Watching Collin Trevorrow’s 2012 film “Safety Not Guaranteed” reminds me what independent film making is all about: concepts and execution. You have to have one or the other to be a success and in this movie’s case, it has a great concept, but very disappointing execution. It is a movie like this that I wish
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For years, I refused to order a sandwich. I felt like a sandwich is lazy restauranting. Charging ME for something I should be able to make at home with basic ingredients, it didn’t work with me and I come from a line of great sandwich makers. My grandmother and father could make a turkey sandwich
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As a young buck, I could not be force fed any other Bar-B-Que sauce than a sweet, red Memphis inspired concoction, and the only potion that I was possessed by was The Red Pig’s. I liked the pig so much that I stopped ordering pulled pork at other restaurants. Even in college, I was convinced
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If I could magically levitate one restaurant from Johnson City and move it to North Carolina’s research triangle, this would be it. All of my other favorite restaurants in JC I have found competition for, but nothing comes close to Freiberg’s. I like it so much that this has been my restaurant of choice for
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I now live in North Carolina, but when I visit my hometown of Johnson City, TN, visiting this place is pleasurably inevitable. Johnson City is a food town and finding a restaurant that you WANT to eat at on a Friday night get seated without waiting is near impossible. After my drive, I get in
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