This is a guest blog post by my friend and client Mary Bogert, the general manager of the Knoxville Convention Center. She wrote it for her own blog, From Inside the Center, shortly after a welcome event that Moxley Carmichael put together last month for Hart at the Convention Center. So, here’s Mary:
I’ve met the [...]

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One of the hardest things to get used to after being elected Tennessee governor, according to Gov. Bill Haslam, is not being able to ride in a car alone with his wife, Crissy. “Just think about it,” Haslam commented over dinner recently.

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The annual Pilot Pumpers fundraiser for the United Way last month raised a record $63,478. Here’s the deal: during the three-day promotion at all area Pilot convenience stores, Pilot donates to United Way five cents for every gallon of gas sold and 10 percent of all in-store sales. To drum up interest in the event [...]

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I don’t usually get up early on a Saturday to post a blog item. But I just had to pass the word about this great opportunity that is only available today. If you are in the market for some great art — or some great gifts — you have got to get over to the [...]

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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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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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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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“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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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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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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