I’m not sure whose idea this was, but it’s a good one. Get about a dozen alumni or friends of the University of Tennessee, select a good Knoxville restaurant with a private dining room and bring in a top UT faculty member to just talk to the group about what he or she is doing at UT.
These [...]

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Congratulations to bartender Kris Greeson and the other good folks at the S&W Grand on Gay Street for taking home first place last Saturday in the Market Mixer drink contest for the third month in a row!
Here’s how it works. The Market Square Farmers’ Market supplies a quantity of a particular ingredient each month and restaurants use that ingredient to [...]

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The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra’s annual Evening Under the Stars fundraiser is turning out to be one of Knoxville’s don’t miss events. Held this past Sunday at Sherri Lee’s beautiful west Knoxville home, it does what I think every fundraiser for a performing arts group should do: it features the performing arts group! In this case, [...]

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You know I really like Con Hunley if I’m willing to go to the Tennessee Valley Fair to see him! I haven’t been to the fair since, well, the last time Con Hunley played there!
I can’t for the life of me figure out why he’s not on WIVK every time I turn on the radio. [...]

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It was last Friday night. Cooler than it had been in a long time. And the good folks at Kendrick Place near Chesapeake’s restaurant in downtown Knoxville had agreed to let Knox Heritage have the private drive behind their condos for a “Dancin’ in the Street” party. It was the last of the organization’s hugely popular [...]

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Remarkable weather. Elimination of the live auction. Fantastic attendance. All these combined to make this year’s Symphony in the Park one of the best in the progam’s 25-year history. As a result, Development Officer Mary Thom Adams says about $50,000 was raised last Sunday evening to support Ijams Nature Center and its programs.
In addition to [...]

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Should restaurants close on Labor Day? In most parts of the city of Knoxville, the answer to that is no. Almost all the chain restaurants are open as are most of the locally owned places. I remember when one of our favorite restaurateurs, the late Kenny Siao, who owned Stir Fry Cafe and Mango and Cha Cha, [...]

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For the second year in a row, we have celebrated my dad’s birthday aboard the Volunteer Princess watching the Boomsday fireworks. Let me tell you, folks, this is the best way to have a front-row seat for the show. But Dad, of course, thinks it’s all in his honor! We are going to let him [...]

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Our friend Stephanie Schell lives within an hour’s drive of New York City and she loves going into the city for entertainment. So the pressure was really on us when she came to Knoxville last week to visit her sister, Dawn Ford.
We wanted to show her that, although we are certainly no New York, there [...]

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It’s September and, in Knoxville, that means one important thing: the season starts. And I don’t mean the football season. I mean the almost equally competitive charity fundraiser season.
This time of year, it seems that not a day goes by that we don’t open our mailboxes to find elegant invitations or “Save the Date” cards [...]

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