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 ...

The late Jan Lynch was a priest, photographer and activist who documented Knoxville’s gay community of the '80s and '90s ...

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 ...

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 ...

McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects + Interior Designers with Legacy Parks Foundation, Park(ing) Day, Market Street, September 2026 Cars are useful. They take us where we want to go, whenever we want ...

The first time I encountered Safety City I thought I was hallucinating. I was jogging Third Creek Greenway sometime in the early 2000s and thought I saw something through the trees, so I went to ...

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, ...

This week’s photos are by Leslie, who once impulse-bought a chicken from the Tennessee Valley Fair. Today marks the final day of its 2026 run at Chilhowee Park; visit tnvalleyfair.org for more info.