Lisa Denton

Venues will follow local, state and federal health and safety guidelines relating to face masks, social distancing and capacity limits.

A medley of fall flavors will greet visitors to festivals this weekend, with apples highlighted in Collegedale, Tennessee, and pumpkins adding spice in Ringgold, Georgia. Meanwhile in Hiwassee, Georgia, vendors are concentrating on the triple pleasures of brew, stew and barbecue.

The coronavirus pandemic - and the reactions to it - have produced a fair share of scares for 2020. Throw in a presidential election and cultural unrest, and it kinda makes you wish for some run-of-the-mill heebie-jeebies.

They were rained out last weekend, but the crafters and bakers of Cloud Springs Baptist Church in North Georgia expect to have their goods ready to go on Saturday.

The 32nd season of the Emmy-winning series premiered Wednesday night on CBS with 11 two-person teams vying for a $1 million cash prize.

Venues will follow local, state and federal health and safety guidelines relating to face masks, social distancing and capacity limits.

"The Amazing Race" debuts on CBS on Wednesday night with two best friends from Dayton, Tennessee, among the teams angling for a $1 million cash prize.

As long as you're spending extra time at home, you might as well make it haunted for Halloween. There could be a prize in it for you.

Chattanooga native Lisa Hendy has worked at half a dozen national parks in her career, but visitors don't necessarily meet her unless something goes wrong — really wrong.

The Gatlinburg Convention Center will be full of vendors for the Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair Oct. 8-25, and the event's promoter expects the crowds will show up as well over the next three weeks.

Some of the state's best watercolor paintings are on view this month at the Association for Visual Arts Gallery, part of a biennial exhibition that AVA's chief curator says always leaves her impressed by the talent on display.

Chattanooga audiences will get to meet some of the people living in playwright Peggy Douglas' head as her latest play is staged on Signal Mountain over the next two weekends.

Search-and-rescue stories from a National Park Service ranger, Cherokee art on Chattanooga's riverfront and the relationship between jazz and indigenous cultures will be highlighted in the upcoming Moccasin Bend Fall Lecture Series.

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When coronavirus lockdowns closed restaurants and interrupted the supply chain to grocery stores, our kitchens became the nexus of our food world. Suddenly we were faced with the realities of full-time food preparation. Of panic buying and food shortages. Of the urge to stockpile foods and waste nothing.

Crabtree Farms will introduce some new field hands Saturday as a monthlong celebration of Fun on the Farm ushers in the fall produce season.

There will be no mass gathering on the Walnut Street Bridge for Wine Over Water this year, but you might be surprised by how much organizers of the signature fundraiser for Cornerstones Inc. have in store instead.

It's fall, y'all, but in Lebanon, Tennessee, they're thinking about Christmas - and making no apologies for the nod toward the next season.

Art figures prominently in the event calendar this week. Miki Boni's "Facescapes" is on view at In-Town Gallery, Area 61 Gallery has hung the work of Jeff Delude and Townsend Atelier is launching a weekly series of In the Studio sessions with a rotating lineup of artists.

Chattanooga State Community College has reeled in two prize catches for its next Writers@Work program.