Read the Mercury‘s complete Big Ears 2016 coverage here. Visit the Big Ears website for the full lineup and schedule and ticket information. Omara “Bombino” Moctar belongs to the Ifoghas tribe of …
A Look at Knox County Public Library’s Streaming Video Service
With the spring thaw impending, we may now imagine scenarios too sublime to be interrupted by a trip to the library. Let us imagine that we are all worthy of …
A Knoxville Film Buff’s Tireless Quest to Restore a Lost Classic
Catch My Soul is a 1974 rock opera adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello. Since you have most likely neither seen it nor heard of it, you might presume that it was …
Log in to a World of Streaming Music at the Knox Co. Public Library Website
The package art of R.E.M.’s swan-song compilation, Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982 – 2011, is decorated with symbols depicting the technology by which the band’s music …
Something Borrowed, Something Blu: New Blu-ray Classics at the Knox County Library
Readers of a certain age can probably remember the anguish involved in converting their music collections from vinyl to CD. Every digital reissue of a title that you already owned …