Brad Stewart didn’t think he’d see his cat again after it scrambled from his car while his house burned down. He and his wife had managed to wrangle Gemi, a …
The View from the Smokies: ‘Our Sadness Lies in the Town’
A flock of turkeys browsed the blackened earth at Twin Creeks on Friday afternoon as a pair of women poked through the ruins of a home not far away in …
KPD helps raise city’s LGBTQ “equality score”
Knoxville scored reasonably well in the Human Rights Campaign’s fifth annual city-by-city measure of equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. The educational arm of the nation’s largest …
Makers City Summit to Unite Knoxville’s Entrepreneurs and Policymakers
We’ll soon see whether Knoxville has what it takes to be a “Maker City.” The Makers City Summit will bring together small business owners, manufacturers, and local government officials to …
Horace and Barney Ogle Made the Most of Knoxville’s Pre-World War II Music Scene
In my last column, I wrote about Reed Massengill’s discovery of a rare 16mm print of Clarence Brown’s 1925 silent film Smouldering Fires. When Massengill brought the print to the …