With their family-run restaurant Blue Orleans losing between $15,000 and $20,000 a month, and the prospect of closing within weeks looming over them, chef Mike Adams and Cherita Bloodwirth turned to Food Network celebrity chef Robert Irvine for help.

Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe, originating from a super-massive black hole.

Riverbend Festival organizers have announced this year's full schedule.

DEAR ABBY: I was born into a poor family, and my father gave me up for adoption to his well-to-do sister. My narcissistic adoptive mother severely abused me physically, mentally and emotionally as a child, and tormented me financially as an adult. I no longer speak to her.

Clive Cussler, the million-selling adventure writer and real-life thrill-seeker who wove personal details and spectacular fantasies into his page-turning novels about underwater explorer Dirk Pitt, has died, his publisher said Wednesday.

Riverbend Festival organizers will announce this year's schedule Thursday at noon during a media event at Songbirds, and organizers said while there is still plenty of variety, fans should notice a more intentional lineup each night.

DEAR ABBY: I've been married to my husband for 21 years. We've had our ups and downs, but our relationship is solid.

Fowler Brothers Furniture Co., formerly at the corner of Seventh and Broad streets in Chattanooga, was a downtown landmark for decades.

Platinum-recording artists Sister Hazel stops in town Thursday, Feb. 27, on its tour in support of EP series "Elements," which recently topped the Billboard charts.

The Lee University Writer's Series continues Thursday, Feb. 27, with a reading by poet and nonfiction writer Amy Wright.

Artist Kati Schmidt will lead Painting For a Purpose art class on Thursday, Feb. 27, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the 6th Cavalry Museum, 6 Barnhardt Circle in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

When it comes to satisfying a sweet tooth, the Chattanooga area is blessed with plenty of options, apparently.

Choral Arts will celebrate the beauty of nature with its next performance on Thursday, Feb. 27 at Second Presbyterian Church.

River Bins is one of nearly 250 vendors who will fill the exhibit hall with more than 500 booths in the 54th annual Tri-State Home Show at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

The audience will help comedian Mutzie "raise the roof" when he performs a benefit in Dalton, Georgia, on Sunday, March 1.

Lee University's School of Music Opera Theatre will present two one-act operas in performances Friday, Feb. 28, through Monday, March 2, in Dixon Center, 1053 Church St., Cleveland, Tennessee.

Tayari Jones' books have won a Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and been selected as a National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read.

Not a week goes by that Houston Museum of Decorative Arts doesn't get phone calls from baby boomers who are downsizing or boomers' children, Generation X, who are handling the estates of their aging parents.

The Jericho Brass Band will play a free concert at North River Civic Center, 1009 Executive Drive in Hixson, on Friday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m.

Kansas is a very different band now than the group people knew in the 1970s, when the band rose to the top of the rock scene behind multiplatinum albums "Leftoverture" and "Point of Know Return."

This week's restaurant report card.

Cooking food slowly can be done in the oven, but slow cookers, known to many as crockpots, certainly help when making good soups and stews that require almost no attention.

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