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CHATTER Magazine – October 2026
The Food Issue
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Artist Emily Boyd’s paintings bring color, texture and patterns
To peer into one of Emily Boyd's paintings is to be pulled into it — first by color, then by texture and patterns, and lastly, by the magnitude of time itself. Her abstract-pattern paintings take days, weeks, sometimes months to complete and are meditations on nature, movement, stillness and light. "Creating an art practice that intentionally asks me to slow down … that matters, especially in the world we live in today," she says. "The process of creating is just as important for me as the finished product."
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Meet Chatter magazine’s 20 Under 40 Class of 2025, some of Chattanooga’s young and fabulous
Everyone here brings something different to the table. Or the board meeting. Or the nonprofit fundraiser. But they're all equally impressive.
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Bartending expert from STIR Chattanooga restaurant takes you behind the scenes of a cocktail competition
SquareOne Holdings beverage director Steven Huddleston recently represented Chattanooga's STIR restaurant at the 2025 El Dorado Global Cocktail Competition Finals, where he placed second in the international competition with his Three Arrows Manhattan.
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Head for greener pastures with one of these farm stays near Chattanooga
Whether you're looking for a fun adventure with the family or a peaceful romantic getaway, spending the weekend on a farm is an ideal way to connect with nature.
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Chattanooga’s Read House hotel introduces new courtyard garden with a ‘Great Gatsby’ vibe
The Read House's new courtyard garden may not have quite the same opulence as Jay Gatsby's, but the novel's lavish landscaping encompassed 40 acres. The Read House has worked its magic on just 3,000 square feet.
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Cool as a cucumber: Chattanooga restaurants offer dishes to help beat the heat
As summer's hot weather grips the Southeast and temperatures make their annual march toward the century mark, it's time to indulge in foods that can help us beat the heat.
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Discover the music and dancing of India in Chattanooga
The first time Joe Ridolfo heard a sitar, it struck a chord in him.
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Rent someone else’s pool in the Chattanooga-area this summer for privacy and relaxation
No screaming children (well, except for your own). A sense of privacy. A feeling that the space is yours. These are just some of the benefits that come with renting a private pool through Swimply, a service most easily described as the Airbnb for pools.
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Sound asleep: White-noise generators are helping America snooze better
Around 1990, Chattanoogan Sam Hall and his wife bought a mechanical white-noise generator to help them sleep after a neighbor's dog began yapping incessantly at night.
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That’s how they roll: The Chattanooga Bocce Club is having a ball
Many people associate bocce — as in the game that involves rolling balls along the ground — with older gentlemen, Italian gangsters and maybe beret-wearing Frenchmen flinging balls into sandy pits in Paris as they huddle around a game of pétanque, or "boules" (which, like lawn bowling, is just a different take on the same bocce theme).
