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It’s one of those weekends when Knoxville feels gloriously in motion. Beginning with Chalk Walk on Saturday, April 11, and rolling right into the Knoxville Marathon on Sunday, downtown will be full of color, creativity, energy, and more than a little momentum. One of the many things people talk about when Chalk Walk rolls around…

Water has always meant more than just water. Long before science lessons and field trips and hydration reminders on our phones, water was a symbol — of renewal, of movement, of change. Ancient traditions built rituals around it. Philosophers reminded us that no one steps in the same river twice. And Carly Simon gave us…

If you know the back roads of East Tennessee, you know what to expect: barns, pastures, old houses, new houses, and the occasional stretch of road that seems to have been paved by somebody who distrusted straight lines on principle. What you don’t necessarily expect is to make a dogleg turn up a winding hill…

There are great debates in food: Sauce or no sauce. Thin crust or thick. Sweet cornbread or cornbread that minds its business. And now, apparently, crisp versus crunch. If you’ve missed it, there have been some minor kerfuffles in the world of chili oil—specifically over whether the word “crunch” belongs to any one person, company,…

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of alchemy. Mystery writers love it. Fiction writers can’t resist it. Even people who don’t particularly care about pseudoscience still perk up when you mention the old dream: turning lead into gold, finding the Philosopher’s Stone, brewing an elixir that fixes everything and maybe—even better—makes time back down…

Valentine’s Day carries a lot of weight. Too much, really. An outsized burden for a single white square on the calendar to bear. Three hundred and sixty-five days of relationship, expectation, romance, miscommunication, joy, disappointment, and hope, all compressed into one evening. If that doesn’t sound like a small nightmare, I’m not sure what does.…