Highland Center is Change You Can See
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
Leaders at the 77-year-old justice and training center say they see both challenges and opportunities in the years ahead, with a potential ally as president and a possible long recession looming, making the struggle for social justice even more vital. Full story »
More Features
- Giving Horse Haven a Leg Up
- Horse Haven: Shelter from the Storm
- Travel to Knoxville's Arts and Entertainment Worlds in 2009
Clearing Up TVA's Mess
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009
On a gray, dreary Monday afternoon in Kingston, two men are standing in a gas station talking about huge amounts of money. “They’re saying it’s gonna get up to over $100 million,” says one. “Wow,” says the other, simply, “Wow” being the only appropriate response anyone can ever think of to “over $100 million.” Full story »
More City Beat
But It Looks Nice
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009
The UT conference room renovations includes a $35,000 conference table, a kitchenette, six offices and a teleconference center. The project was approved and funded by the state in 2006, but was not completed until December—poorly timed to coincide with orders to UT to cut $75 million from its budget. Full story »
More Ear to the Ground
Literary Art
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008
Yee-Haw Industries' Julie Belcher illustrates a Big Star song. Full story »
More Eye on the Scene
Caged Spectacle
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008
The great games of the ancient Romans were pageants of grandeur nonpareil. At least as re-imagined by modern-day sword-and-sandals movies, at any rate. These were glorious spectacles staged in cartographically huge, open-air coliseums, towering sandstone walls bathed in sunlight and staring venerably down at a handful of glistening, naked warriors, the mighty champions whose death throes and derring-do would sate the roiling bloodlust of madding Roman throngs. Full story »
More Scene and Heard
Leslye Hartsell on Race Against Racism
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009
Do you get anyone in the 80-and-over prize category? ... Yes, we do—surprisingly we do. We have at least a handful. Last year was my first year out there and I was surprised about that. Full story »
More Street Talk
Happy Hollis
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008
By taking a hike and telling a lie, Hollis Church set in motion 22 years of career choices, a slow-motion chain reaction that’s not nearly at an end. This was 1986. The tall, willowy Church, who moved here with her parents at age 3, says she had already taken a spin through New York University’s theater program, gone broke, returned to Knoxville to collect a retroactive art scholarship, and graduated with a degree in graphic design from the University of Tennessee. “But I totally didn’t want to work in that field,” she remembers. Then she heard they were hiring cooks on Mount LeConte in the Smoky Mountains, elevation 6,593 feet. Full story »