Greenery gussies up gathering at Blount Mansion
As we celebrate the end of 2018, here’s one last post about a sweet Christmas tradition: The Knoxville Garden Club‘s annual decoration of Blount Mansion with seasonal greenery. Martha Kern, the owner...
View ArticleSusan Packard’s lessons we need to heed
I went to a party last week that was two years in the making. Not because it was so fancy or ornate. Quite the contrary. It was warm and cozy. But, two years ago, when Mary Ellen Brewington heard that...
View ArticleL’Amour du Vin 2019: It was love, all right!
L’Amour du Vin, in its 16th year and held this past weekend at the Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), is among our community’s most successful fundraisers. Benefiting the museum and aided in a big way by...
View ArticleIt’s Big Ears time in Tennessee!
The Big Ears Festival opened on Thursday and thousands of folks flooded into downtown Knoxville. They came from 48 states — including Alaska and Hawaii — and 21 foreign countries. (The only states not...
View Article‘Suttree’s Knoxville’ provides sublime summer evening
It was a stunningly beautiful evening last week at Lakeshore Park when the Big Ears Festival presented “Suttree’s Knoxville,” a silent film accompanied by live music. The film chronicled Knoxville...
View ArticleKSO conductor makes Knox debut on cello during magical evening (Plus: a...
From the Better Late than Never Department is a wonderful item to which Alan and I purchased tickets at the Knoxville Symphony Ball — in 2019! It was Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Music Director Aram...
View ArticleTom Jester: ‘Call me when you’re serious.’
Ad man Tom Jester’s business card had a drawing of a jester’s hat on it. The slogan on the card? “Call me when you’re serious.” I always loved that. Jester’s celebration of life was held last week and...
View ArticleChristmas 2022: unexpectedly spectacular!
We celebrated "The Carmichael Christmas" a week early this year when 15 members of Alan's family came to Knoxville from Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. My family decided to get together on...
View ArticleArtsy party announces Yo-Yo Ma appearance
If you were looking for anyone from Knoxville's arts and culture crowd last night, chances are they were at The Mill & Mine music hall. That's where Ashley Capps and his colleagues from the Big...
View ArticleJazz and Cocktails ’23: beautiful on all fronts
"Jazz and Cocktails," one of the most compelling excuses for day drinking on the Knoxville social calendar, changed locations this year. A fundraiser for the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra’s youth...
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