Amy McRary

A green ogre, some Disney characters and the circus are all coming to Knoxville soon.

Director John Sipes is reluctant to wrap a style around the play "Fuddy Meers," being performed Feb. 9-26 at the University of Tennessee. But he's found a term to suit.

She's a full-figured girl of about 200 pounds who enjoys munching beets and Popsicles. She likes kids but often gets picked on by other adults.

The Grammy Award winning group Manhattan Transfer brings its jazz-infused pop vocals to Knoxville to perform with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, Feb. 4.

Daniel and Mandy Watson and their three young children on Wednesday ran down newly placed sod to the front door of their new home. Just before Daniel's hand hit the doorknob, the family stopped, turned and walked back up the ...

Reveal of the new Extreme home for the Watson family is done. Spectators line up to get on shuttle bus. Some buy commemorative show T-shirts.

Printmaker and teacher Hideki Kimura of Japan will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Jan. 19 in conjunction with a printmaking exhibit at both the Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture and the University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery.

More sharks are swimming in Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg in a new exhibit called "Perfect Predators: Sharks!" The exhibit aims to go beyond superstitions about sharks and explore the species' struggle to survive. It includes live sharks ...

Daniel Watson stood outside his white farmhouse with its sinking foundation and leaky roof Tuesday, cradling 2-year-old son Silas as a dozen or more strangers gathered in the family yard.

With a 38-member cast, 5,000 costume pieces, lavish sets and powerful music, the audience favorite "Les Miserables" is a big show in many ways. But at the musical's core is a story of redemption and grace, says actor J. Mark ...

Downtown Knoxville will again welcome the latest of new years with a range of music, comedy and performance that make up its annual First Night Knoxville.

Tis the weekend before the weekend of Christmas. Next week this time you'll be thinking of spending time with the family. Or perhaps just looking for a quiet corner somewhere for a few minutes of peace. But this weekend it's ...

Too often December brings those hurry up, dash around, forget to breathe moments. Then you turn around on Christmas Eve and you've missed so much because you were in such a rush. Make this weekend one to enjoy.

December's first weekend promises a round of Christmas events from parades to plays with ballerinas, movies and even trains in between.

Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was an immediate hit when published in December of 1843. More than 160 years later, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, ghosts and sickly child called Tiny Tim has been told by everyone from the Muppets ...

It's time for jingle bells, hot cocoa, Santa Claus and ice skating. Time for parade floats and lighted trees and heartwarming holiday classics.

The University of Tennessee's Clarence Brown Theatre celebrates the season with the return of two holiday classics.

In Sevier County the holiday winter wonderland starts before Thanksgiving and continues long past Valentine's Day.

What's the good news about Halloween falling on a Monday? It come after an entire weekend that allows you to wear your costume, have more fun and yes, get more candy.

Creatures are coming to the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville. Fantastic, strange dancing creatures that could be part animal, part human. Sleepless hippo-like beings. Restaurant-going anteaters. Constantly blinking bugs' eyes.

The Museum of Appalachia once again celebrates the heritage of Appalachia with music, food, crafts and more during its 32nd annual Fall Homecoming.

A new crop of corn mazes has sprung up in East Tennessee, while farms that have grown the attractions for years cultivate ways to expand their businesses.

The family dairy farm Cruze Farms in East Knox County will host its first corn maze 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday on weekends Oct. 1-30.

Festivals held in East Tennessee this weekend offer diverse fare, food and fun. Let's start in Knoxville with the 32nd annual Greekfest. The festival of food, music, dancing and Greek tradition is 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sept. 23 and Sept. 24, ...

Each year sure signs show that one East Tennessee summer is turning into another East Tennessee fall. It all leads to the Friday after Labor Day and the annual Tennessee Valley Fair.

Let's set the stage: It's early 1939 Hollywood. Movie producer and workaholic David O. Selznick is losing $50,000 a day because the script for his would-be epic "Gone With the Wind" is just no good.

Knocking down a tall five-lane bridge can't stop fireworks in Knoxville. As if there was any doubt, Boomsday returns for its 24th year over Fort Loudoun Lake.

Looking back, it seems such a long time ago that a spectacle-wearing boy with an odd facial scar appeared in our Muggle world.

Light, fluffy and fall-down funny. Dark and tragic with plots of jealousy, revenge and doom. Both options are offered during this summer's Shakespeare on the Square.

Lots of comedy, a pair of modern holiday classics, some drama and a concluding musical comprise the Clarence Brown Theatre's 2011-'12 season.

Built in 1928, Knoxville’s historic Tennessee Theatre has seen decades of films and dozens of genres. Each summer it celebrates its past with a series of older movies in its “Summer Movie Magic” series.

June's first weekend brings a variety of events - from a silent movie to a festival about pottery - to East Tennessee.

The Scots have moved from Gatlinburg to Maryville College this year, bringing their bagpipes and cabers and sheepdogs with them.

The Knoxville Museum of Art's latest exhibit, "Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn," places the museum in a position of international recognition.

Start off your weekend with the Dogwood Arts Festival's annual parade along downtown Knoxville's Gay Street. The parade begins at 7 p.m. Friday and includes bands, other performing arts groups, floats and some giant helium balloons.

Risa Brainin loves "The Music Man." Probably has since she was 8 years old singing in the chorus.

Beautiful dances. Comic episodes. A fairy tale story of a girl and her prince.

Ask Victor Ashe how he selected the paintings, glass, sculpture and folk art he bought during his five years as America's ambassador to Poland, and he gives an art lover's answer.

The Appalachian Ballet presents a fairy tale in pointe shoes with its April 16-17 production of "Cinderella."

For several years now the Knoxville Zoo has marked the summer visitor/tourist season from spring to early fall with special exhibits. The zoo has hosted mole rats and bunnies and butterflies. Previous tours of white alligators have proven so popular ...

The pageantry, athleticism and theater that makes up a Cirque du Soleil show flies, swings and sings into Knoxville later this month.

For many people that old saying "love me, love my dog" is no cliche. It's a fact of life. Next weekend there's a downtown Knoxville event geared to canines and the people who love them.

A rumor about an English royal always makes for media buzz. Even if the gossip's more than 400 years old.

The circus visits Knoxville next week with seven shows in four days at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. This version of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is called 'Zing Zang Zoom Gold Edition,' and it combines magic and illusions with ...

Ceramic artist Walter McConnell, assisted by University of Tennessee art students, last week shaped, pounded, flattened and rolled 3,000 pounds of damp, red earthernware clay into a sculptural installation that recalls a floral paradise viewed by a clay male figure.

This weekend brings two very different shows to Knoxville. If you are the parent of young children who love Disney, there's something for you. But if you are a person who enjoys bull riding instead of cartoon mice, there's a ...

Good-bye and good riddance January. Time for February with its hearts and flowers of Valentine’s Day and a few warmer steps closer to spring.

That "Are we there yet?" lament heard from the backseat of many a mini-van takes on an entirely different perspective in an exhibit opening Jan. 15 at the Frank H. McClung Museum.

The eclectic furnishings stuffed inside downtown Knoxville's historic Hotel St. Oliver will be bought and carted off during a three-day sale this week. The Jan. 13-15 sale must empty the 28-room, three-story hotel once owned by the late developer and ...

Maps dating to Christopher Columbus's time and today's latest global positioning devices show the range of a new Frank H. McClung Museum exhibit that Museum Director Jeff Chapman calls both educational and interesting.