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In the heart of Chattanooga, Broad Street links the downtown with the Riverfront. “Reimagining Broad Street” is a planning process to redevelop the corridor as a - quote - “premier public street.” River City Company - along with the City of Chattanooga and Chattanooga Design Studio - have been soliciting community input.

Richard Winham shares the second part of a set by The Deer - a band from Austin, Texas whose music is described by NPR as “transcendental folk sagas from another planet” - performing live in The Woodshop on St. Elmo Ave. in Chattanooga.

(aired Mon 5/02/22) Most weekdays, you might hear the notes of bagpipes emanating from the Citizen Cemetery near our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The bagpiper works for UTC as a senior instructional designer - and you can trace his family back to Scotland.

(aired Mon 5/02/22) Skuid is a tech startup here in Chattanooga that helps companies develop customer-friendly apps for its workers. Ken McElrath launched Skuid - an acronym for Scalable Kit for User Interface Design - in 2013.

Richard Winham shares a performance by Jeremy Pinnell - a country singer from Northern Kentucky described by Rolling Stone as “hardscrabble honky-tonk at its best” - at The Woodshop on St. Elmo Avenue in Chattanooga. (First aired Tues 4/05/22)

This year's monthlong Chattanooga Festival of Black Arts and Ideas: Juneteenth Independence Day will begins Saturday evening the RBG Ball - the Red, Black and Green Ball - featuring a Black Arts Awards Ceremony and the introduction of three historical African princesses.

Lourans Mikhail is a muralist, sculptor, painter and graphic designer here in Chattanooga. A Marine veteran, his work has been shown in galleries in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Chattanooga - and he’s painted large-scale murals from San Diego, Anaheim and New Orleans to Chattanooga, Nashville and Memphis. I spoke with him after he completed a month-long artist residency at Chateau Orqueveaux in France.

From 1982 until 2005, August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays about the Black experience in Pittsburgh during the 20th Century - with one play set in each decade. The series is known as the Century Cycle - and on Friday, the second play in the Cycle, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” premieres at Chattanooga Theatre Centre.

Jessie Knowles describes her solo show as an “artistic outreach” to raise awareness of mental health. An interdisciplinary artist here in Chattanooga, Jessie lives with what she calls her “mental differences” - and she tells her story in her own words in “Jessie’s Messy Mind Show,” which premieres Friday night at The Seed Theatre.

Almost time to clear the way for the return of Park(ing) Day in downtown Chattanooga. Next Friday, parking spaces will be reclaimed, reimagined and repurposed as “parklets” for people on Broad Street between 4th Street and Aquarium Way.