Hallelujah
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
Tennessee Republicans are trying to publicly maintain an air of cautious optimism about the November election—while behind closed doors they are jumping for joy and fist-pumping YES!!!!!!! Full story »
More Frank Talk by Frank Cagle
A Progressive Age
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
No one was using the word “postracial” in 1876, but William Francis Yardley challenged the usual categories. He looked like a black man, though his mother was allegedly white. He was raised and educated by whites, but he regarded himself as black. A Maryville College graduate, he’d studied law, and was, before he was 30, a full-fledged member of the Knoxville bar, an elected city alderman, and a justice of the peace. Full story »
More Secret History by Jack Neely
No Exit
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 play The Sunset Limited is the last major outing for the Actors Co-Op at the Black Box Theatre in Bearden before the company becomes semi-itinerant, and the show is a fairly noble swansong to what will be a fondly remembered venue. Full story »
More Backstage
The Weekend That Was
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The legendary Marshall Chapman led off an unusual evening at the Time Warp Tea Room, one of the few places incongruous enough to contain what happened there over the course of three hours on Saturday night. Full story »