Give a bunch of grown-ups some candy cigarettes and a few martinis. Throw in a Playboy bunny and a cigarette girl for good measure. And what do you get? One heck of a great party!
The occasion was one of Knox Heritage’s acclaimed Summer Suppers, a series of theme-driven parties set in private homes and [...]

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If you need another short get-away, in the same amount of time it takes you to drive to Chattanooga (click here for a blog post about that), you can fly to Chicago! Of course it may cost a little more.
Here are some recommendations from a recent visit we made to the Windy City.
First, the restaurants. [...]

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That statement, coming from downtown developer David Dewhirst, seems like the understatement of the century! Dewhirst has made a career of restoring old buildings — and he’s been a major part of transforming downtown Knoxville in the process.
For the second year in a row,

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Do you ever want to get away just for a little bit? No big time or money commitment, but just take a little break?
That’s what we wanted a couple of weeks ago when my brother and sister-in-law came to visit. They had spent a long weekend in Knoxville and planned to continue their vacation in [...]

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Hey, that’s my old buddy Cindy McConkey with whom I worked at The Knoxville Journal many years ago when we were both aggressive young reporters and editors! (The Journal was a daily paper owned by Gannett for most of the time we were there.)
Only, lucky her, she’s pictured here with Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges, [...]

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When Mike Strickland, the CEO of Knoxville-based Bandit Lites, came to speak recently to the Executive Women’s Association, I knew it would be interesting. But I figured that, since he also is the chairman of the board of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce and I am a member of that board, his talk would be [...]

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