An American came this close to winning the World Chess Championship last month, as close as anyone in this country has done in five decades. It’s a pretty sure bet that the …
The real Scrooge surfaces in Clarence Brown Theatre’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
There’s a moment early in this year’s Clarence Brown Theatre production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” that reveals the true nature of Ebenezer Scrooge. But he hides it until …
Easy weekend
Tennessee football fans had an easy weekend. No hassle. No pressure. No consternation. Nothing invested, nothing to lose.
While the big boys were slugging it out, Tennessee fans had the weekend …
Lt. Jackie Clark: a ‘true’ Vol at Seymour Volunteer Fire Department
Volunteers in any organization are hard to come by. But a volunteer like Jackie Clark is something else again. The good people at the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department (SVFD) know …
New documentary to bring Farragut/Concord history to life
Farragut may be a young town, but it sprang from a community with a notable history that includes the birth of the nation’s first admiral, the rise and fall of …
‘Raise the Roof’ at Fort Sanders
You couldn’t call it a ground-breaking because Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is building up – adding two stories with some 80,000 square feet of patient-care space – at its …
Ring in the holiday season with ‘Unsilent Night’
When Nief-Norf’s artistic director, Andy Bliss, moved to Knoxville to take charge of the percussion studies area at the University of Tennessee School of Music seven years ago, one of …
House newbie Burchett uses humor as his calling card
The first week of freshman orientation, a couple of newly elected members-to-be of the U.S. House of Representatives – a Republican and a Democrat – were walking out of an ethics …