Barry Courter

Chattanoogans living and working near the 1900 block of Broad Street between Main and 20th Street will soon be able to have a beer with their Nashville-style hot fish and chicken, or a slice of pizza.

How does Michael Rice, co-owner of Mad Priest Coffee Roasters deal with officially closing the Cherry Street location because of health and financial reasons brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic? He takes a good chunk of his working capital and buys a $30,000 lot of newly discovered Yemenia coffee.

What do you do if you are a musician and your dream of releasing a new record is put on hold or altered by a pandemic the likes of which haven't been seen in 100 years?

Despite adapting its approach to produce shows in hopes of "keeping the doors open" and employees getting a regular paycheck, Friends of the Festival, the organization that produces the Riverbend Festival, has reduced its staff from seven to two and is liquidating its assets.

Since releasing a book of poetry called "Words in Grey" in 2015, Chattanooga writer/poet/painter/creative Genesis the Greykid has been on a career arc that has taken him across the country several times.

A lot of couples can point to the aha moment when they knew they were made for each other. For Jenn Gotzon, it was when she found out what a "pig slop jar" was for.

Actor John Schneider was 16 when a film crew came to the Atlanta area to film the Burt Reynolds vehicle "Smokey and the Bandit," and as any young man with dreams of an acting career would have done, Schneider cut school, talked his way onto the set and actually got on film. That's his shin in the freeze frame as the credits role.

Even though the word "wrecker" is right there in its name, the Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker commission doesn't see a lot of violations cases, or even applications from the towing industry.

Paul Barys, the longtime WRCB-TV 3 weatherman known as much for his beard as the catchphrase, "Paul said it would be like this," has announced his retirement from the station after 35 years in the local market.

Two films with local connections are being released this week, and one, "The Farmer and the Belle: Saving Santaland," is being screened at 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at the Walker County Civic Center, 10052 US 27, in Rock Spring, Georgia.

The coronavirus has put release plans on hold for the first scripted show by Chattanooga-based Luken Communications, but the first single from the music-oriented series has debuted in the Billboard Top 100 Adult Contemporary Chart.

Husband and wife Omayya Otout and Ellen Hodges were living in a "closet-sized" apartment in Brooklyn six months ago trying to figure out how to make a living as musicians in an already competitive environment made tougher by a pandemic when an idea formulated.

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Uncle Larry's Restaurant, known for "Fish so good it will smack you," is opening a drive-thru store at 5203 Brainerd Road next to Station 13 Firehall in a space that was once home to Central Park, Guthrie's and Time-2-Eat eateries.

Ed Wheeler, 94, had to get his mother to sign papers allowing him and his twin brother, Earl, to enlist in the Navy as 17-year-olds in 1943.

Yahya Alammari was first up Thursday morning during the Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board's meeting via Zoom and everything seemed to be going smoothly, and his application for a permit to begin selling beer at Roger Quick Stop at 1408 E. Main St. was approved with little discussion.

We might never know whether the more than 60,000 people who voted for Kanye West did so as a protest to front-runners Joe Biden and Donald Trump, or if they were just having some fun — or if they sincerely liked his pro-religion, pro-environment and pro-education platform.

It's hard to imagine any restaurateurs who have ridden the COVID-19 roller-coaster more than Max Poppel and Dan Rose at the Flying Squirrel.

The weekend of Oct. 9 not only provided a glimmer of hope that we might be opening back up when it comes to entertainment events in the area, it gave us a look at what things might look like, at least for the foreseeable future.

Like a lot of artists, Scott and Todd Smith of Smith & Wesley were all set to release a new album and begin the process of promoting it via travel, live shows, interviews and radio airplay back in the spring when the coronavirus pandemic hit.