Posted on October 31st, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
We dined. We danced. We sang along to the O’Jays. We even got a little teary-eyed as the sweet Love Kitchen sisters won a lifetime achievement award.
It was the annual Knoxville Area Urban League Equal Opportunity Awards Gala Thursday night at the Knoxville Convention Center. It was a sell-out and it was a blast!
The Love [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Chef Darren McGrady was in town last weekend bringing tales of his 11 years in service to Buckingham Palace and, more interestingly, his four years in service to Princess Diana after her divorce. During his whirlwind visit from Dallas, where he lives now and is a personal chef to a wealthy philanthropist, McGrady also supervised [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Now this is a trend I would like to encourage!
The owners of a retail establishment have a friend who also is a friend of mine. And that friend convinces the retailers to open their store late one evening and she provides wine and nibbles and invites her buddies (including me) in for some shopping and [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
“No garden truly blooms until butterflies have danced upon it.” So says butterfly enthusiast Kristen D’Angelo.
The folks at Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum have taken that to heart. They are installing a 10-acre butterfly meadow, a conservation project focused on creating a safe and consistent habitat for East Tennessee’s native butterflies. They used their second [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Alan and I attended Jazz Under the Stars for the third year in a row last week. It’s a fundraiser for the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra and it is always great fun. We love the fact that the event actually features the artists it benefits, whereas some other fundraisers for cultural groups oddly do not feature [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Talk about luck! After months of planning Les Trois Chefs, the wine and food event benefiting Childhelp Tennessee, the folks at Childhelp got the good news that the restaurant owned by the event’s featured guest chef, Sean Brock, was named “best new restaurant in America” in the September issue of Bon Appetit magazine! That would [...]
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Posted on October 11th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
New UT head men’s basketball coach Cuonzo Martin is surprisingly soft-spoken. So when he addressed the sell-out crowd at the Cancer Support Community lunch at the Foundry last week, organizers rushed to adjust the sound system so he could be heard.
They needn’t have bothered. Once Martin started telling his own cancer story, you could have [...]
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Posted on October 10th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Just a quick little post to remind you that fall is in the air here in Knoxville and, in addition to football, that means another important thing: apples! Yes, it’s Apple Day 2011. Time to head to Carver’s Orchard in nearby Cosby, TN.
Click here to see the origin of Apple Day as our friends Dawn [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
We were all a little worried when we heard the historic L&N Station at World’s Fair Park was going to be transformed into a school. Why? Because it had become the traditional venue for one of the most fun parties of the year: Knox Heritage’s Cocktails at the Station. (Click here to see a report [...]
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