When Rachel Milford called just hours after Dolly Parton’s passing, I knew why. I was downtown, in my feelings at the Strong ...
Last week was a deep dive into theatre for me. Five separate productions were all staged in the past seven days, a telling number about the growth of theatre in Knoxville. I pushed myself and attended ...
Jan Lynch “Homecoming,” Tomato Head, 12 Market Square, September 2026 A note from the editor: The late Jan Lynch was a priest, photographer and activist who documented Knoxville’s gay community of the ...
A note from the editor: The late Jan Lynch was a priest, photographer and activist who documented Knoxville’s gay community of the ’80s and ’90s among much else. His photographs are now back on the ...
If you reflect back on the last five years of your life, which moments would you capture as the most pivotal in getting you from there to here? That's one of the questions posed by The Last Five Years ...
There are always many more stories to write in a week than I have the hours in the day (or, more often than not, the night) to write them. Here’s some belated good news: United Way of Greater ...
Cars are useful. They take us where we want to go, whenever we want to go there. Wow. But their utilitarianism diminishes substantially when they’re just sitting there: large, immobile hunks of metal, ...
Community input meetings are not generally where I go looking for a good time with a second-grader. And yet! There we were last Saturday at 800 Howard Baker Jr. Ave., having a genuinely excellent time ...
The 2027 Big Ears Festival lineup dropped this morning and, as usual, it’s a lot to take in. Returning to downtown Knoxville April 1-4, 2027, for its 14th iteration, the festival brings together a ...