raw: Japan's WWII Atrocities Under Fire in Seoul
RAW: Massive tornado strikes Oklahoma
Okla. tornado survivor finds dog buried alive under rubble
Pickler's Dance Moves Cause A Stir
Obama to tornado survivors: The country stands beside you
Reporter Cries Over Devastation
Sneak Peek: 'Modern Family' Says Good Bye
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IWitness Look at Moore, OK Tornado
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Robert Pattinson Moves Out
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Oklahoma tornado survivor: "Everything is gone"
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Justin Bieber Gets Booed
RAW: TV Staff Take Cover From Tornado
New 'Anchorman 2' Trailer, Drake Joins List of Rumored Cameos
Eva Longoria's Wardrobe Malfunction
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