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IN THIS ISSUE 7049 Maynardville Pike 37918 (865) 922-4136 NEWS [email protected]Sandra Clark | Betsy Pickle ADVERTISING SALES [email protected]Patty Fecco | Tony Cranmore Alice Devall | Shannon Carey Hunka marble finds new home A marble-and-steel sculpture originally designed for the Ten- nessee One Ton sculpture series has found a new home. The piece, titled “No place like home,” was created by Alan Finch of Clinton and Joe Babb of Knoxville. It will be installed in Mary Vestal Park to replace another artwork that deteriorated and was removed from the park. ➤ Picture and story on page 3 To page 3 VOL. 3 NO. 14 April 8, 2015 www.ShopperNewsNow.com | www.facebook.com/ShopperNewsNow SOUTH KNOX LASTS AND LASTS AND LASTS.™ Heating & Air Conditioning 5715 Old Tazewell Pike • 687-2520 “Cantrell’s Cares” Over 20 years experience A+ RATING WITH SALES • SERVICE • MAINTENANCE SALES • SERVICE • MAINTENANCE We Offer: We Offer: • Complete inspections, maintenance & repairs for all air conditioning & heating equipment • Money-saving high-efficiency system upgrades! • FREE ESTIMATES on new equipment • FINANCING through E-Score programs • Maintenance plans available. By Betty Bean Mayor Madeline Rogero is moving forward with a plan to drastically alter Cumberland Av- enue, even as the project doubled in price and property owners raised objections. With a compliant City Council, Rogero flipped $10 million from a project to widen a portion of Washington Pike to the Cumber- land Avenue project after nobody bid initially and the second bid came in at $25 million. The idea is to make “The Strip” more bike and pedestrian friend- ly by restricting curb cuts and cutting traffic from four lanes to two with a grassy median. How do the folks who earn a living on The Strip feel about this? Joe Burger and his fam- ily moved to Knoxville after he bought five McDonald’s restau- rants from the Litton Cochran family in 2007, the same year that By Betsy Pickle Outdoor KnoxFest is drawing a crowd before it even starts. The fest takes place Friday- Sunday, April 24-26. But don’t be surprised if you see groups of bicyclists gathering in downtown Knoxville as early as Wednesday, April 22. That’s when the Tennes- see Bike Summit, hosted by Bike Walk Knoxville, begins. “We picked the dates of the summit so that we could carry over to the festival,” says Caroline Cooley, president of Bike Walk Knoxville. The summit gets rolling with a 5:30-7 p.m. ride around Knox- ville, starting at the Sunsphere and sponsored by Smoky Moun- tain Wheelmen. A welcome party follows at Scruffy City Hall. The business end starts at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Knoxville Convention Center, with sessions on infrastructure and policy, advocacy and education, and recreation and development. Local, national and inter- national panelists will lead the sessions. The summit is geared toward “cycling and sustainable- transportation advocates, traffic engineers, planners, public health officials, landscape architects, re- searchers, cycling retailers and elected officials,” according to www.tnbikesummit.org. Cooley is happy to have the heavy hitters, but she says the sum- mit will benefit anyone who feels a passion for making streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. “Advocates are just ordinary people,” she says. “We’re all vol- unteers. We’re all just interested citizens. The summit would be an excellent place to start for some- one who’s interested in how to get involved.” Cooley is a lifelong cyclist and an advocate since 2001, when she helped form the Bicycle Ad- visory Committee, which advises the Transportation Planning Or- ganization. Bike Walk Knoxville was created in 2012 as the local chapter of Bike Walk Tennessee, which started in 2009. Previous summits have been held in Chat- tanooga, Memphis and Nashville. Also a member of the Appala- chian Mountain Bike Club, Cooley says mountain bikers want “good mountain bike trails, but we also want good on-the-road facilities as well as greenways.” Knoxville is gaining a reputa- tion as a bicycle-friendly town, es- pecially since City Council passed a Complete Streets ordinance last October. The summit will offer examples of what other cities are doing as well as new designs in bi- cycle facilities. “Surveys and various studies have shown that there are a lot of people who would like to bike more, but they’re concerned about their safety,” says Cooley. “We won’t get bicycling more main- stream if we don’t improve the ac- tual infrastructure that makes it safe for people to bike.” The summit’s keynote speakers are Gil Penalosa, founder of 8-80 Cities and an international con- sultant on creating vibrant and healthy communities for all; and Martha Roskowski, director of the Green Lane Project and vice presi- dent of local innovation at People- ForBikes. The summit will end Friday af- ternoon in time for attendees to join the AMBC-organized, open- to-the-public Bike Scavenger Hunt Ride and Social, 5:30-9 p.m., starting and ending at the Public House, 212 W. Magnolia Ave. Registration is still open at www.tnbikesummit.org. Cost is $85 for both days of sessions and $45 for one day. By Betsy Pickle With its hundreds of hostas, fantasia of ferns and wild-looking waterfalls, the garden created by Suzi and Bob Hall at their home on Twin Creek Road is a gorgeous getaway for its owners. Now, it’s also a getaway for na- ture lovers seeking out the beauty spots of the annual Dogwood Arts Festival. It’s one of six Open Gar- dens in South Knoxville, which is the featured area for this year’s celebration. The gardens are open to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, today through Sunday, April 26. This is the first time the Halls’ woodland paradise has been an open garden, and it has created a lot of buzz in Dogwood circles. It is a garden nearly 35 years in the making, raised along with their three kids. “People have encouraged me to have an Open Garden before, but I just wasn’t sure,” says Suzi Hall, who worked with international students at the University of Ten- nessee for many years. “Bob re- tired (last year, as director of UT’s Baptist Collegiate Ministry), so he Bike summit puts safety in spotlight McDonald’s owner Joe Burger and Cumberland Avenue Project man- ager Anne Wallace at a meeting of the Cumberland Avenue Merchants Association. Photo by Betty Bean Cumberland Avenue Project worries property owners lion tearing down and replacing the old McDonald’s at 1720 Cum- berland Ave. after consulting with city officials. He was told that Cumberland would end up with three lanes – one eastbound, one westbound plus a turn lane. He figured he could survive. But after he reopened in Oc- tober 2011, he learned that the project’s design had changed yet again. The turn lane would be a median, allowing left turns only at selected intersections. Project manager Anne Wallace said the first plan called for no curb cuts at all. “This was not well received and was very expensive, since we’d be literally buying businesses, so we stepped back and decided on a median rather than a center turn lane.” If he’d known how the plan would end up, Burger said he doubts he would have gone for- ward with building a new build- ing. “They changed the game on us. Seventy percent of our business is drive-thru and we get 400 (west- bound) cars a day turning left,” he said. The plan “evolved” after the con- versation with Burger, said city re- development director Bob Whetsel, insisting that Cumberland will still be a three-lane street and that cars can turn left just east of McDon- ald’s and access it from 18th Street. Burger countered that a grassy median is not a “lane” and said that his property is designed to al- low cars to enter from Cumberland Avenue and “stack up” without ob- structing parking or backing up onto the street. “Convenience is a big deal. At least 50 percent of our business is from impulse customers, and To page 3 Birds are welcome visitors at the home of Suzi and Bob Hall. Photos submitted helps, too. “It’s a team effort. It’s not just my garden. He does a lot of the hardscapes, the backbone of the garden, and I do the fillers. I do all the weeding and all the pulling of poison ivy.” Bob Hall, who proved himself handy with tools when he built their home (assisted by friends), By Betsy Pickl kle Twin Creek garden offers lush escape the Cumberland Avenue redevel- opment project hit the drawing board. In 2011, Burger spent $1.5 mil- Someone’s right, someone’s wrong Texas paid $1.75 million to get rid of basketball coach Rick Barnes. Tennessee snapped him up before the ink on the check was dry. We’ll find out later to what degree Barnes is re-energized. That will eventually determine which athletic director was correct, crusty and disgruntled Steve Patterson or alert, deter- mined and sometimes crusty Dave Hart. ➤ Read Marvin West on page 4 A dark side to Knoxville biking As a community, we spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of bicycling. It’s good for the environment. It’s good for our bodies. It’s pure joy for those of us who love cycling. But there’s a dark side to bicycling in Knoxville. ➤ Read Wendy Smith on page 5 South middle schoolers excel Katie Huneycutt and Emily Kersey will be in Nashville this weekend, trying to win a com- petition with their documen- tary about mid-20th-century singer Billie Holiday and her impact on her times. The eighth-graders won the East Tennessee junior division in March over entrants from six counties to advance to the state level. ➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page 8 Growing FISH FISH originally started as a food delivery system, with families in need calling a hotline. In 1986, when there were not enough volunteers to answer the phone, Jim Wright decided to invite those who had transportation or lived within walking distance to pick up their food at an East Knox- ville church basement. ➤ Read Nancy Whittaker on page 9
A marble-and-steel sculpture originally designed for the Ten-nessee One Ton sculpture series has found a new home.
The piece, titled “No place like home,” was created by Alan Finch of Clinton and Joe Babb of Knoxville. It will be installed in Mary Vestal Park to replace another artwork that deteriorated and was removed from the park.
➤ Picture and story on page 3
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By Betty BeanMayor Madeline Rogero is
moving forward with a plan to drastically alter Cumberland Av-enue, even as the project doubled in price and property owners raised objections.
With a compliant City Council, Rogero fl ipped $10 million from a project to widen a portion of Washington Pike to the Cumber-land Avenue project after nobody bid initially and the second bid came in at $25 million.
The idea is to make “The Strip” more bike and pedestrian friend-ly by restricting curb cuts and cutting traffi c from four lanes to two with a grassy median. How do the folks who earn a living on The Strip feel about this?
Joe Burger and his fam-ily moved to Knoxville after he bought fi ve McDonald’s restau-rants from the Litton Cochran family in 2007, the same year that
By Betsy PickleOutdoor KnoxFest is drawing a
crowd before it even starts.The fest takes place Friday-
Sunday, April 24-26. But don’t be surprised if you see groups of bicyclists gathering in downtown Knoxville as early as Wednesday, April 22. That’s when the Tennes-see Bike Summit, hosted by Bike Walk Knoxville, begins.
“We picked the dates of the summit so that we could carry over to the festival,” says Caroline Cooley, president of Bike Walk Knoxville.
The summit gets rolling with a 5:30-7 p.m. ride around Knox-ville, starting at the Sunsphere and sponsored by Smoky Moun-tain Wheelmen. A welcome party follows at Scruffy City Hall.
The business end starts at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Knoxville Convention Center, with sessions on infrastructure and
policy, advocacy and education, and recreation and development.
Local, national and inter-national panelists will lead the sessions. The summit is geared toward “cycling and sustainable-transportation advocates, traffi c engineers, planners, public health offi cials, landscape architects, re-searchers, cycling retailers and elected offi cials,” according to www.tnbikesummit.org.
Cooley is happy to have the heavy hitters, but she says the sum-mit will benefi t anyone who feels a passion for making streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.
“Advocates are just ordinary people,” she says. “We’re all vol-unteers. We’re all just interested citizens. The summit would be an excellent place to start for some-one who’s interested in how to get involved.”
Cooley is a lifelong cyclist and an advocate since 2001, when
she helped form the Bicycle Ad-visory Committee, which advises the Transportation Planning Or-ganization. Bike Walk Knoxville was created in 2012 as the local chapter of Bike Walk Tennessee, which started in 2009. Previous summits have been held in Chat-tanooga, Memphis and Nashville.
Also a member of the Appala-chian Mountain Bike Club, Cooley says mountain bikers want “good mountain bike trails, but we also want good on-the-road facilities as well as greenways.”
Knoxville is gaining a reputa-tion as a bicycle-friendly town, es-pecially since City Council passed a Complete Streets ordinance last October. The summit will offer examples of what other cities are doing as well as new designs in bi-cycle facilities.
“Surveys and various studies have shown that there are a lot of people who would like to bike
more, but they’re concerned about their safety,” says Cooley. “We won’t get bicycling more main-stream if we don’t improve the ac-tual infrastructure that makes it safe for people to bike.”
The summit’s keynote speakers are Gil Penalosa, founder of 8-80 Cities and an international con-sultant on creating vibrant and healthy communities for all; and Martha Roskowski, director of the Green Lane Project and vice presi-dent of local innovation at People-ForBikes.
The summit will end Friday af-ternoon in time for attendees to join the AMBC-organized, open-to-the-public Bike Scavenger Hunt Ride and Social, 5:30-9 p.m., starting and ending at the Public House, 212 W. Magnolia Ave.
Registration is still open at www.tnbikesummit.org. Cost is $85 for both days of sessions and $45 for one day.
By Betsy PickleWith its hundreds of hostas,
fantasia of ferns and wild-looking waterfalls, the garden created by Suzi and Bob Hall at their home on Twin Creek Road is a gorgeous getaway for its owners.
Now, it’s also a getaway for na-ture lovers seeking out the beauty spots of the annual Dogwood Arts Festival. It’s one of six Open Gar-dens in South Knoxville, which is the featured area for this year’s celebration. The gardens are open to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, today through Sunday, April 26.
This is the fi rst time the Halls’ woodland paradise has been an open garden, and it has created a lot of buzz in Dogwood circles. It is a garden nearly 35 years in the making, raised along with their three kids.
“People have encouraged me to have an Open Garden before, but I just wasn’t sure,” says Suzi Hall, who worked with international students at the University of Ten-nessee for many years. “Bob re-tired (last year, as director of UT’s Baptist Collegiate Ministry), so he
Bike summit puts safety in spotlight
McDonald’s owner Joe Burger and
Cumberland Avenue Project man-
ager Anne Wallace at a meeting of
the Cumberland Avenue Merchants
Association. Photo by Betty Bean
Cumberland Avenue Project worries property ownerslion tearing down and replacing the old McDonald’s at 1720 Cum-berland Ave. after consulting with city offi cials.
He was told that Cumberland would end up with three lanes – one eastbound, one westbound plus a turn lane.
He fi gured he could survive.But after he reopened in Oc-
tober 2011, he learned that the project’s design had changed yet again. The turn lane would be a median, allowing left turns only at selected intersections.
Project manager Anne Wallace said the fi rst plan called for no curb cuts at all.
“This was not well received and was very expensive, since we’d be literally buying businesses, so we stepped back and decided on a median rather than a center turn lane.”
If he’d known how the plan would end up, Burger said he
doubts he would have gone for-ward with building a new build-ing.
“They changed the game on us. Seventy percent of our business is drive-thru and we get 400 (west-bound) cars a day turning left,” he said.
The plan “evolved” after the con-versation with Burger, said city re-development director Bob Whetsel, insisting that Cumberland will still be a three-lane street and that cars can turn left just east of McDon-ald’s and access it from 18th Street.
Burger countered that a grassy median is not a “lane” and said that his property is designed to al-low cars to enter from Cumberland Avenue and “stack up” without ob-structing parking or backing up onto the street.
“Convenience is a big deal. At least 50 percent of our business is from impulse customers, and
To page 3
Birds are welcome
visitors at the home
of Suzi and Bob Hall. Photos submitted
helps, too.“It’s a team effort. It’s not just
my garden. He does a lot of the hardscapes, the backbone of the
garden, and I do the fi llers. I do all the weeding and all the pulling of poison ivy.”
Bob Hall, who proved himself
handy with tools when he built their home (assisted by friends),
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By Betsy Picklkle
Twin Creek garden off ers lush escape
the Cumberland Avenue redevel-opment project hit the drawing board.
In 2011, Burger spent $1.5 mil-
Someone’s right, someone’s wrong
Texas paid $1.75 million to get rid of basketball coach Rick Barnes. Tennessee snapped him up before the ink on the check was dry.
We’ll fi nd out later to what degree Barnes is re-energized. That will eventually determine which athletic director was correct, crusty and disgruntled Steve Patterson or alert, deter-mined and sometimes crusty Dave Hart.
➤ Read Marvin West on page 4
A dark side to Knoxville biking
As a community, we spend a lot of time talking about the benefi ts of bicycling. It’s good for the environment. It’s good for our bodies. It’s pure joy for those of us who love cycling.
But there’s a dark side to bicycling in Knoxville.
➤ Read Wendy Smith on page 5
South middle schoolers excel
Katie Huneycutt and Emily Kersey will be in Nashville this weekend, trying to win a com-petition with their documen-tary about mid-20th-century singer Billie Holiday and her impact on her times.
The eighth-graders won the East Tennessee junior division in March over entrants from six counties to advance to the state level.
➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page 8
Growing FISHFISH originally started as
a food delivery system, with families in need calling a hotline. In 1986, when there were not enough volunteers to answer the phone, Jim Wright decided to invite those who had transportation or lived within walking distance to pick up their food at an East Knox-ville church basement.
➤ Read Nancy Whittaker on page 9
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ley wanted to be a fi refi ghter. At 46, he has battled blazes with various units, including the City of Knoxville Fire Department, for a total of 23 years.
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Langley said he might have had the re-placement surgery earlier, except that his wife, Lisa Ann, developed breast cancer in 2010. She died in 2011. “That played a lot into it,” he said. “I had planned on doing it before she got sick. But God had a different plan and direction for us.”
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Knee doesn’t have to be a painAn estimated 10.4 million Americans
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if they come in from 18th Street, they’ll have to turn left, come down to our drive-way, go around the building to get in line. It’s going to be a mess.
“They said it would be three lanes the entire way. One lane each way and a continuous turn lane. … We all expressed our opinion, and they said this is the way this is going forward. They said TDOT did a study and that’s the safest way to do it,” Burger said.
Mike Chase opened the Copper Cellar on Cumber-land 40 years ago, and it be-came the fi rst in what is now a 17-restaurant chain. He is worried about the two-and-a-half-year construction pe-riod and predicts that many businesses won’t survive. He agrees with Burger’s criti-cism of restricting left turns and is critical of the city’s lack of action on a long-promised parking garage.
Chase also doesn’t like the “form-based” code that has produced the Evolve Apart-ments, a mixed-use devel-opment combining student housing and storefront com-mercial units in the 2000 block that jut out to the side-walk and appear to be va-cant. The city gave Evolve a $200,000 tax break.
Bob Monday, property owner leasing to Walgreens
and FedEx Kinkos, agrees with Chase and Burger. All three are concerned that left-turning traffi c will overwhelm the short turn lanes at the side streets and create bottlenecks.
“The stack-up lanes ac-commodate three-fi ve car lengths, but if you have a big beer truck making a deliv-ery, it would block the lane until it moves. It will be a nightmare in terms of traf-fi c,” Monday said
Joe Kirk, owner of Star-bucks, said the city’s plan will damage taxpaying busi-nesses.
“I think it’s a sham,” he said. “Whoever came up with the idea doesn’t have any common sense and has never been in business. It’s the busiest street in Knox-ville, so we’re going to re-duce the traffi c? It’s an in-sult to our intelligence.”
City Council member Nick Pavlis, who represents the Cumberland Avenue Strip, said he understands the property owners’ con-cerns but says they should have spoken out earlier and louder. He said the aim of the plan is to make Cumber-land Avenue “an extension of downtown. People will be coming there for a purpo se, and at the end of the day, it will improve their business model, not be a burden.”
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is fond of adding structures and water features to the garden. He has created two waterfalls with the help of Twin Creek, which runs through the property, and a cave-hidden spring that used to furnish water for the old Knox General Hospital.
Suzi never expected the garden to become so big.
“Part of it is Bob – he cre-ates something like the new waterfall, so of course I have to plant ferns around the waterfall, which we’re call-ing Fern Falls.
“He builds or clears something else, and then he says, ‘It’s a whole new can-vas for you to paint.’ I say, ‘I don’t want anymore. I’ve got all that I can handle.’
“(Daughter) Carey (Hall Waldrop) was helping me to-day. She said, ‘Mom, how did you do all this?’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t do too much else.’ ”
She doesn’t begrudge any time she spends in the gar-den.
“I enjoy it all the time when I’m there,” she says. “Sometimes I think I’m too tired to go out and work, and then I get started on something, and I just medi-tate and think about people and remember, ‘Mrs. Cruze gave me this fl ower.’ It’s a really therapeutic time.”
A member of the Chap-man Highway Garden Club,
Betsy Pickle
A fi re pit offers the Hall family another reason to come outside.
The Halls’ garden features this playful waterfall and one other.
she is dedicating her garden this year to members who have passed away recently: Ruth DeFriese, Eleanor Stanberry and Pat Brown.
“They were dynamic, car-ing women who cultivated friendships and gardens.”
As much as she loves the greenery, Suzi says she is “addicted to fl owers.” She especially loves the pansies that remind her of her moth-er and foxgloves, and she’s happy to share their beauty.
“I feel like I’m the care-taker,” she says. “It’s just something beautiful in
God’s world, so I like for other people to enjoy it, too.”
The Halls live at 7305 Twin Creek Road. Other South Knox Open Gardens are: Rick Hill, 6014 Kay-wood Drive; Tommy Bal-lard/Heaven Scent Gardens, 2301 Goff Road; Dick & Ann Graf, 3505 Bluff Point; Dr. Richard Gillespie, 2117 Manor Drive; and Monte & Whitney Stanley, 3029 Dav-enport Road.
South Knoxville also has one Featured Garden: Tom Boyd & Sandi Burdick, 7305 John Norton Road.
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‘Everyone wins with energy effi ciency’
“Everyone wins with en-ergy effi ciency,” says Louise Gorenfl o of Climate Knox-ville.
The prize being offered is the Georgetown University Energy Prize. Knoxville is one of 50 U.S. cities, towns and counties with a popu-lation between 5,000 and 250,000 accepted to com-pete.
The goal is to achieve the most energy savings by im-
plementing innovative ideas in energy effi ciency. Energy usage by municipal build-ings and schools and homes within the city limits will be counted. The contest will use 2012 as the baseline for Knoxville’s energy usage.
To kick off the two-year contest, a home-energy sav-ings fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, April 13, at the Community Action Committee (CAC) Building at 2247 Western Ave.
City residents can talk with representatives from KUB, TVA, University of Tennessee Extension and other partners as well as weatherization contractors. They can fi nd out about re-bates and energy audits.
They can also sign up for door prizes.
Knoxville Scores is the
group hosting the energy fair. Climate Knoxville or-ganized Knoxville Scores and has recruited multiple like-minded partners to get the community fi red up about the Georgetown prize.
Gorenfl o thinks utility bills from this winter’s ex-treme cold will inspire people to rethink their energy usage.
“If it’s higher than they’re comfortable with, then they probably would benefi t from more weatherizing of their home,” says Gorenfl o. “This is a great time of year … to get control of their utility bill, both in the summer and the winter.”
On average, “60 percent of the power bill is from heat-ing and cooling your home,” she says. “So whatever you can do to reduce the air leak-age from your home – in-
stead of heating and cooling the outside air – you’re going to be able to have some ma-jor energy savings.”
Gorenfl o points to the KUB-TVA eScore program as a good place to start.
“You can get a recom-mendation of the most cost-effective path for you to fol-low,” she says. Many people believe replacing windows offers the biggest bang for the buck, “which is not the case. Generally, the most important thing you can do is get attic insulation and seal the cracks around your windows and doors and oth-er openings. And you can do that for any age home.”
For info on the energy-savings fair, DIY approaches, becoming a Knoxville Scores team captain and more, visit knoxvillescores.org.
By Bill DockeryA marble-and-steel sculp-
ture originally designed for the Tennessee One Ton sculpture series has found a new home.
Knoxville’s Public Arts Committee approved ac-cepting the artwork as a gift in its monthly meeting April 2.
The piece, titled “No place like home,” was cre-ated by Alan Finch of Clin-ton and Joe Babb of Knox-ville. It will be installed in Mary Vestal Park to replace another artwork that dete-riorated and was removed from the park. It was origi-nally created in the Bruce Bennett studio near the Candoro Marble Works on Maryville Pike.
Members of the commit-tee visited the former studio earlier to view the artwork
Panel OKs sculpture for Vestal park
“No place like home,” a sculpture from the former Bruce Ben-
nett studio, will be installed in Mary Vestal Park. Photo by Bill Dockery
and also inspected the site where it is to be placed. C ommittee chair Liza Zenni described the piece as “ut-terly charming.”
Gene Burr and Trudy Monaco attended the meet-ing to advocate for the sculpture. Monaco is a Ves-tal community activist and founder of the Candoro Arts and Heritage Center. Burr is the architect who designed the park several decades ago.
“The piece speaks elo-quently of the marble in-dustry that gave life to the Vestal community,” Burr said. Monaco said the South Knoxville Alliance and oth-er supporting groups will hold a dedication celebra-tion in the future.
In other action, the com-mittee worked on two docu-ments that will commission new sculptures for art sites
in the downtown.The committee is seeking
proposals for a sculpture for the display space at the main entrance to the State Street Garage at 520 State St. The group has $35,000 budgeted for a piece that is “original, unique and suit-able for the site.”
The group also discussed
the request for qualifi ca-tions they plan to issue for “an iconic site-specifi c work of public art” for the Cradle of Country Music Park at the corner of Gay Street and Summit Hill Drive.” The committee has budgeted $250,000 for the artwork as part of a $750,000 redesign of the park.
By now, you’ve heard it all – great record, class act, good recruiter, better per-son, home-run hire!
Texas paid $1.75 mil-lion to get rid of basketball coach Rick Barnes. Tennes-see snapped him up before the ink on the check was dry.
We’ll fi nd out later to what degree Barnes is re-energized. That will even-tually determine which athletic director was cor-rect, crusty and disgruntled Steve Patterson or alert, determined and sometimes crusty Dave Hart.
Patterson, second year in his job, reviewed the past seven seasons and de-cided Barnes, age 60, had declined and no longer met Texas’ needs. Players were better than results. The team received NCAA tour-nament bids but didn’t stay
Somebody is right, somebody is wrong
long enough.The Longhorns were hurt
by hype, ranked higher in November than March. Barnes fi nished in the AP top 25 once in those seven years. His Big 12 record in the other six seasons was 53-51.
What happened in Austin was a classic case of what have you done for us lately. Best times were way back then. Now was perceived as stale. The fan base was tak-ing a nap, but some cowboy conducted a poll. Many par-ticipants, still yawning, said ho-hum, nothing will ever
happen, but 75 percent did agree that Texas needed a new coach.
The old one was not prop-erly inspiring big donors to donate. Heaven help us, he may even have lost touch with some high school coaches.
A mean-spirited in-sider leaked to the media a hypocritical ultimatum from Patterson: Dump as-sistants, make changes, maybe you could survive. Big news! All assistants of-fered to resign. Barnes said no thanks. Patterson said see ya later.
Texas thus dismissed an honorable man believed to have faded. Does this sound football familiar?
You may know that UT is planning a new arena and supposedly needs bubbling enthusiasm to raise $450 million.
Hart, a tanned 66 or 67 without one gray hair, un-derstands 60. He is not spooked. Older coaches seldom dash out front with new ideas or make as many all-night recruiting trips, but with strategic help, they can become secondary CEOs and famous fronts for their sport, wear nice suits, speak crisply in TV com-mentary and shoot straight to the Hall of Fame.
Hart responded imme-diately to the fi rst hint of availability, as if Barnes were a gift directly from God. Here was a big-time winning coach with a clean reputation who would sure-ly cover and maybe erase Dave’s most recent prob-lems, the unfortunate selec-tion and dismissal of Don-nie Tyndall.
Based on his own expe-rience, Hart thinks Barnes
will be rejuvenated. Being wanted is inspirational. Six-year contract guaran-tees continuity. This is it for Rick, last stop. Hart be-lieves he can do better than he has been doing.
Paying Barnes $2.25 mil-lion plus incentives is OK. Spending $51,000 from Tennessee’s depleted trea-sury for the search group didn’t do much. Out-and-in timing was so snug, some believe Rick was hired be-fore he was fi red.
Here are tidbits to help you decide what the Volun-teers purchased:
Barnes received the John R. Wooden “Legends of Coaching” honor in 2009. The award recognizes life-time achievement by those who exemplify Wooden standards.
Barnes received the U.S. Basketball Writers’ Good Guy Award in 2011.
Defense has been Barnes’ coaching priority. Rebound-ing is usually strong.
Assistants have been highly regarded recruiters. There are 10 times more prized prospects in Texas than Tennessee.
Texas once reached No. 1, with a 17-0 record in the middle of 2009-10. The season crumbled. Long-horns went 7-10 in the sec-ond half.
Barnes’ only losing rec-ord, 16-18 in 2012-13, was punctuated by the post-sea-son loss of fi ve players with remaining eligibility. A year later, Rick was Big 12 coach of the year.
Everybody who scored in 2013-14 returned for this season, and a fi ve-star sev-en-footer was added. Hope went high. The Longhorns shot poorly. They were 169th in NCAA fi eld-goal accuracy. Their record was 20-14. The conference rec-ord was 8-10. Rick Barnes couldn’t explain it.
No need to now.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
Derrick Furlow wore No. 6 when he played football at UT. He played safety be-cause “on defense you can hit people.”
The Atlanta native was planning to attend the Uni-versity of Georgia and had not thought about UT, but circumstances changed and he actually walked on at UT, asking for a chance to prove himself.
“When I didn’t feel like it, I worked harder,” he told the newspaper club at Sarah Moore Greene. “When prac-tice was over, I did extra.” In his sophomore year, Furlow got his scholarship.
Furlow captivated the kids because he spoke from the heart. He’s a guy who
The Sarah Moore Greene newspaper club heard an inspirational talk by former UT football player
Madison Thomas, Jada Byas, Stanley Greene, Eddys Garcia-Arias and Shantasha Glenn. Photo by Ruth White
The things you can control
didn’t like tests, who didn’t really like school. So he told his adviser to design a plan to get him out quickly. He didn’t take a single course that was not targeted to his graduation.
Furlow graduated in three years with two years of football eligibility re-maining. So he went for a master’s degree. He got it in two years, majoring in sport
psychology.“You guys are here for
a purpose,” he said. “You can always control your at-titude; you can control your actions; you can control your approach to situations. … You never know who’s watching.”
His mom always said,
“Birds of a feather fl ock to-gether,” and “I never knew what that meant,” he said. Then at UT his coach told him, “Starters hang out with starters.”
“That sounded a lot like what my mom had said,” Furlow said. Now in busi-ness, he said you can pre-
dict a person’s income by averaging the income of his fi ve best friends.
Stanley Greene asked why he chose safety over running back (which he played in high school). De-fensive players have more control, Furlow said. They are the hunters, not the
hunted.Safari Bahati asked what
he does now. Furlow said he talks for a living and in his spare time he reads, watch-es sports and travels. “Do you get paid for that?” asked Safari.
“Yes, I do. Never say talk is cheap,” quipped Furlow.
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Shopper news • APRIL 8, 2015 • 5 government
It’s budget time again, and it’s been three years since James McIntyre in-troduced his bold plan to improve Knox County Schools, which he proposed to fi nance with 35 million new dollars that would re-quire a 35-cent property tax increase.
His announcement was accompanied by consider-able fanfare and happy talk from the usual sources (the Chamber of Commerce, nu-merous progressive-mind-ed community leaders, most media outlets), which was amplifi ed by a bunch of TV commercials in heavy rota-tion.
It all came to naught when a groundswell of pro-tests from constituents opposing the tax increase drove county commission-ers in the other direction. In the end, the commission coughed up an additional $7 million for the schools, which would have been con-sidered generous in another year but seemed quite ane-mic in comparison to the
Lance Campbell, who has been the city’s real es-tate manager for less than two years, is leaving the city within the week. Not clear why he is leaving so soon. But it is clear he has been in business with Doug Gordon, who is the city’s delinquent tax attorney in the city law department and is responsible for identify-ing tax-delinquent proper-ties.
Gordon and Campbell are the two members of Box Turtle Properties, which is a corporation formed Sept. 11, 2014.
This corporation ap-parently buys and sells properties including one off Hiawassee Avenue sold on Jan. 6, 2015, to former state Sen. Stacey Camp-fi eld. It was valued at $100 but sold at $17,500. If they got $17,500 in the sale, the declared value of $100 seems in error or simply false. Perhaps it is missing two zeroes.
Campbell will soon be free to devote full time to this corporation while Gordon must continue to juggle his city duties with his private interest. While the information being used is public record and available to all, it does raise eyebrows that people who work on these issues for the city are at the same time running a private operation to do similar work.
The deeds were recorded during normal business hours with the Register of Deeds.
The good news here is that Judy Walton, for-mer state transportation right-of-way acquisition manager, now works for the city and is well qualifi ed to replace Campbell. City Hall has been mum on the replacement and also did not announce the resigna-tion as of the writing of this column.
Preservation: Over a decade ago, voters amended the city charter to require an annual report on the sta-tus of historic preservation. The actual work on this is done by Kaye Graybeal of MPC. She followed Ann Bennett, who had worked on historic preservation zoning issues for years prior to her retirement.
Graybeal is an able, knowledgeable staffer on MPC. She will present the 2014 report to MPC on
As a community, we spend a lot of time talk-ing about the benefi ts of bicycling. It’s good for the environment. It’s good for our bodies. It’s pure joy for those of us who love cycling.
A group ride departs from Cedar Bluff Cycles two days after one of the store’s owners was seriously injured when a car turned in front of him during a ride. Photo by Wendy Smith
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Betty Bean
Wendy Smith
City staff ers form private business
April 16, and in turn it will go to City Council in one of the May meetings.
Recent mayors have failed to take advantage of this requirement to highlight historic preserva-tion. In fact, Mayor Rogero, while creating a fund for historic preservation proj-ects, for which her admin-istration can determine the winners, cut funding for Knox Heritage in last year’s city budget.
While Becky Wade, who is a friend of preservation and able, heads the dis-tribution of the $500,000 historic preservation fund, it is unclear how transpar-ent the process of picking the winners will be. Rog-ero’s communications offi ce failed to disclose as of this writing who by name serves on the evaluation commit-tee with Wade to rank the applicants. It is not clear if the actual rankings will be disclosed. There should be full transparency here since public money is involved.
MPC: Meanwhile, the search committee of six persons for the MPC direc-tor may have its fi nal meet-ing this afternoon (behind closed doors) to make a recommendation to Mayors Burchett and Rogero.
The two mayors must decide who it is and again it is unclear what happens if they cannot agree. It is down to three persons with two being University of Tennessee graduates.
Lowe: Former Knox County trustee Mike Lowe reports this Saturday, April 11, to the county jail to serve his one-year sentence for stealing over $300,000 from county taxpayers. He will likely serve only seven months. Most observers expect him to become a trusty in a matter of weeks, if not days, which will give him special privileges.
The county jail is oper-ated by Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones and he determines what happens there. He has hired several politi-cal friends such as former county commissioners.
Cyclists deserve same rights as drivers
But there’s a dark side to bicycling in Knoxville. Cyclists on the road are constantly threatened by distracted or resentful driv-ers, and they can’t always count on law enforcement to protect their rights. If you doubt it, ask Tim Rogers.
He’s one of four owners of Cedar Bluff Cycles. Dur-ing a group ride last week, a driver turned left in front of him into her Everett Road driveway. He was travel-ing over 30 miles per hour when he hit her hood, broke her windshield and landed in the grass on the opposite side of the car.
Tim is lucky. He was wearing a helmet. He didn’t hit a nearby telephone pole. But he went home from the emergency room with a fractured vertebra, major contusions and glass cuts.
Even though the accident happened in clear weather on a straight, fl at stretch of road, the driver wasn’t cited by the Knox County Sher-iff’s Offi ce deputy.
Cedar Bluff Cycles co-
owner Gerry Harms took Tim home from the hospi-tal. He was glad Tim didn’t re-injure a hip he fractured during another bike wreck eight weeks ago.
“He had nine lives, but he has one less now,” Gerry says.
Another co-owner, Bill Turner, came upon the ac-cident seconds after it happened. Bill had been dropped by the group, and Tim left the other riders to wait for his friend at the top of a hill. Bill told Tim to return to the group, and he was making his way back when the accident hap-pened.
Bill estimates the visibil-ity at the bottom of the hill was half a mile. The driver said she saw the group but didn’t see Tim. After check-
ing on Tim, Bill asked the offi cer if the driver had been cited, and he said no. When Bill asked why, the offi cer said it was at his discretion, and he thought it was an honest mistake.
According to Tennes-see Code Title 55, a bicycle is defi ned as a vehicle, and bicyclists are subject to the same rights and responsi-bilities as other drivers. Le-gally, this accident should have been handled as if one car pulled out in front of an-other.
Two members of my fam-ily made “honest mistakes” while driving last year. One rear-ended another vehicle, and one turned left in front of another vehicle. Neither accident resulted in injury, and both of my family mem-bers were cited – as they
should’ve been.The Knox County Sher-
iff’s Offi ce shared the ac-cident report but wouldn’t allow an interview with the offi cer who wrote it.
Bill says he is “totally baffl ed” that the driver wasn’t cited.
“This has torn me up,” he says. “We have rights just as automobiles do.”
Progressive cities wel-come – and protect – those who use bicycles for trans-portation and recreation. Offi cers who don’t give cy-clists the same rights as mo-torists reinforce the back-woods notion that bicycles belong only on greenways.
We’re making strides in creating a better infrastruc-ture for bicycles in East Tennessee. Changing minds may be a bigger challenge.
What about the teachers?
original request.One set of voices was
curiously silent on the tax increase, which gave com-missioners additional cover for voting against it. Where, they asked, were the teach-ers?
McIntyre took teacher support for granted since there was money in it for them, too. This was a seri-ous miscalculation, and one he has reprised every bud-get cycle since.
When she was elected president of the Knox Coun-ty Education Association, Sherry Morgan expected to be treated as every other KCEA president had been for the previous 28 years, i.e., be given unpaid leave by Knox County Schools so she could work full-time for the teachers association, which would pay her salary.
McIntyre refused to do that, and for months, Mor-gan continued teaching full-time while fulfi lling her du-ties as KCEA president. She was working 60-plus hours a week. She was so tired that she was falling asleep driving home, and her hus-band started driving her. McIntyre refused to meet with her.
Morgan fi nally got her leave time approved after the Legislature mandated collaborative conferencing in 2011 and the teachers voted to be represented by KCEA. The following year, the Legislature wrote man-datory leave time for educa-tion association presidents into something that was dubbed “Sherry’s Law.”
McIntyre’s big budget request came the following budget cycle. KCEA offi cers were summoned to his of-fi ce about two hours before he presented his proposal at the State of the Schools ad-dress but had no input into the process – KCEA sub-sequently voted to remain
neutral, and few teachers were among the yellow-shirted supporters who turned out to public meet-ings during the big push for the McIntyre plan.
Last week at the April school board meeting, KCEA president-elect Lau-ren Hopson provided a déjà vu moment when she criti-cized McIntyre’s handling of this year’s budget prob-lems – particularly the no-tion that there’s not enough money to pay teachers the promised APEX bonuses while making good on the long-stated goal of giving across-the-board raises.
“We were in this posi-tion last year and it was the hope that rather than cutting anything already in place, teachers would de-mand money from county commission,” Hopson said. “That didn’t happen – may-be because I’m not the only teacher who resents being used as a pawn between the school board and county c ommission.”
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6 • APRIL 8, 2015 • Shopper news
By Anne HartAs fantastical as it may sound, if Alice
fell down the rabbit hole in North Knox-ville, she likely wouldn’t be surprised if she found herself at Fountain City Stained Glass when she landed.
For there, much to her delight, she would discover a delightful rabbit war-ren of sorts, nestled at the bottom of a huge three-story building, and fi lled with a wonderland of glass of every imaginable shape, size, color and pattern, much of it defying description but all of it fi lled with light and enchantment suffi cient to fi re the imagination of Lewis Carroll’s fi ctional traveler.
There’s probably even material for Al-ice’s magical looking glass gently tucked away somewhere in a cubby hole at the shop.
The place is a vir-tual and literal labo-ratory, glass museum and design studio where partners Gracie Jones and Katie Jones practice their art and teach it to oth-ers in a series of classes.
The two learned how to create stained glass and mosaic art from the late Vicki Jarmon, who opened the business more than 10 years ago.
Jarmon made the gorgeous Tiffany-style lamp proudly displayed on a high shelf at the shop, safely out of the reach of any boisterous children who might pass through when guided tours of the Foun-tain City Stained Glass studios are offered to the public as part of Dogwood Arts De-Tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Friday and Saturday.
Right now, Gracie and Katie – who say they aren’t related (Jones is the married name of each) but laughingly fi nish each other’s sentences – are hard at work on a series of large leaded glass windows that will grace the new Kappa Delta Sorority chapter house at the University of Tennes-see.
Nearing completion, the windows are laid out on large tables in the studio’s
workroom, each piece of etched glass numbered and carefully positioned in its own spot on a paper pattern before being soldered permanently in place.
The custom windows are just one of a number of projects underway at the stu-dio.
An impressive piece just fi nished is a large, colorful stained glass rendering of a drawing of a guitar whimsically decorated with hearts and other images, the work of a very creative third-grader whose par-ents decided to memorialize their talented child’s artwork for posterity.
Fountain City Stained Glass also has mosaic art and has on display an assort-ment of colorful vases made of tiny pieces
of colorful glass in varying patterns.
In one room, bro-ken stained glass lamp shades and other stained glass items in various stages of re-pair or restoration are
being readied for clients.In another is a retail area where the
hobbyist or serious artist will fi nd every-thing they need to create stained glass or mosaic art. Equipment, tools and count-less types of glass are available.
Those items are always in high demand as a result of the classes in stained glass and mosaics that are taught from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
The retail aspect of Fountain City Glass is always especially busy around holidays as shoppers drop in to buy the ever-popu-lar sun catchers and brightly colored win-dow panels.
Fountain City Stained Glass is at 1328 Buchanan Ave., just off Broadway a couple of blocks toward downtown from I-640.
Go there prepared to stay a while. There’s a lot to see and learn. And of course, there are always those classes to further tempt you.
Info: 688-3333.
2015
Gracie Jones with some of the art that hangs in the front window of Fountain City Stained Glass Photo by Anne Hart
Tour a wonderland of stained
glass at Fountain City studios
By Betsy PickleEastwood. Huston.
Chaplin.Three of the four young
actors starring in Friday’s only wide release come with decades of fi lm histo-ry on their shoulders. The fourth, Robertson – well, she was great as Angie in the fi rst season of CBS’s “Under the Dome.”
“The Longest Ride,” based on a novel by Nicho-las Sparks, shifts between two love stories, both set
in North Carolina. One is in the present and has Britt Robertson as a young woman about to leave col-lege and go to New York to work in an art gallery when she meets a handsome bull rider (Scott Eastwood, son of Clint) who’s trying to make a comeback after a life-threatening injury.
The other takes place during the World War II era and features a young Jewish couple (Jack Hus-ton, grandson of director
John, nephew of Anjelica and Danny; and Oona Chaplin, granddaughter of Charlie, daughter of Geral-dine) and their struggles.
Tying them together is Alan Alda, who plays the 91-year-old version of Huston’s character. He gives the modern-day couple insight into what it means to be in a relation-ship.
George Tillman Jr. (“Soul Food”) directed.
What’s in a name?
Shopper news • APRIL 8, 2015 • 7 weekenderFRIDAY-SATURDAY
■ “The Magic Flute” presented by the UT Opera Theatre at the Bijou Theatre. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com, www.knoxbijou.com.
■ Vintage Baseball at Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Celebration of Vintage Baseball reception, 7-9 p.m. Friday. Doubleheader begins noon Saturday. No charge for the games; hotdogs, popcorn, beverages and more avail-able for purchase.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival, on stages set exclusively
along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Fea-tures fi rst-timers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Tickets available now. Info/tickets: www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com.
■ Spring Home Design and Remodeling Show, Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St.
■ “SHREK: The Musical, Jr,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; 208-3677.
FRIDAY ■ Alive After Five concert: The Streamliners Swing Orchestra,
6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.
■ Exmag and M!NT will perform, 9 p.m., The Concourse, 940 Blackstock Ave. Presented by Midnight Voyage Productions and WUTK 90.3 The Rock. Tickets: $10 advance; $15 day of show. Info: internationalknox.com.
■ Haywood County Ramblers concert, Holly’s Corner, 842 N. Central St. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: m.bpt.me/event/1409964.
■ Hot Club of San Francisco: Cinema Vivant, 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Info/tickets: www.knoxvilletickets.com, www.claytonartscenter.com, 981-8591.
■ Kukuly and the Gypsy Fuegos perform, Fountain City Casual Pint, 4842 Harvest Mill Way. Swing jazz trio.
■ Stars on Stage Dinner Concert fundraising event, 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: $400. Info/tickets: Tennessee Theatre box offi ce: 684-1200.
SATURDAY ■ Bracket Challenge and Hip-Hop for Hunger 2015, 7:30
p.m., The Concourse, 940 Blackstock Ave. Featuring Plun-derphonics, Good Guy Collective, The Exception, The Young Gunz and Bobby Fuego. Tickets: $5 requested donation at the door.
■ Cashore Marionettes, Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. “Simple Gifts,” 2 p.m.; “Life in Motion,” 8 p.m. Info/tickets: www.knoxvilletickets.com, www.claytonartscenter.com, 981-8591.
■ Color Me Rad 5K, 9 a.m., Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum. Participants of all ages are welcome to run or walk. A portion of the proceeds will benefi t East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. Info/to register: colormerad.com.
■ Esau’s Vendor Market, Jacob Building, Chilhowee Park, 3301 E. Magnolia Ave. Local antiques/crafts show.
■ Jazzspirations LIVE: Knoxville’s Smooth Jazz Concert Series, 7-9 p.m., Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park, 525 Henley St. Info/tickets: jazzspirationslive.com.
■ Magical Make Believe, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive. Centered on popular storybook characters Peter Cottontail and Cliff ord. Storytime, a bubble artist, magician and make-believe games. Children 12 and younger who come dressed as their favorite make-believe or storybook character will receive free admission. Info: knoxville-zoo.org.
■ Marble Springs Storytelling, 2-4 p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway. Fundraiser for Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association. Bring chairs. Under the pavilion. Info: 573-5508; [email protected]; www.marblesprings.net.
■ “Music of Queen” performed by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra featuring guest conductor Brent Havens and vocalist Brody Dolyniuk, 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Info/tickets: Box Offi ce, 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444, 877-995-9961.
■ Valor Fights 22 Pro/Am MMA, 6 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Tickets: $35 general admission. Info: internationalknox.com.
By Carol ShaneThe Rhythm N’ Blooms
Music Festival, slated for this weekend in downtown Knoxville, grows more aus-picious every year.
Coming as it does on the heels of the Big Ears Festival – a nationally recognized event – Rhythm N’ Blooms seems like a warmer, fuzzi-er, down-home counterpart to the gathering of the big guns.
But this year’s festival is more varied and prestigious than you might expect.
Now in its fi fth year, the Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival boasts an eclectic lineup. There’s everything from “high-energy gypsy punk grass” (Strung Like a Horse) to The Appalachian Hippie Poet (“his words are born from mountain, bottle and heart”) to one of Esquire magazine’s 2014 “15 Bands to Watch,” Daniel Ellsworth & the Great Lakes.
Popular Knoxville main-stays Drive-By Truckers and the Dirty Guv’nahs will appear, along with many, many other unique and worthy acts.
Sarah Pirkle and Jeff Barbra have been involved with Rhythm N’ Blooms for several years and fondly re-member its early days.
“I’m really looking for-ward to playing a set with the Naughty Knots at Boyd’s Jig & Reel on Friday night,” says local singer/songwrit-er/fi ddler and radio host Pirkle. She and husband
Knoxville favorites Jeff Barbra and Sarah Pirkle will be heading up the Rhythm N’ Blooms Festi-val’s Gospel Hour on Sunday, April 12. Photos submitted
Popular local roots musician Sarah Pirkle can’t wait for the Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival.
Barbra will be hosting the festival’s Gospel Hour on Sunday, which she says will be “a treat for me. Then I’m hanging out the rest of the day en-j o y i n g the mu-sic. I’m r e a l l y s t o k e d to see JD McPherson!”
Now let’s talk about the headliners.
The Decemberists’ fi rst album, “Castaways and Cut-outs,” was released in 2002. In the realm of indie folk rock, these guys stood alone right out of the gate.
For one thing, they’re absolutely incredible mu-sicians, every last one of them, but that virtuosity is used in service of the whole. The Decemberists’ musical
visions are large and sweep-ing, but there’s not a grand-stander among them.
Singer-songwriter Colin Meloy’s distinctive, reso-
n a n t v o i c e l e n d s i t s e l f perfect-ly to his m e l o -
dies. Like James Mercer of the Shins, Meloy has a huge talent for songwriting, and one can’t imagine anyone else singing his composi-tions. He’s backed by acous-tic instruments such as bass viol, guitar and violin, but extra special to the mix is Jenny Conlee, whose un-derstated skill on the organ, piano and accordion adds much to the carefully con-sidered musical arrange-ments.
They played to a packed Tennessee Theatre in April 2007, and now they’re back in Knoxville, appearing on Sunday, April 12, as part of a national tour promot-ing their new album, “What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World.”
Everything about the Decemberists, from their songwriting and perform-ing down to their album art and accompanying mer-chandise, seems beauti-fully handmade. Don’t miss them.
So if you’re in the mood to mingle with a lot of happy music lovers, check out the website at rhythmnblooms-fest.com where you’ll fi nd a full lineup and other details. You can even earn free tick-ets and other rewards. See you there!Send story suggestions to [email protected].
By Carol Shahaneha
The best fest yet
By Betsy PickleYou’ve seen “the grass is always greener …” movies, but
you’ve never seen one like “While We’re Young.”A comedy with a kitchen sink that includes a couple’s
midlife crisis, shades of “Single White Female” and “Six Degrees of Separation” – and the buzzword of the decade, “connectivity” – “While We’re Young” beats any semblance of preciousness out of writer-director Noah Baumbach’s inside-New York mannerisms.
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play Josh and Cornelia, a Manhattan couple living in a Grand Canyon of a rut. Josh is a documentary fi lmmaker who has been working on his “latest” fi lm for eight years; he also lectures about doc-umentary fi lmmaking in an extended-learning program. Cornelia works as a producer for her father, Leslie Breitbart (Charles Grodin), a highly esteemed documentarian.
Josh keeps looking for “the truth” in his ever-lengthening fi lm, which is about war, er, poverty, er, America. Cornelia feels guilty about living in her father’s shadow. They both wonder if they should have tried harder to have a child.
Their stale, tech-device-dominated lives are disrupted when they meet Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), a young couple whose existence is everything Josh and Cornelia’s is not.
Jamie, an aspiring documentarian himself, goes gaga over Josh, spreading lavish praise on his acclaimed fi rst documentary, which was barely seen. Darby makes artisan ice cream in unusual fl avors.
Jamie and Darby roller-blade through the streets, es-chew modern technology in favor of VHS tapes and vinyl
records, and generally seem spontaneous in every way. Josh falls hard for them, especially with Jamie constantly seeking his advice and help. Cornelia is a bit more skepti-cal, but she gets pulled into the energy of the couple as well.
Jamie’s charisma is undeniable, but there’s something off about it. Josh, who has embraced Jamie’s free
spirit, begins to suspect that he’s made a mis-take in his new friend.
The midlife crisis depicted in “While We’re Young” captures a slice of reality in a way few fi lms have done before. It’s funny, yet introspective and sympa-thetic. It reveals the amazing concept that there is middle ground between feeling dead inside and trying to be-come someone you’re not.
As for the more external, structured plot – it’s a comedic quicksand that feels
like Hitchcock Light. Stiller is perfect as things go south in a major way, and Driver is astonishing as his Phillip Vandamm (think “North by North-west”).
Baumbach’s hilarious observations give more screen time to the male leads, but Watts and Seyfried balance
them with honest performances that have a real weight. Grodin is a delight, playing off his crotchety persona with an extra serving of likability.
The cast includes two legendary music fi gures in unex-pected roles. Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary fame plays the expert in Josh’s fi lm, and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys plays Josh’s erstwhile best friend, a new father.
“While We’re Young” shows Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale”) at his sharpest. It’s a message fi lm that hides behind a nearly solid wall of comedy.
Rated R for language.
Midlife-crisis comedy with a twist
Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts) review some of their life choices in “While We’re Young.”
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teaches art at South Knox-ville, Gap Creek and Ritta elementary schools. By night – and during school breaks – she’s an award-winning artist whose work generally isn’t suitable for her young students.
“I can only show a few pieces to my students,” says Snead, sitting in her class-room at South Knoxville El-ementary. “It’s very political and deals with class issues, from a maternal perspec-tive. It’s totally different from what I do here.”
Snead won Best in Show in the just-ended Art at the Airport exhibit with “I’m So Glad, I Done Got Over,” which borrowed its title from a Leadbelly song. Her work is in two shows this month, Art Source 2015 at the University of Tennes-see’s Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St., through April 17; and Synergy Art Educa-
tor & Student Exhibitions, through April 30 at Clay-ton Center for the Arts in Maryville.
“They’re not really as po-litical,” she says of the piec-es in those shows.
Snead, who is originally from southwest Virginia, came late to art.
“I never had art until I was in college,” she says. “I’m a triplet, and my sisters were really into the arts. I went a different way be-cause we’re really competi-tive with each other.
“I didn’t take art class till I went to community college and then I had to. … I ended up in an art-history class. I loved art history, and then I took drawing and I loved it.
“I knew I wanted to teach, but I went from wanting to teach English to wanting to teach art. I’ve been trying to work on my own work ever since then – growing in leaps and bounds, hope-fully.”
Katie Huneycutt and Emily Kersey Photo by Betsy Pickle
Jenny Snead in front
of artwork by her stu-
dents at South Knox-
ville Elementary School Photo by Betsy Pickle
Eighth-graders explore history through Holiday
By Betsy PickleThis Friday, while most
South-Doyle Middle School students are staring at the clock, waiting for the bell to ring to let them out into a lazy-weekend future, Ka-tie Huneycutt and Emily Kersey will be in Nashville thinking about the past.
To be exact, they’ll be thinking about mid-20th-century singer Billie Holi-day and her impact on her times.
Eighth-graders Katie and Emily created a docu-mentary on Holiday for the National History Day com-petition. They won the East Tennessee junior division in March over entrants from six counties to advance to the state level this weekend.
If they win there, they will go to the national fi nals in June in Washington, D.C.
Emily and Katie say they spent many a long and stressful weekend working on their project, but the real drama came at deadline time.
“The deadline was 12 midnight, and it started to snow about 10,” says Katie. “We were still working on the documentary, and we were scared that the power was going to go out.”
They wrapped it up, and it was “perfect,” but when they went back to look at it, it was “all messed up” and they had to redo it. They fi nished and submitted it online, and then they had to wait to see if school would get canceled the next day – which would mean they couldn’t go to the regional competition.
“But it didn’t, and we got fi rst!” says Emily.
Emily and Katie chose documentary; they could have done a website, paper, speech, performance or exhibit. Their original sub-ject was education pioneer Mary Mason Lyon, but they dropped her and searched for another when they re-alized they couldn’t fi nd enough images of the 19th-century fi gure to help fi ll the minimum six minutes for the documentary.
“It’s kind of funny,” says Katie. “We looked up in-fl uential people of America and closed our eyes and scrolled down the list and put our fi nger on someone, and it was Billie Holiday.
“It turned out we re-ally enjoyed doing her. And then, we both dance, so mu-sic has a really big infl uence on us, so it really connected with us.”
Katie and Emily enjoyed getting to know Holiday and exploring the history of civil rights. They encour-age other middle-schoolers to think about entering the contest next year.
“It’s a lot of fun,” says Ka-tie.
“It’s really fun, but it’s a lot of work, so you have to be willing to work,” says Emily.
They’ve picked up skills that will help them in high school and college.
“It really teaches you to look for your primary source, how to know if something is a good source or not,” says Katie.
“We already know how to do an annotated bibliogra-phy, which you usually don’t do that till college,” says Emily.
“It teaches you to think a little bit deeper, too – fi nd the underlying message,” says Katie.
Art teacher stays busy teaching, creating
Snead didn’t get into teaching immediately after graduating from Virginia Intermont College. She started a family, and then four years ago she started teaching with Knox County Schools.
Being an artist and teach-ing “go hand in hand be-cause I’m learning from the kids,” she says. “My big em-phasis in teaching is, they need to learn how to solve problems in more than one way, and to get a different viewpoint. And everybody’s going to make mistakes, but you have to keep working through it.
“I tell them all the time that if I quit my painting that I messed up last night and threw it away, I would never have a painting, so I have to work through my mistakes and to use them, and they have to do that with every part of life as well.”
From the kids, she has learned “attitude.”
“They’re excited about al-most anything,” says Snead. “Anything that’s different, they get excited. I try to have that excitement.”
They’ve also taught her to keep trying new things.
“If you get comfortable, then you’re probably not making very good art.”
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By Betty BeanMost of Bubba’s Barrels’
customers are out of state, or international, even. But the destination of the shiny steel barrel sitting in Bub-ba’s front parking lot last Tuesday was Crafty Bas-tard Brewery, opening this spring three miles south of Bubba’s in Emory Place. The transaction is an example of the community that Carl Clements wanted to join when he settled on Knox-ville as his adopted home-town six years ago.
“We’ve gotten an amaz-ing amount of support from local business owners,” said Clements, a burly, bearded, overall-wearing guy whose business has gone from zero to more than $1 million in annual revenue in four years. (We’ll resist the urge to say he’s “barrel-chested” because it’s too easy.)
The 46-year-old Texan traveled the world after graduating from Texas A&M: two years in Africa with the Peace Corps, most of another year traveling around the continent, mul-tiple road trips across the U.S. and considerable busi-ness traveling on his previ-ous job selling durable med-ical equipment.
“I made the good money, had the good life – selling the parts that make cell phones work. I still do that so I won’t have to draw a sal-ary out of this business,” he said.
So how did he decide on Knoxville?
“I went to North Carolina a lot and had a good Peace Corps friend in Knoxville. One day I looked at my phone and saw more 865
numbers than anywhere else. Knoxville’s a good place to live, a scallywag town. Most of the people who lived here sided with the North in the Civil War.
“I don’t want to live in Dallas-Fort Worth, but I love living in the South without having to live in Birmingham to do it.
“We’re geographically in the South, and it’s a middle-class town with lots more amenities than we deserve for our size. I really like Knoxville, except for his-toric districts that think we need to be wealthy to live in them.”
So he found a house in North Hills and made quick connections in the music scene. Two years later, he started the barrel business in his basement.
“I bought some used bar-rels. Then I bought three more. Then I bought 40 more,” he said. “Then some-body calls and asks, ‘Can you put a drain in that?’
“‘Sure,’ I say. But I had no idea …”
He remembers sitting on his back porch drinking beer with his friend Dan Lipe, who subsequently de-signed the Bubba’s Barrels website.
“I told him if I could sell $40,000 a year, gross, that’d be great. That would mean I’d make about $10,000. We’ve doubled in size every year since then. Last year, we did $1 million. This year, I expect to do $1.4 million. When I became a viable business, I started paying him. That’s how it works.”
After a while, he rented a space on Pembroke in the shadow of Sharp’s Ridge.
B Bett Bean numbers than any here
Bubba makes ‘scallywag’ business
Carl Clements Photo by Ruth White
When business picked up, he built an outbuilding in the backyard. Grinding barrels is a noisy undertak-ing, and it’s good to be in an out-of-the-way spot that’s conveniently close to Broad-way.
In a few weeks, he and his four full-time employees, plus his feisty Jack Russell terrier Brandy, will move a couple of blocks north to a 13,000-square-foot ware-house on Buchanan Street (compared to 3,000 square
feet of covered space in their present location), where they will stock an inventory of accessory parts and turn out even more stainless-steel drums, barrels, brew kettles, smokers, boilers and conical fermenters.
Clements, who says he’s known as “an employer of wayward musicians around town,” is fl exible about em-ployees’ schedules.
“As an employer, I’ve re-ally tried to make this a place that doesn’t suck.”
I recently toured the main facility for Knoxville’s FISH Hospitality Pantries. I caught up with Jeff Gen-cay while he and other vol-unteers were busy getting ready for a distribution day. The entire place was a beehive of activity, and I was immediately impressed with the camaraderie among folks there.
FISH originally started as a food delivery system, with families in need call-ing a hotline. In 1986, when there were not enough volunteers to answer the phone, Jim Wright de-cided to invite those who had transportation or lived within walking distance to pick up their food at an East Knoxville church basement.
Wright’s goal to have pantries located closer to neighborhoods where many low-income families lived soon became a reality.
Wright opened addition-al neighborhood pantries on Western Avenue and in South Knoxville. In 2007, a main distribution center was established at 122 W. Scott Ave. just off of North Central. The large ware-house with its huge walk-in cooler and freezer stand as testament to Wright’s vi-sion.
Within three months af-ter opening and with a lot of help from donors, FISH was able to completely pay off the new building. There are currently four distribution
locations.Many Knoxville fami-
lies would go hungry if it weren’t for FISH. In 2007, FISH distributed food worth $410,000. Last year, $2.9 million of free food was distributed.
Donations come from various food distributors and churches, but Wright credits the more than 300 volunteers with the pantry’s success. Over 100 of these volunteers fi rst came to FISH because they were in need of food at one time.
“FISH is all about show-ing respect. Our goal is for no one in Knoxville to go hungry,” says Wright.
Wright worked dili-gently to make sure FISH volunteers understood the importance of treating ev-eryone equally. People are not asked questions about income and spending hab-its. Everyone is treated with
dignity.Kathy Cannon has been
a volunteer for seven years. In 2008, when she lost her job, Cannon soon found herself with no income. When she arrived at
FISH, she needed food. Cannon was grateful to be treated with dignity and re-spect.
“This place has changed my life. ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’ truly came alive for me,” says Cannon. “I just knew it was a place God wanted me to be. I love this place.” Cannon is now in a leadership program with a group giving women a voice in the community.
Info: fi shpantry.org or 523-7900.
Kathy Cannon
Nancy Whittaker
FISH Pantries: Much more than food
By Bonny C. MillardA recent grant award by
the Rotary Club of Knoxville will help Beaumont Magnet Academy purchase almost 700 new books, school li-brarian Molly Moore said.
Moore, who’s been at the school for about three years, recently spoke to the club and said this gift will help update the school’s library. In addition to this, Beau-mont is already this year’s weekly recipient of a donat-ed book signed by meeting speakers.
“This is going to get kids excited about reading,” Moore said of the addition of new books. Currently, many of the school library’s books are out-of-date, par-ticularly in areas such as scientifi c information.
“Our library books are old,” she said. “Their average shelf age is 20 years. There are lots of books that are older than me on my shelves. I try to pull them as I fi nd them.”
Moore said she has an annual budget of $3,200 to purchase new books.
The Rotary grant in-cludes $5,000 from the lo-cal club and $5,000 in dis-trict matching funds.
Beaumont is a unique school in that it offers fi ne arts and honors programs and is a museum school as well, she said. The school
Molly Moore, Beaumont Mag-net Academy librarian
Rotary gifts books to Beaumont
is a Title 1 school, with 75 percent of its students eco-nomically disadvantaged.
Even though it offers specialized program-
ming, the school is in a literacy crisis with many of the students below reading level.
Moore said 85 percent of fi fth-graders are below
profi ciency levels.“We know we’re in a cri-
sis at Beaumont,” she said. “We’re doing everything that we can. Our adminis-trators this year have to-tally changed everything around. Every teacher in the building has a small reading group … . We’re do-ing radical things at Beau-mont to try to get our kids up to level.”
Helping DylanDogwood Elementary School fi fth-grader Dylan Graves jokes with Eli Driver, a member of the North Knox Rotary Club. Driver volunteers as a tutor at Dogwood. He gained Rotary support for Dylan’s upcoming Safety Patrol trip to Washington, D.C., and Dylan promised to return to the club with a report. Photoby S. Clark
■ Old Sevier Community Group meets 7 p.m. each third Thursday, South Knoxville Elementary School library, 801 Sevier Ave. Info: Gary E. Deitsch, 573-7355 or [email protected].
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THROUGH MAY 20Applications accepted for the Great Smoky
Mountains Trout Adventure Camp for middle school girls and boys, sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Trout Unlimited to be held June 15-20 at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info/applications: www.tntroutadventure.org.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for
Changing Times, a Brown Bag Lecture by Laura Cope Overbey, Curator of Collections at Biltmore Estates, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 215-8824 or www.EastTNHistory.org.
Easy Breathing with the Alexander Tech-nique, 2-4 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Preregistra-tion required. Info/to register: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, APRIL 8-9AAA Safe Driving for Mature Operators, 5-9
p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $10. 8-hour course approved by the state of Tennessee for insurance premium discounts for eligible drivers over age 55. Info/to register: 862-9250 or 862-9252.
THURSDAY, APRIL 9Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love,
Loss and What I Wore,” 2-4 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is composed of fi ve women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, [email protected].
Instrumental concert, 7 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Clayton Performing Arts Center, Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. The event is free and the community is invited. Info: 694-6400 or www.pstcc.edu/arts.
Navigating Your Joy in Life luncheon, 10:45 a.m., Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Hosted by Knoxville Christian Women’s Connec-tion. Cost: $12 inclusive. Complimentary child care is by reservation only. Info/reservations: 315-8182 or [email protected].
The Grace Notes Flute Choir in concert, 7 p.m., Blount County Library, 508 N Cusick St., Maryville. Open to the public. Info: 982-0981 or www.blountlibrary.org.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10Cinema Vivant, an evening of vintage silent
fi lms accompanied by live gypsy swing music, 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Tickets: $19 to $36. Info/tickets: 981-8590; www.claytonartscenter.com; knoxvilletickets.com.
Festival of Cultures, 4-8:30 p.m. Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Free to attend; the community is
invited. Cultural booths and exhibits, music, food, chil-dren’s activities. Info: www.pstcc.edu/arts or 694-6400.
Jubilee! A tribute to Guy and Candie Carawan, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Admission is free. Info: Bradley Reeves or Eric Dawson, 215-8856.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 10-11Used book sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Farragut Branch
Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11AARP Driver Safety class, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,
Oak Ridge Senior Center, 728 Emory Road, Oak Ridge. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” 2-4 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is com-posed of fi ve women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, [email protected].
Composting class, 2 p.m., community garden of Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Instructor: Bob Grimac. Class is free and no registration required. To reserve a wire compost bin for $7.50: [email protected] or 546-5643.
Farragut Book Fest for Children, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Founders Park at Campbell Station. Free and open to the public. Activities include storytelling, book signings, music, art activities, face painting, cookie decorating and the Ruff Reading Program. Free hot dogs, popcorn and lemonade available beginning at 11 a.m. while sup-plies last. Info: Lauren Cox, [email protected] or 966-7057.
Farragut Family Fun Day, 9 a.m.-noon, Farragut High Football complex. Hosted by Farragut Youth Cheer and Farragut Youth Football. Features: an infl atable, popcorn, snow cones and cotton candy.
Plant sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., UT Gardens, located UT agriculture campus on Neyland Drive. All proceeds will benefi t the UT Gardens. Info: utgardens.tennessee.edu.
RB Morris with Greg Horne & Daniel Kimbro will perform, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.
Tea & Treasures 2nd Saturday Marketplace, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 4104 W Martin Mill Pike. Vendor booths include arts & crafts, antiques, plants, books, food and music.
The 51st annual Talahi Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Lakeshore Park, 6410 S. Northshore Drive. All proceeds benefi t the Knoxville Community. Admission and park-ing: free.
“To Prune or Not to Prune … That is the Ques-tion!” program by Knox County Master Gardeners, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Free and open to the public. Info: 588-8813.
SUNDAY, APRIL 12Sing Out Knoxville, a folk singing circle open to
everyone, will meet 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Uni-tarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: [email protected] or 546-5643.
MONDAY, APRIL 13Binding the Edge of the Quilt Class: 9:15 a.m.-
Staged Reading of “Tuesdays with Morrie” presented by the WordPlayers, 7:30 p.m., The Square Room, 4 Market Square. Admission is free, reservations not required. Info: 539-2490 or wordplayers.org.
MONDAY-TUESDAY, APRIL 13-14AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Tellico
Village Chota Recreation Center, 145 Awohili Drive, Loudon. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
TUESDAYS, APRIL 14-MAY 19Pilates class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., community room
of Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.
Instructor: Simon Bradbury. Cost: $60. Registration and payment deadline: Monday, April 13. Info/to register: 218-3375, www.townoffarragut.org/register.
Yoga class, 9-10 a.m., community room of Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Betty Kalister. Cost: $60. Registration and payment deadline: Monday, April 13. Info/to register: 218-3375, www.townoffarragut.org/register.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15“Packing and Shipping Artwork” with Mike C.
Berry, 6 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com/development.html.
Sandwiched In lunch and learn program: Wan-da Sobieski to discuss “A Call to Action” by President Jimmy Carter, noon, East Tennessee History Center auditorium, 601 S. Gay St. Info: Emily Ellis, 215-8767 or [email protected].
THURSDAY, APRIL 16“Plan Before You Plant: Maximizing the Output
of Your Raised Beds,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Knox County Master Gardeners. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.
“Spring Fling at Cranberry Hollow” free spring decorating class, 6-8 p.m., Cranberry Hollow, 12556 Kingston Pike. Hosted by Farragut Beautifi cation Com-mittee. Attendees are encouraged to bring in baskets, containers and silk fl oral arrangements to be refreshed and upscaled with new ideas. No registration required. Info: 966-7057.
THURSDAYS, APRIL 16, MAY 21, JUNE 18
Mobile Photography class led by Finch Photo, 6-8 p.m., community room of Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Registration and payment deadline: Tuesday, April 14. Info/to register: 218-3375, www.townoffarragut.org/register.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 16-18“The Night of January 16th” presented by the
Powell Playhouse at Jubilee Banquet Center, 6700 Jubilee Center Way. Thursday-Saturday evening: din-ner, 5:30 and play, 7; Saturday matinee: lunch, 12:30 p.m. and play, 2 p.m. Tickets: $10 at the door; Saturday matinee only, seniors, $5. Dinner and lunch reservations required: 938-2112. Ticket info: Mona, 256-7428.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 17-18The 5th Woman Troupe Theatre Show, 8 p.m.,
UT campus. A portion of proceeds will support the Joshua Resource Center for Women. Info: 214-7907 or [email protected].
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 17-19Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival; 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday; Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, 123 Cromwell Drive, Townsend. Info: www.smokymountainfi berartsfestival.org or 448-0859.
“The Tempest,” Pellissippi State Community Col-lege Clayton Performing Arts Center, Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and students. Info/tickets: www.pstcc.edu/tickets.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18EarthFest 2015, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., World’s Fair Park.
Activities include: scavenger hunt, live music, activities and crafts for kids, Mercury thermometer exchange, ex-hibits and more. Free event. Info: www.knox-earthfest.org.
Kukuly and the Gypsy Fuego perform, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Vintage jazz. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.
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