Just a quick post about a few downtown signs that I see all the time and that crack me up every time I pass them.

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You can always count on seeing fun, quirky items and opportunities at the News Sentinel’s Women Today Expo. Normally, this is experienced in a frenetic crowd of laughing, noisy women of all ages. Which is nice, if exhausting.
But this year, the News Sentinel added a new annual event to the popular women’s show: “Women’s Wine [...]

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Bagpipes. Irish dancers. A chance to buy dinner with the bishop. This fundraiser had it all.
Perhaps that’s why 500 people - a record for this event - showed up at the Knoxville Convention Center Thursday for “An Emerald O’ccasion,” a fundraiser for Catholic Charities now in its 25th year.
Ever since we’ve been going to this [...]

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Tuesday was a big day for the University of Tennessee’s public radio station, WUOT-FM. In celebration of its 60th anniversary, the station brought in one of National Public Radio’s most beloved personalities, Carl Kasell, and was feted at a cocktail reception hosted by another beloved personality, Howard H. Baker Jr.
Kasell, who will turn 76 next month, [...]

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OK. Here’s the deal.
You pay $50.
You go to the beautiful-in-any-season Hunter Valley Farm. You select a bowl out of hundreds created by generous East Tennessee artisans. You eat cheese and drink wine while bidding on a better-than-usual silent auction (mostly one-of-the-kind products also donated by local artisans).
You fill your beautiful new bowl with one of [...]

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There are all kinds of fancy fundraisers for the Knoxville Symphony: the elegant Crystal Ball, dinners and lunches in fine homes, and special private performances by visiting guest artists.
But my favorite one of all is a simple pot luck supper held in a church meeting hall early on a Sunday night. Florescent lights, paper napkins and [...]

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