Sure, there’s a buzz-cut, gangly teen cradling his slick-haired infant in one elbow as he exits the rest room, catching up the baby’s receiving blanket with an oversize Air Jordan foot when it trails into the hard-packed dirt behind the ...

The stands are full for the Tennessee School for the Deaf Vikings’ last football game of the season, but you’d never know it by listening. In fact, you’ve probably never heard as quiet a crowd as this one at any ...

There’s a rumble in the distance: a knuckle-popping cadence from a 10-man drum corps that sticks together like triple-sided tape, syrup on glue. And here they come, marching ’round the gate leading into the stadium: the Mighty Marching Roadrunners of ...

It’s not called the Battle of West Knoxville for nothing: the Bearden Bulldogs’ annual showdown with the Farragut Admirals. For years, this game was the biggest match-up on either team’s schedule, and could define a season. But the times have ...

Here, in a 6,000-square-foot building, is what proclaims itself as “Knoxville’s oldest and most reliable sign company.” Since 1953, under a succession of different owners, Neon Service Co. has manufactured, maintained, repaired, and replaced signs of all kinds for businesses ...

Aqua-Chem has two other locations, under different names, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Houston, but its Knoxville location is its corporate headquarters. According to plant manager Tracy Gamble, most of its business is for military use of one kind or ...

Marble City Glasswork's entire work area—the furnaces, the work benches—is in a cinder-block room of maybe 500 square feet. In fact, it’s an old two-car garage beside an old uninhabitable house on the rural fringe of South Knoxville.

You might drive past it on Sutherland Avenue any number of times without really noticing the nondescript beige warehouse. It’s easy to miss the small square sign out front, too, the one that says “Knoxville Glove Company, Since 1914.” But ...

Mike Gibson partakes an evening of artful dance at a recital of the Austin-East Dance Company in East Knoxville.

Matthew Everett ventures to the Copa Cabana night club in South Knoxville.

Rose Kennedy joins the Sacred Hoop, Drum and Dance Circle at the Broadway Academy of Performing Arts in North Knoxville.

Rose Kennedy treks to the line-dancing destination of Cotton Eyed Joe in West Knoxville.

If you haven’t heard of Union Stockyards, where you can bid for any cow you want, Jack Neely says you shouldn’t worry. They haven’t heard of you, either.

Frank Carlson visits Duncan Boat Dock on Fort Loudoun Lake, where generations of waterfarers come to fill their tanks.

At Cardin’s Drive-In on Asheville Highway, Betty Bean finds that some things never change: the peanut butter milkshakes, the carhop service, and the big crowds.