Cliff View, the stunning home of Jenny and Randy Boyd, offered a perfect setting Tuesday for an elegant lunch and flower arranging lesson by one of Knoxville’s best experts in the field.
Lillian Jones, an interior designer by trade, has designed over 125 homes in Charleston, Kiawah Island, Seabrook Island and the Isle of Palms. But [...]

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On the city vs. country continuum, I’m definitely way far on the city side. Although I like dogs and cats, I am suspicious of cows, scared of horses and generally loathe almost all reptiles, amphibians and insects. And I don’t like to get hot or dirty.
So imagine my friends’ surprise last week when I suggested, [...]

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We were just filing into The Foundry for the 7th annual Diva Luncheon, a fashion show of wearable art that is part of the Dogwood Arts Festival. The facility’s banquet manager, Jason Grahl, looking worried, rushed up to Mickey Mallonee, the chair of the event.
“I need to ask you something,” he said, his brow furrowed. [...]

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It was a double Greek treat Sunday night at Maestro Lucas Richman’s Whittington Creek home as beloved singer George Bitzas displayed both his vocal and culinary skills at a benefit dinner for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.
Who would have thought that the tenor, who retired in 2000 from singing the National Anthem at UT football games, [...]

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You might think that you don’t really know any songs by Air Supply, the soft-rock duo from the late ’70s and ’80’s. But, believe me, you do!
That’s what 500 or so of us found out Saturday night when we showed up at the Knoxville Convention Center for Center Stage, the premier annual fund-raiser for East [...]

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Many of us have been on Market Square all winter long - and have loved it!
But there is something extra magical that happens to Market Square when spring is in the air. Like this weekend.

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Despite the best work of more than a dozen talented interior designers, the most striking feature of the two condos that make up the 2010 Knoxville Symphony League Showhouse project is the view.
From the front, the two condos located in the Rocky Hill area of west Knoxville have a spectacular view of the Cumberland Mountains. [...]

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The finale at Fox Den Country Club Saturday night was worth the price of admission all by itself. The occasion was the Springtime Serenade, a fundraiser for the UT School of Music. The evening’s theme, “Classical Meets Jazz,” was designed to showcase the talents of the faculty and students in the school. And when they [...]

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Several years ago, I stopped going to the arts and crafts booths set up on Market Square during the Dogwood Arts Festival. I think it was the year I saw booths selling crocheted covers for toilet paper rolls and trivets made of Popsicle sticks. The offerings were just plain dreck. An embarrassment, really.

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With those signature words of his, beloved radio legend Bobby Denton — also “the voice of Neyland Stadium” during football season — on Wednesday officially opened the 2010 Dogwood Arts Festival’s trails and gardens.
The setting couldn’t have been more perfect: a spring luncheon under a huge tent in the impressive gardens of Fountain City residents Bill [...]

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