By Joan Ryan / Columnist Jamie Lee Curtis called More magazine a few months ago. She had an idea for a story and photo shoot. The result is in the issue that hits newsstands today. The actress is photographed in her underwear as she looks in the privacy of her own bedroom, without benefit of…

By Hope Hines / Columnist Lee Trevino, the PGA tour’s resident funny man, once said that standing over a 20-foot putt to win a tournament that paid half a million was not stress. Stress was a $20 bet with your foursome with only $5 in your pocket.While in for a routine physical recently, my doctor…

By Duane Sherrill / Columnist Kids say the darndest things. Talk about being painfully frank, they can cut you to the bone without even realizing they’ve gotten off a zinger. It must be nice being able to be brazenly straight-foward, yet still have the ability not to offend.Sometimes Jack’s painful frankness gives me the urge…

Our Viewpoint McMinnville city employees who want to express their views better go to the closet and try to dig up a muzzle. According to a newly enforced policy, city workers are not allowed to say what they think by writing a letter to the editor or calling radio station talk shows.Whether it’s legal to…

Three legendary stars of the American cinema, Celeste Holm, Kim Hunter, schedule pending, and Patricia Neal, will discuss their work Sept. 5-7, as the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and The Belcourt Theatre collaborate to preset Vital Impulses, a three-day film series timed to coincide with the Frist Center’s current exhibition Vital Forms: American…

Traditions, which have existed for many decades in the Upper Cumberland Mountain region, will be expertly demonstrated and performed when Fall Creek Falls State Park and the Friends of Fall Creek Falls present the Mountaineer Folk Festival Sept. 6, 7 and 8 on the Village Green area. This is the festival’s 24th year.Handmade crafts will…

By Janice M. Howard / Style Editor for the Southern Standard Jason Roberts, left, and Michael Moore are recipients of the prestigious Vol State Award, the highest level of recognition a Tennessee 4-H member may receive. Warren County 4-H members Michael Moore and Jason Roberts were recognized at 2002 State 4-H Roundup with the prestigious…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) Before Creedence Clearwater Revisted took the stage Monday afternoon at Pish-La-Ki, a large mud puddle served as entertainment. Randi Ann Hammond, Paula Keech and Ellen Briggs started the trend by voluntarily entering the muck. Former lead singer John Fogerty wasn’t in town when Creedence…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County High School freshman Tori Ritz turned in the shot of the day at the WCHS Invitational Golf Tournament. (Dale Stubblefield photos) Tori Ritz turned in the most exciting shot of her career in the Lady Pioneers’ first home golf tournament of the season…

By Dale Stubblefield / Columnist STUBBLEFIELD Events over the past weekend pertaining to the WCHS football team have been a very unfortunate situation for Warren County, Mario Pezzimenti, Gerald Tidwell and the school administration.Many things go through a person’s mind when something like this happens. Some will forgive and forget, and you will always have…