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<title><![CDATA['I just thought it would be a good thing to do']]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/nov/20/i-just-thought-it-would-be-good-thing-do/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Bob Martin decided to light a candle instead of curse the darkness.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:48:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Honest, Abe, I'm here to help the busy presidents]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/nov/19/scott-hollifield-honest-abe-im-here-help-busy-pres/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[In March of 1861, 8-year-old George Patten was having a rough go of it in school. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:07:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Up the mountain and back in time]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/nov/12/scott-hollifield-mountain-and-back-time/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[My truck may be a time machine. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:54:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Thankfully, lion attacks now rare in the workplace]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/nov/05/scott-hollifield-thankfully-lion-attacks-now-rare-/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It was a good day at work. I wasn't eaten by a lion. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conley: The legend of the Woolybooger]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/nov/01/conley-legend-woolybooger/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time in this great county of Burke, there lived a huge, frightening creature with long, shaggy, brownish-gray fur. It terrified the Drexel community for two weeks and the legend of the "Woolybooger" was born.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:56:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: It doesn't take an Einstein to make your baby a genius]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/oct/29/scott-hollifield-it-doesnt-take-einstein-make-your/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The Walt Disney Co. is offering parents who bought Baby Einstein videos for their youngsters a refund because, as it turns out, moms and dads can't park Junior's high chair in front of the flat screen and return an hour later to find him piecing together the great American novel from leftover alphabet soup. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:37:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Stolen rack story captivates tiny portion of entire nation]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/oct/22/scott-hollifield-stolen-rack-story-captivates-tiny/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Last week's column, in which I described in vivid detail the theft of one our newspaper racks, my comically heroic efforts to recover it from behind a grocery store and the debilitating back injury I suffered while loading its remains onto a truck, drew much sympathy from readers. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:57:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Full slate of events set for CoMMA]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/oct/22/full-slate-events-set-comma/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[If you are married, ever been married, thinking about getting married, know someone who is married or can spell married — "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is your ticket for Saturday evening at CoMMA. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:17:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Top 10 reasons not to steal a newspaper rack]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/oct/15/scott-hollifield-top-10-reasons-not-steal-newspape/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[After someone stole one of our newspaper racks and left its dented carcass behind a grocery store, I compiled a list of the top 10 reasons not to steal a newspaper rack and leave its dented carcass behind a grocery store in an effort to discourage future crimes of this nature. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:16:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: New plan -- a dinosaur and our future]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/oct/08/scott-hollifield-new-plan----dinosaur-and-our-futu/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I've got a new plan. 
And if this were a movie, and you were in the movie and I explained my new plan, you would say, "That's just crazy enough to work." ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:25:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CoMMA lets cat out of the bag]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/oct/08/comma-lets-cat-out-bag/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[There's something to be said about saving the best for last, so that's just what we will do today. Now for this to work, you must promise not to advance your eyes and interests to the end of this column until you arrive there by reading the entire column. I guess I am just going to have to trust you on this one, because I certainly won't be the one to let the cat (hint) out of the bag.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Parents lie and that's the truth]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/oct/01/scott-hollifield-parents-lie-and-s-truth/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Parents lie to kids. 
I told my daughter they don't, but that was just another in a long line of whoppers that roll easily off the tongues of moms and dads, according to new research from the University of Toronto and the University of California, San Diego. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:29:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Disturbance-avoiding radar on the fritz]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/sep/24/scott-hollifield-disturbance-avoiding-radar-fritz/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It was the first day of autumn - the early evening, actually - when I was called home to investigate a disturbance. 
I never saw it coming. We were putting the finishing touches on another edition of the newspaper — yep, we still make 'em — and I could almost feel the warm familial greeting and taste the ice-cold beverage that I was sure awaited me at my aluminum-sided castle. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:36:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The rumor is true: Percy Sledge is coming to CoMMA]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/sep/24/rumor-true-percy-sledge-coming-comma/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The past week or so has been very busy at CoMMA. Following our technical crew's marathon run at the Historic Morganton Festival, the overwhelmingly successful matinee performance on Sept. 13 with The Raleigh Ringers advanced the MainStage season in great style.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Remembering Hugo]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/sep/21/remembering-hugo/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago today, the most-watched program on television was not those popular shows at that time; it was the Weather Channel. From Savannah, Ga., to Morehead City, N.C., thousands watched to see where Hugo would make landfall.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:22:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Men's grooming raises eyebrows]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/sep/17/scott-hollifield-mens-grooming-raises-eyebrows/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[A lot of British men are going to brow bars to get threaded. 
Yeah, that's what I thought, too, but it doesn't mean that at all. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:44:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conley: Titanic struggle at Optimists' baseball game]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/sep/11/conley-titanic-struggle-optimists-baseball-game/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Sept. 3, 1948, a baseball game was played. It was in a sense a game of the "ages." Ages of the players that is. Many of the players were 30, 40 and some were in their 50s. The game was not an ordinary game.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:59:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Stay in school -- they've got tater tots]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/sep/10/scott-hollifield-stay-school----theyve-got-tater-t/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Note: Inspired by President Barack Obama's recent speech to the nation's school children, columnist Scott Hollifield decided to give his own back-to-school address. So far, no schools have accepted his offer and all media outlets have ignored him, but that did not stop him from releasing this transcript of his prepared remarks in an effort to stave off criticism and outrage that has not yet materialized. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:27:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Just what the doctor ordered - a $3.2 billion fine]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/sep/03/scott-hollifield-just-what-doctor-ordered---32-bil/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will pay fines totaling $3.2 billion for, among other irregularities, plying doctors with golf outings, massages and lavish vacations to encourage them to prescribe medications for uses other than intended, which may explain why I received a Viagra prescription for post-nasal drip. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bill Wilson: We knew them when...]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.morganton.com/content/2009/aug/31/bill-wilson-we-knew-them-when/entertainment-buzz/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Word comes from Nashville that the Dan Tyminski Band leads all nominees for the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards with nine nods. Tyminski played at CoMMA with Alison Krauss and Union Station several years ago and within the last year featured in the band bearing his name. He also was the closing headliner for the 2009 Red White and Bluegrass Festival on July 4 at Catawba Meadows Park.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:30:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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