The Origins of Halloween

By Erica Dial Halloween has just passed us, and the Charger staff thought it appropriate to take a look at the origins of Halloween, or All Hallows' Eve, as it was originally called. The word Halloween was first used in the sixteenth century and represents a Scottish variant of All Hallows' Eve, the night before All Hallows' Day. Despite pagan roots, the etymology of the word is strictly Christian. Scholars...

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Buffalo Wild Wings Comes to Cookeville

By Matt Billings and Cody Thompson America. Many people regard this great land as the home of freedom, also home of guns, baseball, and perhaps most important of all, the hot chicken wing. Of the many great restaurants parceled throughout this great land, one of the most prominent to serve the mystical hot chicken wing is the treasure that is Buffalo Wild Wings. Founded in 1981, in...

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Movie Review: End of Watch

By Caleb King Starring  Jake  Gyllenhaal  and  Michael  Peña,  End  of  Watch  is  a  movie  detailing  the  day  to  day  lives  of  fictional officers  Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala.  While  most  of  the  movie  takes  place  in  the  front ...

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