Archive By Author - Tyler Smith

No more Smoltz, no more ties to the beginning

Word came down the pipeline that Braves' icon John Smoltz is packing up his gear and heading to Beantown. Normally, I would love to write about how I feel about such a defining moment in Braves' baseball history. After all, I arrived in town in 1995 and have witnessed the evolution of a perennial doormat into, well, the Atlanta Braves. But I decided I wasn't the best person to write such a piece.

2008 In Review

Curious masterpiece

"Curious Case to Benjamin Button" is a peculiar movie indeed. Rarely today do such sprawling, visually stunning films have such an impactful message to tell. "Button" begins with a daughter beside her mother's hospital bed. While they, like the rest of New Orleans, prepare for Hurricane Katrina to make land fall, it quickly becomes clear the mother has only a short time left. During her last few hours, the mother, Daisy, asks her daughter to ...

Training Day

Alcovy vs. Eastside 12/19/08

2008 Covington News Christmas Party

911 Concert on the Square & Prayer Service

Western Art Exibit at Oxford College

Solace satisfactory

With 2006's "Casino Royale," filmmakers set a new gold standard for not only James Bond films, but the entire espionage genre. Though "Quantum of Solace" does not quite live up to its predecessor, it is none the less a fine second chapter for the new, darker Bond.

Zero to 60 in less than a second

Darren Tedder lives the type of life normally reserved for the pages of an adventure novel. An underwater cinematographer by trade, the Social Circle resident spends his free time cave diving and working on his two classic racecars.

School violence

Remember, this is only a drill. A fire alarm shrieks in a distant corridor, echoing down the empty halls of Eastside High School. A sheriff's deputy on duty at the school rushes out the door as a small cluster of his fellow officers emerge from the back parking lot. The six deputies briefly meet outside the door before entering the main corridor, side arms drawn. "Get in formation," one deputy orders. They converge as a ...