Parking space or gathering space?

Haley GuidryFeature

Public parking spaces were turned into everything from parks to painting studios Sept. 21, in downtown Knoxville. PARK(ing) Day, an internationally celebrated event, took place on Gay Street where citizens …

Weekend concerts soothe the soul

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

While a lot of people around town weren’t having a very happy weekend, two area concerts were satisfying to the soul.
Saturday night at the Clayton Center for the Arts on …

Different degrees of bad

Marvin WestFeature, westwords

Fortunately, for Tennessee, there are different degrees of bad. The Vols were awful against Florida but worse is possible. Give that some thought.
Six turnovers are not a world record. Once …

Recode workshop: Density is concern

Nick Della VolpeFeature

The community continues to ask, “Where are we going? What’s the schedule to get there?” City Council provided the first glimpse at last week’s Recode Knoxville workshop.
A long meeting. The …

KSO season opener shows promise

Harold DuckettFeature, Our Town Arts

With the rehearsals and 17-performance run of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” just finished
at Clarence Brown Theatre, in the CBT and Knoxville Symphony’s stunning joint production, KSO music
director and conductor Aram Demirjian …