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How are businesses and nonprofits here in Chattanooga fulfilling their commitments to be more diverse and more inclusive in their employment practices? The Community Culture Index aims to quantify the answer - one of the first data-driven efforts of its kind for a city of this size, and a potential model for other cities around the country.

To reinvent Chattanooga as a city in a park, it takes a plan. The Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Plan is a work in progress - and on Thursday starting at 5 PM, a public workshop on developing the plan will be held at Avondale Community Center.

Start your engines for this year’s Chattanooga Green Prix. The electric vehicle race for students in more than 40 schools in Hamilton County - from elementary to middle to high school - is on Friday and Saturday at the Riverfront, free and open to the public.

In Hixson, “the play’s the thing.” That’s where Scenic City Shakespeare concludes its production of “Hamlet” on Friday and Saturday at Greenway Farms. Emma Collins is co-founder of Scenic City Shakespeare. Arche Twitty plays Hamlet - and Megan Cobb plays Ophelia.

Briana Garza and Ella Livingston on entrepreneurship. At CTC, raw revelations unfold in “August: Osage County.” Remembering Leslie Jordan, Chattanooga’s - & UTC’s - own. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots."

Briana Garza is owner and founder of Chatt Taste Food Tours. Ella Livingston is owner and founder of Cocoa Asante. We bring you this conversation on entrepreneurship in collaboration with the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga.

The next play at Chattanooga Theatre Centre delves into the dark side of a family in Oklahoma for whom the word “dysfunctional” would be an understatement. “August: Osage County” by Tracy Letts - which premieres on Friday - tells a raw tale of revelations about the Weston family.

Día de los Muertos - or Day of the Dead - is a Latin American tradition, observed mostly in Mexico, that honors the dead with festivals and celebrations. Each year, it falls on November 1st and 2nd - but Creative Arts Guild in Dalton will celebrate early, on Friday starting at 6 PM.

For Chattanooga, Leslie Jordan was one of a kind. The actor and singer - who won an Emmy for his role on TV’s “Will and Grace” - died yesterday in a car crash in Hollywood at age 67. Here, we pay tribute to the life and memory of this UTC alum.

Jose Otero is an educator at The Howard School here in Chattanooga. Viri Marin launched the Chattanooga Community Fridge. Xavier Cotto started XCeed Events, which produces and promotes events to amplify the Latino arts. I spoke with them for our conversation series “Raíces” - or “Roots” in Spanish - in collaboration with La Paz Chattanooga.