Barry Courter

One week after having to cancel the much larger Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, because of flooding brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, organizers of the Moon River Festival at Coolidge Park got a gorgeous weekend for their event.

As Reed Caldwell made his way around the completed and partially completed display cases inside the old Songbirds Guitar Museum on Station Street, he described how the foundation he runs with the mission of teaching children to play guitar has continued to grow and thrive over the past almost six years, and how moving into the space makes so much sense.

One could easily forgive Kane Brown for not visiting the Chattanooga area for a couple of years.

As it has for everybody, the last year or so has been difficult for Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers, and the cure for him, as it has always been, has been to hit the road to perform.

Growing up in Chattanooga in a predominantly white neighborhood, Amythyst Kiah attended schools in the East Brainerd-Ooltewah area, hung out with friends and played lots of sports, which she excelled at. But then puberty and middle school hit and she began to notice her interests were no longer those of the people around her.

One week after its larger cousin, Bonnaroo, had to cancel because of heavy rains brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, the Moon River Festival is set to get underway Saturday at Coolidge Park.

After first voting to table a change of ownership application to allow William Henry Chapin and Joan Douglas Chapin to sell beer at Good Dog on Frazier Avenue because it had not passed all of its required inspections, members of the Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board voted to allow beer sales under the prior owner's certificate with a contingency that it be approved by the city attorney.

Parker Reed was in a car "packed to the gills" with two friends as they hit the halfway point of their 700-mile drive to Manchester, Tennessee. That's when his phone started blowing up with posts and texts that the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival had been canceled.

The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival for 2021 is now officially canceled because of rains brought to the Manchester, Tennessee, area as part of the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Like a lot of people, Cherita Bloodwirth Adams spent much of Sunday glued to a television, getting updates on Hurricane Ida as it tore through the Gulf Coast.

Fans of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival held in Manchester, Tennessee, have waited almost two years to gather on the Bonnaroo Farm because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, because of Hurricane Ida, they will have to wait at least another day.

A half dozen Black Creek subdivision neighbors with ties to Humphreys County in Middle Tennessee are working together to gather donations of furniture to help their friends, family and former neighbors affected by last weekend's heavy flooding.

For Alnya Boaz, 13, De'Juan Young, 14, and Kori Atkien, 12, it's unanimous: The best part of the renovation work at the East Lake Boys & Girls Club on East 25th Street is the Teen Lab.

Matt McPeak is candid about what No Hard Feelings, a new place on Broad Street across from the Read House, is all about.

Just minutes after Chattanooga beer board Chair Bill Glascock commended owner Diamound Brown for trying to help her community and for being "a fighter" trying to do the right thing, the board unanimously voted to suspend the beer license of Chatty's on Milne Street for 15 days for operating a disorderly place.

Cherry Street Tavern has become the first known local venue to require patrons to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative test for COVID-19, and co-owner Marty Bohannon said the decision was made with the support of patrons and musical artists who perform there.

Organizers of this weekend's Get Off the Grid Fest at Camp Jordan in East Ridge have suspended online ticket sales and will not allow walk-up sales because of the rise in COVID-19 cases, according to a news release.

Camp Jordan next weekend will host a festival powered by not only the sun, but by a musical lineup featuring 40 national and regional touring acts, plus eco-friendly vendors and workshops led by nationally acclaimed climate-change advocates.

For fans of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival there are three big days throughout the year,

For a long time as a child, Theresa Caputo, known to TV fans as "The Long Island Medium," assumed everybody heard from dead people, as she did when her deceased great-grandmother would visit her at the end of her bed.