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How Kristopher Kendrick’s preservationist vision reshaped Knoxville today BY TRACY JONES

NEWS

UT’s Social Media Command Center Deciphers the Hive Mind

JACK NEELY

Bud Albers: An Appreciation of a Historian Who Made History

FILM

Knox Horror Film Fest Serves Up Blood and Guts for Halloween

FOOD

Honeybee and Sugar Mama’s Aren’t Your Ordinary Bakeries

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CONTENTS

“Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” —Cesar Chavez

12 L iving in History COVER STORY

Downtown Knoxville today is experiencing a period of revitalization that was nearly unimaginable 30 or even 20 years ago—except by Kristopher Kendrick. By placing a value on old and often empty buildings, he put a template into place that is being used now to great effect: refurbishing our existing building stock to create new places and new energy. Across Knox County and in the city itself, Kendrick’s legacy is represented in the projects he imagined and completed in his own inimitable way. Here are some highlights, presented by Tracy Jones.

NEWS

10 Into the Hive At the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center at the University of Tennessee, students spent three hours analyzing social media reaction to the last presidential debate—all in real time. The university is the only school in the world that has access to Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio software, allowing students to mine the trove of data and opinions and thoughts that fly out via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Thomas Fraser reports on what they found out.

INSIDE: Abode Home Design Abode is a home living and design magazine unlike any other in Knoxville. It celebrates the area’s most unique houses—whether they’re floating, tiny, or something else entirely. DEPARTMENTS

6 Howdy

Start Here: By the Numbers, Public Affairs, and PechaKucha Knoxville—each week, we run a slide from an interesting local presentation.

34 ’Bye

Finish There: That ’70s Girl by Angie Vicars. Plus Crooked Street Crossword by Ian Blackburn and Jack Neely and Spirit of the Staircase by Matthew Foltz-Gray.

OPINION

A&E

8 Scruffy Citizen

17 Program Notes: Gruesome talk from

22 Spotlights: Theater of the Obsolete,

18 Music: Matthew Everett unravels

FOOD

19 Shelf Life: Chris Barrett finds some

32 Home Palate: Dennis Perkins visits

Jack Neely remembers Bud Albers, president of what was arguably Knoxville’s most durable business, Albers Drug Co.

9 Small Planet

Patrice Cole heads to Bradley County, where the state’s single largest private-sector investment is paying off.

CALENDAR the organizers behind the Knoxville Horror Film Festival. Yarn/Wire.

timely cultural echoes in Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights and the Elie Wiesel documentary Sighet, Sighet.

artist Liam Young

two of Knoxville’s most unusual bakeries.

20 Classical Music: Alan Sherrod

previews Knox Opera’s The Pirates of Penzance, and Carol Z. Shane profiles Andy Bryenton, KSO principal cellist.

21 Movies: April Snellings mostly enjoys the ride with The Girl on the Train.

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EDITORIAL

EDITOR Coury Turczyn coury@knoxmercury.com SENIOR EDITOR Matthew Everett matthew@knoxmercury.com CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Jack Neely jack@knoxhistoryproject.org STAFF WRITER S. Heather Duncan heather@knoxmercury.com CONTRIBUTORS

Chris Barrett Donna Johnson Ian Blackburn Catherine Landis Brian Canever Dennis Perkins Patrice Cole Stephanie Piper Eric Dawson Ryan Reed George Dodds Eleanor Scott Thomas Fraser Alan Sherrod Lee Gardner April Snellings Mike Gibson Joe Sullivan Nick Huinker Kim Trevathan Chris Wohlwend INTERNS

Hayley Brundige Maria Smith

DESIGN

ART DIRECTOR Tricia Bateman tricia@knoxmercury.com GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Charlie Finch

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

David Luttrell Shawn Poynter Justin Fee Tyler Oxendine CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATORS

Matthew Foltz-Gray

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Design and Destiny East Tennessee Community Design Center and Knox Heritage host landmark gatherings next week. The East Tennessee Community Design Center was founded in 1970, at the urging of influential architect Bruce McCarty, to help provide good design for all sorts of regional building projects. Originally from the Midwest, McCarty (1920-2013) moved to Knoxville in the late 1940s and became Knoxville’s architect most strongly associated with promoting modernist design in both residential homes and in large public works, like the Civic Coliseum, the City-County Building, and Clarence Brown Theatre. By the late 1960s, he was concerned that most of the growth in the Knoxville area had been haphazard and careless, and wanted to do something to help before it was too late. He’d seen a model for a nonprofit design center in Pittsburgh, and thought the idea would work in the Knoxville area.

Patrick Sullivan Saloon. They’ll also bestow a new award in honor of former executive director Annette Anderson. The gala has a Halloween theme (“to Celebrate Scary Good Design”). It will be held at the historic Foundry at World’s Fair Park on Thursday, Oct. 20, from 5:30 to 8:30. It’s a fundraiser, and tickets are $150. Costumes are encouraged. For more, see communitydc.org. Next Monday evening, Oct. 17, at 6 p.m., Knox Heritage is hosting a “Historic East Knoxville / Park City / Burlington Neighborhoods Meeting.”

Park City is the historic term for much of East Knoxville, especially along Magnolia Avenue, so named for its proximity to Chilhowee Park. For a short period, from A proposed expansion of the Williams Creek Golf Course, home of the First Tee program in East Knoxville, is the 1,000th project of the 1907 until its annexation as part of Knoxville East Tennessee Community Design Center. He got together with several others, in 1917, it was incorporated as its own town. including maverick University of Tennessee Burlington is a residential and commercial Image courtesy of the East TN Community Design Center professor Gideon Fryer (1921-2014), and section to the east of Park City, just southeast communitydc.org founded ETCDC as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in of Chilhowee Park, whose early 20th-century 1970. Its purpose was to help schools, downtown is still partly intact. It’s located at nonprofits, and other community organizations create more attractive the eastern end of Martin Luther King, where it intersects with Fern Street and functional amenities. and Holston Drive. Since then, enlisting the help of architects, designers, engineers, and community leaders, the organization has advised more than 1,000 projects in urban, suburban, and rural settings throughout the region. Current projects include Old City improvements and a proposed recreational Change Center in East Knoxville, along with an expansion of the First Tee golf course at Williams Creek—but also, on the west side of town, Everly Brothers Park in Bearden and the Hardin Valley Academy’s “outdoor classroom.” ETCDC’s headquarters is located in the old carriage house of Greystone, the 1890 stone mansion on Broadway. However, it’s a regional organization, with projects ranging geographically from a new food and clothing pantry in Madisonville to an effort to reimagine downtown Newport. Each year, ETCDC offers an awards ceremony to bring more attention to attractive and functional projects. The already-announced honoree of the Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award is architect Faris Eid, who has been designing both new buildings and restoration projects since the 1980s. This year, Eid was in charge of the Lonesome Dove renovation of the 1888

Burlington once marked the easternmost point of Knoxville’s streetcar system, which partly accounts for the cluster of commercial buildings there. Burlington included Johnson’s Racetrack, the famous horse and automobile racing track which is now a residential section called Speedway Circle. It once included a movie theater and a small department store. Knox Heritage is especially interested in reviving that Burlington commercial district with its original buildings, and the nonprofit is leading an effort to get it listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which could provide tax credits for certain kinds of commercial development. Burlington will be the focus of the meeting, the purpose of which is to invite neighbors past and present to share stories and photographs of the neighborhood, partly to help prepare a historical profile of Burlington. The meeting will be on Monday, Oct. 17, at 6 p.m. at the Burlington Branch of the Knox County Public Library, 4617 Asheville Highway. It’s free to the public, and a complimentary supper will be provided. For more, see knoxheritage.org.

Sources: Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, and the organizations mentioned above.

The Knoxville History Project, a new nonprofit organization devoted to the promotion of and education about the history of Knoxville, presents this page each week to raise awareness of the themes, personalities, and stories of our unique city. Learn more on www.facebook.com/knoxvillehistoryproject • email jack@knoxhistoryproject.org October 13, 2016

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Photo by Kristina Plaas.

HOWDY

BY THE NUMBERS

Why the Muted Fall Foliage? Photo by Carrie Jo Pinckard / Texture Photo.

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10/15-11/1: 100% 80.4º 64.4º 56.7º 70% 3-4º

Peak fall foliage display in the Smokies.

Percentage of East Tennessee counties suffering some level of drought.

Average Knoxville temperature this summer, second highest on record.

Average temperature at Newfound Gap this summer, hottest on record.

Average summer temperature on Mt. LeConte, warmest since 1988.

Percentage of annual rainfall this year at Sugarlands.

Degrees of expected temperature increase, in Fahrenheit, predicted this century.

—Thomas Fraser Sources: U.S. National Park Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

10/13 PUBLIC MEETING: CENTRAL 10/14 ROCKY TOP PICKIN’ PARTY STREET AND JACKSON AVENUE CONSTRUCTION

10/17 PUBLIC MEETING: FORT DICKER10/20 SPEAKER: DR. MONIQUE Y. WELLS SON PARK

5:30 p.m., Central United Methodist Church (201 E. Third Ave.). Free. Hey, Downtown North—thought you’d escape all this street construction? Ha! KUB will soon begin a $5 million infrastructure upgrade that will affect 12 blocks as it replaces more than 8,800 feet of water main and 26 fire hydrants. Later, the city will install sidewalk improvements, new curbs, and other pedestrian safety features. The projects are scheduled for completion by the end of 2017.

5:30 p.m., Kern’s Bakery Building (2110 Chapman Highway). Free. The city is seeking public input on how to best spend $160,000 for Phase 1 of its Fort Dickerson project to program recreation and improve quarry lake access. The city will also provide a progress report on the Fort Dickerson Gateway Park entrance. (Bonus: a sneak peek of the renovation work being done on the Kern’s Bakery building.)

THURSDAY

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FRIDAY

6-10 p.m., Mabry-Hazen House (1711 Dandridge Ave.). $15-$20. This Keep Knoxville Beautiful fundraiser features the musical talents of the Bearded, the Hardin Valley Thunder, and you. Bring your own instrument and pay only $5 to get in—then join the breakout sessions between sets. Rollin’ Smoke and Captain Muchacho’s food trucks will be on hand, and each ticket gets you four beverages. Info and tickets: keepknoxvillebeautiful.org.

MONDAY

THURSDAY

5:30-7:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art. Free. Wells, the founder and director of Les Amis de Beauford Delaney, will speak about her efforts to preserve Knoxville-born Beauford Delaney’s artistic legacy in France. She is also co-author of Paris Reflections: Walks through African-American Paris and author of Black Paris Profiles. Info: knoxart.org.

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The Knoxville Montessori School

50th Anniversary Celebration! October 22, 2016 10 a.m. - noon

Visit our school, meet current families and alumni, and help celebrate 50 years of Montessori education in Knoxville.

All ages welcome! RSVP: 525-6042 or kms@knoxvillemontessori.org

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SCRUFFY CITIZEN

Bud Albers, 1925-2016 An appreciation of a historian who made history, himself BY JACK NEELY

ud Albers died last week at the age of 91. He was well-known in the local-history community for his support of the East Tennessee History Center. But for 40 years he was president of what was arguably Knoxville’s most durable business, Albers Drug Co., a multi-state pharmaceutical wholesaler. He expanded the company locally, and became an innovative leader in the national pharmaceutical field. When it faded in the 1990s in a series of buyouts, Albers employed more than 150 in a large modern facility near Tyson Park, and was arguably Knoxville’s oldest business. It had been 130 years since Andrew Jackson Albers co-founded it as Sanford, Chamberlain, and Albers. The Ohio-born son of a German immigrant, A.J. Albers had been a pharmacist mate in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Captured, he did some time in the notorious Confederate prison known by the disarming name of Libby. Generations are long in the Albers family; that Union sailor was Bud Albers’ grandfather. He found himself in Knoxville, as so many did during wartime, and entered a partnership with two other Union veterans. Sanford, Chamberlain, and Albers—I think Albers was the only one who knew much about drugs—were a going concern, several years later, when they built the building at Gay and Union now known

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as Tailor Lofts. We’re lucky it’s still there. It’s the shortest building on its block because it’s the oldest. It’s the oldest because it was, at a critical time, the sturdiest. The Great Fire of 1897 consumed all the other buildings on the block, but stopped at Albers’ place. When the others rebuilt from the charred rubble, they rebuilt much taller, befitting a bigger city and more extravagant architectural fashions. Although Tailor Lofts’ front facade has been re-skinned with lighter brick in an early 20th-century vogue, it’s basically the old 1870s building, a fossil of an older era. You can see the original building along Union Avenue. Albers’ company moved down to State Street, where it stayed for a few decades before moving to the easternmost address on Kingston Pike. Albers Drugs was purchased by a bigger, out-of-state company in 1994. As is usually the case, they announced they were going to keep the facility in place. And as is usually the case, they didn’t. The big fish was eaten by an even bigger fish. Now, if there’s any trace of Albers Drugs, it’s in a Pennsylvania-based multinational corporation, a mouthful called AmerisourceBergen.

the driver of the kindergarten car pool. That phrase may require some explaining. Car pools have become rare. For parents, car pools were a way to save time and money. For reasons I can’t explain, parents today don’t need to save time and money anymore, and prefer to drive their unique children to every event personally, without sharing rides, one car per child. It wasn’t like that in the ’60s. Not all car pools were the same. Some parents were friendlier than others. Some gave you snacks, as if you couldn’t make it all the way to the destination without sustenance. Some were funny, and some tried to get you to say something funny. One parent gave me a bucket to barf in. Her son had that problem, and she figured all kids did. My very first car pool was terrifying. It was so early it was almost still dark. And the car was full of girls. At age 4, I would have preferred a car load of alligators. Girls dressed strangely, did bizarre things with their hair, and were more talkative and personal than the few male kids of my short acquaintance. I did not understand what girls were up to. But the driver was a tall, slim man with a big grin. “Sit up front with me, Jack,” Bud Albers said. “It’ll be us fellows.” I have never forgotten that kindness. I saw him only occasionally for the next 30 years or so. But as I got interested in local history, I came to understand he was especially interested in local history, too. He was involved in the Chamber, and the public library, and he was one of the driving forces behind the East Tennessee Historical Society, once serving as its president. As they were organizing and financing what became the Museum of East Tennes-

see History, he was a key figure. He’s responsible for that museum’s healthy representation of artifacts from the pharmaceutical industry, and the “streetscape” scene, including a mockup of an early Albers drugstore. Bud had a big grin and a friendly laugh. They’re useful when you have strong opinions about the right and wrong way to do things. He often seemed, to me, the happiest man in town. You don’t expect folks his age to surprise you, but he did earlier this year when the History Center displayed dozens of his sunny watercolors of exotic locales around the world. In recent years he was especially interested in renovating Old Gray Cemetery, where he was buried this week. Not many people get buried in that 1850 Victorian garden cemetery today. A major capital campaign aims to restore some version of the once-famous Albers Fountain, within the Albers Circle, in the center of the cemetery. Most of the statues in Old Gray memorialize women who died young. Ella Albers, A.J.’s wife, was in her 30s when she died in 1889. Her widower installed what was perhaps the most beautiful monument in Knoxville history: large iron monument, adorned with statues of three beautiful women, one standing, two seated contemplatively. It was there for more than half a century and served as a centerpiece for the cemetery. What became of the memorial is a subject of disagreement. Some say it was donated for a World War II scrap drive; others say it just rusted, about 60 years after it was installed, and was then removed. Ella Albers died 36 years before her grandson, Bud Albers, was born, but it was important to him to rebuild her memorial. I don’t doubt he’ll make it happen. ◆

“Sit up front with me, Jack,” Bud Albers said. “It’ll be us fellows.”

Bud, whose more formal name was Edward Sanford Albers, Jr., was a very old friend. When I met him, John Kennedy was president. Bud Albers was

SMALL PLANET

Wacker’s Win-Win In Bradley County, the state’s single largest private-sector investment is paying off BY PATRICE COLE

e can’t afford a cleaner environment. Changing the way we obtain and use energy will cripple our economy. Or so we’ve been told by those who would benefit from the status quo. But just to our south is compelling evidence that changes to our energy mix can have both environmental and economic benefits. Wacker Chemie in Bradley County is creating jobs and manufacturing a critical component of our solar future. Wacker (pronounced vah-kur) is a century-old, family-owned German company that specializes in plastics and silicon products. Its Bradley County plant is the company’s largest single investment at $2.5 billion, and it’s Wacker’s first polysilicon plant of its kind outside of Europe. The product, which is an essential raw material in photovoltaic solar panels, is “hyper-pure” 99.99999999999 percent polysilicon. That hyper-purity translates to highly efficient capture of solar radiation. The manufacturing process is the same as at the company’s plants in Germany. Silicon metal undergoes a chemical reaction with hydrogen chloride to form trichlorosilane, which is subsequently purified in tall distillation columns before the hyperpure polysilicon is deposited on rods in the deposition reactors. The product is crushed and packed to ship to solar and semiconductor-wafer manufacturers. The company is proud of its environmental compliance record.

Closing material loops and recycling byproducts back into production to reduce waste is a way of business for Wacker. As big manufacturing goes, the modern Wacker facility is a pretty good neighbor, nothing like the loud, smoky, smelly industries of the past. It is even a startlingly beautiful site at night, like a giant LED-lit crystal visible from Interstate 75 near Exit 33. Wacker’s American presence began just over five years ago when construction began on a 550-acre parcel of farmland in the small town of Charleston, Tenn. More than 3,500 workers from over 140 contractors were on the building site at the peak of construction. There was the “year of dirt” when some 237,500 flatbed trailer loads moved 2.9 million cubic meters of soil, followed by the “year of concrete” when 111,000 cubic meters of concrete was poured. About 40,000 metric tons of steel and 100,000 instruments and valves went into creating the more than 30 buildings that currently inhabit the site. The plant began production this past April with 650 workers. When you consider spin-offs like new housing and all the other ways these workers spend money, that’s a lot of new wealth circulating through the local and regional economy. And Wacker’s tax contributions will potentially benefit the entire community. The company paid almost $2 million into local coffers this year, and that amount will increase as the plant

comes into full production. There’s plenty of room for expansion at the Charleston site to meet the rapidly growing global demand for solar panels. And Wacker is already busy building the workforce needed for that expansion. Wacker Institute is a tailored educational institution in partnership with Chattanooga State Community College. The company, the state of Tennessee, and local government invested $13 million in a new building on the college campus, where more than 200 students have been trained as chemical technicians or electrical and instrumentation workers. More than half of them have already been hired by Wacker. In 2013 the Wacker Institute received the Bellwether Award for the best worker training program in the United States. It’s a sad fact that every technological change creates winners and losers. Economies that grew up around the petroleum industry are now suffering the consequences of dependence on that non-renewable resource. As demand wanes and prices drop, production and employment drop. Many people are having to change the way they make a living or even where or how they live. On the winning side are the renewable energy industries like wind and solar. Newly installed photovoltaic capacity increased by 20 percent globally in 2015, and a comparable rate of increase is expected for this year, according to Wacker. That’s a win for any community that can attract a company like Wacker that is at the core of the growing solar power industry. And it’s a big win. Wacker is the

single largest private-sector investment in Tennessee’s history. Gary Farlow, of the Cleveland/Bradley County Chamber of Commerce, suggests Wacker might even be “the seed for a solar energy cluster” of companies feeding goods and services into solar power production. Interestingly and somewhat ironically, Wacker’s decision to build in Charleston was based in part on the proximity of the site to nuclear and coal-fired TVA power plants. It turns out that it takes a lot of energy to make hyper-pure polysilicon, and having both Watts Bar and Sequoyah to draw electricity from gives the Wacker plant enough juice and the redundancy needed to keep the reactors running around the clock. But the net energy savings is well worth the investment, because about one year of solar panel use recovers the energy consumed to make the panel, which then has another 24+ years of life expectancy. So making the shift to renewable energy sources, like solar, is not only good for the environment and good for our energy supply, it’s also good for our economy. These new jobs are challenging, well-paid jobs. For many, it will be a career. For some, it may become a family tradition. As company head Peter-Alexander Wacker said at the opening ceremony, “We think in terms of generations. In other words, we have come to Tennessee to stay.” ◆ Patrice Cole taught biology, ecology, environmental planning, and sustainability at the University of Tennessee and Pellissippi State Community College. Small Planet examines local issues pertaining to environmental quality and sustainability.

It’s a sad fact that every technological change creates winners and losers. Economies that grew up around the petroleum industry are now suffering the consequences of dependence on that non-renewable resource. On the winning side are the renewable energy industries like wind and solar.

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UT student Beth Hurst monitors social media reactions to the second presidential debate, in real time, at the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center.

Photo by Thomas Fraser

Into the Hive

UT’s Social Media Command Center knows what you’re tweeting about the presidential debates BY THOMAS FRASER

eth Hurst was about to spend her Sunday night diving into the hive mind. She and eight other graduate students readied laptops and digital screens and tuned into CSPAN as the second presidential debate approached. Tortilla chips were passed around and soft drinks cracked open. One wall of the well-lit laboratory/ classroom was dominated by four screens combined to form one giant display of real-time digital feed. The Adam Brown Social Media Command Center at the University of Tennessee was coming to life. The lab, which can accommodate 25 people, features six large flat-panel monitors, including one 60-inch touchscreen, three Mac minis, and two Apple TV units. Students sat around a horse-shoe-shaped counter in front of the big-screen TV, or at one of several tables littered with electronic devices. They compared notes and girded themselves for a long evening ahead. Hurst and the others, under the direction of professor Stuart Brotman, spent the next three hours analyzing social media and gauging international reaction to the debate between Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump. The university is the only school in the world that has access to Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio

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software, allowing students in the Political Science Social Media Group to mine the trove of data and opinions and thoughts that fly out via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Their findings were then disseminated to some 400 media outlets. “Social media is highly personalized and now is clearly an essential part of the information flow that millions of Americans use to make decisions large and small—including who to elect as our next president,” Brotman says of the command center’s value. “Millennials in particular are a key demographic in this year’s election who could make the difference in its outcome. They primarily consume news online, and use social media on a 24/7 basis to gather more information and see how their friends are responding in real time. “This immediacy can be very impactful—the social in social media creates a new level of credibility that may well influence which lever to pull in the voting booth.” Adam Brown—a 1994 graduate of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media who is now executive strategist for Salesforce, a San Francisco company that was a leader in the development of cloud technology—provided UT free access to Social Studio, a leading software platform originally developed for Fortune 500

corporations and other entities to deduce social media trends among consumers and the general public. The command center is available for use by both faculty and students in the College of Communication & Information who want to do their own trend analysis. The benefit extends beyond immediate gauges of ongoing events— users can access 220 billion archived social media posts in multiple languages dating to 2008. On Sunday—and during preceding debates—students used the software to gauge social-media volume, note issue trends, and perform word-cloud and sentiment analysis. Twitter is the dominant medium, Brotman says, and users of the platform were pumping out both wisdom and banal vulgarities before the debate even began. Some 8.5 million debate-related tweets were recorded via a range of keywords in the lead-up to the debate. “When history is written,” Brotman says, “I think this will be known as the first, real social-media election.”

As the debate approached, the classmates hashed out who would be live-tweeting, and who would be focusing on policy and “atmospherics” groups. “One minute!” to go-time, Brotman announced. Brotman and his students compiled lists of keywords, issues, and potential “flashpoints” prior to the event; the white board in the command center included the words “apology” and “predator,” “personal attacks” and “victims.” As the debate began, Brotman called “an audible,” and told the students to mine references to the words “locker-room talk.” He soon noted there was no handshake exchanged between the candidates, and references to that lack of traditional decorum began to trend immediately. Based upon Trump’s first few remarks, it appeared the candidate really wanted the keyword “ISIS” to dominate social media discussion. That is one revealing function of Social Studio, notes student Jamie Grieg, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland pursuing a doctorate in communications law and policy. It’s remarkable,

he says, “how social media conversation can differ from what the candidates want to talk about.” He predicted “women will be a big topic” in the debate, given the fallout from Trump’s misogynistic comments referencing sexual assault recorded by a television crew. He expected a more issues-driven debate, given the town-hall format, and he was right—somewhat. Social Studio allows for a quantified conclusion. Brotman provided an analysis of the parsed data on Monday just after midnight: • Both candidates enjoyed a 10-12 percentage-point increase in positive sentiments after the debate. • There were 2 million more social-media posts than the first debate, including 11 million references to Trump and 4.3 million references to Clinton. • Social media registered a 69 percent negative sentiment following the lack of a handshake between Clinton and Trump at the onset of the debate. • References to Russia, mostly negative, dominated by a large margin the discussion of issues on social media. • Clinton racked up a big foreign-policy win, at least on social media: Positive comments were 15 percentage points higher for her than Trump. • Mentions of refugees garnered the highest—82 percent—negative sentiment. That last piece of data was probably especially intriguing to Hurst, a communications studies student interested in migrant and refugee populations. “I have loved it,” she says of Social Studio. “Think of all the ways I can use it in my research.” Grieg says social-media experts are in demand, and soon the students will be well-versed in covering what Brotman calls the first campaign to be so steered and measured by the use of Twitter, Facebook, and other applications. Soon after the start of the debate, moderator Martha Raddatz affirmed his conclusion by explaining to Trump that his sexist statements have been among the most-talked about thing on Facebook and must be addressed. Brotman nodded and leaned over to a reporter and whispered: “Social-media election.” ◆ The next presidential debate is Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 9 p.m. EST. You can track the real-time observations of the Political Science Social Media Group on Twitter @PSMRG_UTK.

The Bistro would like to thank the Kendrick Family for lovingly restoring the space we continue to occupy and for their contribution to historic preservation in Knoxville. The Bistro is downtown Knoxville’s oldest restaurant. Established in 1980 it’s been there for more than 35 years. But it’s in a space that has been a restaurant of one kind or another for most of the last 160 years. It has witnessed gunfights, presidential speeches, surprising celebrities, and, reportedly, some restless ghosts. The Bistro honors its history with a menu and ambiance unlike any other restaurant or bar in town.

October 18-21, 2016 This fall the 2016 UT AuthorFest will celebrate the work and life of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, one of the most important writers of the 20th Century. “One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing.” - colm tóibín For a full schedule list visit:

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How Kristopher Kendrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preservationist vision reshaped Knoxville today BY TRACY JONES

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itself, Kristopher Kendrick’s legacy is represented in the projects he imagined and completed in his own inimitable way. Here are some highlights.

The Nicholas

At Historic Westwood—the grand Victorian home of the preservation organization Knox Heritage, on Kingston Pike—there is a dedicated Kristopher Kendrick parlor. A picture of the dapper developer hangs there, like an angel reminding everyone it is our duty to save the things we love, to see the value in what has been beautifully made to last for the ages. “I relate to Knoxville as though she were a beautiful woman who needs to be dressed up and taken out. She has all the potential in the world.” This statement, which Kendrick fi rst said to late News Sentinel columnist Carson Brewer in 1982, is one of the title cards for a remarkable documentary about Kristopher Kendrick, produced as a fundraiser for Knox Heritage in 2009. In the documentary, which features sweet reminiscences from those who knew him, he doesn’t mince words about preservation: “I had always felt that Knoxville— the people who I felt should have saved the buildings were the old families here, all of whom I knew quite well,” he said. “But that’s not what they did. Just because Granddad-

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ent Kendrick remembers the fi rst time his late father, Kristopher Kendrick, took him to the building that had been Patrick Sullivan’s saloon, at the corner of South Central and East Jackson streets. It was the mid-1970s. Geographically, it was a short distance from downtown, but the warehouse district was perceived to be a world away from the offices of bankers and lawyers and engineers who headed to the suburbs each night. What Kent saw was a brokendown hull of a 90-year-old building, with a dusty time-capsule interior and people sleeping in the doorway. Kristopher saw the building’s great bones, its irreplaceable details, its location at the heart of what could become a vibrant living and entertaining district. It wouldn’t be until 1988 that he opened it as Patrick Sullivan’s Saloon, but Kristopher’s vision on that day was clear, even if no one else could see it. “He could always see what the end looked like, when all I could see was broken glass,” Kent says. Kristopher Kendrick, who died in 2009 at the age of 74, is rightly remembered as one of the masterminds of Knoxville’s downtown revitalization and Old City development. But his influence extended far beyond the center city. He renovated residences of grace and charm in West Knoxville—and inspired a dedicated group of friends to carry on his preservationist mantle. He took on an industrial building in a not-gentrified area and made it a hot address for young urban professionals, families, and retirees. He saw some projects through from their bare bones to the end; others, he just touched with his magic before passing them along. He was a developer, an entrepreneur, an evangelist. Downtown Knoxville today is experiencing a period of revitalization that was nearly unimaginable 30 or even 20 years ago—except by Kristopher Kendrick. By placing a value on old and often empty buildings, he put a template into place that is being used now to great effect: refurbishing our existing building stock to create new places and new energy. It may be accepted as common practice now, but when Kendrick started rehabbing properties, he was blazing a trail that few believed was going to be followed by anyone else. Across Knox County and in the city

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riot of greenery around it. When Kristopher bought it, it had been cut up with renovations. Ensconcing himself in a third-floor corner apartment, Kristopher began overseeing the rebuilding of their Cherokee Boulevard home while also redeveloping the Mary Reed Apartments as a condominium complex rebranded the Nicholas. At the time, the idea of condominiums was novel to Knoxville, and their success surprised everyone. The layout of some of the units is novel, and there has never been any parking to speak of (an amenity that was short on several of Kristopher’s original projects), but those who call it home revere it. “I love the Nicholas,” says interior designer Christopher Davis, principal at the Drawing Room. He and his partner, Rene Yates, have owned a unit for several years and are embarking on a couple of major remodel projects in the next year. “The rooms are beautifully proportioned and appointed with beautiful salvaged architectural details that would have been lost to us,” Davis says. “Living here is easy and life here has a little more elegance.”

KENDRICK PLACE

Kendrick Place dy built it, that didn’t mean ‘We want to save it or protect it.’ They went to Florida for the winter. Anyway, I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll do it.’” Since he was a teenager—when he and his future bride, Mary Marlene King, would drive through Sequoyah Hills—Kendrick had dreamed of living in one of the aging mansions that dotted the neighborhood. Although it’s hard to imagine now, Kent Kendrick says, in the 1970s, “There were so many vacant luxury properties.” These included the Barber & McMurry mansion that the Kendrick family purchased at 450 Cherokee Boulevard. Built in the 1920s, it had been vacant for 18 years. It was here that Kristopher got a real taste for making an old space new, for finding a spot for the antiques he was collecting and for some small-scale repurposing of the architectural relics he had been cultivating—mantels, doors, columns, sconces—from some of the old homes that were being destroyed or allowed to fall down. Kristopher was one of the first 14

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developers locally to see the wisdom in architectural salvage. Eventually he would have relics from the old Fulton mansion, the Bonnyman mansion on Kingston Pike, and many more. “He had relationships with the larger demolition companies,” Kent says, and he stored his architectural pieces in a couple of very full warehouses, one behind his restaurant, the Orangery, and another near his Old City properties. The family’s Cherokee Boulevard home burned in 1979, in a fire that made front-page news and injured several of the inhabitants, including Kent. Kristopher took the whole family across Kingston Pike to the old Mary Reed Apartments. Opened in 1930 at the height of sophisticated suburban living, the Spanish-style stucco dowager is still a Kingston Pike showpiece, not far from Historic Westwood. The creamy exterior has arched entryways and a

The red-bricked Edwardian row houses of Kendrick Place sit in one of downtown Knoxville’s most desirable addresses, just steps away from Market Square, near the city’s ambitiously renovated Daylight Building and the gracious old Masonic Temple on Union. They were built in 1916 and are some of the most prominently preserved row houses in the city. Brick sidewalks extend around the cozy complex, with one of Kristopher’s touches—geraniums flanking the outside—still preserved. Inside the complex is a gracious courtyard, a concept Kristopher used later at Park Place. Inside the units, many of which have been rehabbed and refitted since Kendrick Place was created, Kristopher came up with some of the signature touches he would carry into other projects. Exposed brick inside the units is a residential detail that is often found now in “repurposed buildings” such as JFG Flats or White Lily Flats (both projects by contemporary developer and Kendrick protégé David Dewhirst). At the time Kristopher Kendrick did it, such “industrial” touches were daring, as was the use

of non-traditional elements to create room spaces, like employing an old barn door for a room divider rather than sheet-rocking in a plain wall. Everything had to look like it had aged gracefully, even if it was new— “He liked things to look a little decadent,” Kent says. Some of this approach was due to his father’s horror of cookie-cutter design—no two units were laid out the same or had the same elements. Kristopher would pay extra to retro-fit a quality fixture rather than pay less for a new one. “I’d know the difference,” he’d say. But when Kristopher ran out of budget, that was it—having paid for the touches that were important to him, he wouldn’t stress further. And he often made creative improvisations to meet his budget: During the Kendrick Place rehab, for example, the crew had taken dozens of doors out of the row houses. When codes required him to enclose the job site, Kristopher got a quote for fencing that horrified him. The next thing Kent knew, he and the rest of the crew were creating a construction enclosure made out of those old doors. Kendrick Place was the project that held a special place in his dad’s heart. “It was the first big thing that he did,” Kent says. “It has our name on it.” When Kristopher purchased the row houses in 1981, they were individual apartments, many of them cut up in ways that were almost impossible to untangle. The buildings had to be gutted. More delicately though, the apartments were still home to residents, some without a lot of resources, some of whom couldn’t imagine moving. Their plight also made front-page news at the time. This is where Kristopher stood firm in his vision that residential living was coming back to downtown. He paid the relocation expenses for the people in the apartments, at minimum, and in some cases more. But he was convinced that urban professionals would jump at the chance to live so close to the heart of the city and that developments must be created to attract them. “If you have a city you have to have urban living. Otherwise it is not a city,” Kristopher told a reporter at the time. “There is no reason why Charleston or Savannah have to have all the charm.” Kent lived in the unit that had

originally been built as a furnace room. He had trained as a carpenter’s helper and a surveyor on construction crews, but when he started working with his father in earnest, his true education began. “He hired really good people, and I learned from them,” says Kent, who still owns one of the family’s buildings, the Kentshyrs off Broadway, and who rehabs and sells homes in the Parkridge neighborhood. “When I was really young, I knew everything and he knew nothing. Now I’m really glad for all the time we had. We always dreamed of building ‘a new old house’ together.”

Park Place

Gordon Gibson, a retired Unitarian minister and author, jokes that he will happily talk your ear off about the virtues of Park Place, in East Knoxville’s Parkridge. The condominiums were created out of the old Park Ridge Junior High. Built in 1927, the rock-solid building still looks like a pre-Depression institutional marvel. Sturdily and classically built, the red-brick school was closed in 1980. Kendrick bought the building in 1983 for a steal of a price (about $75,000) and immediately set about refurbishing it for condominiums. He left many of its original features intact: the old gymnasium, the playground, the top-floor “science room” (now a unit with a conservatory). He chose the tiling, paint, and cabinetry—and many who have lived in the residences before and after joke about how Dixie Kitchens must have had a sale on black-and-white patterned flooring and blonde cabinets. Otherwise, he let the first buyers finish out their own residences as they saw fit—part of his “not cookie cutter” approach, resulting in very idiosyncratic units. But the condo that Gibson and his wife, Judy, occupy was created for its first owner by Kristopher himself. It includes the principal’s office, where the vault was, now converted into a pantry. Inside the gated complex around Park Place, there’s a courtyard and fountain, an oasis in urban living. Exterior stairs along the building lead into a communal hallway that is graced by original blueprints of the Park Junior High. Residents and visitors love to look at the original building plans for a “then and now” comparison. “It’s simply the most fun space

PARK PLACE I’ve ever lived in,” Gibson says. The Gibsons relocated here from Indiana several years ago. They wanted a place that was urban, but with room for their many books and antiques (as opposed to clutter-free loft living). After moving in, the couple commissioned Kent Kendrick to create large book shelves that would work to break up some of the great room. In the process, Gibson learned more about the history of the project and of Knoxville itself. Gibson says he now knows that what appealed to him about the space had to do with Kristopher’s original vision: “Some of it was the feel of what Kris had imagined: Respect for the past, energy for the present.” Today, Park Place is still more of a hidden gem than Kendrick Place, but word-of-mouth brings buyers and renters to it. Gibson says it is a place where all ages live happily; some of his newest neighbors are twentysomethings who have judged this the best example they could find of repurposed urban living. Gibson agrees. “Park October 13, 2016

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Place set a standard that many of the later conversions of historic buildings merely dream of,” he says. Newcomers may not always know the name of the man who saved it, but they certainly feel his presence. “A lot of what is good about this town is stuff Kristopher had a hand in,” Gibson says.

The Old City

“I remember my father saying, ‘Son, don’t you know what kind of neighborhood that is?’ And I remember saying, which is true, ‘Pop, I’m going to change it.’” —Kristopher Kendrick, 2009 The “warehouse district” was still a relatively rough place when Annie’s (not owned by Kendrick) and Manhattan’s opened in the early 1980s. From that first idea of buying Patrick Sullivan’s old saloon, Kristopher Kendrick came full circle when he renovated it in 1988 and it became the anchor of a thriving social scene. Today the gorgeous old building, without the Sullivan name for the first time in its almost 120-year history, is home to the recently opened culinary destination Lonesome Dove. In the go-go 1990s, the heyday of the Old City, Kendrick’s company had a small fleet of Isuzu troopers with “Old City” stenciled around the word “troopers.” He worked with partners to

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invest in and resell properties in downtown proper, including the Emporium Building, which he sold to David Dewhirst. Other properties with the Kristopher Kendrick mark on them include the Stuart and Cunningham buildings downtown, the stately Kristopher at Maplehurst apartment complex, the renovated Hotel Oliver, which he called the Hotel St. Oliver, River House, and many others. Not everything that Kendrick touched was a success, and not everything could be saved, but his son says he always saved a great building that could be saved if it let him break even. Scott West, whose family developed property in the Old City and in Market Square, says everyone who loves the city owes a debt to Kendrick. “Kris Kendrick is the Godfather of historic downtown Knoxville’s revitalization,” West says. “He saved the sawdusted and storied bones of these awesome old buildings so that we could adorn, decorate, and inhabit them for everyone to enjoy.” ◆

PRESERVATIONIST ORIGINS Kristopher Kendrick grew up in Oak Ridge, where his father worked for the housing authority, and he spoke often about how the contrast between the “everything is new” vibe of the instant secret city and the abandoned farmhouses that had been pushed aside for growth had made him a preservationist at a young age. He trained as a hair dresser—it was a job where there was always employment, and where he would come into contact with people who would encourage his vision and who would rely on his talents. With his friend, Jane Oliver Bailey, he opened the very forward Kristopher and Co. hair salon in the plaza where Long’s Drugstore is in Bearden. Later, a couple of miles down the road, he

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built an avant-garde lifestyle complex anchored by his French-inspired restaurant, the Orangery, on the site of an old tractor-supply company. Kristopher’s “immortals,” as he would come to call his favorite clients, had a one-stop shop for hair, lunch, and dresses. But all the time he was dreaming of transforming the city he loved. He started with the old Percy Lockett house (c. 1903) on Hill Avenue. Built by a prominent businessman in an antebellum style, it had been converted to the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in the 1920s, then abandoned in the 1970s when the congregation moved west. Kendrick opened it in the late 1970s as the wildly successful supper club Lord Lindsey. For

decades, first as a restaurant, then as a nightclub, the grand structure was a height of city social life. In 2003, as Kendrick was slowing down, there was a scare that the building might be sold and torn down, but the family held it. Although it is still idle, attorney Anthony Cappiello Jr., who bought it in 2010, has stated that it will be preserved and repurposed, continuing Kendrick’s legacy. Kendrick also started up the Bistro at the Bijou, in the historic Bijou Theater/Lamar House, one of the first significant downtown structures to be saved from the wrecking ball by a group of concerned citizens. Back then he referred to all of downtown as the “Old City,” but later narrowed it to

Jackson and Central, crediting the term to Pat Roddy Sr. Through the 1970s and well into the 1980s, experts came together to talk revitalization and give up on it in the same breath. One real estate manager at the time was quoted as saying developers had to focus on the bread-and-butter infrastructure of daytime workers who would need banks and law offices and lunch spots; around-the-clock city life was never coming back. Kendrick never listened, and he encouraged others with the same dream. “I would like to renovate the entire Old City and its surroundings if I could manage it,” he told a reporter in 1981. —T.J.

P rogram Notes

The Horror! The Horror! The Knoxville Horror Film Festival returns for another year of spine-tingling and stomach-turning cinema

he Knoxville Horror Film Festival returns for its eighth installment Oct. 21-23 at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8 and Scruffy City Hall. It’s the biggest KHFF yet, with 10 full-length features plus the usual program of short films—ranging from the gore-soaked to the spooky—and the results of the annual Grindhouse Grind-Out trailer contest. We talked to KHFF founders William Mahaffey and Nick Huinker about horror, Phantasm, and this year’s lineup. Visit knoxvillehorrorfest.com for a complete schedule and to purchase tickets ($15-$100). —Matthew Everett

Knoxville Horror Film Festival obviously appeals to hardcore horror fans. What does it offer to people who aren’t necessarily horror movie junkies?

William Mahaffey: One thing I always consider in programming is the different tastes people have. I try to balance things out with a wide variety of shorts and features, so that if someone isn’t really that into horror, we still might have something that could appeal to them. For instance, Trash Fire is more of a drama, Fury of the Demon is a documentary, The Master Cleanse is a quirky dark comedy, and The Greasy Strangler is a gross-out comedy. All of them have elements of horror, but they definitely don’t fit under the textbook definition of horror. Nick Huinker: I’m not personally a huge horror movie guy—I probably watch five or six a year that don’t directly relate to KHFF events. But even if I weren’t involved in the festival, I’d still be catching at least a few screenings each year because of the range we offer. I think working from a

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broad and inclusive definition of “horror” is, along with DIY, the most valuable principle we’ve brought to the fest. (I’d say the bigger concern would be a viewer’s threshold for extreme content, which is undeniably a throughline for many of the films we show.) I’m also just a fan of genre film festivals. I’m beyond glad our city has thoughtfully programmed events like the Knoxville Film Festival and Public Cinema’s Big Ears offerings, but we do feel KHFF’s format goes a lot further for casual movie fans curious about the film-festival experience, because it’s easy for us to put a premium on what’s going to be thrilling and fun versus what’s going to be impressive or edifying.

resonate and stick with people more. Huinker: I’m personally drawn to genre films because the best of them embed serious ideas in an accessible and entertaining frame, and horror is arguably the most vital of the genres because of how it draws directly and viscerally on whatever anxieties are inherent in the concept. And the most artistically successful horror films of the past few years—The Witch, It Follows, The Babadook—offer pretty strong evidence of that.

The Phantasm movies have an incredibly passionate cult following, so it seems like having both the restoration and the new one is a big deal.

Mahaffey: I think horror movies are unfairly regarded as valueless and not for adults. I feel that a lot of genre films have just as much to say with their themes and stories as the average Oscar contender does. To me, it’s silly to think that something has to be a serious drama for you to glean any life lessons from it. Take Phantasm, for instance; it’s all about coming to terms with death, and how encountering that affects children. Films like The Fly are meditations on how our bodies are slowly dying, and how going through that affects the people that we love. Why can’t we learn something and be entertained, shocked and scared at the same time? Maybe hiding deep messages within a film designed to entertain might

Mahaffey: This is a huge deal for the festival, and for Nick and me personally. The Phantasm films are what really got me into horror. Nick and I first watched these together way back in high school, in the early days of our friendship, which really ties into why these films work. As I said, it’s one of the few horror franchises that focuses on character, and I think that’s why the cult of “Phans” around these films are so loyal. Yes, there’s crazy action and gore, but we keep coming back because the characters feel like real people and really feel like they care about each other. The original feels like you’re just watching a bunch of friends playing together—their acting is a bit amateurish but feels real. They may not all be perfect works of art, but there’s always imagination and creativity on display, and despite never having the funds to truly match Don Coscarelli’s vision, they didn’t let that stop them from shooting for the moon. Huinker: There’s just really not another horror film like Phantasm. It’s got so many ideas, both visually and in its mythology, and doesn’t let practical or budgetary limitations get in their way. It’s also impressionistic and intriguing in a way its other franchise-launching contemporaries aren’t, and though its sequels are

Can you talk a little about horror? It’s been blamed over the years for everything from juvenile delinquency to violent crime. What do you see as its redeeming values?

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admittedly a mixed bag, there’s a continuity on the creative side that says a lot about what the series means to its creators as well as its fans.

What about short films—what can we expect?

Mahaffey: We’ve got some twisted body horror with “When Susurrus Stirs,” quick and hilarious gems like “The Procedure,” gory stop-motion with “Postman Pat’s Pet Sematary,” and some straightforward terror with “Cauchemar Capitonne.” That’s really just skimming the surface, though— there is a lot to offer this year. We’ve always been proud of the diversity of the shorts program and this year we have some amazing French, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, and Turkish films to share. Huinker: We’ll always see the short films as the real hidden value of the festival. Issues like availability, public profile, and screening fees factor into our feature-film programming, but with the shorts there’s basically one question: Is at least someone in the audience going to love this film? And that’s paid off. When we ask people what their favorite film of the festival was, more often than not it’s a short film they’d never heard of three days earlier. ◆

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Music

Photo by Bobby Fisher

Wired for Sound New York chamber ensemble Yarn/Wire headlines four days of cutting-edge classical music at UT BY MATTHEW EVERETT

he catalog of Western chamber music stretches back to the Middle Ages, but the vast majority of it is written for a handful of familiar formats: piano trios, string quartets, a few dozen combinations of strings, piano, brass, and woodwinds. The possibilities expanded during the 20th century, with novel contributions from Bartók, Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, and others. But two pianos and two percussionists? “There’s just not that much out there,” says pianist Laura Barger, one of the founding members of the New York contemporary music ensemble

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Yarn/Wire. “You could probably do two or three concerts with music that was written before 2006.” Barger and her colleagues in Yarn/Wire—pianist Ning Yu and percussionists Russell Greenberg and Ian Antonio—met in the early 2000s, as graduate students at Stony Brook University in Long Island. They had all played together in some capacity before starting Yarn/Wire, but never all together. Greenberg was especially interested in the small body of available music written specifically for two pianists and two percussionists— pieces by Luciano Berio, Bartók,

George Crumb, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, and Frederic Rzewski, among others. “When we very first got together, our main focus was to dig into work that already existed for our instrumentation, which is kind of strange,” Barger says. “There aren’t that many works that are written for two pianos and two percussionists, but they do exist. Like any students, it was about getting your hands around the repertoire that already exists. Once we had done that, playing together was something that really appealed to us. We enjoyed playing together.” But in order to turn their friendship into a professional partnership, Barger and the other members of what would become Yarn/Wire would have to have music to play. One option would have been to adapt existing music to their unorthodox format. Another would have been to change the lineup, adding or subtracting players and instruments to meet the demands of the traditional chamber repertoire. But Barger and her friends chose a different path: They established the group as an incubator of new music, helping to build a new library of piano and percussion music. What began as a practical challenge has grown into a creative mission—a decade later, Yarn/Wire is defined as much by its commitment to sponsoring new music and supporting young composers as it is by its piano-percussion setup. “Every year, the bulk of our season is premiering new works, or playing works that we’ve recently commissioned or premiered and trying to get those out into the world as much as possible,” Barger says. Artistic challenges are built into Yarn/Wire—its existence is essentially predicated on an aesthetic dare. So it’s no surprise that the group looks for music that departs from or butts up against our usual assumptions. Melody and rhythm aren’t nearly as important to the group as sounds and patterns that explore or defy what we think melody and rhythm are. “It sounds so trite to say we just look for good music, because what does that even mean?” Barger says. “I

think we look for things that are interesting and have something to say. A lot of times it’s very creative music, composers who are thinking differently about either the instruments we play—maybe they’re trying different things with electronics and technology, maybe they’re thinking about the entire performance experience itself, how that can be changed or adjusted or varied. “We really look for music that is a performative experience. We’re interested in things that are a little more creative and reimagining the concert experience in some way.” Barger, who grew up in Chattanooga and earned her undergraduate music degree at the University of Tennessee, returns to Knoxville for UT’s Contemporary Music Festival, where she and the other members of Yarn/Wire will perform music by the Austin, Texas, composer Travis Weller. The festival will also include the UT Contemporary Music Ensemble and the UT Electroacoustic Ensemble, performing music by Berio, Brian Simlachik, John Zorn, and Mark Applebaum. ◆

WHAT

University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival

WHERE

UT Natalie L. Haslam Music Center (1741 Volunteer Boulevard) and the Emporium Center for Arts and Culture (100 S. Gay St.)

WHEN

Wednesday, Oct. 19– Saturday, Oct. 22

INFO

music.utk.edu or yarnwire. org

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Welcome to Our Abode! Abode is a home living and design magazine unlike any other in Knoxville. It celebrates the area’s most unique houses—whether they’re floating, tiny, or something else entirely.

6 Living Small | The tiny house movement is finally laying down some foundations in Knoxville. | BY THOMAS FRASER

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8 Contemporary Vision | A Sequoyah Hills

midcentury marvel, the Jenkins House is Ben McMurry Jr.’s youthful masterpiece. | BY TRACY HAUN JONES

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Switzerland, Alfred and Jane West Clauss’ prewar vision for modern living is being restored. | BY THOMAS FRASER

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Artisan Lights South Knoxville’s Marble City Glassworks not only produces unique glass decor, but also offers classes to teach anyone the skills to create their own hot-glass creations. Owner Matt Salley apprenticed with glass artist Richard Jolley, and the studio’s products reveal an artistic viewpoint. BUY: etsy.com/shop/marblecityglassworks, plus Knoxville Soap Candle & Gifts, and the KMA gift store INFO: marblecityglassworks.com

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Living Small The tiny house movement is finally laying down some foundations in Knoxville BY THOMAS FRASER

Matt Sterling shows off the 160-squarefoot tiny house he keeps stored at the Happy Holler Craftsmen Co-op off N. Central Street in Knoxville. Such houses can be built for as little as $20,000.

long-term mortgages. They’ve become popular enough that even manufactured housing giant Clayton Homes has unveiled plans for tiny houses. “It’s an opportunity to do the right thing for the world, while making sense financially,” says Matt Sterling, a Maryville native who owns the artisan design/build firm Sterling Contracting. He cites Shafer as an inspiration and a resource. Sterling is a member of the Happy Holler Craftsman Co-op on West Anderson Avenue, another local center for sustainability and a clearinghouse for information on tiny houses. He is a member of a craftsman co-op with five other members that operates out of what was once a derelict bar. He eventually wants to open the space— converted to a spacious, working shop—to the community and provide, for instance, carpentry lessons and sustainability workshops. Outside sits a 160-square-foot tiny house he crafted himself from both raw and salvaged materials. Depending on the amount of A BODE

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is house may be small—tiny, even—but David Bolt doesn’t like sitting around inside anyway. He’d rather be building a chicken coop or tending tomatoes or feeding the fish that provide nutrients for his aquaculture project. Or planning more tiny houses like his own. “To me, the thought of buying a house and taking out a 30-year mortgage is hard to swallow,” Bolt says. He’s at what could be considered a sustainability compound of sorts: Sustainable Future, his company’s headquarters on Ogle Avenue, down from the famed South Knoxville restaurant King Tut’s Grill. The airy, open, 2-acre site belies its urban setting and features solar arrays, a vegetable garden, temporarily empty chicken coops, a rainwater-collection system, and a huge workshop for constructing chicken houses and sprouting seedlings—and a demonstration model of a 288-square-foot tiny house. Bolt made his money in the software industry before he started preaching the tenets of living closer to the Earth. He is just one local proponent of this minimalist approach to housing. Tiny houses—typically, plumbed and wired stick-built dwellings of about 150 to 500 square feet, depending on whether they rest on wheels or permanent foundations—have gradually spread to East Tennessee in recent years; they were first widely promoted by a California man named Jay Shafer 18 years ago. The Facebook page for Shafer’s Four Lights Tiny House Company has nearly 60,000 likes, and he has published books singing the praises of such dwellings: They are relatively cheap, transportable, have a low carbon footprint, and can free people from traditional

salvaged materials, the houses can be built for as little as $20,000. Sterling’s house—he doesn’t live there, but calls it “a really expensive business card”—is not as claustrophobic as one may imagine; nor is Bolt’s home. There is plenty of light, lofts for storage and sleeping, and a shower and composting toilet. Sterling’s house hasn’t been hooked to electricity or a water source, and isn’t fully kitted out yet, but there’s room to install a small stove and sink. He built it after burning out on the traditional residential construction industry and taking a year off to tour cities where tiny houses have taken off, such as San Francisco and towns in Vermont. He built some of the homes in Huntsville, Ala., in cooperation with Foundations for Tomorrow, but they sit vacant because city codes don’t allow anybody—outside of mobile-home parks—to live on OCT. 2016

wheeled homes, he says. “People get freaked out—it’s on a trailer and really small,” Sterling says. But tiny houses offer much better moisture control and insulation than a typical recreational vehicle or towed camper. Such city codes can be a hindrance, but the main roadblock is the need for a permanent foundation, which is required in Knoxville. Sterling says his next mission is moving toward a focus on permanent foundations. Knoxville codes allow for tiny homes, with stipulations that include: • They must be at least 120 square feet for a single occupant, not including kitchen areas and bathrooms. For two occupants, they must be 220 square feet, and for three occupants—the maximum allowed— tiny houses must be 320 square feet. • Tiny houses must have at least one habitable room of at least 120

square feet. • Ceiling heights must be at least 7 feet. • The houses must have cooking and refrigeration equipment and a sink, all with frontal working clearance of 30 inches. • There must be a hot and cold water supply and an approved method of sewage disposal. • Stairways—needed to reach the lofts featured in most such homes—must be at least 35 inches wide, have risers of no more than 8 inches, and treads of at least 9 inches. Ladders are not allowed. Bolt’s Sustainable Future is working on preliminary plans for a tiny-home development of about 3 acres near Western Avenue. The development would include two clusters of homes and preserve the remaining acreage as open space. It would be a communal development, of sorts, with community gardens. Those features could be provided with expertise from the East Tennessee Permaculture Institute, a nonprofit that shares the Ogle Avenue site with the for-profit Sustainable Future. “It’s all tied together,” Bolt says. Jim Gray, an economist in the field of biodynamics, directs the institute, which he says is still in “an evolutionary process.” In addition to the poultry, hydroponic gardens,

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solar and rainwater collection demonstrations, the center plans a “food forest” that will provide edible berries and nuts. “It’s an interesting experiment in both sustainable practice and building a community of like-minded people who can spread the word,” he says. Bolt recently connected with Sterling and visited the Happy Holler Craftsman Co-op, referred to as “The Shop.” For Sterling, the tiny-house movement represents potential for a massive lifestyle change that can unshackle and reorient people toward their true purposes, whatever those may be. The houses and their accompanying concepts of living more lightly on the land “can free ourselves from the expense and burden of housing to pursue positive and creative endeavors, and do things you’re passionate about instead of working 60 hours a week,” Sterling says. n MORE INFO: East Tennessee Permaculture Research Institute etpri.org, 865-216-5495 Sterling Contracting Co.: sterlingcontractingcompany.com, 865-268-9557 Sustainable Future: sustainablefuture.biz, 865-603-0520 A BODE

Jim Gray (left), an economist and cofounder of the East Tennessee Permaculture Institute, discusses plans for the institute’s Ogle Avenue property in South Knoxville. David Bolt (right), owner of Sustainable Future, stands inside a 288-square-foot tiny house made by his company. Bolt also gestures toward a hydroponics system at the Permaculture Institute, which shares space with his company. OCT. 2016

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Contemporary Vision

A Sequoyah Hills midcentury marvel, the Jenkins House is Ben McMurry Jr.’s youthful masterpiece

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very visionary architect should have a loyal patron. Frank Lloyd Wright had the Kaufmanns, who commissioned iconic Falling Water in southwest Pennsylvania, where the home stands preserved as a modern masterpiece. In Knoxville, in 1954, Ben F. McMurry Jr. had Dr. Harry Jenkins. McMurry was only 28 when Jenkins asked him to design a contemporary home on one of the best lots on Cherokee Boulevard. West Knoxville had never seen anything quite like it. In the mid-1950s, modernistic houses, as the style was called then, were locally few and far between. The International-style homes of renowned architects Alfred and Jane Clauss had been built in Holston Hills and off Chapman

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Highway (see “Future Past,” page 12). But in Sequoyah Hills, the dramatic glass and steel and marble-façade masonry structure was a wonder—and the talk of the town. Today, the “Jenkins House,” now home to University of Tennessee architecture professors Marleen and Tom Davis, is as contemporary and striking as it was when it was built. “He hired a relatively young architect and trusted his vision,” says Marleen Davis about the relationship between Jenkins and McMurry. A popular physician, Jenkins was married to Varina Mayo Jenkins (of the seed company Mayos) and the family lived in a very different, Mediterranean-style home at the time. The Jenkins were Sequoyah Hills neighbors of Ben F. McMurry Sr., the architect’s father and a founding partner of the

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On the second floor, a wall of floor-toceiling glass spans the 50-foot-long, south-side great room, which faces Cherokee Boulevard and the Tennessee River across it.

architectural firm Barber and McMurry. The 7,500-square-foot residence was a chance for the younger McMurry to shine. “The home used a lot of contemporary-design thinking,” Davis says. Specifically, the architect excelled at the modern tenet of “bringing the outside in,” both through site-specific exposures and in the choice of materials. In the second story’s 50-foot-long, south-side great room, which faces Cherokee Boulevard and the Tennessee River across it, a wall of floor-to-ceiling glass is supported by dramatically exposed black steel beams from the exterior ground floor. A BODE

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The glass front allows a constant play of natural light throughout the room; in the corridor that leads to bedrooms and baths, an interior skylight brings more rays into the home. The home’s exterior masonry sports a façade of pink marble— East Tennessee’s own natural jewel—quarried locally and cut at nearby Marble City. In the second-story entrance, a pink marble retaining wall creates a natural path toward the great room. Originally, the outside-in concept was carried even further by a party deck off of the great room, although before the Davises bought the home, previous owners had converted this into a cozy TV room/den. The kitchen, state of the art for its time, has also been redone, and the Davises redid the large master bath. The main guest bath still has the art deco-influenced gray and

yellow geometric tile original to the home. The off-bedroom bath created for the Jenkins’ daughter, Carol Mayo Jenkins (an actress who is now a theater professor at UT), had pink marble and pink fixtures throughout. Like the marble, the glass, tile, and wood paneling in the home all came from local vendors. Jenkins seems to have given McMurry his head in the way of “gadgets” for the residence. Along the southern wall of glass, there is an exposed steel catwalk between the glass and the beams. A built-in pipe-system window-washing apparatus was fashioned during construction to keep the view breathtaking. The great-room ceiling boasts recessed lights on dimmers. Although now quite common, “that was very innovative for its time,” Davis says. The home had central air conditioning, also something of a novelty, and a built-in hi-fi and intercom system, although the sound system hasn’t been used in years. Davis says Carol Jenkins told her there was once a dumbwaiter between the basement rec area and upstairs kitchen, walled off after the family cat took too many trips upstairs-downstairs. The downstairs, originally a rec room, is covered in terrazzo marble, as is the second-story outside entrance. The downstairs has sliding doors that open onto a patio area and lawn; the Jenkins hosted numerous parties for their friends and their daughter’s friends. The Davises mostly use the downstairs as a workroom/study, entertaining in the upper great room. There’s no bad spot for a gathering. “The house is great for bringing people together,” Davis says. She and her husband, who are the parents of two now-grown sons, weren’t sure what they were looking for when they relocated to Knoxville in 1994. They liked the convenience and neighborhood feel of Sequoyah Hills and, as design professionals, didn’t want something blah. This home had been on the market for a while, and the listing agent wasn’t sure whether it would sell to someone

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who would appreciate the house for its architectural significance or whether it was going to become a tear-down for a McMansion lot. Their decision to buy was immediate. Marleen Davis, who recently ran for City Council, is enamored with the history of the house. On one wall, along with an intriguing collection of maps of Knoxville and other cities, is the framed award McMurry won for the home, when the architect was recognized for his accomplishments by the Gulf States Regional Conference, American A BODE

Institute of Architects, 1958. Seeking out a preservation designation or landmark status for the home is on her to-do list. Although McMurry became the president of Barber and McMurry (now BarberMcMurry) and was responsible for many fine structures, none of his other works were quite as daring or statement-making as the Jenkins House. But aside from the design merits of the home, the things that make it special to Marleen Davis and her family are more subtle pleasures: the view to the river and OCT. 2016

Current owners the Davises mostly use the downstairs as a workroom/study, entertaining in the upper great room. There’s no bad spot for a gathering. “The house is great for bringing people together,” Marleen Davis says.

bluffs beyond Cherokee Boulevard, and the lively street itself, as well as the artful play of natural light through the home throughout the day. For 61 years, it’s been a happy place, and it feels that way. “It’s a beautiful house and a joy to live in,” she says. n

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The Jenkins House: An Architect’s View

n the most important lecture of a still-young career, the Oak Park-based architect Frank Lloyd Wright argued that only by using the means of the Industrial Revolution could the new cultures emerging in places like Chicago, London, and Vienna find a way forward to an architecture fitting for one’s time and place. In sharp contrast to the English Arts and Crafts Movement, Wright proffered that it was possible to reconcile mechanization and handcraft. Further, through this marriage, architecture would “rise again” as a new art form with “A SOUL.” The time was March 1901 and the place was Jane Addams’ and Ellen Gate’s Starr’s Hull House in Chicago, part of the international Settlement House Movement—and all of which were inventions of the Industrial Revolution. The Dr. and Mrs. Harry Jenkins House (1955) designed by the local firm Barber and McMurry, Architects, while far from Wrightian in appearance, is grounded in

BY GEORGE DODDS what were these same revolutionary and provocative principles. Sited prominently two-thirds up a south-facing slope overlooking the Tennessee River on Cherokee Boulevard, its 7,500 square feet of stone, steel, and concrete continue to challenge many of its neighbors’ preconceptions of domesticity and domestic architecture. Ben McMurry Jr., the project’s chief designer and a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, screened the view of the river and the intervening landscape with a phalanx of elegantly proportioned matteblack steel columns and beams that extend well beyond a solid masonry base faced in local pink Tennessee marble. On the river side, an open steel catwalk connects the slender columns, which continue inside the second-floor main living space, to the main body of the building. This provides utility access to the exterior facade along with lateral support to the columns, further permitting them to register a thin,

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elegant profile. The main entrance is from the north-facing rear, adjacent to a carpark carved out of the base of the main mass. Sharing some tectonic and formal similarities to Philip Johnson’s Wiley House in New Haven, Conn. (1953), the Jenkins House is superior in several ways, not the least of which is the quality of its detailing, second only to the exactitude of its construction. The former is a result of a team of highly skilled Barber and McMurry architects and draftsmen headed by David West Barber. Inside and outside, seamless steel welds join column to beam. The 800-square-foot combination living/dining room dominates interior and exterior alike. Floor-to-ceiling sheets of rolled glass along the south façade afford an unobstructed sweeping view of the river valley and bluffs. The Jenkins House stands as a signpost of a considerable body of fine modern houses in Eastern Tennessee, virtually unknown to architects and historians outside

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the region. While most are postwar, some, such as the work of Alfred and Jane West Clauss, predate American’s entry into World War II. Whether this is a house with “A SOUL” is beyond the scope of this article. That it meticulously demonstrates Wright’s argument that the machine can be an extension of the hand is clear. Moreover, it stands as a ready sentinel reminding East Tennesseans of just how forward-looking was this place more than half a century ago and how many fine reminders remain of the kind of future Wright envisioned in 1901—and so many once dreamed of locally, in our own recent past. George Dodds is a professor at the College of Architecture + Design at the University of Tennessee. He has been teaching and publishing commentaries on the practice and history of architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture for over 30 years. A portion of this article was previously published in The Oxford American.

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In South Knoxville’s Little Switzerland, Alfred and Jane West Clauss’ prewar vision for modern living is being restored

PastFuture BY THOMAS FRASER

O Photos by Denise Retallack.

n a ridge above Ye Olde Steak House, off Chapman Highway in South Knoxville, you can travel to the past and get a glimpse of what was once the future. Up a curving road flanked by old hardwood forest, past comparatively mundane homes, is Little Switzerland, a 20-acre deed-restricted community marked by the modernist architecture of Alfred Clauss and his wife, Jane West Clauss. The houses—featuring straight lines, passive lighting, integration

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into the natural landscape, and a minimalist feel—were built by the Clausses as part of a speculative development during his employment as an architect with the Tennessee Valley Authority, beginning in 1938. It is the vision of what Alfred Clauss, a native of Munich, Germany, who had previously worked in the studio of Mies van der Rohe, thought a subdivision should look like in prewar America. “This is very progressive work,” even by today’s standards, says architect John Sanders, whose renovation of a Clauss home,

previously occupied only by the Seymour and Tanner families, earned an award from Knox Heritage last year. The project also received a juried design award from the East Tennessee chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The house—now inhabited by Sanders, the owner of Sanders Pace Architecture, and his girlfriend, Gina Lisenby—boasts a fine view of the Smokies through a large picture window that allows for natural lighting. Its interior is sleek and has a modern European feel. There is no crown or cornice trim; white-oak floors and wood paneling reflect the light; and everything in the home seems to have its place, often via recessed and concealed closets and shelving. These are among the first International-style, split-foyer homes

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in the U.S. “All these houses embody that,” says Sanders, whose renovation work was in line with the deed restrictions and covenants still attached to the nearly 80-year-old houses and their 20 acres of property. The covenants dictate “no dwelling shall be erected on any lot unless the design be of the so-called ‘modern architecture,’ as distinguished from and contrasted with the so-called ‘traditional architecture’ as exemplified by an English, Georgian, Grecian, and other types.” Clauss feels like a “ghost to me,” Sanders says, and he believes his interior renovations were in keeping with the modernist philosophy of the architect. Clauss anticipated technological advances that would necessitate interior changes, Sanders A BODE

The Seymour-Tanner House is among the first International-style, split-foyer homes in the U.S., and was heralded in a 1940 News Sentinel article. The neighborhood’s covenants dictate “no dwelling shall be erected on any lot unless the design be of the so-called ‘modern architecture.’” OCT. 2016

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The home’s European-style interior is sleek, with no crown or cornice trim; white-oak floors and wood paneling reflect the light; and everything in the home seems to have its place. It also boasts a fine view of the Smokies through a large picture window that allows for natural lighting.

says as a Roomba robot vacuum kicks on in a nearby room. Sanders describes the designs of Clauss as “the antithesis of colonial architecture.” He is still trying to extract the visions of the German architect and his wife, who designed two other modernist homes in the area, in West Hills and Holston Hills, before moving to Philadelphia. “I’m trying to get the stories out of them before the stories go away,” he says. Sanders has acquired six lots and two houses out of the seven A BODE

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lots and five homes that are part of the Little Switzerland development. “Not only am I carrying the tradition of the original architecture, but also the people who lived here prior,” he says of Nancy and James Tanner, the ornithologists who lived here for decades before their deaths. The large poplar and walnuts that shade the house and provide habitat were left alone, and, in keeping with Clausses, the connection to the outdoor space is celebrated beyond the thick terra-cotta block walls. The house is still fronted by an ancient, perhaps original hedgerow. Sanders bought the house on Dec. 31, 2013, and it “more or less became a full renovation,” he says, though he only made two floor-plan modifications. He had to discern which features of the house had been modified and what was

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original work. The children of the Tanners and photos provided by neighbors helped him decipher that. The AIA deemed the project a “sensitive and careful upgrade to an important building—a pragmatic and low-tech approach on the exterior, and restraint in detail and materiality on the inside pay off in a convincing way as they balance the need for restoration and modern living needs. Staircase and bathroom treatment deserve special mention. Very glad this house was cared for in this way, it’s good for another 50 years. Thank you.” The 1,600-square-foot home was marketed as a four-bedroom house, but it is now a two-bedroom dwelling. The sleek, subtle functionality remains apparent as one descends the stairs into the kitchen. It is like dropping into another main level, spartan and efficient. Sanders, a 1997 graduate of the University of Tennessee architecture school, now has his sights set on renovating and restoring another Clauss-designed home—the Clausses’ second home across the street. Some of the original homes have strayed from the vision of Clauss, and Sanders knows he has a challenge ahead in his next project on the ridge. The redwood home he acquired is but a shell of the sleek modernist style of his house, and will require—among other things—a more in-depth window restoration. He demonstrates the slide mechanism on one of the original windows, which, again, feature fantastic views of the Smokies and the foothills. A screw falls out of the window frame, suggesting the challenges ahead, but he remains undaunted. “There are some things that need to be celebrated,” Sanders says. He believes the ghost would approve. n The 1,600-square-foot home was marketed as a four-bedroom house, but it is now a two-bedroom dwelling. The sleek, subtle functionality remains apparent as one descends the stairs into the kitchen. It is like dropping into another main level, spartan and efficient. A BODE

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Marble Palace Inside Craiglen, architect Charles Barber’s Italian villa in West Knoxville BY TRACY JONES

harles Barber was used to lavish requests. By the mid-1920s, the founding partner of Barber and McMurry had designed several over-the-top residences for Knoxville’s industrial barons. Craiglen (1043 Craigland Court) was something completely different. Candoro Marble Company owner John Craig wanted more than a mansion from Barber. He wanted a whole Italian villa, tucked away into the forests of what is now suburban Westland Drive. Nothing like it in Knoxville had been built before, and it would be practically impossible to recreate today. The 5,373-square-foot home features two wings extended around a central courtyard in the front, with terraces overlooking formal grounds in the back. Exterior stucco covers walls of 14-inch concrete, all of it sitting under a red clay tile roof. Inside, Barber and Craig modeled the interior layout and details after Italy’s 14th-century Palazzo Davan-

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zati, today a major tourist attraction in Florence. The Italian connection sounds like a reach for the wilds of West Knoxville, but there was logic behind it. Barber had built the showroom for Craig’s Candoro Marble, in South Knoxville, where he spotlighted the famous East Tennessee pink marble that Craig’s firm quarried and cut, plus all of the incredible Italian, Greek, and other marbles that the firm imported. The home would be just as much of a showcase. From the courtyard entrance to the graciously appointed interior and beyond, Craiglen features more than 40 different kinds of marble. Throughout the home are touches that show master artisans at work. Inside the living room, masons constructed a fireplace with a stone hearth that features the crest of the Davizzi family, the owners of the medieval palace. Custom walnut bookshelves and cabinetry nestle under what look like beams of weathered wood but are actually painted concrete. The beams were hand-painted by Hugh Tyler, an artist who worked often for Barber and is now maybe more famously known as the uncle of author James Agee. Tyler is also responsible for a celestial mural above the dramatic two-story entry. On the main level of the house, the living room connects to the walnut-veneered dining room through a vaulted loggia with Palladian doors that open to the southern courtyard and the north-facing terrace. Light pours through this happy space. The downstairs also features the kitchen, where the original wooden cabinets flank state-of-the-art appliances (recent additions to the home). There is also a breakfast nook and an ample butler’s pantry; the current owner has a kitchen herb garden tucked off the mudroom and kitchen entrance. The home’s five bedrooms are on the second level (some converted to use as reading rooms or dens). Many feature fireplaces, and almost all of them have deep and/or walk-in A BODE

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closets, unusual even in Barber homes at the time. The attendant bathrooms are like mini-marble showrooms, particularly the master bath, where dramatic sheets of white-and-black stone have been perfectly matched, vein to vein. The bed and baths ring a sunny gallery that overlooks the courtyard. The home also features a large basement, with access to the lower lawn. On the spacious property, the owners have also built a detached three-car garage. Barber commissioned famed landscape architect Charles Lester to design the formal Italian gardens, and the current owners commissioned their own update and restoration when they bought the home in the 1990s. The current owners are only the third. Between them and the Craig family was the developer who bought the home in the early 1970s to tear it down and build a subdivision. Instead, he divided much of the land around him into lots but kept Craiglen for his family

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Politics as Unusual Thought-provoking political cinema from the Knox County Public Library’s collection BY CHRIS BARRETT

ARABIAN NIGHTS (2015)

It may be to my advantage that I’ve been reading The Discreet Hero, Mario Vargas Llosa’s most recent novel, at the same time I’m imbibing Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes’ marathon fi lm fantasy of cultural criticism. With Vargas Llosa, I’m accustomed to the prospect that any mention of human or mechanical failure, erosion, blight, abundance, or scarcity is an allusion to Peruvian culture or government that I should look up. Part of the pleasure is sensing the potential stories multiply as characters and confl icts overlap. In this six-hour-plus series of interrelated tales, Gomes contemplates his native Portugal during 2013 and 2014, as the population suffers under austerity measures enforced to satisfy the European Union. The structure of the storytelling has some elements in common with the 1,001 stories that Scheherazade may have told her husband, the sultan. His previous wives had been unfaithful, so he made a practice of marrying virgins and having them executed the following morning, before they could shame him. Newlywed Scheherazade spun yarns in cliff hanger, to-be-continued style, so that the sultan couldn’t bear to have her killed before he learned a story’s ending—which she would fold into the beginning of a new story. With Arabian Nights, there is the sense that for Gomes, as with Scheherazade, lives are at stake. A rooster goes on trial for crowing too early. A cardiologist, who may or may not be a mermaid, sees

patients inside the belly of a beached whale. Unemployed men and women distract themselves as they must— gathering for a frigid ocean swim on New Year’s Day or trapping and training fi nches to sing competitively. Gomes and his DP, Mário Castanheira, fairly worship the human figure—male and female, young and old, ideal and otherwise. He also takes full advantage of the musical, lilting rhythms of the Portuguese language and patiently presents long stories that are as interesting for the sounds they make as for the facts they convey. The result is absurd and beautiful, shot on a combination of 16mm and 35mm fi lm, and—no matter how weighted with allegory and metaphor—probably more similar to real life than anything you’re apt to fi nd at the multiplex anytime soon. Some scenes play out in pseudo-documentary style, beginning with an onscreen introduction from Gomes, who intimidates himself with his stated mission and then flees, his crew in hot pursuit. Other segments are assembled in the familiar form of sequential scenes, like “The Owners of Dixie,” a tale of a stray dog named, by a relatively wealthy woman, after a deceased dog she resembles. But the woman can’t afford to feed the beast during these hard times, so she gives the dog to a couple she dislikes. That couple loves the dog, but the added expense is more than they can bear, and they in turn find another family to care for the dog before taking extreme measures to dodge their debt and circumstances. The plight of the dog and those who

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care for it is made clear as one couple, both recovering addicts, try to cajole food suitable for a dog from the charity that supplies their meals. Several scenes take the shape of a courtroom procedural. Everybody has been wronged and, in turn, has wronged someone else in order to survive. And since everyone is guilty, sigh, no one is guilty. That exasperating conclusion does nothing to improve anybody’s situation. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

SIGHET, SIGHET (1967)

Harold Becker shot this spare yet potent condemnation of the Holocaust, narrated by Elie Weisel, who recounts a return trip to the Transylvanian village where he grew up. Now a part of Romania, all appears to be normal in Sighet. Yet Weisel remembers when the town hosted thousands of Jews instead of the few dozen families remaining, and when the town needed its three synagogues, two of which have since been demolished. Weisel remembers the town, he says, “before the world lost its innocence, before God lost his mask.” Becker’s camera captures static shots of rain-damp, empty streets. Interspersed are portraits and family photos that predate World War II and the deportation of the town’s Jews to concentration camps. Clarinetist Jimmy Giuff re performs a haunting solo score beneath Weisel’s mesmerizing elegy. Weisel resigns himself to the reality that modern Sighet has no choice but to deny the existence of the town where he had lived. “The town that was mine,” he says, “never was. People must live. And above all, they must forget.” Weisel died earlier this year. Most images accompanying the print and online memorials to his life portrayed him in this century, posing as a token survivor at wreath-laying ceremonies and maudlin anniversaries. This fi lm, like any of his books, better serves his memory and our memories.

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Shelf Life explores new and timely entries from the Knox County Public Library’s collection of movies and music. October 13, 2016

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Classical Music

Silly Season Knoxville Opera revisits Gilbert and Sullivan’s whimsical classic The Pirates of Penzance BY ALAN SHERROD

t may seem like a stretch to mention the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton and Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta The Pirates of Penzance in the same sentence, but there are indisputable similarities. On a fundamental level, American musical theater owes its origin to the operetta, a genre that grew out of the mid- and late-19th-century opera comique. More revealing, however, is that Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer, lyricist, and star of Hamilton, was cast as the Pirate King in a ninth-grade production of Pirates—he’s said that the applause he received was a career catalyst. Even more to the point, Miranda allows the character of George Washington in Hamilton to describe himself as “the model of a modern major general,” a direct reference to the rapid-fire (and rap-like) patter song delivered by the character of Major-General Stanley in Pirates. Knoxville audiences have the opportunity to consider other possible similarities between the two next week as Knoxville Opera brings a production of The Pirates of Penzance to the stage of the Tennessee Theatre for two performances. Although the operetta was staged by KO as recently as March 2010, this production will feature a completely different cast and director, and a fresh take on classic Gilbert and Sullivan. “Pirates is a bit like [La] Bohème, in that each production is a whole new adventure because it’s about the relationships between the singers,” explains stage director Brian Deed-

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rick, who will be staging all three KO productions this season, including February’s La Bohème. “Pirates is loved, loved, loved, because it’s silly, it’s whimsical, it’s a way to step out of your world for a couple of hours and just put your brain on hold.” That whimsy and silliness begins with Gilbert’s joke in the operetta’s title. Penzance is a sleepy little resort town on the Cornwall coast—not an ideal spot for vicious pirates, but certainly one suitable for those intent on comic irony. Gilbert and Sullivan’s pirates also possess the comic flaw of having a soft spot for orphans and a reluctance to attack anyone weaker than themselves. Many modern productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas—like Pirates, The Mikado, or H.M.S. Pinafore—often insert contemporary sight gags and timely social references. Deedrick believes it’s just not necessary, at least not for this production. “When you are doing Gilbert and Sullivan these days, there is still an element of tongue even more firmly planted in cheek,” he says. “And it was tongue in cheek when it was written, so you got an extra layer in 2016. Upper English twits, thanks to shows like Downton Abbey, are now a part of our vocabulary.” The two male leads, both of whom appeared in the recent productions of Elixir of Love and H.M.S Pinafore, will be familiar to Knoxville Opera audiences. Baritone Sean Anderson will sing the role of the Pirate King, with tenor Joshua Kohl

taking the role of the young pirate apprentice Frederic. Frederic’s love interest, Mabel, will be sung by soprano Claire Coolen, making her KO debut. In the role of Major-General Stanley will be baritone Robert Orth, making a return to KO after an absence of 23 years. Orth’s previous appearance was in a 1993 production of Die Fledermaus. “Robert Orth is a North American legend,” Deedrick says. “What a great and funny guy—a singer who has a history of over 40 years in opera.” “For traditional operagoers, there is some truly beautiful music in The Pirates of Penzance,” Deedrick concludes. “It’s no wonder that Arthur Sullivan was disappointed he never received the full respect he deserved as a composer, simply because he was composing for comedy. For first-timers, there’s everything from Monte Python’s Flying Circus to sending up Downton Abbey to elements of Saturday Night Live. It’s a way to step away from the Clinton-Trump election, or from hurricanes, for two and a half hours, and have a good time.” ◆

WHAT

Knoxville Opera: The Pirates of Penzance

WHERE

Tennessee Theatre (604 S. Gay St.)

WHEN

Friday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 23, at 2:30 p.m.

HOW MUCH $21-$99

INFO

knoxvilleopera.com

FROM THE PIT

Andy Bryenton KSO principal cellist It’s a cold heart that doesn’t swoon when the cello sings. Possessing one of the warmest, most romantic timbres in the orchestra, it is the instrument that Camille Saint-Saens chose for the swan in his Carnival of the Animals. The cello swoops, sighs, sobs and soars. However, in this week’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks performances of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, the instrument has a less glamorous—but still vital—role. “My job is to make the music go in the direction it needs to go,” says Andy Bryenton, a KSO veteran of 31 years and, since 1999, the orchestra’s principal cellist. “I’m sort of a conveyor belt for the musical goods.” Based on an Italian sonnet, The Four Seasons was popular during Vivaldi’s lifetime but virtually forgotten during the 19th century—and has now become one of the most familiar orchestral pieces in the world. It’s a showcase not only for Vivaldi’s nice way with a tune, but also for his ability to depict seasonal, elemental scenarios—chattering teeth, a barking dog, the wind in the trees—using only a string orchestra. And all within the confines of Baroque protocol. “There are three parts: the solo voice, the orchestra, and the continuo, which is the bass and harmonic ‘road map’ of the piece, usually played by solo cello and harpsichord,” Bryenton says. The keyboardist is free to improvise—within the limits of the style—but the cellist must keep the bass line moving exactly as it’s written. He’s the engine of the piece. “The story is being told,” Bryenton says. “I have a job as a storyteller not to give it away.” He supports and enhances the action with different articulations, dynamics, and nuances, without “telegraphing” or jumping the musical gun when there’s a change coming. And he plays almost constantly. A pencil notation above a 13-bar rest in the first movement, “La Primavera,” marks one of his rare breathers in the 42-minute piece. “Spring break,” it reads. On Thursday and Friday nights, he’ll be fulfilling his supportive role. But he’ll have a few moments in the spotlight. “Every once in a while the orchestra drops out, and it’s just me and the soloist,” he says with a smile, clearly relishing those moments. “Then it’s a real duet.” Knoxville Symphony Orchestra performs Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and music by Rossini and Puccini at the Tennessee Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 13, and Friday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $13-$88. Visit knoxvillesymphony.com.

Movies

Girl Trouble

Emily Blunt drives The Girl on the Train into satisfyingly lurid melodrama BY APRIL SNELLINGS

here have all the good girls gone? They certainly aren’t on my bookshelves, which have buckled under the weight of Amy Dunne’s heiresses apparent. Gone Girl’s central character is in a league of her own, of course, for reasons that can’t be discussed here in case any recently awakened coma patients are turning to these pages to reacquaint themselves with pop culture. But suffice it to say that Gillian Flynn’s blockbuster 2012 novel launched a literary trend that has thrived long past the publishing industry’s fears of market saturation. And in the onslaught of unreliable narrators, missing wives, and damaged women that has flooded bookstores in Gone Girl’s wake, The Girl on the Train reigns supreme. Paula Hawkins’ zeitgeist-friendly tale of an alcoholic divorcée, a young mother with a sordid past, and the slippery, beautiful gone girl who ties them inextricably together makes a rocky but mostly satisfying transition to the big screen, thanks in large part to a thoroughly unlovely performance by the lovely Emily Blunt. It never manages to be as enthralling as its source material; for all the reviews that lauded the book for its cinematic qualities, its revolving narrators and scrambled timeline

provide as many obstacles as opportunities for screenwriter Erin Cressida Williams and director Tate Taylor. But in spite of an uneven first half, it comes together well enough to put it firmly in guilty-pleasure territory. Before we go further, it must be said that most of the recent Girl books are not about girls at all. A few of them, such as Emma Cline’s The Girls and Robin Wasserman’s Girls on Fire, really are concerned with female adolescence at its thorniest, but most of these titular “girls,” whether they’re prone to obsessive rail travel or defi ned by the ragged holes their disappearances have left behind, are adult women straining at the confi nes of modern domesticity. The protagonist of The Girl on the Train certainly belongs to this breed of troubled women, though she makes her compatriots—and, for that matter, nearly everyone on the planet—look like paragons of pragmatism. Your life might be a mess, dear reader, but if you can make it to a movie theater, you’re holding it together better than poor Rachel Watson. Hawkins’ hot mess of a narrator—do I need to tell you she’s unreliable?—has lost a few of her sharper edges thanks to the casting of

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Blunt, but fans who were upset by the choice can rest easy. Blunt goes for the dysfunctional gold, reveling in Rachel’s vodka-fueled haze of slurred speech, teetering walk, and violent, embarrassing meltdowns. Fired from her job long ago, Rachel spends her days riding a commuter train back and forth from New York City to a dull suburb on the Hudson, where she once lived an idyllic life with her husband, Tom ( Justin Theroux). For reasons best left discovered, Rachel has been booted from her home and replaced by Tom’s former mistress and new wife, Anna (Rebecca Ferguson). Rachel further tortures herself by fi xating on a young couple a few doors down from Tom and Anna. Megan (Haley Bennett) and Scott (Luke Evans) represent everything Rachel once dreamed of having, until she sees Megan canoodling on her balcony with a man who isn’t Scott. When Rachel makes a succession of terrible decisions, driven by what she sees as Megan’s betrayal, she fi nds herself at the center of a missing-person investigation. The Girl on the Train, in both its literary and cinematic incarnations, carefully aligns itself with the Hitchcockian tradition of suspense, but it owes more to Peyton Place than Rear Window. For long stretches, it feels like a thriller only because it looks like one. Taylor loads the film with stylistic flourishes, from canted camera angles to clever focal-plane manipulations, to make his adaptation feel disorienting and lurid even when people aren’t beating one another senseless or having gropey sex in public places. Yes, it’s a tale driven by a crime— we know this mostly because the always welcome Allison Janney occasionally pops up as a police detective to remind us that something nasty is afoot. But in spite of its bouts of shocking violence and the crackling tension of its masterfully staged finale, this is melodrama at its most melodramatic. It’s less concerned with the visceral thrills and dangers of voyeurism than the decidedly more somber question that drives its plot: How well do we really know one another? Or, for that matter, ourselves? ◆ October 13, 2016

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Thursday, Oct. 13 DREW KOHL WITH THE GRASSABILLIES • WDVX • 12PM • Part of WDVX’s Blue Plate Special, a six-days-a-week lunchtime concert series featuring local, regional, and national Americana, folk, pop, rock, and everything else. • FREE THE CARMONAS • Scruffy City Hall • 6PM • Part of Wayne Bledsoe’s weekly Six O’Clock Swerve show on WDVX. • FREE THURSDAY NIGHT HIP-HOP SHOWDOWN • The Open Chord • 8PM • With Spook, Titan, Collin Steen, Black 865Finest, and GQ Lotto. • $5-$10 CHROME PONY WITH THAT’S MY KID • Pilot Light • 9PM • 18 and up. • $5 VIETJAM • Scruffy City Hall • 9PM QUAKER CITY NIGHT HAWKS • Preservation Pub • 10PM • 21 and up. MIDNIGHT VOYAGE: MANIC FOCUS • The Concourse • 10PM • With Marvel Years and Live Animals. 18 and up. Visit internationalknox.com. • $10-$12 SCOTT MCMAHAN • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria (Maryville) • 8PM ANTHONY ADAMS AND THE NITE OWLS • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 10PM • Distinctly Americana and unmistakably genuine, Anthony Adams & The Nite Owls’ signature sound is at once familiar and fresh, combining conscious lyrics with memorable melodies that don’t let go. Friday, Oct. 14 ROCKY TOP PICKIN’ PARTY • Mabry-Hazen House • 6PM • The Rocky Top Pickin’ Party will feature the musical talents of The Bearded, the Hardin Valley Thunder, and you—all under an East Tennessee full moon and close to the heart of downtown Knoxville. All musicians are invited to play. This family-friendly and low-waste fundraiser for Keep Knoxville Beautiful is unlike any other in Knoxville; in between sets, pickers of all levels will form breakout sessions around the grounds. Everyone is invited, but musicians with an instrument pay only $5 to enter. For tickets visit KeepKnoxvilleBeautiful.org • $15-$20 COLIN HOTZ WITH BECKY WARREN • WDVX • 12PM • Part of WDVX’s Blue Plate Special, a six-days-a-week lunchtime concert series featuring local, regional, and national Americana, folk, pop, rock, and everything else. • FREE ALIVE AFTER FIVE: THE BLAIRXPERIENCE • Knoxville Museum of Art • 6PM • Born and raised in Knoxville, Larry Blair’s wide range of vocals has been described by many as” velvety and sultry”. Blair started his musical career as one of the lead vocalists in a group he and his brothers formed called “The Blair Brothers”, becoming well known in many local circuits. They’re celebrating the 23rd anniversary of Alive After Five. • $10 JOSH COTTRELL • Vienna Coffee House (Maryville) • 7PM • FREE ANDREW SCOTCHIE AND THE RIVER RATS • Sugarlands Distilling Co. (Gatlinburg) • 7PM • FREE RED WITH DISCIPLE, SPOKEN, AND RANDOM HERO • The Concourse • 7PM • Over the last decade, RED has emerged as a career artist. Their honesty and transparency about who they are as human beings, what motivates and inspires them, and what they aim to accomplish with each step forward has established an army of loyal fans. The band’s success emerged through a pure emotional connection with their audience, the power of their live performances, and most importantly, the passionate, 22

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honest dedication of band members Michael Barnes, Anthony Armstrong, and Randy Armstrong. All ages. Visit internationalknox.com. • $18-$20 FROG AND TOAD’S DIXIE QUARTET • The Crown and Goose • 8PM • Live jazz featuring a mix of original music, early jazz and more. • FREE THE VALLEY OPERA WITH STONE BROKE SAINTS • The Open Chord • 8PM • The time has come for locals The Valley Opera to release their debut album, Start Again. All ages. • $5 THE DEAD RINGERS WITH HAZEL • Preservation Pub • 8PM • 21 and up. REBEL MOUNTAIN • Two Doors Down (Maryville) • 9PM THE VIBRASLAPS • Scruffy City Hall • 9PM CAL ROBBINZ • The Bistro at the Bijou • 9PM • Live jazz. • FREE DAJE MORRIS • Bar Marley • 6PM • FREE TIM LEE 3 ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HAPPY HOUR • Pilot Light • 7PM • Knoxville band Tim Lee 3 and their offspring alt duo, Bark, have announced a four-week series of early shows at Pilot Light on every Friday during the month of October. With Amigo, the Roacheaters, and Bark. • $5 KITTY WAMPUS • Buckethead Tavern • 8PM PISTOL CREEK • Brackins Blues Club (Maryville) • 9PM • FREE MATT A. FOSTER • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria (Maryville) • 9PM THE SCRUFFY CITY SYNCOPATORS • Boyd’s Jig and Reel • 10PM • FREE Saturday, Oct. 15 BELLE OF THE FALL WITH MIC THE PROPHET AND THE BOTTOM LINE • WDVX • 12PM • Part of WDVX’s Blue Plate Special, a six-days-a-week lunchtime concert series featuring local, regional, and national Americana, folk, pop, rock, and everything else. • FREE BRYAN PIXA • Vienna Coffee House (Maryville) • 7PM • FREE EAST CAMERON FOLKCORE • Sugarlands Distilling Co. (Gatlinburg) • 7PM • FREE DERIK HULTQUIST WITH SEAN MCCONNELL • The Square Room • 8PM • Enigmatic pop songwriter Derik Hultquist channels the emotion of losing two family members to cancer in the last year and watching his father battle the disease. He’ll be backed with a three-piece band, creating a troubadour psychedelia mix set to the tune of deep, visceral lyrics. Performing new material from his 12-track debut Southern Iron, where Hultquist merges the brain power of producers Frank Liddell (Brandi Carlile, Aubrie Sellers) and Eric Masse (Rayland Baxter, Andrew Combs, Mikky Ekko), creating a mix of classic production and aural atmospheres. Friends Rayland Baxter and Matthew Logan Vasquez weave their sultry vocals in and out of the record, which can be heard in full, backed by Hultquist’s band throughout the tour. HILLBILLY JEDI • Two Doors Down (Maryville) • 9PM THREE STAR REVIVAL WITH MARADEEN • Scruffy City Hall • 9PM • Jazzy, jammy, funky Americana. THE CHUCK MULLICAN JAZZ BONANZA • The Bistro at the Bijou • 9PM • Live jazz. • FREE THE TOMMY JOHN BAND • Paul’s Oasis • 9:30PM FRAZIERBAND • Boyd’s Jig and Reel • 10PM • FREE SOULFINGER • Preservation Pub • 10PM • The local funk/ soul/R&B band celebrates its 10th anniversary. 21 and up. DAJE MORRIS • Bar Marley • 8PM • FREE SOUTHERN CITIES • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria (Maryville) • 9PM WRAY WITH GROUNDHOG • Pilot Light • 9PM • 18 and up. • $6 THE HARAKIRIS WITH MANHATTAN3, GENKI GENKI PANIC,

THEATRE OBSOLETE: THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER Union Ave Books (517 Union Ave.) • Friday, Oct. 14 • 8 p.m. • Free • facebook.com/theatreobsolete/

The edgy puppetry and performance troupe Theatre Obsolete mixes puppets with human actors, music, and approaches that range from horror to comedy. It emerges from the shadows once or twice a year, most reliably for a Halloween show inspired by ghost stories of the 1930s and ’40s. This year it uses the frame of an old-time medicine show to tell Washington Irving’s story of a man who makes a deal with the devil. The production, in which small puppets will graduate to life-size, will have new elements, such as shadow puppets and original songs, says Bran Rogers, founder and director of the troupe. He says the group, which ranges from three to six members, has been developing this play for five years. Rogers became fascinated with puppetry when he was 15—he discovered a trunk of puppets in his hometown Baptist church. He’s inspired by German expressionist puppetry, which combines abstract puppets with elaborate choreography and dance. Many of Theatre Obsolete’s puppets are shaped from finds in the retail Halloween section—especially those plastic skulls with flexible jaws, which form a great mold for hand-puppet heads. (This version at Union Ave Books on Friday is a preview; the full production will be performed on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Temple House Halloween Art Show at the Mary Boyce Temple House at 623 W. Hill Ave. Rogers says the group plans to perform the show again at Ijams Nature Center in November, but a date hasn’t been set yet.) (S. Heather Duncan)

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CALENDAR AND STONEWASHED SAVIOR • The Open Chord • 8PM • All ages. • $5 Sunday, Oct. 16 SHIFFLETT’S JAZZ BENEDICT • The Bistro at the Bijou • 12PM • Live jazz. • FREE SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH • Downtown Grill and Brewery • 12:45PM • Knoxville’s coolest jazz artists perform every Sunday. • FREE THE BLUES SESSIONS • Star of Knoxville Riverboat • 4PM • Come join the Smoky Mountain Blues Society as they present some of the best known regional Blues Music artists performing on specialty cruises on the Tennessee River. From April through October, blues lovers will convene to celebrate this truly American art-form during a 3 hour Sunday afternoon cruise on the Star of Knoxville Tennessee Riverboat. Visit smokymountainblues.org. • $16-$20 J. LUKE • Wild Wing Cafe • 6PM • FREE BEN RECTOR • Tennessee Theatre • 8PM • Eight years after he began touring while at the University of Arkansas and two years after his first entry into the Top Twenty on the Billboard Album Chart, Ben Rector is back with a new album and is feeling Brand New. The singer-songwriter’s newest album marks a return to the spirit of his youth, when he was a music-crazed teenager playing guitar in his Tulsa bedroom. At the same time, its message is both sincere and humble, anchored by songs that are honest and meaningful. It’s pop music with a purpose. • $29.50-$39.50 LARA HOPE AND THE ARK TONES WITH BELLE OF THE FALL • Preservation Pub • 10PM • 21 and up. KUKULY AND THE GYPSY FUEGO • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 8PM • Numerous titles from the Fuego’s long and varied set list are associated with—or performed in the style of—the late Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, who, in Paris between the world wars, invented what’s still referred to as hot jazz. DAIKAIJU WITH THE ROACHEATERS • Pilot Light • 10PM • 18 and up. • $5 Monday, Oct. 17 MUDDY RUCKUS WITH LARA HOPE AND THE ARK TONES • WDVX • 12PM • Part of WDVX’s Blue Plate Special, a six-days-a-week lunchtime concert series featuring local, regional, and national Americana, folk, pop, rock, and everything else. • FREE HATEBREED WITH DEVILDRIVER AND DEVIL YOU KNOW • The International • 8PM • The Concrete Confessional, Hatebreed’s seventh full-length recording and one of Rolling Stone’s “25 Most Anticipated Metal Albums for 2016,” has debuted at #13 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums chart. The Grammy-nominated band also sees the album making its first-week bow at #2 on the Hard Rock Albums and Current Hard Rock Albums charts, and #3 on the Top Independent Albums chart. 18 and up. Visit internationalknox.com. • $20-$25 SANG SARAH WITH THE BILLY WIDGETS AND THE HARAKIRIS • Scruffy City Hall • 9PM SWAMP CANDY • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 10PM • Swamp Candy is an internationally touring, primitive blues influenced Americana duo. MUDDY RUCKUS • Preservation Pub • 10PM • 21 and up. Tuesday, Oct. 18 DOUG E. REES WITH THE MATT FASSAS TRIP • WDVX • 12PM • Part of WDVX’s Blue Plate Special, a six-days-a-week lunchtime concert series featuring local, regional, and national Americana, folk, pop, rock, and everything else. • FREE

EL SILVER CAB WITH PAPERWORK AND CHEESE AND THE WORMS • Pilot Light • 9PM • 18 and up. • $5 STRAHAN AND THE GOOD NEIGHBORS • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 10PM JONNY GRAVE • Preservation Pub • 10PM • 21 and up. Wednesday, Oct. 19 DOUG STRAHAN AND THE GOOD NEIGHBORS WITH BILL MIZE • WDVX • 12PM • Part of WDVX’s Blue Plate Special, a six-days-a-week lunchtime concert series featuring local, regional, and national Americana, folk, pop, rock, and everything else. • FREE FROG AND TOAD’S DIXIE QUARTET • The Crown and Goose • 6:30PM • Live jazz featuring a mix of original music, early jazz and more. • FREE TENNESSEE SHINES: MALCOLM HOLCOMBE • Boyd’s Jig and Reel • 7PM • Singer-songwriter Malcolm Holcombe returns to our stage to play songs from his new record, Another Black Hole. About the intense Western North Carolinian who is a longtime favorite of WDVX listeners, author Craig Havighurst writes, “He is cryptic, demanding, polarizing, bold, passionate and free, a combination badly needed in our time of infinite trivia.” • $10 THE CASEY GREEN TRIO • The Bistro at the Bijou • 7PM • Live jazz. • FREE JOSH ERWIN AND TROY HARRIS • Sugarlands Distilling Co. (Gatlinburg) • 7PM • FREE OMNI • Pilot Light • 9PM • Playing lo-fi pop that channels the spectre of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Omni brings you back to an era where any sane person was reeling from the unfulfilled promise of the Space Age and Age of Aquarius bleeding into the looming threat of “Morning in America.” Omni distills the buzz and grit that snakes through the best of Television, Devo, and Pylon into surprisingly danceable, hook-laden slabs of raw, angular, sonic bliss. 18 and up. • $6 BELLAS BARTOK • Preservation Pub • 10PM • 21 and up. Thursday, Oct. 20 SHIMMY AND THE BURNS WITH MARY ELLEN KIRK AND RUTH ACUFF • WDVX • 12PM • Part of WDVX’s Blue Plate Special, a six-days-a-week lunchtime concert series featuring local, regional, and national Americana, folk, pop, rock, and everything else. • FREE THE BARSTOOL ROMEOS • Scruffy City Hall • 6PM • Part of Wayne Bledsoe’s weekly Six O’Clock Swerve show on WDVX. • FREE BLUE OCTOBER • The International • 8PM • With lush, atmospheric songs such as “Bleed Out,” “Angels In Everything” and “Fear,” and the edgy rocker “Put It In,” the Texas four-piece comes back strong with a revitalized energy and a positive outlook. All ages. • $25-$50 LIONEL YOUNG • Brackins Blues Club (Maryville) • 8PM PETE SCHLEGEL • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria (Maryville) • 8PM THE WHISTLES AND THE BELLS • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 10PM THE STEPSISTERS • Preservation Pub • 10PM • 21 and up. Friday, Oct. 21 CALEB WARREN AND THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN WITH COLD HEART CANYON • WDVX • 12PM • Part of WDVX’s Blue Plate Special, a six-days-a-week lunchtime concert series featuring local, regional, and national Americana, folk, pop, rock, and everything else. • FREE THE ROYAL HOUNDS • Sugarlands Distilling Co. (Gatlinburg) • 7PM • The Royal Hounds flaunt blistering chops, estimable wit, and anarchic showmanship that reigns at their live performances. • FREE TIM LEE 3 ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HAPPY HOUR • Pilot Light • 7PM • October 13, 2016

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CALENDAR Knoxville band Tim Lee 3 and their offspring alt duo, Bark, have announced a four-week series of early shows at Pilot Light on every Friday during the month of October. With Karl Mountain, Eric Lee and Jason Boardman, and Bark. • $5 ALABAMA WITH CHARLIE DANIELS • Knoxville Civic Coliseum • 7:30PM • Alabama is the band that changed country music. With a record that remains unparalleled across any genre, the band reeled off 21 straight #1 singles. WDVX-TRAVAGANZA: RAY WYLIE HUBBARD AND ELIZABETH COOK • The Standard • 7:30PM • Elizabeth Cook didn’t quite know what she was doing. But she knew there were songs, and they had to get out. Six even years since her critically acclaimed Welder, as well as much personal tumult, there were songs that needed to be born. Exodus of Venus will be something of a shock. If she maintains the tang of her drawl, what emerges – beyond Cook’s always vibrant and vivid sense of detail – is a song cycle soaked in turpentine, musk and honey. • $30-$100 FROG AND TOAD’S DIXIE QUARTET • The Crown and Goose • 8PM • Live jazz featuring a mix of original music, early jazz and more. • FREE BAND OF HORSES • The Mill and Mine • 8PM • In the months leading up to today’s release of fifth studio album Why Are You OK (Interscope), Band Of Horses have truly made the most of every precious moment—taking every opportunity to share with press and radio, home audio companies, streaming services, independent record retailers–and most importantly their fans – just how

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passionate they are about this album which is finally available for all to hear. • $35-$38 BILL MIZE • Laurel Theater • 8PM • Tennessee native Bill Mize is a past winner of the National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition at The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. • $13 THE TEMPER EVANS BAND • Two Doors Down (Maryville) • 9PM TALKING DREADS WITH ELECTRIC DARLING • Scruffy City Hall • 9PM THE MATT COKER ORGAN TRIO • The Bistro at the Bijou • 9PM • Live jazz. • FREE ISLANDS WITH STEADY HOLIDAY • The Concourse • 9PM • Should I Remain Here At Sea? (a semi-reference to Tarkovsky’s “Solaris”) Islands’ seventh album is, in many ways, a spiritual sequel to the debut album, 2006’s Return to the Sea; a natural, raw record, stripped down to it’s essentials, performed live off the floor. 18 and up. Visit internationalknox.com. • $12-$15 FISH STICKS • Brackins Blues Club (Maryville) • 9PM THE YOUNG FABLES • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria (Maryville) • 9PM FAUX FEROCIOUS • Pilot Light • 10PM • The Nashville indie rock band (which originally formed in Knoxville) celebrates the release of its new album, Cloning the Rubicon. 18 and up. • $8 JADEN CARLSON AND THE COMET CONDUCTORS WITH SHIMMY AND THE BURNS • Preservation Pub • 10PM • 21 and up. CALEB WARREN AND THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN • Boyd’s Jig and Reel • 10PM • FREE

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DJ AND DANCE NIGHTS

Saturday, Oct. 15 TEMPLE DANCE NIGHT • The Concourse • 9PM • Knoxville’s long-running alternative once night. 18 and up. • $5 ASCEND • The International • 9PM • Ascend is Knoxville’s interactive dance experience. Take it to the next level with us every Saturday night with the best music of today and your favorite throwbacks. 18 and up. • $5-$10 Thursday, Oct. 20 THE SPINS • The Open Chord • 8PM • Vinyl Me, Please presents a monthly record night with giveaways, a preview of a newly released record, and live music performances. Visit openshordmusic.com. • FREE Friday, Oct. 21 TEKNOX V. 30 • The Birdhouse • 10PM • The monthly techno, house, and underground dance night features C Powers and D2T from Georgia and Saint Thomas LeDoux. 21 and up. • FREE

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Thursday, Oct. 13 SCRUFFY CITY ORCHESTRA • First Baptist Church • 7PM •

Prospective members, especially string players, are encouraged to contact Alicia Meryweather at ScruffyCityOrchestra@gmail.com for more information. • FREE KSO MASTERWORKS: THE FOUR SEASONS • Tennessee Theatre • 7:30PM • The KSO’s October Masterworks performances feature Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons, with violinist Giora Schmidt as soloist. • $13-$83 • See From the Pit on page 20. MARBLE CITY OPERA: ‘LA DIVINA’ AND ‘GALLANTRY’ • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 8PM • Marble City Opera will present two American comic operas: La Divina by Thomas Pasatieri, and Gallantry, a soap-opera, opera by Douglas Moore. Visit marblecityopera.com. Friday, Oct. 14 KSO MASTERWORKS: THE FOUR SEASONS • Tennessee Theatre • 7:30PM • The KSO’s October Masterworks performances feature Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons, with violinist Giora Schmidt as soloist. • $13-$83 • See From the Pit on page 20. MARBLE CITY OPERA: ‘LA DIVINA’ AND ‘GALLANTRY’ • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 8PM • Marble City Opera will present two American comic operas: La Divina by Thomas Pasatieri, and Gallantry, a soap-opera, opera by Douglas Moore. Visit marblecityopera.com. Wednesday, Oct. 19 UT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL • University of Tennessee • Big Ears isn’t the only local music festival that explores the outer reaches of modern music. The University of Tennessee’s second annual Contemporary

CALENDAR Music Festival will bring a program of 21st-century music to campus and downtown this fall. The festival begins on Wednesday, Oct. 19, and runs through Saturday, Oct. 22, and features the UT Contemporary Music Ensemble and guest artist Yarn/Wire, a New York new music chamber ensemble featuring two percussionists and two pianists, one of whom is UT grad Laura Barger. For more information and a complete schedule, visit music.utk.edu/events. • See Music story on page 18. Thursday, Oct. 20 SCRUFFY CITY ORCHESTRA • First Baptist Church • 7PM • Prospective members, especially string players, are encouraged to contact Alicia Meryweather at ScruffyCityOrchestra@gmail.com for more information. • FREE UT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL • University of Tennessee • For more information and a complete schedule, visit music.utk.edu/events. • See Music story on page 18. Friday, Oct. 21 KNOXVILLE OPERA: ‘THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE’ • Tennessee Theatre • 7:30PM • Gilbert and Sullivan’s rollicking The Pirates of Penzance kicks off Knoxville Opera’s 2016-17 season. The comic classic is filled with many of G&S’s most famous tunes, including “I am the very model of a modern Major-General.” This superb family-friendly farce is packed full of sentimental pirates, blundering police, and improbable paradoxes. • $21-$99 • See preview on page 20. UT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL • University of Tennessee • For more information and a complete schedule, visit music.utk.edu/events. • See Music story on page 18. Saturday, Oct. 22 UT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL • University of Tennessee • For more information and a complete schedule, visit music.utk.edu/events. • See Music story on page 18. Sunday, Oct. 23 KNOXVILLE OPERA: ‘THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE’ • Tennessee Theatre • 2:30PM • Gilbert and Sullivan’s rollicking The Pirates of Penzance kicks off Knoxville Opera’s 2016-17 season. • $21-$99 • See preview on page 20. UT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA • University of Tennessee Alumni Memorial Building • 4PM • FREE

THEATER AND DANCE

Thursday, Oct. 13 CLARENCE BROWN THEATRE: ‘THE CRUCIBLE’ • Carousel Theatre • 7:30PM • Arthur Miller’s searing play chronicles the historical events in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The fear and accusations of Salem may be an aberration of the American Dream, but it has lent its name to later witch hunts that recur from time to time in the ongoing American story. Sept. 28-Oct. 16. Visit clarencebrowntheatre.com. OAK RIDGE PLAYHOUSE: ‘IT’S ONLY A PLAY’ • Oak Ridge Playhouse • 8PM • It’s opening night of Broadway’s newest play, and the wealthy producer is throwing a lavish party at her Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs in the bedroom, where a collection of theatre insiders (including the excitable playwright, the unstable director, and the pill-popping leading lady) await the reviews.

Toss in an acerbic theatre critic and an insecure TV actor, and you have a hilarious recipe for the narcissism, childishness, and just plain irrationality that infuse the theatre. Oct. 7-16. Visit orplayhouse.com. ONCE • Clayton Center for the Arts (Maryville) • 7:30PM • Once is the celebrated musical based on the Academy Award-winning film. Once tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who’s about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights … but their unlikely connection turns out to be deeper and more complex than your everyday romance. • $39.50-$62.50 Friday, Oct. 14 CLARENCE BROWN THEATRE: ‘THE CRUCIBLE’ • Carousel Theatre • 7:30PM • Sept. 28-Oct. 16. Visit clarencebrowntheatre.com. OAK RIDGE PLAYHOUSE: ‘IT’S ONLY A PLAY’ • Oak Ridge Playhouse • 8PM • Oct. 7-16. Visit orplayhouse.com. THEATRE KNOXVILLE DOWNTOWN: ‘EARTH AND SKY’ • Theatre Knoxville Downtown • 8PM • Earth and Sky is a poetic thriller about a would-be poet and part-time librarian named Sara McKeon whose lover of ten weeks, David Ames, is found dead one hot August morning in the city of Chicago. It appears that David, owner and manager of an expensive art-deco restaurant, may have been involved in several illicit activities including kidnapping, rape and murder. Unable to believe that the man she gave her heart to was a killer, and outraged that the police seem to have closed the book on the case, Sara begins her own investigation of the crime and is led deeper and deeper through the urban labyrinth into the contemporary underworld. Oct. 14-30. Visit theatreknoxville.com. • $15 Saturday, Oct. 15 CLARENCE BROWN THEATRE: ‘THE CRUCIBLE’ • Carousel Theatre • 7:30PM • Sept. 28-Oct. 16. Visit clarencebrowntheatre.com. OAK RIDGE PLAYHOUSE: ‘IT’S ONLY A PLAY’ • Oak Ridge Playhouse • 8PM • Oct. 7-16. Visit orplayhouse.com. THEATRE KNOXVILLE DOWNTOWN: ‘EARTH AND SKY’ • Theatre Knoxville Downtown • 8PM • Oct. 14-30. Visit theatreknoxville.com. • $15

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Sunday, Oct. 16 CLARENCE BROWN THEATRE: ‘THE CRUCIBLE’ • Carousel Theatre • 2PM • Sept. 28-Oct. 16. Visit clarencebrowntheatre.com. OAK RIDGE PLAYHOUSE: ‘IT’S ONLY A PLAY’ • Oak Ridge Playhouse • 2PM • Oct. 7-16. Visit orplayhouse.com. THEATRE KNOXVILLE DOWNTOWN: ‘EARTH AND SKY’ • Theatre Knoxville Downtown • 3PM • Oct. 14-30. Visit theatreknoxville.com. • $15

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Thursday, Oct. 20 THEATRE KNOXVILLE DOWNTOWN: ‘EARTH AND SKY’ • Theatre Knoxville Downtown • 8PM • Oct. 14-30. Visit theatreknoxville.com. • $15

COMEDY AND SPOKEN WORD

Thursday, Oct. 13 PIZZA HAS • Pizza Hoss • 8PM • On the second Thursday of the month, Pizza Hoss in Powell hosts a showcase featuring sets from some of the best comedians in East

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CALENDAR Tennessee along with selected up-and-coming talent. Each month one of the hosts of Rain/Shine Event productions (Shane Rhyne, Tyler Sonnichsen, and Sean Simoneau) serves as your guide to introduce you the best of our region’s comedy scene. • FREE HENRY ROLLINS • Bijou Theatre • 8PM • In describing Henry Rollins, the tendency is to try to squeeze as many labels as possible into a single sentence. “Rollins is many things,” says the Washington Post, “diatribist, confessor, provocateur, humorist, even motivational speaker…his is an enthusiastic and engaging chatter.” • $24-$34 Friday, Oct. 14 PAULA POUNDSTONE • Bijou Theatre • 8PM • 32 years ago Paula Poundstone climbed on a Greyhound bus and traveled across the country -- stopping in at open mic nights at comedy clubs as she went. She went on to become one of our country’ s foremost humorists. • $33 Sunday, Oct. 16 UPSTAIRS UNDERGROUND COMEDY • Preservation Pub • 8PM • A weekly comedy open mic. Visit scruffycity.com. Monday, Oct. 17 FRIENDLYTOWN • Pilot Light • 7:30PM • A weekly comedy night named after the former red-light district near the

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Old City. Visit facebook.com/friendlytownknoxville. 18 and up. • FREE Tuesday, Oct. 18 EINSTEIN SIMPLIFIED • Scruffy City Hall • 8PM • Einstein Simplified Comedy performs live comedy improv at Scruffy City Hall. It’s just like Whose Line Is It Anyway, but you get to make the suggestions. Show starts at 8:15, get there early for the best seats. No cover. • FREE OPEN MIC STAND-UP COMEDY • Longbranch Saloon • 8PM • Come laugh until you cry at the Longbranch every Tuesday night. Doors open at 8:30, first comic at 9. No cover charge, all are welcome. Aspiring or experienced comics interested in joining in the fun can email us at longbranch.info@gmail.com to learn more, or simply come to the show a few minutes early. • FREE Thursday, Oct. 20 THIRD THURSDAY COMEDY OPEN MIC • Big Fatty’s Catering Kitchen • 7:30PM • We will showcase local and touring talent in a curated open mic of 6 to 8 comics. The event starts at 7:30, and there is no charge for admission. The kitchen will be open as well as their full bar. • FREE DAVID SEDARIS • Bijou Theatre • 8PM • With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great

LIAM YOUNG Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture (1715 Volunteer Boulevard) • Through Oct. 30 • ewing-gallery.utk.edu

Liam Young is technically an architect, but his work isn’t like what most of think of as architecture. Instead of designing buildings, Young thinks about cities and what they might be like in the future—he “explores the possibilities of fantastic, perverse and imaginary urbanisms,” according to his online biography at the Princeton University School of Architecture, where he’s a visiting professor. So far in his career, Young has established Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, a London think tank that applies ideas from science fiction and filmmaking to architecture and urban design, “imagin[ing] alternative worlds as a means to understand our world in new ways”; co-curated the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale; and been named one of the 25 people who will change architecture and design by the prestigious British architecture journal Blueprint. Through the end of October, the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture will be hosting video projects by Young—including footage from In the Robot Skies, a dystopian sci-fi movie directed by Young and written by Tim Maughan that was shot entirely by drones and premiered at the London Film Festival last weekend. (Matthew Everett)

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skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. David Sedaris’ next book will be a collection of his diaries, entitled Theft By Finding (summer 2017). • $59.50

FESTIVALS

Friday, Oct. 14 ROCKY TOP PICKIN’ PARTY • Mabry-Hazen House • 6PM • The Rocky Top Pickin’ Party will feature the musical talents of The Bearded, the Hardin Valley Thunder, and you—all under an East Tennessee full moon and close to the heart of downtown Knoxville. All musicians are invited to play. This family-friendly and low-waste fundraiser for Keep Knoxville Beautiful is unlike any other in Knoxville; in between sets, pickers of all levels will form breakout sessions around the grounds. Everyone is invited, but musicians with an instrument pay only $5 to enter. For tickets visit KeepKnoxvilleBeautiful.org • $15-$20 Sunday, Oct. 16 LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY FESTIVAL • Lincoln Park United Methodist Church • 1PM • Join us for the inagural Lincoln Park Community Festival, brought to you by WDVX, Lincoln Park United Methodist Church, and The Parlor. It’s an afternoon of music, crafts, food and family fun celebrating the vibrant community of Lincoln Park in North Knoxville. With music by the Fox Family, Bark, Red Shoes and Rosin, Carpe Opacare, and the Lost Fiddle Stringband. • FREE THE BAREFOOT BENEFIT 5K AND COMMUNITY FESTIVAL • Sequoyah Park • 12:30PM • The 2016 Barefoot Benefit, a 5K foot race and community festival organized by students in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business, features music, food, games and family activities, and includes door prizes from local businesses such as Regal Cinemas. All proceeds will be donated to Samaritan Place, an emergency shelter for senior citizens. Participants are invited to take their shoes off and enjoy the Sequoyah Hills Park lawn. Friday, Oct. 21 UT ARAB FEST 2016 • University of Tennessee • 12PM • Arab Fest 2016 Join us on UT’s Pedestrian Walkway between Hodges Library and Humanities and Social Sciences for our third annual Arab Fest. The event runs from 12:00-9:00 pm on Friday, October 21 and from 12:00-6:00 pm on Saturday October 22. There will be food and craft vendors, children’s activities, and demonstrations of Arabic music, dance, fashion, cooking, and much, much more. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, visit facebook.com/arabfairatut/ and http://religion.utk.edu/arabia/index.php. • FREE KNOXVILLE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL • Regal Downtown West Cinema 8 • The Knoxville Horror Film Festival is committed in bringing the best (and worst) of genre cinema to East Tennessee through our annual film festival and feature screenings throughout the year. Since 2009 KHFF has been a force in the local film community, hosting screenings and events throughout the year and bringing it all together each October for our festival. Visit knoxvillehorrorfest.com. • See Program Notes on page 17. Saturday, Oct. 22 WOLFSTOCK • Wolf PAWS Positive Awareness Wolf-Dog Sanctuary • 12PM • The second annual fundraiser for Wolf PAWS Positive Awareness Wolf-dog Sanctuary. There will be live music, BBQ by the Gigglin’ Pig, vendor booths with

local arts and crafts, a silent aucton and tours of the sanctuary where you can meet our resident wolf-dogs. Come on out and support Wolf PAWS. Free admission, but donations will be appreciated. Visit wolf paws.org. • FREE KNOXVILLE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL • Regal Downtown West Cinema 8 • Visit knoxvillehorrorfest.com. • See Program Notes on page 17. REI THINGAMAJIG! USED GEAR SWAP AND BEER GARDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL • Schulz Bräu Brewing Company • 12PM • It’s a community gear swap with music by Dave Kennedy and Handsome and the Humbles and local food trucks and beer. Sell your favorite gear to fellow outdoor enthusiasts and make some beer money, swap some outdoor stories, rock out to live music, grab a German brew in Schulz Brau Brewery’s bier garden, visit the local food trucks, and feel good about donating to a good cause. (100% of tickets sales support’s the Bike Elf’s mission to provide bicycles to children in East Tennessee who earn them.) Email nwildfi@rei.com for info. • $5 UT ARAB FEST 2016 • University of Tennessee • 12PM • Arab Fest 2016 Join us on UT’s Pedestrian Walkway between Hodges Library and Humanities and Social Sciences for our third annual Arab Fest. The event runs from 12:00-9:00 pm on Friday, October 21 and from 12:00-6:00 pm on Saturday October 22. There will be food and craft vendors, children’s activities, and demonstrations of Arabic music, dance, fashion, cooking, and much, much more. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, visit facebook.com/arabfairatut/ and http://religion.utk.edu/arabia/index.php. • FREE Sunday, Oct. 23 HOWL-O-WEEN POOCH PARADE AND PET EXPO • University of Tennessee • 1PM • Catering to dogs and dog lovers, this event will promote the invaluable resource of the UT Gardens and the College of Veterinary Medicine as well as many other dog-related nonprofits and businesses in the Knoxville area. Contact Beth Willis at ewillis2@utk. edu for additional information. • FREE KNOXVILLE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL • Scruffy City Hall • Visit knoxvillehorrorfest.com. • See Program Notes on page 17.

FILM SCREENINGS

Thursday, Oct. 13 SCHULZ BRÄU FILMNACHT • Schulz Bräu Brewing Company • 9PM • A free weekly movie screening—check social media for the week’s entry. 21 and up. • FREE Friday, Oct. 14 MOVIES ON MARKET SQUARE • Market Square • 8PM • Knox County Public Library’s Movies on Market Square is gearing up for its 13th season of family-friendly outdoor movies in the heart of downtown Knoxville. On six consecutive Friday nights, from Sept. 9-Oct. 14, bring the whole family to see a free movie. The lineup includes The Fox and the Hound (Sept. 9); Legally Blonde (Sept. 16); Up (Sept. 23); Night at the Museum (Sept. 30); Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Oct. 7); and Ghostbusters (Oct. 14). Shows start at dusk. Visit knoxlib.org. • FREE Saturday, Oct. 15 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW’ • Tennessee Theatre • 11PM • While driving home during a rain filled night straight-laced, newly-engaged lovebirds Brad and Janet, by chance, end up at the castle of one Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his strange and bizarre entourage to find that he’s having a party. This is no ordinary party and no ordinary night. This is the unveiling of the Dr’s latest creation:

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Rocky; A man-made Adonis that will give...absolute pleasure. This is an exceedingly grand visual and musical camp satire of the golden days of the B-movie horror and science-fiction genres. Projected along with a musical soundtrack to give “audience participation” a new meaning. • $10

vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago. Homo Sapiens is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario. Visit publiccinema.org. • FREE

Sunday, Oct. 16 NOAM CHOMSKY: REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM’ • University of Tennessee • 7PM • In a series of interviews spanning four years, linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky discusses how the concentration of wealth and power among a small elite has polarized American society and brought about the decline of the middle class. At the University of Tennessee’s Hodges Library. Cosponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America, Knoxnet, and the Platypus Affliliated Society. • FREE

SPORTS AND RECREATION

Monday, Oct. 17 UT OUT FILM SERIES: PARAGRAPH 175 • University of Tennessee • 6PM • Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175. Part of the OUT Film Series at John C. Hodges Library. • FREE THE BIRDHOUSE WALK-IN THEATER • The Birdhouse • 8:15PM • A weekly free movie screening. Visit birdhouseknoxville.com. • FREE Tuesday, Oct. 18 NOKNO CINEMATEQUE: ‘THE BABADOOK’ • Central Collective • 8PM • A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. • FREE Thursday, Oct. 20 SCHULZ BRÄU FILMNACHT • Schulz Bräu Brewing Company • 9PM • A free weekly movie screening—check social media for the week’s entry. 21 and up. • FREE KNOXFERATU: AN EVENING OF SILENT HORROR FILMS • Scruffy City Hall • 7PM • Get a jumpstart on Halloween with a lineup of classic silent movies, including several early horror shorts and F.W. Murnau’s chilling unauthorized Experessionist adaptation of Dracula. • $10 Friday, Oct. 21 KNOXVILLE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL • Regal Downtown West Cinema 8 • The Knoxville Horror Film Festival is committed in bringing the best (and worst) of genre cinema to East Tennessee through our annual film festival and feature screenings throughout the year. Since 2009 KHFF has been a force in the local film community, hosting screenings and events throughout the year and bringing it all together each October for our festival. Visit knoxvillehorrorfest.com. • See Program Notes on page 17. Saturday, Oct. 22 KNOXVILLE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL • Regal Downtown West Cinema 8 • Visit knoxvillehorrorfest.com. • See Program Notes on page 17. Sunday, Oct. 23 KNOXVILLE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL • Scruffy City Hall • Visit knoxvillehorrorfest.com. • See Program Notes on page 17. THE PUBLIC CINEMA: HOMO SAPIENS • Knoxville Museum of Art • 7PM • Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we’re gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with

Thursday, Oct. 13 CYCOLOGY BICYCLES THURSDAY MORNING RIDE • Cycology Bicycles • 10AM • Visit cycologybicycles.com. • FREE NORTH KNOXVILLE BEER RUNNERS • Central Flats and Taps • 6PM • Meet us at Central Flats and Taps every Thursday night for a fun and easy run leading us right through Saw Works for a midway beer. • FREE FLEET FEET GROUP RUN/WALK • Fleet Feet Sports Knoxville • 6PM • Visit fleetfeetknoxville.com. • FREE BEARDEN BIKE AND TRAIL LAPS ON CHEROKEE BOULEVARD • Bearden Bike and Trail • 6PM • Visit beardenbikeandtrail.com. • FREE RIVER SPORTS GREENWAY RIDE • River Sports Outfitters • 6PM • Visit riversportsoutfitters.com. • FREE-$10 CEDAR BLUFF CYCLES BEGINNER ROAD RIDE • Sequoyah Park • 6:20PM • Visit cedarbluffcycles.net. • FREE CEDAR BLUFF CYCLES THURSDAY NIGHT RIDE • Cedar Bluff Cycles • 6:20PM • Visit cedarbluffcycles.net. • FREE Friday, Oct. 14 SPORTS AND RECREATION • October 14 • River Sports Friday Night Greenway Run • River Sports Outfitters • 6:15PM • Visit riversportsoutfitters.com. • FREE Saturday, Oct. 15 WEST BIKES SATURDAY RIDE • West Bicycles • 8AM • Visit westbikes.com. • FREE SMOKY MOUNTAIN HIKING CLUB: CLINGMAN’S DOME TO SILER’S BALD • Smoky Mountain Hiking Club • 8AM • For this high section of the AT, we will start at the Clingmans Dome Bypass trail, hiking the mountain ridge, descending about 1300 feet net in about 4 miles. Open areas allow terrific Fall views south to North Carolina, and north to Tennessee. This 9.5 mile in-and-out hike is rated moderate. Meet at Alcoa Food City, 121 North Hall Road, at 8:00 AM or at Clingmans Dome parking lot at 9:30 am. Leader: Diane Petrilla, petrillad@gmail.com. • FREE BIKE ZOO SATURDAY MORNING RIDE • The Bike Zoo • 9AM • Visit bikezoo.com. • FREE BIKE N’ TRI GROUP CLIMBING RIDE • Bike N’ Tri • 5PM • Join us for our group climbing ride of 30-40 miles, for intermediate to advanced riders only. • FREE Sunday, Oct. 1`6 KTC LAKESHORE TRAIL TREK • 9AM • A 16-mile trail race along the Little Tennessee River near Lenoir City. (There’s also a six-mile race.) Visit ktc.org. • $15 CYCOLOGY BICYCLES SUNDAY MORNING GROUP RIDE • Cycology Bicycles • 9AM • Visit cycologybicycles.com. • FREE TURNING LEAF BICYCLE TOUR • 7AM • The Turning Leaf Tour is a road cycling event that will help Casting for Recovery fund their annual educational and support retreat for 14 women who have experienced breast cancer living in Tennessee, provided at no cost to the participant. 100% of all proceeds will go toward Casting for Recovery’s 2017 education and support retreat. Casting for Recovery (CFR), a national non-profit

organization, provides weekend support and educational retreats specifically tailored for women who have or have had breast cancer. The ride begins at New Hope Center (602 Scarboro Road, Oak Ridge). Visit facebook. com/events/1259654697379468/. THE BAREFOOT BENEFIT 5K AND COMMUNITY FESTIVAL • Sequoyah Park • 12:30PM • The 2016 Barefoot Benefit, a 5K foot race and community festival organized by students in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business, features music, food, games and family activities, and includes door prizes from local businesses such as Regal Cinemas. All proceeds will be donated to Samaritan Place, an emergency shelter for senior citizens. Participants are invited to take their shoes off and enjoy the Sequoyah Hills Park lawn. Monday, Oct. 17 GOODWILL GOLF CLASSIC • Holston Hills Country Club • Goodwill is hosting their 8th Annual Goodwill Golf Classic. Join for a day on the green at the luxurious Holston Hills Country Club and support job training in your community. Registration includes 18 holes of golf, cart rental, lunch, refreshments throughout the event, and the opportunity to win great prizes, including a $10,000 hole-in-one prize! Register online at www. gwiktn.org/golf or call 865.588.8567 for more information. KTC GROUP RUN • Mellow Mushroom • 6PM • Visit ktc.org. • FREE TVB MONDAY NIGHT ROAD RIDE • Tennessee Valley Bikes • 6PM • The soon to be famous Monday night road ride happens every Monday. We usually split into two groups according to speed. Both groups are no-drop groups. The faster group averages over 17 mph and the B group averages around 14 mph. • FREE BEARDEN BEER MARKET FUN RUN • Bearden Beer Market • 6:30PM • Visit beardenbeermarket.com. • FREE BIKE N’ TRI MONDAY GROUP RUN • Bike N’ Tri • 6:30PM • Every Monday evening, join us for a social three- to six-mile group run. All runners/joggers/walkers welcome. • FREE Tuesday, Oct. 18 CYCOLOGY BICYCLES TUESDAY MORNING RIDE • Cycology Bicycles • 9AM • Visit cycologybicycles.com. • FREE CYCOLOGY BICYCLES TUESDAY MORNING RIDE • Cycology Bicycles • 10:30AM • Visit cycologybicycles.com. • FREE AMBC BIG GROUP MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE • Ijams Nature Center • 6PM • Visit ambc-sorba.org. • FREE THIRD CREEK GREENWAY SOCIAL RIDE • Bearden Bike and Trail • 6PM • Visit beardenbikeandtrail.com. • FREE RIVER SPORTS SOCIAL PADDLE • Sequoyah Park • 6PM • Visit riversportsoutfitters.com/events/. • FREE-$15 CEDAR BLUFF CYCLES TUESDAY NIGHT RIDE • Cedar Bluff Cycles • 6:20PM • Visit cedarbluffcycles.net. • FREE HARD KNOX TUESDAY FUN RUN • Hard Knox Pizzeria • 6:30PM • Join Hard Knox Pizzeria every Tuesday evening (rain or shine) for a 2-3 mile fun run. Burn calories. Devour pizza. Quench thirst. Follow us on Facebook. • FREE BIKETOPIA TUESDAY ROAD RIDE • Biketopia • 6:30PM • Visit biketopia.com. • FREE FOUNTAIN CITY ROUNDABOUT • Casual Pint (Fountain City) • 6:30PM • Visit facebook.com/TheCasualPint/. • FREE

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CALENDAR Karyn Kyte. Broadway Studios and Gallery 1127 N. Broadway Oct. 7-29: Jan Lynch: A Retrospective. The District Gallery 5113 Kingston Pike OCT. 7-29: Mask, an exhibit of animal masks by sculptor Nan Jacobsohn. East Tennessee History Center 601 S. Gay St. APRIL 16-OCT. 30: Come to Make Records, a selection of artifacts, audio and video recordings, and photographs celebrating Knoxville’s music heritage and the 1929-30 St. James Hotel recording sessions. Emporium Center for Arts and Culture 100 S. Gay St. OCT. 7-28: Tennessee Artists Association Fall Juried Show; The Arrowmont Experience; pottery by Rex W. Redd; Impressions of Nature, photographic paintings by Dennis Sabo; and artwork by Melanie Fetterolf. Knoxville Arts and Fine Crafts Center 1127B Broadway AUG. 1-OCT. 31: Whimsical Creatures, paintings and photographs by Lela E. Buis. Knoxville Museum of Art

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Thursday, Oct. 13 LITTLE LEARNERS • Blount County Public Library • 10:30AM • Recommended for ages 3-5. Interactive sessions focus on language acquisition and pre-literacy skills incorporating stories, music, motion, play, crafts and more. • FREE CHESS AT THE LIBRARY • Blount County Public Library • 1PM • For middle and high school students, with coach Tom Jobe. Visit blountlibrary.org. • FREE LEGO CLUB • Blount County Public Library • 4PM • LEGO

Club will take place in the children’s library. Kids will complete different-themed and timed LEGO Challenges, as well as have some time for free building. The library will provide the LEGOs, so all you have to bring is your imagination. • FREE Friday, Oct. 14 S.T.E.A.M. KIDS • Blount County Public Library • 4PM • For grades K-5. Every week will be a different adventure, from science experiments to art projects and everything in between. Materials will be limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. • FREE BOO! AT THE ZOO • Knoxville Zoo • 5:30PM • Boo! at the Zoo is Knoxville’s largest Halloween event, featuring 12 nights of safe and not-too-scary Halloween fun perfect for preschool and elementary-aged children. Oct. 6-23. Visit zooknoxville.org. • $9 BE A FRIEND FESTIVAL • Ashley Nicole Park • 10AM • A fun, community-wide effort for our children (kids and teens) to promote friendships, raise awareness and acceptance of each other. • FREE Saturday, Oct. 15 CHESS AT THE LIBRARY • Blount County Public Library • 10AM • For middle and high school students, with coach Tom Jobe. Visit blountlibrary.org. • FREE BLOUNT COUNTY NERD GROUP • Blount County Public Library • 3PM • FREE BOO! AT THE ZOO • Knoxville Zoo • 5:30PM • Boo! at the Zoo is Knoxville’s largest Halloween event, featuring 12 nights of safe and not-too-scary Halloween fun perfect for preschool and elementary-aged children. Oct. 6-23.

Visit zooknoxville.org. • $9 LISPECTORFEST: A CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF CLARICE LISPECTOR • Lawson McGee Public Library • 11AM • The Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist Clarice Lispector is ranked among the greatest Latin American writers of the 20th century. This month, the University of Tennessee’s department of modern foreign languages and literature will take a look at Lispector’s life and work with four days of film screenings and lectures. (Visit mfll.utk.edu for a complete schedule.) The Knox County Public Library is taking part, too, with a discussion of Lispector’s kids’ books. • FREE KNOX LIT EXCHANGE • Central Collective • 11:30AM • The Knoxville Literary Exchange is a free, monthly poetry and prose writing workshop open to high school age students. The workshop will focus on giving students the opportunity to engage in writing, share their writing, and receive encouraging feedback--all in a supportive, safe space. The Knoxville Literary Exchange meets every third Saturday in the fall (September, October, November, and December) and spring (February, March, April, May). For further information, please contact organizer Liam Hysjulien at KnoxLitExchange@gmail.com. • FREE Sunday, Oct. 16 CAN YOU DIG IT? ARCHAEOLOGY AND FOSSIL DAY • McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture • 1:30PM • A number of activities for children, including games, demonstrations, and take home crafts related to archaeology and fossils, will be available. Visitors can

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LECTURES, READINGS, AND BOOK SIGNINGS

Thursday, Oct. 13 LISPECTORFEST: A CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF CLARICE LISPECTOR • Lawson McGee Public Library • 6PM • Hailed as one of the premier Latin American prose writers of the modern era, Brazilian author Clarice Lispector has been compared to the likes of Woolf, Kafka and Nabokov. This October, KCPL is proud to partner with UTK Modern Foreign Language and Literatures to present LispectorFest: A Celebration of the Work of Clarice Lispector.

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Please visit the UT AuthorFest Page for a listing of on-campus LispectorFest events: mfll.utk.edu/Lispector/ index.php. • FREE Friday, Oct. 14 DAVE RAMSEY: “BUILDING A LEGACY” • The Foundry • 6:30PM • Dave Ramsey is a nationally known expert on how to take control of your finances and stay debt free. After dinner the big band sound of the Streamliners will provide music from the ‘40s and early ‘50s with sounds of Count Basie and Duke Ellington. For information or reservations please call 865-546-0745 or email judy@ ramseyhouse.org. All proceeds from this event go directly to support Historic Ramsey House and its mission to preserve, educate and interpret the history of the historic home. • $100 UT SCIENCE FORUM • Thompson-Boling Arena • 12PM • Visit scienceforum.utk.edu. • FREE MONA LISA SCHULTZ: HEAL YOUR MIND: YOUR PRESCRIPTION FOR WHOLENESS THROUGH MEDICINE, AFFIRMATIONS, AND INTUITION • Gypsy Hands • 6:15PM • Schultz will discuss and sign copies of her new book. • $25 Sunday, Oct. 16 HISTORY WALKING TOUR • Central Collective • 4PM • Join us for a historic round-trip walk and talk with historian and author Jack Neely. The tour highlights the history of areas on and around North Central Street. Jack Neely officially served as associate editor at Metro Pulse for much of its existence, but as author of the weekly column Secret History he has become one of Knoxville’s most popular writers and its unofficial historian. Beyond his column, he is well known for his thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative pieces of long-form journalism, not to mention his books, speeches, and other public appearances. Plus, he’s the director of the Knoxville History Project, the governing body behind the Knoxville Mercury. • $16 Monday, Oct. 17 CYNTHIA GRAUBART • Union Ave Books • 6PM • Book signing and discussion with Cynthia Graubart, author of Chicken: A Savor the South Cookbook. • FREE ROBERT WILSON: “WHITE CAPS: MORAL VIGILANTES” • Blount County Public Library • 7PM • Robert Wilson, will describe this ignominious slice of history in nearby Sevier County. Wilson, a retired Knoxville News Sentinel editor, will elaborate on the beginning and unfortunate growth of an effort to establish the “morality vigilantes” and the means they utilized to exercise their power over presumed “offenders.” • FREE Tuesday, Oct. 18 LISPECTORFEST: A CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF CLARICE LISPECTOR • University of Tennessee • 6PM • Hailed as one of the premier Latin American prose writers of the modern era, Brazilian author Clarice Lispector has been compared to the likes of Woolf, Kafka and Nabokov. Events include a screening of The Hour of the Star, Suzana Amaral’s 1985 film adaptation of Lispector’s 1977 novel of the same name (Oct. 18); a lecture and workshop by Katrina Dodson, who translated the new English-language edition of Lispector’s short stories (Oct. 19 and 20); and a related art exhibit at the Central Collective by UT art professor Rubens Ghenov, who was born in Brazil (Oct. 19-21). Visit mfll.utk.edu/Lispector/ for details and a complete schedule. • FREE UNION AVE BOOK CLUB NIGHT • Union Ave Books • 6PM • Random House reps, Toni and Jess, presenting new, upcoming, and popular titles for the season. • FREE

Wednesday, Oct. 19 LISPECTORFEST: A CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF CLARICE LISPECTOR • University of Tennessee • 10AM • Visit mfll. utk.edu/Lispector/ for details and a complete schedule. • FREE Thursday, Oct. 20 LISPECTORFEST: A CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF CLARICE LISPECTOR • University of Tennessee • 10AM • Visit mfll. utk.edu/Lispector/ for details and a complete schedule. • FREE JIM TUMBLIN: ‘FOUNTAIN CITY: PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE’ • East Tennessee History Center • 12PM • Local historian and Shopper columnist Dr. Jim Tumblin will discuss his new book, Fountain City: People Who Made a Difference, the history of Knoxville’s most fiercely independent community as told through the stories of 56 extraordinary citizens. Visit EastTNHistory.org. • FREE MATT MURRAY: “PRESIDENTIAL ECONOMICS: RHETORIC AND REALITY” • Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy • 12:30PM • Murray is the Baker Center director and Boyd Center associate director. • FREE “AN ETHICAL, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY” • Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy • 1PM • Becky Jacobs, a Waller Lansden Distinguished Professor of Law, will moderate an interdisciplinary panel. • FREE MONIQUE WELLS • Knoxville Museum of Art • 5:30PM • Wells, founder and director of the organization dedicated to preserving Knoxville-born Beauford Delaney’s artistic legacy in Paris, will speak at the Knoxville Museum of Art. • Free

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Thursday, Oct. 13 AARP DRIVER SAFETY CLASS • Everett Senior Center • 9AM • Call 382-5822. GENTLE YOGA AND MEDITATION • Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church • 12PM • Call 865-577-2021 or email yogaway249@gmail.com. Donations accepted. PORTRAIT AND LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS • Historic Candoro Marble Company • 12:30PM • Portrait and life drawing practice at Candoro Art and Heritage Center. $10. Call Brad Selph for more information (865-573-0709). • $10 KNOX COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS • Humana Guidance Center • 3:15PM • Jack Frost is on his way. It’s time for the end-of-season cleanup. Whether you grow herbs, veggies, or flowers, there are things you should do now. Join Master Gardener Joe Pardue for a review of clean-up tasks for your pots and containers, flower beds, veggie beds, and your tools before you hunker down for the winter. Call 865-329-8892. • FREE KNOXVILLE CAPOEIRA CLASS • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 6PM • This class is an hour of student-led training and review of Capoeira skills and exercises. Come prepared to sweat. Visit knoxvillecapoeira.org. • $10 KNOXVILLE PERSONAL TRAINING PILATES • Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church • 6:30PM • Every Tuesday and Thursday. First class is free. Call (865) 622-3103 or visit knoxvillepersonaltraining.com. • $4 THIRSTY (FOR KNOWLEDGE) THURSDAY • Old City Wine Bar • 6:30PM • Join our sommelier, Matt Burke, every Thursday in the cellar of the Old City Wine Bar for our ongoing wine education series. Free to listen and only $20-$25 to partake in the libations. • $20-$25

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CALENDAR BELLY DANCE LEVELS 1 AND 2 • Knox Dance Worx • 8PM • Call (865) 898-2126 or email alexia@alexia-dance.com. • $12 SUP YOGA • Concord Park • 7PM • Yoga on a SUP board? Come join us every Thursday at the Cove. We will meet at the River Sports Outfitters building. Cost is $25 and includes board, paddle and PFD. Register at barrebelleyoga.com/class-schedule. • $25 Friday, Oct. 14 AARP DRIVER SAFETY CLASS • Everett Senior Center • 9AM • Call 382-5822 KNOX COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY WINDOWS 10 COMPUTER WORKSHOPS • Lawson McGee Public Library • 9:30AM • Knox County Public Library is pleased to announce a new series of computer workshops based on Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system. The new workshops, which will be held in addition to the ongoing workshops based on Windows 7OS, will be taught using Windows 10 tablet/laptop hybrids with touchscreen, hardware keyboard with touchpad, and mouse/stylus inputs. All classes are free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (865) 215-8723. • FREE Saturday, Oct. 15 FREE LEGAL ADVICE CLINIC • Blount County Public Library • 9AM • Anyone can receive legal advice from lawyers free of charge regardless of socio-economic status at the Free Legal Advice Clinic. For more information regarding this program, please contact Legal Aid of East Tennessee at 307 Ellis Avenue, Maryville, Tennessee 37801, (865) 981-1818, or the Blount County Public Library at (865) 982-0981. • FREE YOGA AT NARROW RIDGE • Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center • 9:30AM • Narrow Ridge invites you to join us every Saturday morning for yoga instruction from Angela Gibson. This class can be tailored to each individual’s ability level. For information call 865-497-2753 or email community@narrowridge.org. • FREE IMPROV COMEDY CLASS • The Birdhouse • 10:30AM • A weekly improv comedy class. • FREE SUP YOGA • Concord Park • 9AM • Yoga on a paddle board, every Saturday at 9 a.m. Cost is $25, including rental, or $12.50 if you already have you own board. Visit riversportsoutfitters.com. • $12.50-$25 Sunday, Oct. 16 CIRCLE MODERN DANCE BALLET BARRE CLASS • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 1PM • Visit circlemoderndance.com. • $10 CIRCLE MODERN DANCE OPEN LEVEL MODERN TECHNIQUE CLASS • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 2PM • Visit circlemoderndance.com. • $10 CIRCLE MODERN DANCE IMPROVISATION CLASS • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 3:30PM • Visit circlemoderndance.com. • $10 CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION SERIES • Cancer Support Community • 5PM • This Mindfulness series teaches practices which help develop the skill of self-compassion while living with the stressors of a cancer diagnosis. Research shows that increasing levels of self-compassion are correlated with a greater sense of wellbeing, lower anxiety and depression levels, maintenance of good health habits and more satisfying interpersonal relationships. RSVP. 865-546-4661. All Cancer Support Community programs are offered at no cost to individuals affected by cancer. ACROKNOX FOUNDATIONAL ACROYOGA • World’s Fair Park • 5:30PM • AcroKnox offers a Foundational AcroYoga Class 30

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on Sunday evenings from 5:30-6:00pm on the festival lawn at World’s Fair Park. The class is followed by the Knoxville Acro-balance, Fire, and Flow Jam. Never tried AcroYoga? Come and gain a bit of experience before the rest of the group arrives for an open jam and play time. Visit acroknox.com. • $5 BEGINNING BRIDGE LESSONS • Knoxville Bridge Center • 1:30PM • Contact Jo Anne Newby at (865} 539-4150 or email KnoxvilleBridge@gmail.com. • $5 Monday, Oct. 17 CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: QUICK AND TASTY COOKING • Cancer Support Community • 12PM • Call 865-546-4661 for more info. All Cancer Support Community programs are offered at no cost to individuals affected by cancer. KNOX COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS • Davis Family YMCA • 1PM • Jack Frost is on his way. It’s time for the end-of-season cleanup. Whether you grow herbs, veggies, or flowers, there are things you should do now. Join Master Gardener Joe Pardue for a review of clean-up tasks for your pots and containers, flower beds, veggie beds, and your tools before you hunker down for the winter. Call 865-777-9622. • FREE GENTLE YOGA AND MEDITATION • Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church • 5:30PM • Call 865-5772021 or email yogaway249@gmail.com. Donations accepted. BEGINNER MODERN BELLY DANCE • Broadway Academy of Performing Arts • 6PM • Tribal fusion belly dance is a modern blend of traditional belly dance infused with hip-hop, modern dance, and more to create a new, unique dance form. Each class will include an invigorating warm-up designed to increase flexibility and strength followed by an overview of posture, isolations, and basic footwork. At the end of class we put the moves together in a fun and simple combination. No dance experience is necessary. • $13 KNOXVILLE PERSONAL TRAINING BOOT CAMP • Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church • 6:30PM • First class is free. Call (865) 622-3103 or visit knoxvillepersonaltraining.com. • $15 BEGINNING CHEN-STYLE TAI CHI • Breezeway Yoga Studio • 8:15PM • An eight-week introductory-level training with Shifu Russell Sauls in the original form of Tai Chi. Chen style is significantly more dynamic than most other styles while expressing the mindful, fluid movement for which Tai Chi is famous. No experience necessary for this beginners’ series. Begins Monday, Oct. 10. $120 for the eight-week series. Visit breezewayyoga.com or email russellsauls@gmail.com for more info • $120 Tuesday, Oct. 18 OPEN PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL CONTEMPORARY DANCE CLASS • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 9:30AM • Taught by Harper Addison. First class is free. Class is designed to develop a well-rounded set of technical skills as well as encourage individual artistic expression. Her movement style and choreography highlight dynamic quality changes, level changes, and movement through space. • $10 GENTLE YOGA AND MEDITATION • Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church • 12PM • Call 865-577-2021 or email yogaway249@gmail.com. Donations accepted. GENERATIONS GENEALOGY RESEARCH GROUP • Beck Cultural Exchange Center • 5:30PM • Generations Genealogy Research Group is open to people of all ages interested in genealogy and family history. KNOXVILLE CAPOEIRA CLASS • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 6PM • Visit capoeiraknoxville.org. • $10

KNOXVILLE PERSONAL TRAINING PILATES • Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church • 6:30PM • Every Tuesday and Thursday. First class is free. Call (865) 622-3103 or visit knoxvillepersonaltraining.com. • $4 BEGINNING BRIDGE LESSONS • Knoxville Bridge Center • 6PM • Contact Jo Anne Newby at (865} 539-4150 or email KnoxvilleBridge@gmail.com. • $5

Ridge Earth Literacy Center • 11AM • Narrow Ridge invites you to join us for our Silent Meditation Gathering. The gatherings are intended to be inclusive of people of all faiths as well as those who do not align themselves with a particular religious denomination. For information call 865-497-2753 or email community@narrowridge.org. • FREE

Wednesday, Oct. 19 AFFORDABLE CARE ACT HEALTH CARE ENROLLMENT • Blount County Public Library • 9AM • A qualified navigator will be at the library to meet with individuals and families to help with registration for the Affordable Care Act on the third Wednesday of every month. An appointment is required by calling 1-844-644-5443, or you can visit www.GetCoveredTenn.org/commit. • FREE CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: HEALING THROUGH ART • Cancer Support Community • 1PM • No experience necessary. RSVP. Call 865-546-4661 for more info. All Cancer Support Community programs are offered at no cost to individuals affected by cancer. CIRCLE MODERN DANCE INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED MODERN TECHNIQUE CLASS • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 6PM • Visit circlemoderndance.com. BEGINNER MODERN BELLY DANCE • Broadway Academy of Performing Arts • 6PM • No dance experience is necessary. • $13 CIRCLE MODERN DANCE OPEN LEVEL BALLET CLASS • Emporium Center for Arts and Culture • 7:30PM • Visit circlemoderndance.com. • $10

Sunday, Oct. 16 RATIONALISTS OF EAST TENNESSEE • Pellissippi State Community College • 10:30AM • The Rationalists of East Tennessee focus on the real or natural universe. The group exists so that we can benefit emotionally and intellectually through meeting together to expand our awareness and understanding through shared experience, knowledge, and ideas as well as enrich our lives and the lives of others. The Rationalists do not endorse or condemn members’ thoughts or actions. Rather it hopefully encourages honest dialogue, analytic discussion, and responsible action based on reason, compassion, and factual accuracy. Visit rationalists.org. • FREE

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Thursday, Oct. 13 CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA, AND MYELOMA NETWORKER • Cancer Support Community • 6PM • This drop-in group is open for those with leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and myeloproliferative disorders and their support persons. Participants will be able to exchange information, discuss concerns and share experiences. Call 865-546-4661 for more info. All Cancer Support Community programs are offered at no cost to individuals affected by cancer. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES • The Birdhouse • 6PM • A 12-step meeting for adults who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. The group offers a safe space for emotional healing. Contact Laura at 706-621-2238 or lamohendricksll@ gmail.com for more information or visit the international ACA website at adultchildren.org. • FREE Saturday, Oct. 15 100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER KNOXVILLE • Beck Cultural Exchange Center • 10AM • The 100 Black Men of Greater Knoxville’s purpose is to serve as a catalyst to empower African-American and other minority youth to individually and collectively reach their full potential through maximizing their resources that foster and enhance achievement in education and community and economic development. To accomplish this objective, we partner with primary and secondary schools and community organizations engaged in similar activities. AL-ANON • Faith Lutheran Church • 11AM • Al-Anon’s purpose is to help families and friends of alcoholics recover from the effects of living with the problem drinking of a relative or friend. Visit our local website at farragutalanon.org or email us at FindHope@ Farragutalanon.org. • FREE NARROW RIDGE SILENT MEDITATION GATHERING • Narrow

Monday, Oct. 17 GAY MEN’S DISCUSSION GROUP • Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church • 7:30PM • We hold facilitated discussions on topics and issues relevant to local gay men in a safe and open environment. Visit gaygroupknoxville.org. Tuesday, Oct. 18 ATHEISTS SOCIETY OF KNOXVILLE • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 5:30PM • Weekly atheists meetup and happy hour. Come join us for food, drink and great conversation. Everyone welcome. • FREE DER GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS STAMMTISCH • Los Amigos • 6PM • A weekly gathering for Germans and anyone interested in German culture and the German language. • FREE THREE RIVERS! EARTH FIRST! • Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 8PM • Three Rivers! Earth First! is the local dirt-worshiping, tree-hugging, anarchist collective that meets every Sunday night on the second floor of Barley’s in the back room (when its available) to organize against strip mining, counter protest the KKK and Nazis, to clean up Third Creek and to fight evil corporations in general. Open meeting, rotating facilitation, collective model. Y’all come. Call (865) 257-4029 for more information. • FREE Wednesday, Oct. 19 CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY WOMEN WITH ADVANCED CANCER NETWORKER • Cancer Support Community • 1:30PM • Join other women who are living with cancer as a chronic illness to discuss feelings and experiences that are unique to women with advanced cancer. Please call before your first visit. Call 865-546- 4661 for more info. All Cancer Support Community programs are offered at no cost to individuals affected by cancer. THE SOUTHERN LITERATURE BOOK CLUB • Union Ave Books • 6PM • Union Ave Books’ monthly discussion group about Southern books and writers. Visit unionavebooks.com. • FREE ORION ASTRONOMY CLUB • The Grove Theater • 7PM • ORION is an amateur science and astronomy club centered in Oak Ridge that was founded in April 1974 by a group of scientists at the United States Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. We serve Oak Ridge, Knoxville, and the counties of Anderson, Knox, and Roane. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month for coffee and conversation, and our program begins 15 minutes thereafter. • FREE

Thursday, Oct. 13 - Sunday, Oct. 23

Thursday, Oct. 20 CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT GROUP • Cancer Support Community • 4:30PM • CSC is committed to providing bereavement services to those who have lost a loved one to cancer. Please contact our clinical staff before attending. Call 865-546-4661 for more info. All Cancer Support Community programs are offered at no cost to individuals affected by cancer. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES • The Birdhouse • 6PM • Contact Laura at 706-621-2238 or lamohendricksll@gmail.com for more information or visit the international ACA website at adultchildren.org. • FREE STOP SCHOOL PUSHOUT OPEN HOUSE • Mount Calvary Baptist Church • 6PM • You are invited to join us to learn how you can be part of Stop School PushOut Coalition efforts to end the school-to-prison pipeline and bring discipline reform to the children of Knox County. • FREE BLACK LIVES MATTER • The Birdhouse • 7:30PM • #BlackLivesMatter is working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. Visit blacklivesmatterknoxville.org. • FREE

Amy Dawson will present a special menu featuring wild harvested herbs and mushrooms, pastured meats, house made rustic breads and seasonal produce from small farms in West Virginia and the Tennessee Valley. Menu is based on projected wild harvesting conditions and availability from small farms. If weather, blight or other unforeseen circumstances affect product availability, certain menu items may change slightly. • $75 KNOXVILLE SQUARE DANCE • Laurel Theater • 8PM • Jubilee Community Arts presents Knoxville Square Dance with live old-time music by the Helgramites and calling by Stan Sharp, Ruth Simmons and Leo Collins. No experience or partner is necessary and the atmosphere is casual. (No taps, please.) Visit jubileearts.org. • $7

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Saturday, Oct. 15 OAK RIDGE FARMERS MARKET • Historic Jackson Square • 8AM • FREE MARKET SQUARE FARMERS’ MARKET • Market Square • 9AM • The MSFM, a project of Nourish Knoxville, is an open-air farmers’ market located on historic Market Square in the heart of downtown Knoxville. Visit marketsquarefarmersmarket.org. • FREE

Thursday, Oct. 13 LOST CREEK FARM FARM AND FORAGE DINNER • Central Collective • 7PM • Join us for a six-course autumn dinner bringing culinary traditions and innovations from north central West Virginia to Knoxville. Chef Mike Costello and

Friday, Oct. 14 GEM, MINERAL, AND JEWELRY SHOW • Kerbela Temple • 10AM • Gem, mineral, and jewelry dealers, geology exhibits, and prizes. • $5 LAKESHORE PARK FARMERS MARKET • Lakeshore Park • 3PM • Offering a wide variety of hand-picked produce, artisan breads, grass-fed beef, natural pork and chicken, farm fresh eggs and farm-based crafts. • FREE

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GEM, MINERAL, AND JEWELRY SHOW • Kerbela Temple • 10AM • Gem, mineral, and jewelry dealers, geology exhibits, and prizes. • $5 Sunday, Oct. 16 GEM, MINERAL, AND JEWELRY SHOW • Kerbela Temple • 10AM • Gem, mineral, and jewelry dealers, geology exhibits, and prizes. • $5 Tuesday, Oct. 18 EBENEZER ROAD FARMERS MARKET • Ebenezer United Methodist Church • 3PM • FREE PUMPKIN-CARVING PARTY • Central Collective • 6PM • Get in the fall spirit with some good old-fashioned pumpkin carving. We’ll supply the pumpkin and tools, you bring your best carving skills. Prizes will be awarded for our favorite pumpkins. Stick around afterwards for a horror film screening and roasted pumpkin seeds. $10 ticket includes pumpkin, carving tools, and light refreshments (BYOB), or feel free to drop in with your own pumpkin ($5 donation suggested). • $10 Wednesday, Oct. 19 MARKET SQUARE FARMERS’ MARKET • Market Square • 11AM • The MSFM, a project of Nourish Knoxville, is an open-air farmers’ market located on historic Market Square in the heart of downtown Knoxville. Visit marketsquarefarmersmarket.org. • FREE OAK RIDGE FARMERS MARKET • Historic Jackson Square • 3PM • FREE UT FARMERS MARKET • University of Tennessee • 4PM • For more information about the UT Farmers’ Market you

can visit the market website: vegetables.tennessee.edu/ utfm.html or find it on Facebook. • FREE Thursday, Oct. 20 FRIENDS OF THE BLOUNT COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY PRE-OWNED BOOK SALE • Blount County Public Library • 12PM • A fundraiser for the library where more than 50,000 books are available—$1 for soft cover and $2.50 for hard cover, plus movies (DVD & VHS), audiobooks and specially priced rare books, collectibles and others—by the Friends of the Blount County Public Library (FOL). Thursday, October 20, 12 noon until 8 p.m. “Members Only Sale,” an opportunity for FOL members to purchase books before other members of the public are admitted to the sale. FOL memberships are available at the elevator doors, before accessing the Library Lower Level. Friday & Saturday, October 21 and 22, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EAST TENNESSEE COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER FALL AWARDS GALA • The Foundry • 5:30PM • The ETCDC will hold its annual gala and Halloween party in support of the organization. The Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award, which is a tribute to the legacy of architect Bruce McCarty and the contributions he made to the region as one of the founders of the East Tennessee Community Design Center, will be presented. The new Annette Anderson Community Award also will be presented at the event. • $150

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the pastry case are the many-hued rounds of French sandwich cookies, macarons. You can find these around town in a few places, but so far you’ll get homemade macarons only at Honeybee. The cookies are made from almond flour and come in sundry flavors, including pistachio, crème brûleé, strawberry, and more. These have a slight bite to the exterior that yields to a very agreeable and chewy inside. “It’s hard to make them. It’s time consuming. It’s not only about the recipe but also about the technique,” Armine says. “You’ve got to know when to shake them, when to—well, there’s a lot involved with making them. It’s hard work, but it pays off.” Honeybee does offer a handful of savories, including an Armenian specialty called lahmajun. Armine smiles when she admits that it’s a dish claimed by many nations. “Armenians say it’s Armenian, Arabic people say it’s Arabic, Turks say it’s Turkish,” she says. “It’s made with lamb and vegetables. It’s like a pizza—thin crust pita bread on top with seasoned lamb and vegetables. Like everything else we sell here, the pita is made in-house. We only make it on Saturdays at this time.”

Sweet Surprises Honeybee and Sugar Mama’s aren’t your ordinary bakeries BY DENNIS PERKINS

pastries to Knoxville.“ The pastry case is really a wonder to behold—it’s full of delicious-looking pastries of such uniformity that it’s tempting to think that they’ve been made elsewhere. But every item sold here is painstakingly crafted in-house. That’s pretty easy to say, but harder to imagine when you’re looking at the case itself. The shelves are weighed down with Napoleons, cream puffs, meringues the size of a cat’s head, and enticing cinnamon-apple roses, alongside row after row of different slices of delicate looking, multi-layered rectangles of cream-stuffed cakes. Among these is the Bird’s Milk Cake. It’s an alluring concoction of Russian or Ukrainian or, perhaps, Polish origin that alternates thin layers of honey cake with a creamy, pleasantly but not-too-sweet mousse, all covered with chocolate ganache. The name doesn’t refer to a secret ingredient but to the idea that it’s a rare and wondrous treat, which, I suppose, the idea of a glass of bird’s milk must be to someone else. The pastry, tender and inviting, had a fascinating, nearly decadent texture from the varied softness of the layers. But what really catches the eye in

Like Honey Bee, Sugar Mama’s has a sugary foundation built from a history of cookies of many stripes,

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espite what you might expect, this is not the tale of two sugary bakeries. It’s true that both Honeybee and Sugar Mama’s have names of a dulcet nature, but where one is decidedly sweet the other is making its name a little more savory. Located at 124 North Forest Park Boulevard just a few doors away from Earth Fare, Honeybee Bakery may be Knoxville’s first easily accessible source for Armenian flavor, though owners Armine and Robert Galstyan haven’t created an exclusively Armenian spot—at least not yet. The Galstyans moved to the U.S. a little over 16 years ago and made their way from Los Angeles to Knoxville in 2007. From the get-go, Armine says, “We always talked about how Knoxville is missing out on bakeries where you can just walk in and get your favorite pastries.” Honey Bee is their answer. “We have a piece of everything here,” Armine says. “You have a little bit of Italian, French, Armenian—we have traditional Armenian cookies, called nazook or gata, some with Nutella, some with just sugar and butter, some with jam, but not too sweet. But that’s the idea, to bring culturally different

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fudge creams (a sinful combo of brownie and buttercream), Danish pastries, and an intriguing and delicious curried shortbread offered from a cart on Market Square. This year, however, Sugar Mama’s took a savory turn when they landed at 135 S. Gay St. Owned and operated by Mike and Hannah McConnell, the small space that’s been the home of many ground-breaking culinary adventures— including Nama, Shuck, and Holly’s 135—has taken on an eclectic vibe both in its décor and its menu. Despite the sugarcoated past, Mike says that he and Hannah didn’t imagine Sugar Mama’s only as a bakery: “We had the basic concept and we were transitioning from just a bakery into more of a diner style, but we always had the combination of a craft beer bar and a bakery [in mind] and we knew that that might evolve into something bigger to meet consumer demand.” The evolution has been successful. Once you enter the space, it’s clear that this isn’t Candyland. It’s a comforting space—clearly untouched by “professional” design and all the better for it. Hannah and Mike have a created a space that feels homey, a little funky in

HONEYBEE BAKERY 124 N. Forest Park Blvd., 865-444-1106 honeybee-bakery.com Mon-Sat: 8 a.m.–6 p.m., Sun: 12 p.m.–4 p.m.

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SUGAR MAMA’S BAKERY 135 S. Gay St., 865-333-5776 sugarmamasbakeryknoxville.com Mon: 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Tue-Thur: 7 a.m.–10 p.m., Fri: 7 a.m.–11 p.m., Sat: 9 a.m.–11 p.m., Sun: 12 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Danish and a very popular cinnamon roll. The food is good and remarkably affordable. Mike and Hannah have made it their goal “to offer something at a fair price—we try to make it accessible but as high a quality as possible.” Sugar Mama’s is one of the area’s best deals for quality, local eats. At lunch you’ll fi nd an equally eclectic assortment of handcrafted pizzas including The Deutschlander topped with slices of bratwurst (from Willy’s Butcher Shop), mustard, sauerkraut, and pickles. There’s also the Animal Lover a vegan pie that’s made with soy cheese, vegan pepperoni, spinach, and banana peppers. Of course you can create your own, but the house pies are awfully appetizing—the Feta Fetish is a real turn-on. You can also have a duck sandwich, chicken salad, or even a pretzel dog along with your favorite neighborhood beer, and they like to keep you entertained with a schedule of live music and trivia. But honestly, with the prospect of homemade Danish to end your meal—or just to be your meal—I’d be surprised if you could concentrate on anything else. ◆

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Sunday Hair The awe-inspiring ritual (and lost art) of Saturday night hair rolling BY ANGIE VICARS

y mother believes in God and in getting her hair ready for church on Sunday. These days, she arranges her hair into a low lift capable of mild movement. But when I was a child, my mother’s Sunday hair was as tall as my brother’s sleeping bag roll, as shiny as my patent leather shoes, and more strongly coated in Aqua Net than the winds of a hurricane could hope to conquer. Like other Protestant rituals, Sunday hair included baptism. And many times that meant Mom used her special hair-washing contraption. Although I watched Doug Henning recreate Harry Houdini’s water-torture escape on television, seeing the contraption in action was even more riveting. I could stand right beside it as the water went from the kitchen faucet through the contraption’s clear plastic hose and out the shower-sized rubber sprayer with the ease of a gentle rain. A good hair washing on a Saturday night put my 7-year-old self in heaven. “You know, I could wash my hair in the shower,” Mom said one night to

my great dismay. My face fell so far it was nearly sucked down the drain. “But then I wouldn’t have an audience,” she added quickly, whipping her towel around her head like a turban. “Come on, and you can watch me roll it.” What a satisfying spectacle. Plastic rollers in robin’s egg blue, mint green, and God-take-notice fuchsia filled a bag as big as my father’s 5-gallon tool bucket. Plus, hair rolling required as many tools as home repair. Using the long, narrow handle of her rat-tail comb, Mom deftly separated her hair into sections. But I liked to imagine the comb became a real rat as she held up her hand mirror to check her work. “Oh my word!” she would scream, hurling the rat like a javelin in the hands of Bruce Jenner. Whether she rolled a row of ringlets, magnified the mid-section, or crowned the top, Mom reached into a glittery bottle of goo and slathered each curl with the fabulous setting gel called Dippity-do. It gave limp locks the strength and gloss of Carrera

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marble, which only seemed fitting for the house of the Lord. But rollers wouldn’t stay put with setting gel alone so Mom clamped a pointed silver clip across each one’s glossy grandeur. I was mesmerized by her head’s resemblance to a space probe when she finished. She even trumped the moon buggy I found in a jar of Tang. I once tried rolling my own hair, but the clips turned out to be tiny torture devices. Each one poked a drop of blood from my scalp. I pouted but Mom was engrossed in her own handiwork so I decided to suffer for my art instead. I circled my head with a crown of clips and rubbed Mom’s rouge along my hairline. “Angie Lynn!” Mom exclaimed. “What on Earth do you think you’re doing?” “I’m making a crown of thorns,” I informed her, “like Dad made for your church display.”

“Oh my Lord!” she said, snatching her clips and some of my hair. “What am I going to do with you? Jesus wasn’t playing in his mother’s beauty shop!” Thankfully, Mom turned her attention to her hair dryer. It resembled a hard plastic purse that held a deflated bonnet she carefully tugged over her rollers. But when she took it to the den and plugged it in an outlet, behold, a miracle occurred. The bonnet rose up like the Lord himself. “Witness the power of the almighty!” I exclaimed like an evangelist on Easter, but I didn’t get a rise out of my family. They couldn’t hear me, even though Dad turned up the television. Whether the harmonies came from Hee Haw or Lawrence Welk, the performers looked like lip synchers upstaged by a blast furnace. After Mom’s hair was baked onto her head, she returned to the bathroom, removed her rollers, took up

When I was a child, my mother’s Sunday hair was as tall as my brother’s sleeping bag roll, as shiny as my patent leather shoes, and more strongly coated in Aqua Net than the winds of a hurricane could hope to conquer.

’BYE her teasing comb, and shredded her hair for several minutes. “Doesn’t that hurt?” I asked one night, in awe of the electrified frizz that rose from her scalp. “Of course it does,” she assured me, using her brush and comb to turn her hair back into a single tower. “So why pay good money to a hair dresser? Now, hand me that hair spray.” Aqua Net’s aerosol output blasted from the can faster than the legs on the Bionic Woman, more powerful than a 1976 Ford Mustang, and able to leap the Stairway to Heaven in a single burst. It kept my mother’s hair standing glory-to-God high even though she slept on it the night before church. When I visited my mother recently, I stepped into the bathroom to fi nd the counter littered with rollers

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and her fi nger poised on a can of some other hairspray. “Wait a minute!” I blurted, hoping to avoid my eyelids getting plastered in place, like one of the insects in my third-grade science collection. “Where’s your Dippity-do and your teasing comb?” “Oh honey, I don’t bother with all that stuff anymore,” she said. “It’s too much work and it’s bad for your hair. I like getting done in half the time. That way I can watch TV.” As we sat in the sanctuary the following morning, I could see right over my mother’s Sunday hair. How is God ever going to see her coming? ◆ Angie Vicars writes humorous essays and seriously good Web content for UT. In a former incarnation, she authored My Barbie Was an Amputee, Yikes columns for Metro Pulse, and produced the WATE website.

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