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(Aired Weds 10/09/24) This weekend, a new festival aims to fill a gap in Chattanooga’s music scene. On Saturday and Sunday, the Locals Only Music Festival features bands and musicians here in Chattanooga at Barrelhouse Ballroom.

(Aired Weds 10/09/24) In Northern Hamilton County, a land swap with Tennessee State Parks at Audubon Mountain will extend the Cumberland Trail. Jim Stewart is executive director of Chattanooga Audubon Society. Matt Folz is director of Hamilton County Parks and Recreation.

(Aired Thu 10/10/24) This weekend, cars - and car aficionados - are revving up downtown Chattanooga. The Chattanooga Motorcar Festival - one of the top auto events nationwide - returns to the West Village, this Friday through Sunday.

Drive about an hour west of Chattanooga - and you’ll find an emerging generation of farmers passionate about locally grown food here in Southeast Tennessee. Over the summer, we spoke with Kelsey Keener and Jess Wilson - along with David Cook of Food As A Verb.

Wade Hinton on “Bridge Building” in a polarized workplace. A night to honor Chattanooga’s African-American luminaries. This year’s Lookout Comedy Festival; Cohutta Song Fest. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Polarization. Far too often, we hear the word - and far too often, we use the word - to describe our politics and our culture. What about the workplace? Wade Hinton, CEO of Hinton and Company here in Chattanooga, wrote “Bridge Building: Creating Connection in an Era of Workplace Division.”

For more than four decades, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center has preserved and celebrated the history and culture of African-Americans here in Chattanooga. On Saturday, the center will host the brand-new Bessie Smith Legacy Gala at the Chattanooga Convention Center, starting at 6 PM.

This weekend, the music is calling in Northwest Georgia. On Friday and Saturday, the first-ever Cohutta Song Fest debuts in the small railroad town a half hour from Chattanooga and twenty minutes from Dalton.

Everywhere you turn you’ll hear a punchline at this year’s Lookout Comedy Festival here in Chattanooga. The festival, which runs Wednesday through Saturday at multiple venues in this city, features comic talent from this area and around the country.

(Aired Thu 10/17/24) When a delegation from a city in Ukraine visited Chattanooga, Ian-Alijah Bey of Chattamatters sat down with its mayor to talk about what has happened to his hometown since Russia’s invasion - and how Chattanoogans can help.