THE COMMUNITY BROADCASTING NETWORK
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Announcing the Community Broadcasting Network
What happens when a community picks up a camera and starts telling its own stories? For us, that question started with New Ellijay Television. NETV is a community access station in the north Georgia mountains, powered by local producers. It’s real TV for real people in one specific place. That project taught us that the…
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Frankfurt Döner & Meats | The German Delicatessen of Your Dreams | This Is Ellijay
On this week’s episode of This Is Ellijay, Eli visits Frankfurt Döner & Meats in Ball Ground, Georgia, where he tasted an incredible selection of meats and learned about Detlev and Elke Werner, the creators of this beautiful family business. Detlev, a German-trained master butcher, spent much of his career working in the North Metro…
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Cyclospora and the Consequences of Competition
How competition and concentration of firms leads to disasters at scale. A CNBC article earlier this week came to a somewhat shocking conclusion, given the source: corporate concentration can have some pretty adverse side effects, actually. You’ve probably already heard about (or worse yet, experienced) the multi-state cyclospora outbreak that’s been effecting some fresh vegetables in the…
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Float Down Jacks River | Cohutta Wilderness | Chattahoochee National Forest | This is Ellijay
This week on this is Ellijay, we take a float down Jacks River. In Epworth, GA, a short drive from Ellijay, is Jacks River Trail. Jacks River is part of the Cohutta Wilderness inside the Chattahoochee National Forest. The wilderness offers trails, views, and a serene look into the best nature that Georgia has to…
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The Absurdities of Originalism
The dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship ruling reveal the “originalist” view of law as a facade for making things up. So over the past few days, since the Supreme Court’s Trump v Barbara ruling reaffirmed the constitutionality of birthright citizenship by reading the 14th Amendment again (but slowly), you may have seen some quotes…
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Bike Ride Through Talking Rock Nature Preserve | This Is Ellijay
This week on This is Ellijay, come on the trail with us for a bike ride though the Talking Rock Nature Preserve. Talking Rock Nature Park boasts approximately 11 miles of multi-use trails, built by veteran trail builder and friend, Ken Nix. These are used by bikers, runners, walkers, hikers, nature lovers, and more. John’s…
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Anime Before Astroboy | The History of Anime
Japanese animation didn’t begin with a genius in a studio boardroom. It started on street corners, in labor strikes, and in the flickering frames of a handful of surviving silent shorts from the 1910s. This video is brought to you by Mountain Town Toys. Use code CBN5 at checkout for $5 off your order.
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How CNN (and the US media at large) Erases Imperialism
In making my video essay series called The Hastening (of the Death of Imperialism), I often find myself in these weird little muddles, where I can’t figure out exactly how deep I need to go to back up a claim I’m making. I try to be as thorough as I can about as many things as…
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DE3RA | Live From Ellijay, GA 2023 | ANALOG REVOLUTION PRESENTS
DE3RA is a rock band based in Nashville, Tennessee, known for their heavy, riff-driven sound with psychedelic and blues influences. They played LIVE in Ellijay, GA in April of 2023. For more info on the band, follow the links below:https://www.de3ra.com/abouthttps://www.instagram.com/thebanddebra/https://de3ra.bandcamp.com/album/old-scratch
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When the Sunsetting Sets In | The 2026 World Cup and the Death Throes of American Exceptionalism
You may not remember it, but the US’ panic about the ascension of China as a major global power exploded onto the scene in more or less a single evening. It was the summer of 2008, August 8th to be specific. 08/08/08, as if the Gregorian calendar itself knew the significance of the moment and…
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How Far Back Does Bran & Bloodraven’s Meddling Go? | Looking for Clues in House of the Dragon
We know from Game of Thrones that Bran & Bloodraven are capable of interacting with the past in some pretty profound ways, but are they actively meddling in the stories of HBO’s two newest series, House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms? There certainly seem to be some instances where bad…