Jesse Fox Mayshark

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 ...

The world Tintin inhabits and represents, seen from a modern adult perspective, seems cramped and problematic. But I read them when I was 8 or 9 years old, when finding a realm of endless adventure—of sunken ships and spy rings ...

While we still drink plenty of toasts, we have somewhat lost the art of toast-making. It used to be a popular form of verse and entertainment, with partygoers competing to top each other in puns and rhymes. These days, apart ...

It may be true, as one British critic sniffed, that Bush no longer knows how to write pop songs. More to the point, I’d say that the 53-year-old singer no longer cares.

Most bands who win the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album do not turn around and hire a beatboxer as their newest member. And most bands who top the Billboard Bluegrass chart for seven straight weeks are not likely to ...

Another Alexander Payne movie, another befuddled male protagonist.

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Dec. 8 to Tue., Dec. 13

When several national banks instituted new fees on ATM cards—making you pay for the privilege of spending your own money—many consumers revolted. But they didn’t just send angry e-mails—they moved their accounts to local credit unions. Jesse Fox Mayshark takes ...

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Dec. 1 to Wed., Dec. 7

As a whole, The Skin I Live In is too inventive and well-made to dismiss outright, and much too flawed to admire.

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Nov. 24 to Tuesday, Nov. 29

One persistent challenge for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in the Great Smoky Mountains has been finding people to do the basic counting. The expertise to correctly identify dozens of species of a particular organism, or to recognize a new ...

More than a decade ago, scientists in the Great Smoky Mountains set themselves a daunting task: Count every kind of plant and creature living in the national park. Since then, the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory has nearly doubled the number ...

As of this Thursday, it has been 344 days since the Metropolitan Planning Commissioned approved a plan to protect local hillsides and ridgetops. In that time, governments have toppled across North Africa, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, Wall ...

In the end, it turned out like everyone expected. Madeline Rogero entered the race for Knoxville mayor late last year as the presumptive front-runner, and nothing that happened all year shook the sense that she was headed for victory. Here's ...

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Nov. 3 to Tuesday, Nov. 8

Knoxville can be a terrifying place, and not just during home games. Yes, we have the Body Farm and tides of unbridled coal ash, but those are just the scary things we all know and expect. Meanwhile, there are aspects ...

Gloria Johnson knows the numbers are against her in her campaign for the 6th District state Senate seat. The district is heavily Republican, and she’s running against a member of a local political dynasty. But Johnson wants to do more ...

The Way is a pile of hokum, full of maudlin clichés and cheap jokes.

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Oct. 27 to Wednesday, Nov. 2

After the Knoxville Chamber presented its alternative to the embattled Hillside and Ridgetop Protection Plan on Sept. 29, members of County Commission and City Council asked the Metropolitan Planning Commission to give it a look and report back. MPC Executive ...

When the late, great V-Roys announced their one-off New Year’s Eve reunion show a little while back, there were two widespread reactions: 1.) Awesome!, and 2.) Why at the Bijou Theatre instead of the Tennessee Theatre?

There are a lot of nice tunes here, and a lot of lyrics that bear the imprint of mid-life reckoning with love, death, failure, and the small joys of life.

Even in the wilderness, etiquette is required. Here are some social do's and don'ts to remember on the trail.

After months of mostly polite campaigning, including dozens of forums, debates, and dutifully filled-out questionnaires, the two remaining Knoxville mayoral candidates turned feisty in the week after the Sept. 27 primary.

Beaton combines a relentlessly nerdy interest in historical figures and literary characters with a flowing but precise pen-and-ink style.

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Oct. 6 through Wednesday, Oct. 12

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Sept. 29 through Wednesday, Oct. 5

Sixteen votes. That’s what Madeline Rogero needed Tuesday night to put her over the 50 percent mark in the race for Knoxville mayor. Instead, she finished with 8,235 out of the 16,500 ballots cast in the primary—which comes out to ...

This year's HoLa Festival promises to be Knoxville's biggest celebration of the area's Latin American communities yet.

We talk to four Knoxville bartenders who are elevating the cocktail to a work of art.

During my years of legal drinking, which now make up half my life, I have come to a few conclusions about the complex metrics of bartender-patron relations. One is that there is some kind of secret talent for catching a ...

It might not be a great time to be an American, but it is a very, very good time to be a drinking American. Whether you’re a wine sipper or a beer guzzler, a Scotch snob or a cocktail connoisseur, ...

This Saturday will be the first East Tennessee Disability Conference, which aims to support people with disabilities. Jesse Fox Mayshark gives us a preview.

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Sept. 22 through Tuesday, Sept. 27

With another school year under way, representatives of the Boy Scouts of America are recruiting new members in Knox County classrooms. Jesse Fox Mayshark asks whether such a religious organization should be allowed to use public school time.

Event highlights for Thursday, Sept. 15 through Tuesday, Sept. 20.

A lot of what we want a mayor to do is pretty mundane. We want our streets to be safe, clean, and well maintained. We want someone to pick up the trash. We want our creeks not to flood, and ...

Since making her debut on the Grand Ole Opry in 2000, Cook has released five albums that have shown her maturing from a promising young talent, through a brief, unsatisfying major-label fling, into an idiosyncratic, often surprising voice.

It was not exactly a surprise that after two days of heavy rain over the Labor Day weekend, portions of the roof and floors of the building at 232 E. Churchwell Ave. collapsed Monday night.

Knox Event Highlights for Thursday, Sept. 8 through Tuesday, Sept. 13

High-energy burners like “Blossom Quarter” and “Rapid Racer” have a sort of molten mania about them, surging along on an aural flying carpet of breakneck beats and cascading keyboards, chimes, and strings. But even at his most frenetic, Lone seems ...

Knox Event Highlights for Friday, Sept. 2 through Monday, Sept. 5

Civic meetings and noteworthy entertainment events for Thursday, Aug. 25 through Tuesday, Aug. 30.

Even as hard cider has become a more common commodity in grocery store coolers here, it has tended toward the syrupy. But cider is slowly overcoming its reputation as—not to put too fine a point on it—a sort of sugary, ...

Quick facts about candidates Buck Cochran, Bill Owen, Marshall Stair.

Originally, Grace Adele was going to be a Rockette. She was drawn to the old-school theatricality of the fabled Radio City high-kickers, but after a while, the round trips to New York from Adele’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio, got expensive. ...

Civic meetings and noteworthy entertainment events for Thursday, Aug. 11 through Monday, Aug. 15.

A quick look at who's running for City Council At-Large Seat A.

Talking about neighborhoods, development, and the Hillside Plan with George Wallace, John Stancil, Michael McBath, and Paul Berney.