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 »
Dramatic Changes
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008
It looks like it’s curtains for the Actors Co-Op’s long-standing relationship with the Black Box Theatre on Homberg Drive. The Co-Op’s current production of Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited will be the company’s last work staged at the Black Box. Sunset, directed by Travis Flatt (also the singer for the art-metal band Sadville) and starring Greg Congleton and man-about-downtown Steve Dupree, runs through March 1. After that the company will move its productions, even though a permanent home has not been announced. Full story »
Led Zeppelin Is Not Playing Bonnaroo
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008
No matter how many times AC Entertainment honcho Ashley Capps said Led Zeppelin wasn’t going to be playing Bonnaroo, the story that they really would be kept on going. Even the official announcement of the 2008 line-up wasn’t enough to set the record straight. Wednesday morning, just after midnight, the Associated Press, apparently confusing the all-female Zep cover band Lez Zeppelin for the real thing, released a story that said the reunited British classic rockers would, after all, be at the festival. (They won’t.) Full story »
Old City Blues
Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008
Blue Cats’ run as an Old City rock and dance club officially ended Monday night, when owner Gary Mitchell announced that he’s moving all scheduled shows at the club to his new venue, the Valarium, in the old Electric Ballroom building on Western Avenue. Full story »
Cease and Desist
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008
Copyright Laws Die Hard. Last November the word “COPYSHOP” was painted—in big red letters—across the brickwork at 317 N. Gay St. It’s the latest, and perhaps most controversial, installment at the Art Gallery of Knoxville—Copyshop, in short, was designed to challenge copyright and intellectual property laws. Full story »
...And It Feels So Good
Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008
Reports that Knoxville’s recently reunited Superdrag are on the verge of recording a new album may be a tad premature, according to drummer Don Coffey, who’s also local producer extraordinaire at Independent Recorders. Full story »