Rose Kennedy

The Pint House celebrated its fifth year in business July 29.

Tom Ortman assumed exec chef duties Aug. 1.

The first property with an indoor water park for North Cedar Hospitality, LLC opened July 28.

On Aug. 6, the Knox County Public Library will host a table reading of Linda Parsons Marion’s new play, Decoration Day. Set in Hawkins County, it is the story of two families meeting when one comes to clean a family ...

Chandler Goff: "The icing was my poor mother, who was heartbroken and irate when she saw Paula Dean trying to take credit for the idea on her show..."

It’s been three years since gunman Jim Adkisson entered the sanctuary of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist church and killed two and wounded six before being knocked to the ground. His heinous act was front-page news for a bit, yielding ...

Krissy DeAlejandro is the executive director of tnAchieves, a Knoxville-based scholarship program for Tennessee public high school graduates to receive up to $3,000 annually for community college tuition.

Health benefits with your buzz are a strong temptation to pick a product made far away for an exception to the local food scene, and I can readily envision substituting VeeV for the vodka in my favorite vodka-marinara recipe.

Onsite coordinator of education for the Knoxville Zoo, Jason Moeller recently spent 18 days assisting in a scientific survey of walleye pollock in the Gulf of Alaska, as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Teacher at Sea program.

Co-founder of the Knoxville Green Association, Maria Compere now serves as its beautification chair and has planned a sale of $1 perennials July 9 and 10 to benefit association projects such as an annual bulb giveaway and an edible garden ...

Age 17, Devon Hicks is raising funds for a documentary about Tennessee Senate bill 49, aka “Don’t Say Gay,” and also serves as the chair of the Safe Schools Committee and It’s Okay to Say Gay campaign for the Tennessee ...

A producer of Queer as Folk on Showtime, author and director of the Sordid Lives play, film, and television series, and passionate civil rights activist, Del Shores is touring with his second stand-up routine, Del Shores: Sordid Confessions. Knoxville and ...

Second Harvest has received a $20,000 grant from ConAgra Food Foundation’s Hunger-Free Summer endeavor to support its Summer Food for Kids program, and the money could not have come at a better time, says executive director Elaine Streno.

1. Used cellphones for victims of domestic violence

Mary Whiteflower: "And my belief is that everyone on the planet is somewhat psychic. It’s like muscles; we all have them, and whether you use them or let them atrophy influences how strong they are."

This week Knoxville was announced as a 2011 Chevrolet Fireball Run Adventurally destination. This means the run, aka the Race to Recover America’s Missing Children, will arrive in Knoxville on Wednesday, Sept. 28, departing the day after, with the public ...

Bridgette O’Dell: "When I think about it now, I didn’t really enjoy my prom—it wasn’t as magical and awesome as all those movies make it out to be. It was just expensive and disappointing, much like most of my senior ...

What is a fantasy food? One you can’t have, or at least not right now, for reasons involving geography, the separation of the lands of the living and the dead, or the stubborn resistance of this world of ours to ...

The city officially named its adult baseball league for late City Councilman Ed Bailey on May 31. Bailey, who died in 2007, was an outstanding catcher who played major league baseball for 14 seasons.

Carrie King: "For ladies, we want to see what we’re doing and touching in there. Sometimes you have to remind guys of the scariness involved with a dark port-a-potty."

Even in straitened budgetary times and with a fiscal note projecting increased state expenditures of $786,700 for incarceration of those found guilty, Tennessee legislators unanimously passed a bill May 21 increasing the penalty for strangulation in Tennessee.

Last year’s International Biscuit Festival was a surprising success—the first-ever event gathered unexpectedly huge throngs of biscuit lovers who quickly exhausted the offerings of biscuit bakers. This year, the Biscuit Brain Trust is ready to meet the demand with a ...

Knoxville biscuit aficionados reveal their true love of biscuits.

Even if you’re never going to grace the stage at the IBF Bake-Off, several small tweaks can enhance your biscuit experience. Here, celebrity biscuit experts and regular folks who happen to be biscuit fiends share their tips.

Kelle Jolly: "I have a bachelor of science in music education and I sing jazz, blues, classic, folk music—everything really."

Patricia C. McKissak was an educator and editor before turning her talents to writing children’s books in the late 1980s. Her work, much of it written in collaboration with her husband Frederick, focuses on African-American history and folklore, and has ...

Brenda Herron: "I’m with the support team and our job is to help the restaurant staff get the food out, service the people. I also maintain the recipe books for all the kitchens."

A new report by public-private partnership Connected Tennessee shows a business with a broadband connection is likely to generate more revenue and jobs.

Bill Tuggle: "I’ve shined shoes pretty much all my adult life, from my military days. But I’ve done this just a year; I retired from the apparel business, used to have a route in Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia ...

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s sororities broke ground May 1 on Sorority Village on Morgan Hill, which upon completion will have sorority houses for 13 of the school’s 17 sororities.

Knoxville’s Public Service department first started trying to make city-sponsored curbside recycling feasible about six years ago with the encouragement of then-mayor Bill Haslam, says Deputy Director David Brace. The idea itself has been around Knoxville since the ’90s, when ...

Keller Wallace: "Basically, I’m just the go-between from the National Street Rod Association and the VSRA—we’re the home club for the event this weekend."

For only the second time in its almost six-year history, the City’s 311 Call Center crossed the 6,000 call mark in a single week.

April Carthorn: "The statistics say one in every three foster children who are released to themselves—without a permanent adult in their lives—is homeless within the first year of exiting custody."

The second annual International Biscuit Festival on Market Square is barreling down upon us May 27-28.

Because it’s always a good time to be thinking about bacon, we’re going to discuss BaconFest 2011 a few months early.

ay 3 will be the second Pint Night for charity event held at River Sports Outfitters.

All it took was a state-of-the-art, 3,000 seat Event Center (opened last Labor Day) and the most advanced PokerPro tournament technology by PokerTek, and Harrah’s Cherokee Casino & Hotel has hit the jackpot, hosting a World Series of Poker May ...

A “without reserve” auction means “Villa Collina” at 5628 Lyons View Pike will sell to the highest bidder May 26, regardless of price. A few of the most intriguing numbers on the home and its auction.

I’m not completely convinced anything good happens to the aluminum cans—I’ve seen too many collection bins that have, oh, 17 bimetal cat food cans and maybe an empty laundry detergent bottle in with the Bud and Coke empties (that can’t ...

When House Bill 600 reaches the State House for a vote on Monday, it will be the first time an “anti-equality” piece of legislation has come to the House floor since 2005, say opponents. Rose Kennedy finds out how it ...

Mary Findley: "We are the next generation of leaders and decision makers and have the power in our hands to determine whether or not we wish to live in a country that maintains a stockpile of nuclear weapons."

University of Tennessee has landed at #8 on Playboy’s list of Top Party Schools in its May issue.

Once a month for the past two years, Joe Bryant sets up at a spot below the I-40 bridge near the Knoxville Area Rescue Mission and the Salvation Army, and serves barbecue to what Joe estimates is 400-700 people. It’s ...

Laura Jones: "We don’t want people to be intimidated by the miles or modes; we want them to have fun and see what’s out there—and be aware of the economic potential."

Only Louisiana ranked lower than Tennessee in the first-ever United States Peace Index, created by the international think tank Institute for Economics and Peace based on statistics indicating “absence of violence.” Here are some of the numbers that landed us ...

Who are the Urban Land Scouts, and why are they mapping Knoxville’s edible flora? Rose Kennedy reports from their front ranks.

Stacey Adam: "CSA stands for 'Community Supported Agriculture' and ordinarily that’s a food CSA—you contract with a farmer to receive a basket of homegrown food every week of the season. With Blooming Earth, you pick up an arrangement or bucket ...

Dollywood’s newest ride for 2011 pays tribute to the daring aerialists and pilots of the 1920s who used to do crazy stunts above the Sevier County fields where Dolly Parton’s father and grandfather worked crops. Here are the numbers on ...

Connie McMahan: "I always loved baking, since I was a kid. My mother taught me—we always had dessert at our house. As an adult, I took a decorating class with one of my sisters as a birthday present to her, ...