Barry Courter

Bill and Wanda Lee have grown accustomed to winning awards for the small batches of rum, gin, vodka and absinthe they distill at their Gate 11 Distillery at the Chattanooga Choo Choo, but nothing like the Double Gold Medal they earned this week for their Gate 11 Dry Gin at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

The Moon River Music Festival Presented by Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors will return to Coolidge Park Sept. 11-12 with headliners Wilco, Lord Huron, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Old Crow Medicine Show, Lake Street Dive, Dr. Dog, Indigo Girls, Hippo Campus, Dawes and COIN, among others.

Each time opera singer Jonathan Cilia Faro pulls into his Nashville driveway, he looks across the gate at his neighbor's house and has one wish.

When Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee decreed that restaurants and bars across the state could provide alcohol to go, the move provided an unplanned-for revenue source for many who were struggling to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.

Stephen Chandler has made a career of the food industry working in steak and ramen restaurants that specialize in the total dining experience in Colorado and Nashville, so when the opportunity to join Eunice and Carlos Kal as general manager of a new venture in Chattanooga, he jumped at the chance.

In 2010, Jim Masiella had a stroke and was looking for a new gig. He decided to get out of the brick-and-mortar restaurant business and bought a food truck in 2012 after seeing an ad online for a truck in Nebraska. Today, Masiella and Elaine Essary co-own California Smothered Burrito, which offers a variety of Southwest favorites.

For the last part of 2020 and the early part of 2021, any Chattanooga-area event or festival involving live music had a line through it indicating it had been canceled.

Chattanooga's Friends of the Festival, the organization that produced the Riverbend Festival for nearly 40 years and the Riverfront Nights summer series for more than a decade, is back in business.

For all the forced downtime resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year, count Grace Potter among those who have used the time for deep introspection. The Americana singer said the break has helped her rediscover herself, her family and her music.

Tivoli Foundation Executive Director Nick Wilkinson said his team of employees had been gearing up for Monday's opening of the application process for the national Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program for months.

The Chattanooga Market will open on schedule this weekend at First Horizon Pavilion with the usual assortment of winter and early spring produce, arts, and crafts, and you will even be able to get a meal from a food truck or a glass of beer or wine, something you couldn't do last year.

Since opening in 2014, the Bitter Alibi on Houston Street has been a popular place for folks looking for a craft beer or cocktail and delicious food.

Charlie's BBQ & Bakery General Manager Patrick Hook on Monday said earlier in the day he had visited the store and couldn't help but stare at the table in the dining room where the late Wes Agee would often sit and hold court with customers.

A car accident when she was 2 confined Ali Stroker to a wheelchair.

The timing was likely coincidental, but just days after the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival announced its lineup for a full-blown festival in September with the potential to draw 80,000 people to Manchester, Tennessee, several other big events have made public their plans for events this summer and fall.

If there has been a slam dunk in the music industry in the past year or two, it would have to be Kane Brown, the young country superstar who grew up in the North Georgia and Chattanooga area.

The Tap House in St. Elmo has been a popular place for folks to get a glass of beer, Kombucha, wine, coffee, root beer, butter beer or a sake cocktail for four years this week, and now you can get a specially crafted beer created by brewer Amanda Boone with the help of, well, maybe you.

Austin Smith has several rules when it comes to the Party Fowl restaurants he co-owns with Nick Jacobson.

The Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board on Thursday found The Night Owl on Dodson Avenue and Chattanooga Billiard Club on Cherry Street in violation of its requirement to immediately report a disorder and unanimously voted to suspend their beer permits for seven days or pay a $1,000 fine.

African American music, like African American culture, or really any culture for that matter, is a broad and multi-faceted thing.