33rd Annual Southern Festival of Books goes virtual

Tennessee’s Largest Literary Event Returns for its 33rd Year with Virtual Programming  Humanities Tennessee, the organizer of the 33rd annual Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, has announced the festival will take place completely online...

UT Arboretum Society to hold online Fall Plant Sale

Pickup date of Friday, October 15 Shop for new plants in the online catalog September 25-October 8 Fall is always a wonderful time for planting as it gives your plants time to establish great root systems for the spring. Due to continued concerns about Covid-19, the...

Sweet revenge

By Joe Rector Summer nearly burned us up a couple of weeks ago, but the rain arrived in the nick of time. The weather forecast for the coming week lets us know that summer isn’t finished with us yet. August brings the beginning of school, and children wear new clothes...

Finding the King of Rockabilly

By Mike Steely Unless you’re older than 60 you probably don’t know who Carl Perkins was. The early country-rock artist died in 1998 and was an inspiration to many people including Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Everly Brothers and many, many rock and roll artists....

‘Quo Vadis?’

By Tom Mattingly That’s what the Latin scholars might say, a fancy way of asking, “Which way are you going?” With that in mind, have more big plays happened with the Vols moving to the north end or the south end of the field, wherever the game might be? For...

A night at the ballgame

By Mark Nagi I love baseball.  I love everything about it. I love going to a ballpark, smelling the hot dogs and the beer. I love how the sport is played with breakneck speed at a deliberate pace. I love the history. I love that Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays...