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Raleigh Road Outdoor Theatre, Henderson NC, double feature sign for September 7-10, 2017. Photo: Kay Whatley
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Movie Review: “It” at the Drive-in

September 10, 2017 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor The It movie trailer made this 2017 movie look scary. Seeing the film, I thought It was medium-scary. It was so creepy, though, that It made my skin crawl. Seeing it at […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue: The Hobbit

January 1, 2013 Kay Whatley

By Frank and Kay Whatley For this issue, we reviewed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. This film is the first of three films retelling the story of Bilbo Baggins. The films follow the story line […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue: Red Dawn

December 1, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor For this issue, we reviewed Red Dawn, a remake of a 1984 movie about an enemy army attacking on American soil. If you never saw the 1984 version, you’ll still be able to follow […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue

October 15, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor This issue we’re reviewing a family-oriented movie that recently came out, Trouble With The Curve, starring Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood plays a baseball scout dealing with growing old. Much of the […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review: The Possession

September 1, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor The movie review this issue is The Possession, a newly released supernatural horror film. The story revolves around a box referred to as a dibbuk box. It is professed to hold […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue: Hope Springs

August 15, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor The movie review this issue is Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell. The Director, David Frankel, also directed The Devil Wears Prada. Streep and Jones play […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises

August 1, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor The movie review this issue is The Dark Knight Rises. This final installment of the Batman film trilogy starts with a Batman in hiding, retired and disenchanted. As with most superhero […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue: Prometheus

July 1, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor The movie review this issue is Prometheus, a “prequel” to the Alien movies of the 1980s. Regardless of whether you’re a fan of the Alien movies, this sci-fi flick offers quite […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue: Madagascar 3

June 15, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, with Frank Whatley The movie review this issue is for Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. My husband and I took two pre-teens with us to review this children’s film. This movie includes the […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue: Men In Black 3

June 1, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, with Frank Whatley The movie review feature continues this issue with review of the new Men In Black film, MIB3. As with our other movie reviews, my husband and I took our teen […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue: The Avengers

May 15, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor The movie review feature continues this issue with review of The Avengers. Thank you to Carmike 10 on Ward Blvd. in Wilson for welcoming us in for our review. We went […]

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Carmike 10-Wilson Movie Review of the Issue

May 1, 2012 Kay Whatley

By Kay Whatley, Editor This issue, a new feature begins with movie reviews. One of the hot movies out right now is The Hunger Games, which we went to see this week. Thank you to […]

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The Strange-Ness: Trained African Rats Sniff Out Problems

August 14, 2015

Did you know there is an organization that cares for and trains oversized, African giant-pouched rats to do mine and disease detection? APOPO (www.apopo.org/en) is a non-profit that trains the large rats to detect landmines. […]

Source: Dr. John Stamey
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Bigfoot Column: Indiana Bigfoot Sighting

February 6, 2019

By Dr. John Stamey Matt, currently age 43, had an amazing experience in Fall of 1996. At the time, he was 21 years old. His folks had almost ten acres of land in the middle […]

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UFO Sightings by US State: December 2018

January 16, 2019

By Kay Whatley, Editor Across the United States each year, thousands of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are reported. UFO reports cover close encounters of various types, range from blinking lights in the sky to […]

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