Courters’ Kitchen: Add poutine to your routine
BARRY: It's a funny word, no doubt, but poutine as a meal has so much going for it.

BARRY: It's a funny word, no doubt, but poutine as a meal has so much going for it.

Two music festivals in the Chattanooga area in the next two weeks are designed to both entertain and bring awareness to mental health issues and suicide prevention.

After 20 years as executive director of Friends of the Festival, the nonprofit organization that is responsible for producing the Riverbend Festival each year, Chip Baker is leaving.

There is lucky, there is being good enough to be in the right spot at the right time, and then there is also being smart enough to take full advantage of any breaks that come your way.

Twenty years ago, Ben Curtis presented a show at Barking Legs Theater - just a couple blocks down Dodds Avenue from where he attended McCallie School a few years earlier - that featured some theater, some music and a little magic.

For the last decade and a half or so, I've used this space to point out how the entertainment world has evolved in this city and to ask when we will stop being surprised when we get a show that seemed to elude us before.

Deacon Bluz and The Blue Goose Hollow Krew are the featured artists Friday, Oct. 4, as part of the River City Sessions series presented in conjunction with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Cadek Hall, 725 Oak St.

John Golemon says Warner Hodges of Jason & the Nashville (Nashville was later dropped from the name) Scorchers was the inspiration for the formation of Walk the West, and he credits The White Animals for getting them back together.

Artist/muralist Kevin Bate, perhaps best known for murals he has painted around Chattanooga, including the "Fallen Five" on McCallie Avenue, will present "Perception is 9/10s of the Law" on Friday, Oct. 4, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Chattanooga WorkSpace, 302 W. Sixth St.

This week's edition of "Off the Couch" featuring the TFP's Barry Courter and Lisa Denton.
