Collaborative pianist and private studio teacher Belle Toh doesn’t seem to know how to leave well-enough alone. No performance artist should.
In 2018, when I last saw Toh, then known as …
Pianist, dancer Belle Toh is at it again
Trees, art and music at Cradle of Country Music Park
I went to the Knoxville City Council meeting Tuesday night with the intention of speaking about the issue of installing a new public sculpture in the Cradle of Country Music …
Knoxville world premiere: ‘I Can’t Breathe’
There’s just no justifiable reason everyone in America, anyone in America, should have the phrase “I can’t breathe” seared into our collective consciences. But it’s there nevertheless, even for those …
Maple trees need love, too
I spent the entire afternoon yesterday blowing and vacuuming up the 387,936,413 (more or less) maple tree seed helicopters produced by the single mature maple tree in my yard. There’s …
Tom Riesing: Artwork is reassuring
Beverly and I saw Tom Riesing’s gorgeously drawn and painted show at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery this weekend. There is a quiet, comforting calmness in both the paintings …
My wemon wilwies
My Wemon wilwies. They carry memories.
When I was three, I went to live with a wonderful farm family in Athens, Tennessee. They were in their early sixties at the time …
Master Gardeners get awards
Knoxville County Extension Master Gardeners recognized four impressive volunteers at its Jan. 13 awards dinner.
Michael Smith, Cathy Carpenter and Barbra Bunting received awards for more than 500 hours of volunteer …
Carol Mayo Jenkins triumphs in ‘The Madwoman of Chaillot’
It’s very tempting to look for parallels between today’s climate of self-enrichment attitudes and the greed vs. civic consciousness that is at the center of French playwright Jean Giraudoux’s 1945 …