Farragut may be a young town, but it sprang from a community with a notable history that includes the birth of the nation’s first admiral, the rise and fall of …
‘Raise the Roof’ at Fort Sanders
You couldn’t call it a ground-breaking because Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is building up – adding two stories with some 80,000 square feet of patient-care space – at its …
Ring in the holiday season with ‘Unsilent Night’
When Nief-Norf’s artistic director, Andy Bliss, moved to Knoxville to take charge of the percussion studies area at the University of Tennessee School of Music seven years ago, one of …
House newbie Burchett uses humor as his calling card
The first week of freshman orientation, a couple of newly elected members-to-be of the U.S. House of Representatives – a Republican and a Democrat – were walking out of an ethics …
CareCuts of Knoxville brings sleeping bags, personal care to homeless
Janette Burgin, a vice-president in Regions’ Mortgage division, has been stacking sleeping bags at the bank’s Bearden Hill office since late October. That’s when she put out the call for …
KSO chamber musicians bring in Christmas charm
American composer David Maslanka, who died last year at 74, was long fascinated by J.C. Bach’s Chorales. So much so that he began each day singing and playing them as …
I believe
The signs are popping up everywhere, including my own home: I Believe.
It’s a sign of the season, and belief in the jolly ol’ elf is more of a statement of …
KCT puts on ‘Best Christmas Pageant Ever’
The Herdman kids run wild again as the Knoxville Children’s Theatre presents 16 live performances of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” based on the 1971 novel by Barbara Robinson.
In this …