Entering Ann Birdwell’s Powell home is an instant immersion into artistic everything, bordering on visual sensory overload. There are pieces collected from artists she admires, former students, her own work, …
A eulogy for the Smoky Mountain Market
Some of the most popular social media memes flying around involve “dating” yourself with events, products, culture and technology that a younger generation wouldn’t remember or understand. One of my …
Festival delayed, but Big Ears still bringing it home
Thursday, July 8, at 8 p.m.
Cormac McCarthy’s iconic novel, “Suttree,” set in Knoxville in the 1950s, chronicles four years in the life of Cornelius Suttree, who has abandoned a life …
Goat Man leaves the scent of legend
It would usually happen in the late summer or early fall. The warm weather meant that the children of East Tennessee were usually still barefoot and school had not begun.
Normally, …