Mike Gibson partakes an evening of artful dance at a recital of the Austin-East Dance Company in East Knoxville.

Matthew Everett ventures to the Copa Cabana night club in South Knoxville.

Rose Kennedy joins the Sacred Hoop, Drum and Dance Circle at the Broadway Academy of Performing Arts in North Knoxville.

Rose Kennedy treks to the line-dancing destination of Cotton Eyed Joe in West Knoxville.

Frank Carlson visits Duncan Boat Dock on Fort Loudoun Lake, where generations of waterfarers come to fill their tanks.

If you haven’t heard of Union Stockyards, where you can bid for any cow you want, Jack Neely says you shouldn’t worry. They haven’t heard of you, either.

At Cardin’s Drive-In on Asheville Highway, Betty Bean finds that some things never change: the peanut butter milkshakes, the carhop service, and the big crowds.

Need a camera hidden inside a teddy bear? Gary Glarner won’t ask why. As Rose Kennedy discovers, Spy Teck Supply has everything you need for a bit of domestic espionage.

Star Sales is on North Central, about a holler and a half past Happy Holler. It’s a plain cinder-block building beneath a big red star, which in this case suggests no influence of Communism. Based on its operating particulars, you’d ...

Modest, a single story of clean white clapboard, a simple cross over the door, the Concord Mennonite Church stands out like a beacon. It’s way far west Knoxville, on Dutchtown off of 40W, just past billboards for the Katch One ...

From the outside, My Village looks like a public school, which is a nice way of saying it looks like a prison. Barbed wire sits atop a chain-linked fence that surrounds a red-brick building. White paint chips gather on windowsills ...

Follow the dimly lit, sinuous Riverside Drive east from downtown, and after a few miles you’ll come upon a bucolic, two-story home with a white picket fence framing the driveway. Behind the house sits a fairly typical garage, complete with ...

As online social networking permeates the culture, and archived blogs and tweets and YouTube clips come dangerously close to replacing actual interpersonal experience, let us celebrate anything that brings people together in real contact and conversation. If there is aromatic ...

The singers at Imani African Community Church are enthusiastically transcending their space. It’s in the basement of the Middlebrook Ministries building near Sam’s Club on Middlebrook Pike, a lackluster concrete block-tan linoleum room with a stainless steel kitchen at one ...

A heavyset, gray-haired older woman—clad on this sunny Saturday in a grandmothery gray sundress and impressively circumferenced summer hat—peruses through knickknacks in the outer lot of the sprawling Green Acres Flea Market in Louisville. She’s here, it seems, just to ...