Barry Courter

About the only thing that can make a hand-tossed slice of pizza made from fresh ingredients better is if buying it also helps someone in need.

Sometimes, the stories behind the origin of a business can take a few twists and turns and Burlaep on E. 11th Street is one such enterprise.

If you squint just right, or maybe turn your ear to the wind at just the right angle, you might be able to see the light or hear the music at the end of the tunnel in regard to live music and events and tours like we were used to pre-COVID-19.

Getting Corky Coker, an outgoing person with a broad smile almost as big as his white mustache, to open up is as easy as saying "hello" most days, but mention his love for automobiles — especially the vintage variety — or his love for Chattanooga, and he really starts talking. Put the two topics together, and just sit back and listen.

If things continue on their current course, this fall could feature a busy calendar of entertainment-related events in the Chattanooga area.

If you were to graph the directions husband and wife Jody Harris and Keelah Jackson-Harris have taken to open their art gallery/event venue on M.L. King Boulevard, his line would be fairly straight and forward-moving, while hers would incorporate curves, circles, cutbacks and redirections.

If there is one thing owners of vintage Volkswagens know, it's that being prepared for the unexpected is part of the VW experience.

Comedy has always been a healing agent, helping people get past a tragedy or deal with something that doesn't make sense.

The Songbirds Foundation will move its education-based fundraising and programming operations into the former Chattanooga Guitar Museum space at the Chattanooga Choo Choo and could be open by Sept. 1, according to Executive Director Reed Caldwell.

They may not be household names, but two music industry professionals and a young up-and-comer, all with ties to Chattanooga, are getting noticed for their latest musical efforts.

After going almost a year without hearing any violation cases, the Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board spent nearly three hours hearing testimonies regarding three cases on Thursday.

Carmelo Dominic Licciardello, a contemporary Christian artist known around the world simply as "Carman," died Tuesday, Feb. 16, in a Las Vegas hospital after complications of surgery to repair a hiatal hernia.

Ira Templeton III gave two basic reasons for why he chose to put in a bid with the city of Chattanooga and Hamilton County to take over the lease to operate the Moccasin Bend Golf Club.

It takes Molly Hudgens, a guidance counselor and the only recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor Citizens Honor medal in Tennessee, about 30 minutes to give the short version of the day she stopped a middle school student with a gun from shooting up the school.

In November, 74% of East Ridge voters elected to allow liquor stores to open in the city for the first time in its 100-year history.

Longtime classic car collector, builder, restorer and Chattanooga booster Joseph "Corky" Coker has been named the grand marshal for the 2021 Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, planned for Oct. 15-17.

Adam Rosenbalm's original reason for signing up his Kingsport, Tennessee-based catering and frozen foods business, Good Batch Mama, for the Restaurant Recovery Program offered by Proof Incubator in Chattanooga, was for networking and grant application purposes.

The Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board found the Pickle Barrel in violation of its ordinance prohibiting staff from drinking or being drunk on the premises where they work.

Cherita Bloodwirth Adams and husband Mike Adams have ridden the restaurant ownership rollercoaster ride, enjoying the ups and suffering the downs, as many times as most.

In order to evolve and continue to grow, Monkey Town Brewing Company in Dayton, Tennessee, is expanding to the Hixson area in space once occupied by McHale's Brewhouse.