Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

For the last several years, Tom Zutaut has sought to live in relative seclusion in the Chattanooga area. Instead of talking up his successes as a former music industry executive, he's been quietly selling cars to keep himself occupied.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

For much of his more than 50-year career, Drew Sterchi has played the blues with a traditional four-piece band featuring bass, drums, rhythm guitar and, of course, himself on lead guitar.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

Multitalented musician Tommy Stinson, formerly of The Replacements (1979–1991, 2012–2015), Bash & Pop (1992–1994), Perfect (1995-1998), Guns N' Roses (1998-2014) and Soul Asylum (2005-2014), likes to play things loose, going where the wind, or his muse, takes him. It's how he will approach his show Friday night on the back patio of Lo Main on Main Street.

River City Co. will introduce an eerie-sistible new event Saturday in downtown Chattanooga. Three and a half months before Halloween arrives, area residents can preview their trick-or-treat costumes, watch magicians and fire walkers perform and bring a carved watermelon for contest judging at Summerween at Patten Square.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

A paracycling national championship, a celebration of peaches and a competition between Chattanooga and Knoxville blood donors highlight the Chattanooga area's entertainment calendar.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

A city in DeKalb County, Alabama, will get a jump on its neighbors with the tri-state area's first Fourth of July celebration Saturday.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

Ice cream will be served at Chattanooga Market, Patti LaBelle will sing at Memorial Auditorium and the dinosaurs of "Jurassic World: Dominion" will roam across the Imax screen this weekend in Chattanooga.

The event featured 15,000 people on hand to hear 23 acts perform, and McCamish said the crowd was well behaved and that safety was the No. 1 priority. He said he is proud of the staff and the people who attended.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.

Jeff Davis has spent several decades behind the scenes in the world of theater.

After a two-year hiatus, the Riverbend Festival has returned to Chattanooga, kicking off its three-day music lineup on Friday with a tribute to the military and a celebration of actor and comedian Leslie Jordan.

Friends of the Festival Executive Director Mickey McCamish walked members of the media through the revamped Riverbend Festival site Thursday, addressing key issues on people's minds leading up to Friday's opening of the three-day event.

Growing up as the daughter of "Deuce Bigalow" actor Rob Schneider and model London King, singer/songwriter Elle King spent a good deal of her early life traveling.

The return of Riverbend is accompanied by other festivals celebrating bees, cows, Black artists and nature. Here's a chronology.

Here's what's happening in the Chattanooga area this week.