Because all advice goes down easier with a drink (even a nonalcoholic one). Especially when it’s picked at random from our columnist’s extensive collection of community cookbooks.

Central Street is Knoxville’s defining axis. All addresses in the county from here to Farragut are numbered from it. Few blocks suggest its role as the spine of a metropolitan county of more than 400,000 people. It seems altogether too ...

Last year’s session of the state Legislature was a morass of bills urging schools to “Don’t Say Gay” and students to engage in “critical thinking.” Were these the most important issues facing the state? Eh, not so much. But they ...

Here's our list of bills in the Legislature that will either get the most attention (crazy) or demand close attention (important).

Yung Life plays fuzzy, dreamy synth pop, the kind that hints of M83 and New Order and Suicide, the kind that sounds like it was made in 1982 instead of 2012, the kind where shadowy vocals are muted behind swirls ...

In performance, Dumb Lunch’s stumbling beats take on a darker aspect, as the music collapses into a vortex of noise, volume, and 21st-century underground shock theater.

By early 2011 Fine Peduncle’s sound had solidified into a suggestive, hooky blend of hip-hop and left-field electronica, brought together by Cole Murphy’s Timberlake-on-bad-acid falsetto. What really brought the project to maturity, though, was the incorporation of his lifelong fascination ...

The kitschy sport of swirly colored balls, stinky shoes, and lots of Pabst Blue Ribbon can still draw in bowlers, but the glory days of league bowling are in the gutter. Potential players today are lured away by more modern ...

Knoxville is starting the new year with a new mayor, so we thought we’d ask Madeline Rogero what she has planned for the first year of her administration. Jack Neely chats with her about south-side development, city-county consolidation, and—shhhh!—Agenda 21.

Here are Mayor Rogero’s off-the-cuff thoughts on some perennial questions facing Knoxville.

We take a look back at the year that was with some of our favorite stories.

Here are the most interesting figures we wrote about in the past year.

Since its founding in 1991, the Hindu Community Center, which also houses a Hindu temple, has served many functions to the community of local Indian expatriates who frequent it. It is a social gathering place for people with shared culture, ...

John Mark Wiggers, who is 40, has shaggy hair, a trim beard, and an amiable manner that helps explain why many of his parishioners know him as Father Dude. Sitting at Java in the Old City, which he calls his ...

Kally Elliot is 35 and petite, trim, and athletic; she looks like the runner she is. She’s friendly, but she can be bluntly honest and is often sarcastic. She’s not a preacher who tells corny jokes; she’s not old-fashioned.