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background:white">Bill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at Dallas NPR station KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues. He’s won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.

Meghan Keane is the founder and managing producer for NPR's Life Kit, which brings listeners advice and actionable information about personal finances, health, parenting, relationships and more. She is responsible for the editorial vision of Life Kit, which aims to serve NPR's larger mission of public service.

A century ago, artists and their studios in this country and Europe fashioned art glass in what was then a new style: Art Deco. Next week, pieces from an art glass collection go on display at the Hunter Museum of American Art here in Chattanooga - on Thursday, May 23rd.

BJ Coleman is an alum of our campus here at UTC - and a former Green Bay Packer. Next Tuesday, September 17th, he will be the featured guest for the inaugural Leadership and Ethics Speaker Series here at UTC - hosted by the Gary W. Rollins College of Business.

The Replacements. Bash & Pop. Perfect. Soul Asylum. Guns N’ Roses. These bands - from alt rock to hard rock - share someone in common: Tommy Stinson - guitarist, singer / songwriter, producer. Tommy and his band, Cowboys in the Campfire, perform this evening at Lo Main in Chattanooga.

What began seven years ago as a one-day festival to commemorate Juneteenth here in Chattanooga - at the time, the only event of its kind in this city - is now a year-long series of festivals that celebrates the Black experience across the arts, starting on Friday.

(Aired Weds 3/12/25) He’s a writer and poet who was born here in Chattanooga. His words - from poetry and prose to plays and novels - have reverberated around the world. Ishmael Reed is returning to Chattanooga.

Clyde Stubblefield, best known as the “Funky Drummer” for James Brown, was born and raised here in Chattanooga. As we near the end of Black Music Month, a film screening and a live concert on Saturday in Chattanooga will honor his life and legacy.

In the next chapter for Chattanooga’s downtown Riverfront, what should parks look like - and how should the riverfront parks align with the City of Chattanooga’s goal of building a “city in a park”? A community open house this week offers the chance for the public to learn about the possibilities and provide feedback.

Women are the majority of the population here in Chattanooga - but less than a quarter of the city’s IT workforce. On Saturday, the Chattanooga Technology Council - or ChaTech - hosts this year’s “STEM for Her,” starting at 8 AM at the Gerald McCormick Center at Chattanooga State Community College.