Love and music – the perfect pair

Betsy PickleOur Town Arts

This Valentine’s Day, how about a little mayhem and suicide for your viewing and listening pleasure?
Don’t worry, it’s just Knoxville Opera’s performance of “Romeo and Juliet.” And Charles Gounod’s classic …

First Friday brings new art, new play

Betsy PickleOur Town Arts

We’re about to hit the second First Friday of 2020 already. Where has the year gone?!
As always, the heart of Knoxville’s First Friday is the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay …

Waynestock 2020: great music, loving support

Betsy PickleOur Town Arts

The Knoxville music community is a loving, supportive group.
Shortly after the sudden death of local musician Andrew Bledsoe, son of then-News Sentinel music writer (and my dear friend) Wayne Bledsoe, …

MLK Week brings community together

Betsy PickleOur Town Arts

Yesterday, Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 91.
Imagine that: King as a proud father and doting grandfather, swapping stories with old friends at the local coffee shop, bantering with …