Scenic Roots

“The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” makes its way to Chattanooga Theatre Centre.

The adaptation of the timeless tale by C.S. Lewis - presented by CTC’s Youth Theatre - opens tomorrow night and runs through March 1st.

The adaptation of the timeless tale by C.S. Lewis - presented by CTC’s Youth Theatre - opens tomorrow night and runs through March 1st.

CTC’s Chuck Tuttle is directing the production - and Annie Collins is assistant director...

Tomorrow, Chattanooga Design Studio holds its first-ever City Celebration - to further its mission and vision for improving the city’s quality of life through collaborative and effective urban design.

Eric Myers is the Studio’s executive director - and Kelly Fitzgerald chairs the Studio’s board...

Tonight on this campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the story of Nathan Bedford Forrest before the Civil War.

Timothy Huebner - a history professor at Rhodes College in Memphis - will tell that story about the Confederate General, who was born here in Tennessee.

The title of tonight’s lecture - starting at 7 PM here at UTC is “Confronting the Past in Memphis:  Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Antebellum Slave Trade and the Reinvention of Civil War Memory.”

Ahead of his visit to Chattanooga, Professor Huebner joined us by phone from Memphis for a conversation...

Ray Bassett is the host of "Scenic Roots" - produced by Haley Solomon, Karley Dodson and Will Davis.

On Friday night, Chambliss Center For Children here in Chattanooga hosts its annual Mardi Gras Gala - this time at a new venue, Stratton Hall - starting at 7 PM.

Lesley Berryhill is director of special projects and events at Chambliss...

Tomorrow night, Yellow Dragon Productions here in Chattanooga presents the premiere of “Knight Court:  The Enchanted Forest” - at St. Luke United Methodist Church, starting at 7:30 PM.

Joel Scribner is artistic director of Yellow Dragon Productions - and he brought along two of the actors in the show:  Maddie Meier and Lorien Maddux...

Fuze Trio is a cutting-edge chamber music ensemble whose members are faculty here on the UTC campus:  Ronda Benson Ford plays the flute, Erika Schafer plays the trumpet - and Jenny Parker plays the piano.

Tomorrow night starting at 7:30 PM, Fuze Trio will perform on campus - in Cadek Recital Hall, in the same building as our studios here at WUTC...

Tomorrow night, a presentation here in Chattanooga looks back at a case that rocked this city, four decades ago.

In 1980, four black women were hit with birdshot fired from a moving car outside a nightclub on what was then Ninth St. - “The Big 9” - and now, Martin Luther King Boulevard.  A fifth woman was injured by flying glass.  All of the women lived. 

Three members of the Ku Klux Klan were charged with attempted murder.  An all-white jury acquitted two of the men - and sentenced the third to nine months in prison and a fine.  He served only three months.  

Days of rioting followed the verdict.

Then, the women filed a federal civil lawsuit - the first time that the Ku Klux Klan was sued in civil court.  An attorney from New York, Randolph McLaughlin, represented the women.  This jury - five of its members, white and one of them, black - ordered the Klan to pay 535-thousand dollars, creating a legal strategy for dismantling the Klan across the country.

Tomorrow night, Randolph McLaughlin will give a presentation on the case for the first time here in Chattanooga - starting at 5:30 PM at The Bessie Smith Cultural Center.

Tiffany Herron - a student here on this campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - shares how she learned about this case and tomorrow’s presentation...

Ray Bassett is the host of "Scenic Roots" - produced by Haley Solomon, Karley Dodson and Will Davis.

This year’s lineup for The Moon River Music Festival from Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors features Sheryl Crow, Nickel Creek and Billy Strings.

They will all be performing in Chattanooga’s Coolidge Park on September 12th and 13th - along with Indigo Girls, Robert Earl Keen, Shovels & Rope, The Jayhawks, Molly Tuttle and more.

Drew Holcomb sat down last week with our own Richard Winham and Haley Solomon…