It may not be too late to see your favorite dead musician in concert. Welcome to the future, dear readers, where hologram music concerts are a thing.
Among the musicians who have now appeared on stage postmortem are Frank Zappa, Tupac Shakur, Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison – whose 2018 tour sold 1,800 seats on average per show. And stay tuned. Whitney Houston (well, her estate, technically) is now planning a 2020 North American tour.
In more tangible news, UTC’s football complex, McKenzie Arena, is getting a $22 million facelift.
Meanwhile, in baseball, the future is now uncertain for the Chattanooga Lookouts, along with other minor leagues across the country.
The market for hemp is blooming, but so are the challenges of building a business around a plant that looks exactly like its illegal cousin. So how are local hemp producers managing?