Ain’t No Time To Sit Down: Review of Generation of Vipers’ Dead Circle

Jody Collins Music 2 Comments

What do you think of when you hear the term “post-metal”? My best guess is that 99.9999999999% will retort a truly esoteric “huh? Whuzzat?” According to the bastion of truth that is Wikipedia, post-metal is “…broadly characterized by distorted guitar, heavy atmospherics, gradual evolution of song structure, and a minimal …

Quiddities: The Tennessee Stage Company

Robert Stockdale Entertainment, Knoxville Quiddities, Local Living Leave a Comment

A scene from the Tennessee Stage Company’s production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” in which a band of tinkers discuss a play that they intend to present at the wedding of Theaseus and Hippolyta. Before this summer, I had never attended a production of the Tennessee Stage Company (TSC). …

Gettin’ Snuggie Wid It: Knoxville’s First-Ever Snug Pub Crawl

Laura Bower Events, Local Living, Social Networking 7 Comments

Saturday night, October 17 is a date that will go down in history – albeit, quirky cultural history, but history nonetheless. This chilly evening marked Knoxville’s inaugural Snug Pub Crawl, hailed by one local tweeter as the “tweet-up of the century.” Twenty-some-odd Snuggie-clad seekers gathered at the appointed time on …

Livin’ La Dolce Vita – A Visit to the Fellini Kroger

Laura Bower Local Flavor, Local Living, Popular, Shopping 14 Comments

Frederico Fellini was an idiosyncratic Italian film director renowned for blending fantasy and baroque images into his work. A cinematic pioneer, Fellini created what critic Robert Richardson referred to as an “aesthetic of disparity” in his films, abandoning traditional plot and character development in favor of a “disparate succession of …