Pamela Schoenewaldt spoke to a full house at the Laurel Theater, reading from her novel, When We Were Strangers, released just last week by Harper Collins. Already it is garnering positive reviews from such sources as Publisher’s...

Sunshine, Short Sleeves and one Cool Bell, Market Square, Knoxville, January 2011 Young Couples, Strollers and a Warm January Day, Knoxville 2011 If Saturday was a nice day, Sunday was even better. Temperatures that struggled to...

Market Square on a warm January Day, Knoxville 2011 There was more going on this weekend than music, of course. Downtown and all of east Tennessee was beset by a wonderful, if transitory, warming. People all over...

The final night of the three night festival offered an exciting musical line-up and promised to be an emotional night with Psychotic Behavior, Drew Bledsoe’s band slated to be the final act on the schedule. The...

Relix Theater in former White Store, N. Central, Knoxville Fortunately for us working types, the second night of the festival was a Friday night, so sleeping in figured into the possibility of another late night. With...

The Relix (pronounced like the word “relics”) Theater is an unassuming storefront in Happy Holler – which is an area about  a mile and half out Central Avenue from downtown proper. It’s across the street from the Time Warp...

If you are like me, you hear about great local bands, but you never seem to be able to catch some of them with the greatest buzz. I probably do catch more than my share, but...

What if that liberal prefers to refer to himself as a socialist? What if he is comfortable with the label “anarchist” and questions the legitimacy of the power of any government, including our own? How would...

Black Lillies sold out Bijou debut of “100 Miles of Wreckage” Excitement built for months among local music lovers for the sold out Black Lillies CD release concert at the Bijou. I first heard about it...

How could you improve the live radio concerts hosted weekdays at noon on WDVX for several years now? Add a weekend show, that’s how. Many of us can’t be downtown at noon, but judging from the crowd in...