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As farm manager at CAC Beardsley Community Farm, Khann Chov is lead organizer of its Snow Day fund-raiser.

Megan Craig has been making jewelry for eight years, and says her latest venture, an Etsy shop begun in November, came out of a desire to repurpose vintage bits into beautiful, modern jewelry.

Trent Steele is president and founder of Smoky Mountain DockDogs, which kicks off its fourth year with an annual members meeting January 19 and is currently accepting new members.

What does Knoxville really need? Everybody’s got an opinion, as we’ve discovered each week in our What Knoxville Needs column. While some of the ideas are a bit silly (a menacing face for the Sunsphere?), others are actually quite reasonable—in ...

The best of this year’s cookbook crop all seem to follow that theme, proffering foods that sustain family and friends or just one very special loved one—serving up dishes that make hearts glad. Each has its own recipes for a ...

Turf sports director at Cool Sports on Watt Road, Aubrey Ingham organized its first Score a Goal For Kids tournament Dec. 22, to benefit East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. They are still accepting individual and team entries

Jill Colquitt Fisher’s Handmade Holiday Trunk Show is back for the first time since 2010; the third and final show is Dec. 13-16 at 14 Market Square, the former Marble Slab Creamery site.

An author for Harlequin’s Love Inspired line, Karen Kirst will sign (and sell) copies of The Gift of Family at an open house at Tea at the Gallery (4501 Kingston Pike).

Along with hand-crafting fused glass art at her brightly-colored, aptly named Sassy Glass Studio in Knoxville, Lisa Mueller now teaches glass-fusing classes throughout the year and somehow finds time to be a partner with her husband in ALM Photo.

Sandy Wells, director of the Tennessee Valley Ensemble, will conduct three free, sing-along Messiah concerts by the Clinch Valley Community Chorus and Orchestra beginning Dec. 1 at the Norris Methodist Church (62 Ridgeway Rd.).

Amanda La Bell is the founder of the Rebecca Foundation’s Cloth Diaper Closet, which is holding a benefit auction at Crush at 121 West Jackson Ave. on Dec. 6 at 6 p.m., and also an online auction on its Facebook ...

Working with One Warm Coat and A Spark of Kindness, Rhonda Thompson is collecting coats of all sizes for people in need through Nov. 21.

American Red Cross volunteer Marty Gensheimer drove a Knoxville Emergency Relief Vehicle to Manhattan and Long Island Oct. 27, one of the first 15 units providing disaster relief from superstorm Sandy.

Improve your sushi experience just by keeping these seven tips in mind.

David Bohannon created the sake training program for the service staff at Nama Sushi. Here is his cheat sheet for those who already enjoy the potent potable (with its alcohol by volume of 9-18 percent), and those who would like ...

She’s done lots of graphic design and work with local ad agencies, but Cindy Day’s “fascination with the detail of things” is most evident in her watercolors and pen and ink drawings, many available as prints or notecards.

Principal of Pond Gap Elementary, Susan D. Espiritu was honored in Washington D.C. on Oct. 19 as one of 60 2012 National Distinguished Principals named by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

A landlocked mountain city/town is not the logical place for a sushi revolution, but Knoxville is in the midst of one. Meshing the Americanized sushi pioneered by Nama and the traditional offerings from sushi chefs like Seisuke Fukuoka of Anaba, ...

A longtime Knoxville resident who moved to Asheville in 2011, Dorothy Foltz-Gray published a memoir, With and Without Her: A Memoir of Being and Losing a Twin in October and will read from it at Union Ave Books Sunday, Oct. ...

In his signature T-shirts (most mushroom themed) and worn jeans, Whitey Hitchcock’s tramped Norris Dam and Cherokee Forest and some woods in Oak Ridge and Asheville, cataloging hundreds of mushrooms on his life list, some of them edible, some not. ...

While farm-to-table dining is a concept that has taken hold in Knoxville, how about forage-to-table? Here are some local chefs who utilize regional (as well as imported) mushrooms in their cuisine.

In partnership with Child & Family Tennessee, the city of Knoxville, and Knox County, Bobbie Crews’ art installation “The Survivor Project” became a permanent display at the City County Building Oct. 10. It was created as a response to women ...

Katie Powell, part of the Board of Directors for City People, is organizing the volunteers for this year’s Downtown Home Tour.

De Wayne Kirchner, whose resume includes Dollywood and Broadway—particularly Radio City Music Hall—recently opened Designs by De Wayne costume shop at 741 N. Broadway.

We’re here to tell you that the journalism degree is not the typical path to artisan success, but Lahla Deakins is proof positive that it can work.

Heather Donahue’s orange creamsicle cupcake won the amateur category at Knoxville’s first cupcake festival Sept. 22: Cupcakes in the Park, which raised funds for Child & Family Tennessee and the Kent C. Withers Family Crisis Center.

Ranked 64th by the North American Scottish Games Athletics in 2011 among Class B amateurs, Cameron Broyles will demonstrate his prowess at the 6th Dandridge Scots-Irish Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29.

A student at South-Doyle High School, Taylor Ramsey, 14, won the Jr. Fairest of the Fair pageant at the Tennessee Valley Fair.

Even Flea Puckett thinks it’s funny that her Etsy shop sells dog and cat quilts—but she’s had the name since childhood relatives couldn’t quite master “Felicia.”

Dustin Moore is manager and driver for Tennessee Party Bike, a 15-passenger pedal-powered vehicle that offers group excursions in Pigeon Forge and is working to expand into Gatlinburg and Knoxville.

As community liaison for Little T Squares Dance Club in Lenoir City, Sherry Hunter invites all to a Sept. 4 free preview of classes that will start the following week, held each Tuesday.

Tonya Jelf is the organizer and “hyper motivator” of the Alive After 35 Knoxville Meetup group, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in July.

Think of it as a momentary lapse, artistic appreciation run amok—but just for a few seconds.

A senior naturalist at Ijams Nature Center, Peg Beute will be one of the leaders at its Cicada Festival family program Saturday, Aug. 25.

A glimpse of a local handcrafter who plies her wares on Etsy: Konane Wildcrafted Designs.

Paul Attea is one of a handful of dedicated mechanics for the Knox Bike Collective (also known as the Knox Bike Co-op), and a lead on its search for a permanent new workspace for fixing bikes to sell and donate.

Candice Lawton is co-founder and vice president of the University of Tennessee’s Project V.E.G.G.I.E (Vols Educating about Growing Gardens and Inspiring Environmentalism), centered around a community garden on campus.

A vintage toy “picker,” GregMason will appear on the Aug. 1 episode of Picked Off on the History Channel. His teammate is his brother Jim, a comic collector. The two will compete in elimination challenges.

An NSCA-certified strength and conditioning specialist, Weaver completed a series of teleseminars July 14 on weight loss secrets for women over 40—the replay is available free to the public.

Sometimes I don’t have to consider every angle, know every detail. In fact, I have a whole list of recent incidents and oddities that I have been able to let go.

Belinda Carter Hammond will direct and accompany the South High School Alumni Chorus in its debut Sunday, July 22 with a concert to honor retired choir director Harold Mays.

A College and Haslam Scholar at the University of Tennessee, Brianna Rader will talk about medical humanities for medical students Wednesday, July 11, at 4 p.m. at the Preston Medical Library.

While there’s currently a barbecue binge going on in the Knoxville dining scene, decades ago there were but a handful of BBQ destinations in town. While the legendary Brother Jack’s is no more, there are veteran barbecue joints that are ...

BBQ is suddenly all the rage in Knoxville, and Dead End is all the rage with BBQ fans, winning its third consecutive Metro Pulse Best of Knoxville “Best Barbeque” honor in 2012. Co-owner (with Robert Nutt) George Ewart took a ...

No one’s denying that barbecue is a meat lover’s world. But you don’t have to stay home or politely peck at a sweaty baked potato with “spread” just because you’re vegetarian and the gang is gung-ho for BBQ. There are ...

University of Tennessee students Burton Mandrell, Jenny Dabbs, Alex Happ, and Tim Michaels make up one of four teams qualified for the 2012 North American Collegiate Bridge Team Championships July 14 in Philadelphia.

Samuel McCahill coaches the Westside YMCA Kinder Hoops program for 4-5-year-olds, girls and boys—and is also the Y’s district programming director.

A zone manager with the Fort Loudoun Lake Association, Jake Hudson will teach a rain barrel workshop June 23 at New Harvest Center at 10 a.m.

Bodybuilder Kevin Whaley is one of the promoters for the Tennessee Natural Classic 2012 at Farragut High School on June 16. The competition will feature teen through masters categories.

Bob Hess has owned the online mushroom supply and showroom/demonstration farm Everything Mushrooms since 2007. A few weeks ago he purchased his South Knoxville/Sevier Avenue location.