http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:16:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_322211758.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_322211758.html Two images pop into my mind when smoking gets mentioned. One makes me grin slightly and shake my head. The other still tugs at me years later, and makes me remember a two-word promise. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:46:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_315214827.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_315214827.html Mike Lunsford writes like Pete Maravich shot jumpers. Sometimes, he makes the literary craft seem so simple, effortless, such as a short bankshot, flowing fluidly off the Pistol’s right fingertips. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:10:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_312001014.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_312001014.html Honestly, when “Terre Haute” and “hip” get mentioned in the same sentence, the words “replacement” or “waders” are likely to be included, too. But not when it comes to brewing beer. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:52:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_308215358.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_308215358.html You’d expect a car key this powerful to look like a Swiss army knife. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:34:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_301213513.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_301213513.html I’m picturing holiday weather outside frosty windows, and a party inside. Friends grab handfuls of trail mix. Diet Cokes fizz in plastic cups. Wine gets sipped. Tree lights shine. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:43:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_294234625.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_294234625.html Most folks consider fall to be a season of transition. We mourn the passing of summer, file the vacation pictures and stick our sandals in the corner of the closet. Then, the mourning shifts to moaning, because — as we like to increasingly remind ourselves — “winter is coming.” Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_287213657.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_287213657.html There’s something about midnight movies. Maybe it’s the idea of pursuing laughs or terror deep into the night. Maybe it’s the immense images on the Indiana Theatre screen. Or, perhaps, it’s the after-film dilemma, “Denny’s or IHOP?” Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:28:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_280204827.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_280204827.html Consider the irony, if Brad Fenton succeeds. What if, after all these years, the guy who leads a campaign to finally put a statue of Larry Bird in front of Hulman Center wasn’t even alive in 1979? Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:06:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_273000605.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_273000605.html Prime-time TV needs more middle, more Indiana. I’m no prude, and I like escapist shows as much as the next guy. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:05:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_268190904.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_268190904.html Fortunately, I’ve never been a contestant on the TV show, “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?” I know what would happen. Just as Chevy Chase once did, while imitating Gerald Ford in a presidential debate, I, too, would end up telling the moderator (Jeff Foxworthy), “I was told there would be no math.” Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:42:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_238225039.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_238225039.html More than once, my children — at young school ages — heard the taunts. Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:30:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_234192653.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_234192653.html No one likes to hear it. Few enjoy saying it. Yes, the Summer of No is not for the feint-hearted. Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_231202501.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_231202501.html If Tim Carroll chose differently, years ago, the title of his new album, “All Kinds of Pain,” might be all too real. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:50:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_224194907.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_224194907.html The get-away in “The Blues Brothers,” as Dan Aykroyd once explained, was intended to be the mother of all car-chase scenes. And it was. Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:16:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_210221636.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/mark_bennet/local_story_210221636.html The rock ’n’ roll generation — my generation — knows little, if anything, about Claude Thornhill. His musical heyday unfolded before most of us were born.