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“The Jonesing” is a poetic exploration for mature audiences only that flows from corners of the Black experience. The immersive performance by an all-male ensemble of four poetic “messengers” is Saturday, starting at 10 PM, at Wanderlinger Brewing Company in downtown Chattanooga.

Sydney and Brayden Guerrette are the young singer-songwriters who perform as the indie group In the Company of Wolves. Over the summer, they were among the musicians on stage at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga for the inaugural "Sessions" from TEDxChattanooga.

Cory Gearrin spent more than fourteen years as a pitcher in professional baseball - including ten seasons for Major League teams across the country. After baseball, he turned to business - and today, he is Hamilton County’s Deputy Mayor for Economic and Community Development under County Mayor Weston Wamp.

Coach Cherokee’s “Last Christmas” at Barking Legs Theater. From Chattanooga Civics: Solving the city’s sewer problems. A holiday open house at Cluster Funk Studio in Chattanooga. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Aaron “Coach Cherokee” Ellison was born and raised here in Chattanooga. Among his talents: dance, the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira and teaching those disciplines. On Saturday, December 23rd, he brings his original play - “My Last Christmas on Da Plantation” - to Barking Legs Theater here in Chattanooga.

Overflowing sewers are much rarer today than they were 10 years ago in Chattanooga. Nathan Bird from Chattanooga Civics sat down with the head of the City’s Wastewater Department to learn why the consent decree happened - and how Chattanooga is solving its sewer problems.

Brooke Brown is an artist and designer here in Chattanooga. She is the creator and owner of Cluster Funk Studio - where her works mix illustration, design and printmaking with contemporary twists. On Saturday, the Studio holds a Holiday Open House, starting at 11 AM.

Over the summer, TEDxChattanooga hosted its inaugural “Sessions” - a showcase of local musicians and their ideas worth sharing - at Barking Legs Theater. On recent episodes of “Scenic Roots,” we’ve shared performances from Luke Simmons, Sunny War and In the Company of Wolves. For this episode, we bring you one more from “Sessions”: Swayyvo.

On this special edition of "Scenic Roots," listen to the student storytellers of Rising Rock from the Fall 2023 semester here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The last chapter of the life of former President and the Civil War's commanding Union general Ulysses S. Grant is the starting point for “The General and Julia,” a new historical fiction novel by Jon Clinch - published by Simon & Schuster.