2023

They’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they’d dipped themselves in magic waters. —Terrence Mann Baseball, beginning in 1876, remains to many asour national pastime. In the words of Babe Ruth, “Baseball was, is, and always will…
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The Best of Times I was standing in the large arena at STAR for the Bridles and Blue Jeans fundraiser when a blast from my past tapped me on my shoulder. Sometimes when you run into an old friend, it’s like the universe is trying…
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Silicon Valley Bank’s 2023 collapse draws deep similarities to the most notable bank failure in East TN history Insistent—even demanding—messages from reporters in Tennessee and throughout the country were growing into an ever-higher…
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Knoxville has a lot of culture to be proud of, and this May is the perfect time to celebrate one facet of that culture – East Tennessee’s Asian-American community. Many will be familiar with the local Knox Asian Festival, which first…
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Knoxville’s old school restaurants are still here for a reason and we’re stepping in to taste their legacies If everything old is new again, then these Old School Knoxville restaurants are the trendy up-and-comers on the restaurant…
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We're off to the Andes! I was sick with flu-like symptoms for a week after paying $200 for a yellow fever shot. Other team members just had vivid dreams for a month. But that was not my biggest worry as we crossed the 24 hour threshold…
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Shannon Herron, Dogwood Arts’ marketing and creative director, has put together a lot of music events, but he says his favorite festival memory came from last year’s Southern Skies Music Festival. “Our headliner had to cancel last…
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George shows his strut. George Washington struts around us, vibrating with machismo the entire time Lisa Wyatt shows me around her animal farm. She has 15 breeds of chickens.Five breeds of ducks.Four Sebastopol geese, an endangered…
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Music for everyone - that is the heart of Knoxville’s Joy of Music school. Its mission is “to provide quality music education for financially disadvantaged, at-risk youth”, a goal it has passionately pursued for more than 20 years. Sitting…
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New Hope Children's Advocacy Center Celebrates a Milestone Anniversary It’s not often you meet someone who wishes to work themselves out of a job, but that is the wish of many who work at Blount County’s New Hope Children’s Advocacy…
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