March April 2023

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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Trees Knoxville, a nonprofit devoted to expanding the urban canopy of trees throughout Knox County, is inviting residents to help develop a master plan for incorporating trees throughout the city over the next 20 years. The plan will help…
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Big Ears Founder Ashley Capps talks with Cityview as the 10th festival approaches Described by The New York Times as “one of the world’s greatest music bashes,” the Big Ears Festival returns March 30-April 2 for its 10th celebration in…
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Tom Kim grew up in a physicians family. His father, a thoracic surgeon—and the former physician to Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of Korean leader Kim Jong-un—escaped Korea back in 1948 with his mother. They eventually came to the United…
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We owe a lot to our doctors and their medical teams, which is why we’re elated each year when we get to call them out in such a robust and special way. We started the Top Docs listing back in 2002. At the time, our publisher,…
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Joy Grissom and Gerry Moll had been friends for some time. They shared hiking adventures and a love for gardening. But in 2015 they took on new roles: saving native plants in harm’s way. At the time, Grissom and Moll were seeing a…
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