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As farm manager for the CAC Beardsley Community Farm, Khann Chov will supervise its seed swap open to the public 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25—and the community farm work day that precedes it from 9 a.m.-12 noon.

Hear I go again, another food crush. Other people can describe their attraction to different foods as a preference, or a love affair, maybe, or a craving.

As head veterinarian at Young-Williams Animal Center, Lisa Chassy has been a lead in the center’s February “Beat the Heat” campaign to promote $20 spays for female cats, and will continue to promote low- and no-cost spays (and neuters) for ...

Ellis is a reference librarian at Lawson McGhee Library, and also coordinator for the library’s Brown Bag Green Book series.

Stephen M. Dupree is one of 24 bachelors being auctioned to benefit the Friends of Literacy.

Megan Mullins was browsing Craigslist, looking for baby things, when one “Wanted” plea seemed to leap off the screen: a woman who had just recently moved to town, in desperate need for diapers for her toddler. Mullins responded, and discovered ...

Susan Fowlkes is the Knox County Health Department’s clinical nutrition director and lead on its diabetes management classes open to the public.

Erin Bicknese: "I guess in our culture there are so many things you’re told you can’t do, told, 'Thank goodness we have factories for that.' But you can learn if you try and you’ll get so much out of it."

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 ...

As director of the Shannonham Singers, Martha Keith Farrelly will lead this all-volunteer senior citizens chorus when they present a choral suite, “The Blue and the Gray,” at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.

For our first issue of the year, we asked a random sampling of Knoxville personalities a timely question: Do you have any predictions for Knoxville in 2012?

Trying to pick my favorite Street Talk subjects from any given year is like expecting me to choose a favorite child—each one’s my favorite the week their interview runs. I always have some quotes I find especially memorable, though, and ...

Annelle Ferguson: "We’re just frustrated decorators and architects. It’s kind of a joke of mine about most miniature artisans."

While it’s usually tough to put into words such a heartfelt admiration and affection, to explain how one came to be bowled over by a product that’s simple milk, salt, cultures, rennet, and artistry, that is not the case here. ...

Jeff Gubitz is the executive director of the Knoxville Jewish Alliance, one of four groups presenting Knoxville’s fifth annual Menorah Madness on Dec. 26.

Here are this year’s best cookbooks, the ones with fine essays, sweet anecdotes, and step-by-step instructions included. That way, you can make your own memories.

With her husband Steve, Tracy Foster helped found a local group, Project Being There, which aims to expand opportunities for orphans in Vietnam.

Higginbotham will direct the new Enough! volunteer program at the YWCA Knoxville. Volunteers will answer phones, observe court proceedings, help educate the community, and help victims of domestic violence create individualized safety plans, understand their rights, navigate the legal system—particularly ...

Noland will present a free lecture, “Stellar Evolution and Mass Confusion,” this weekend as part of the stargazing series held at Marble Springs, the historic home of Gov. John Sevier.

As general manager of Knoxville’s Mast General Store, Jim Richards oversees its Share the Warmth program, now through Nov. 30, which is co-sponsored by Columbia Sportswear and benefits the homeless.

Food memories help me anchor, then catalog, time shared, joys and drudgery, humor and complacency. And so it was memories of carrot cake, California onion dip, dry red wine, and seedless watermelon kabobs that assailed me these past three days, ...

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 ...

A month since rollout began Oct. 3, the city’s new, free, curbside recycling program has posted big numbers and encountered only a few problems.

Matt Harbaugh is president of the University of Tennessee’s Ultimate Frisbee club, which just won its second consecutive Ultimate Observers Association SEC tournament and was granted an invitation to the UOA national championships.

James White Fort curator McGinnis is also the tour guide for the historic site’s annual HearthScares “walking tour of ghostly Knoxville,” which departs the Fort at 7:30 p.m. Monday-Friday Oct. 24-28.

A preview of 'The Obed: A Climber’s Guide to the Wild and Scenic' by local author Kelly Brown, with photos by Mark Andrew Large.

University of Tennessee’s Carol Costello hopes to start something big with this year’s first-ever state food and wine festival.

After a chance to repair storm damage, Vic and Bill’s on 3553 N. Broadway is open once more—with new hours and new management, but still, to our great relief, all in the same family.

La Costa on Market Square usually does a menu change for each season, but this is a little more radical: Now the restaurant will be changing names, to 31 Bistro, and amping the concept to become purely farm-to-table.

It’s official: Local attorney Tammy Kaousias, a regular at Glowing Body Yoga Studio’s classes since it opened three years ago, has become the new owner.

Danny Fugate isn’t wasting any time getting involved in the community.

The Parlor is parlaying its success with the “hand-crafted food and music” at the cafe at the Knoxville Visitor Center and music shop at 776 Chickamauga into a third venue—a cafe at 1008 E. Woodland Ave., across the street from ...

Fear not, treaders of Knoxville’s extensive greenways system—you are protected! Or at least your litter will be attended to. That’s because Knoxville has its very own greenway ranger, Katie Bernier. The 22-year-old with a very liberal arts degree from Florida ...

AmeriCorps member Siddons works as the East Tennessee Clean Fuels project coordinator, and helped organize the East Tennessee Electric Vehicle Show to be held Friday, Oct. 14 in Market Square from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In just three years’ time, Eddie Young has become an opinion leader and activist for Knoxville’s homeless. He’s also a pastor, the executive director of Redeeming Hope Ministries, part of the Redeemer Church on the corner of Highland and 17th ...

Intended to open dialogue and allow communication (versus being some sort of jobs program), 'The Amplifier' has covered some memorable stories and generated some engaging quotes.

Through City People, residents, business people, elected officials, preservationists, activists, and artists work to address issues concerning Knoxville’s center city.

Husband-and-wife duo Jeff Barbra and Sarah Pirkle have found “kind of a little niche” as Sunday morning co-hosts of In the Spirit on WFIV 105.3 FM.

Marty Velas, SMB’s brewmaster, will speak at Tennessee’s first official Oktoberfest, in Kingsport.

Why not just eat fried okra from (drum roll please) a local dining establishment? They have the rituals down, and the trained staff, and the commercial grade oil, and are already making it for all sorts of other diners, so ...

Chelsea Knotts, a senior at the University of Tennessee, began a 5K running group through Redeeming Hope Ministries that includes a handful of homeless and impoverished runners.

Working through the Telamon Corporation, the only provider of migrant and seasonal Head Start programs in Tennessee, Christal Yost received a grant for 17 youth participating in Telamon’s Growing Tennessee youth initiative to create a large-scale painting.

The Three Rivers Market, begun in 1981 as an earnest but frankly shabby food co-op on Broadway, finally opened the doors on its dream building Aug. 26.

Jill Scheidt is president of the Dragonfly Aerial Arts Studio, which she co-founded with Angela Howard, Lissa McLeod, Christy Muecke, Jake Weinstein, and Amber Winters.

A University of Tennessee senior, David Burman has just returned from five weeks in Uganda as one of 12 students participating in UT’s first Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program.

Palavah Hut is a cheery little place, with folk-painted signs and brick walls. They serve takeout only Thursday-Saturday—homestyle specials replete with stews and rice and greens, like Taro root with tilapia in olive oil with fresh herbs and vegetables, and ...

Donna Doyle: "I do sometimes find myself stopping and counting syllables and somebody once told me that when I talk about love, I speak in iambic pentameter—just, wow."

Scott and Bernadette West have opened what is Knoxville’s first downtown rooftop bar at Preservation Pub.

It will once again be La Costa vs. Oodles in a fourth annual head-to-head Market Square Chef Challenge Saturday, Aug. 13.

The Market Square restaurants are a cooperative group, and next week they’re banding together for “Samples on the Square.” Proceeds will benefit the Knox Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Initiative.