Barry Courter

Friends of the Festival, the organization that produces several Chattanooga area entertainment events including the canceled Riverbend Festival, is planning to move ahead this weekend with the rebranded Riverfront Nights concert despite a new countywide mask mandate and a rule from city leaders that even a smaller event can't happen at Ross's Landing.

At its core, the Proof Bar & Incubator was created to help restaurant and food service industry people navigate the sometimes complicated waters involved in running such a business. Like the rest of the world, it didn't anticipate also having to deal with a global pandemic.

The house where Kenyatta Ashford grew up in New Orleans has always been the place where family gathered for holidays and special events, in part because his mother always prepared a huge meal of traditional Cajun-style food.

The idea of attending a live music festival such as Riverbend or the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, was not for everyone even pre-COVID-19.

One lucky and talented young guitar player will earn the chance to enjoy a one-on-one player experience with guitar great Joe Bonamassa thanks to a contest at Songbirds Guitar Museum.

Most business owners will tell you that running a company requires the wearing of many hats. Restaurant owners, for example, have to know more than just how to bake a pie, or cook a steak. There are planning, staffing, time management and accounting requirements.

Joining a long list of other music festivals, the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival announced today that it will not take place in 2020. Originally set for June, it was rescheduled to Sept. 24-27, but that date has been scrapped, as well.

Like a lot of entrepreneurs and self-made people, Comedy Catch co-owner Michael Alfano is used to being in charge and doing things his way.

Jfest, typically one of the largest festivals in our area and originally scheduled for May 9 but postponed because of the coronavirus, will take place with about 25% of capacity on Aug. 1 at the Tennessee Riverpark, according to festival director Ted Gocke.

There is typically nothing funny about a virus that kills people, but the quarantine has given the world Leslie Jordan and his daily Instagram posts, which are indeed hilarious.

A bartender and band member who has fans in the Chattanooga music scene has lost his job, and the fate of his band is uncertain, after remarks he posted on social media.

Briana Garza started her ChattTaste Tours about a year ago, and her tours around the West Village and the electric bike Taco Tours around the North Shore have proven popular, so it shouldn't be a surprise that all four M.L. King Food Tours she has planned for Friday are sold out.

EmiSunshine didn't really know how big a deal Bootsy Collins is until the man who put much of the funk in P-Funk asked her to co-write a song with him and then record it with a few other artists.

Almost a dozen Chattanooga venues, as well as representatives of the city and Hamilton county mayors' offices, have been working together in recent weeks to develop overarching guidelines for reopening their establishments amid coronavirus.

When John Carter Cash approached noted Nashville-based photographer/director David McClister about producing a new music video, McClister suggested that Cash find a song that meant the most to him.

Thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, WanderLinger Brewing Co. plans to develop a new canning line, increase production capabilities and make patio improvements.

Chefs Charlie Loomis and Mia Littlejohn participated in a Times Free Press virtual event for subscribers only on June 11 that included a cooking demonstration by Loomis and the two talking with Times Free Press food and entertainment writer Barry Courter about the state of the food industry in Chattanooga.

Riverbend's Wednesday announcement that the 2020 festival won't happen probably should not have come as a surprise to anyone, considering that many such large events are canceling around the country because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, Dale Farmer loved hearing the stories of what life was like in Appalachia during the Great Depression for his grandfather, Charlie Cox. By early adulthood, he could repeat them verbatim.

The Heartland Network, one of several national networks owned and operated by Reach High Media in Chattanooga, will premiere the independent movie "The Mountain Minor" Saturday night at 8 p.m.