More than 600 girls from area schools will attend Introduce a Girl to Engineering Thursday at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge.
The students, including more than 80 from …
Love and music – the perfect pair
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 …
State’s ‘first hero,’ Sevier, lends aura to Marble Springs
East Tennessee schoolchildren start hearing about John Sevier – the state’s first governor and the only governor of the state of Franklin – from an early age. His home in …
First Friday brings new art, new play
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
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, …
Exposing, transforming planet’s woes
Art adds to our lives in many ways. One of the most challenging is how it reflects life and makes us think more deeply about it.
That’s the value of the …
MLK Week brings community together
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 …
Charter Doyle Park represents past, future
Charter E. Doyle Memorial Park, 5100 W. Martin Mill Pike, is just what many people think a city park should be – green, peaceful and laidback.
But the 35-year-old park is …