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CHATTER Magazine – October 2026
All you can eat in the Scenic City, A-Z
Upon entering Terry Cannon's studio, you'd probably think that you walked into the wrong place. "Surely, this can't be an artist's studio," you would tell yourself. "It looks more like a Home Depot."

Big red letters on The Chattanooga Toy Buyer's website admonish visitors that, "I don't buy or know about Beanie Babies!" Still, Brad Putt, aka The Chattanooga Toy Buyer, says he gets two to three calls a day from someone looking to sell their Beanie Baby "collectibles," which he literally can't even give away.

Deanna Wallace has been deejaying around Chattanooga for about 10 years and has a simple philosophy when it comes to karaoke.

Raised in an art-loving household, Julia Whitworth explored various creative outlets during her youth. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she reawakened her passion for art following several years in the corporate world after college. On New Year's Day 2021, she picked up a paintbrush and immersed herself in a world filled with colors and emotion. That moment changed everything.

Dana Locke, 59, takes scraps of fabric from people's lives and fashions them into an ultimate keepsake: a T-shirt quilt.

The day starts early for Chuck McSpadden as the sun rises over the rolling hills at Apple Valley Orchards in Cleveland, Tennessee.

You can't read the news without seeing an article explaining how important artificial intelligence is for self-driving cars, factory automation, fraud protection, medical analysis, letter-writing in businesses, essay-generation in schools and in virtually every sport.

As the weather cools, it's time to spice up your drinks and bring out the cozy boots. The Boots With the Fur cocktail at Old Man Rivers Table & Tavern, a recently opened restaurant and bar at the foot of Signal Mountain, is an ideal way to dip your toes into fall flavors like apple cider and cinnamon.

For the second installment in our series based on car enthusiast Eddie Rahm's Scenic City Backroads website — which features curated routes along the region's backroads — we're focusing on the area southwest of Chattanooga, for those who want to combine a scenic drive with a visit to one of the area's many apple orchards.

It was "an afternoon of inspiration" at the Chattanooga Convention Center. Youth development organization On Point held a luncheon, complete with a meet-and-greet and the motivational words of guest speaker and best-selling author Leigh Anne Tuohy.

Have you been seen? A look at local events