Category: Loving Spoonful

  • Tomato Head’s 25th Birthday

    Sometimes, things just fall together. While the pizzas and burritos you get today from the Tomato Head come from well-crafted ideas and careful calculations, it all started with an engineer who decided to do something bold. 25 years ago in August, Mahasti Vafaie left her career as an engineer, thinking of attending medical school. Instead,…

  • Big Ears Festival: A macrocosm of Knoxville’s artistic community.

    Big Ears Festival is more than music. This is a festival that is as much about expanding communities as it is a lineup. The city of Knoxville is opening its arms again this weekend to welcome back Big Ears and the vast, internationally renowned community of artists of many mediums. For the second year in…

  • The New Festival Beer You Haven’t Tried

    Nothing shines better in the sunshine than the colors of a well brewed beer. That’s certainly what Saw Works Brewing Company is hoping for this spring with the cloudy gold shine of their new Sonic Wit. Created for the Big Ears Festival, the Sonic Wit was meant to be stimulating on a hot day of…