Sign ups open for Listen for Life 5k

The Listen for Life 5k is a charity event supporting Contact Care Line, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Center in the Knoxville, TN area. Since 1973, Contact Care Line’s Mission has been to provide free and compassionate emotional support to people in...

Scruffy City Orchestra Announces 2023 Spring Concert

Scruffy City Orchestra Announces 2023 Spring Concert Scruffy City Orchestra, Knoxville’s other orchestra, presents its 2023 spring concert, “A Composer’s Sketch.” Led by Ace Edewards, the orchestra is part of the Cathedral Concert Series at the Cathedral of the Most...

TWO AMAZING APOLOGIES

By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Two unrelated, very amazing, maybe even shocking, apologies were issued in mid-March by widely read political commentators. The first by Naomi Wolf, had been viewed by 3.4 million when I wrote this column. Dr. Wolf was a...