Regional

Chinese Acrobats dazzle Showboat cruisers

During the lovely, leisurely and always popular Midday Cruises on Nashville's own Showboat this spring and summer, the fish aren't the only ones jumpin'. The Amazing Peking Acrobats are spellbinding audiences on their return engagement on the General Jackson, from now through November.

Dickel is pride of Cascade Hollow

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough,” Mark Twain said. Twain got married to the love of his life in 1870, the same year George Dickel distilled his very first bottle of Tennessee Whisky. In 1910, the year Twain died, the Dickel distillery was moved from Tennessee to Kentucky, where it stayed for almost 50 years.

Iris eyes are smiling

If there is a harbinger of heaven on earth, some would say it is music, others might say it is the flower. Even before Nashville was known as Music City, there were those who knew it as The Iris City, for the cultivation of the iris, which in Greek means rainbow (the bridge between heaven and earth), was undertaken with as much zeal as the cultivation of music.

The Pepsi 300 hits the track at Nashville Superspeedway

Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, David Reutimann, Kyle Busch and more will race!

The Taste of Cool Springs event

Our area's best restaurants, caterers, and hotels will offer up samplings of their favorite creations. Attendees taste specialty foods, meet chefs, sip wine and enjoy musical entertainment as they visit each station.

Souper Sunday will bowl you over

Now that Super Bowl Sunday is over and we’ve all gorged on that heavy stew of violence, glitz and hype, we can turn our attention to another event with a bowl at the center, this one with a truly super reason for being. At Our Kids Soup Sunday, February 24 at the LP Field (Club Level West) between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., you can sample soups from over 50 area restaurants vying for such soupreme accolades as Best Soup, Most Creative Soup and Judges’ Choice.

Women get set for wonderful weekend

“There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” — Washington Irving. Its identifying letters, WWW, haven’t yet made it as famous as the World Wide Web, but the Wonderful Weekend for Women, set to celebrate its 17th year in Columbia on February 29 and March 1, has become more far-reaching and all-encompassing each year. The desire to lift up and encourage women was the spark of heavenly fire that ignited the birth of the weekend-long conference, which features nationally known speakers, seminars and sessions designed to renew and proclaim the participants’ faith in one another and in God.

Brava Italia! fetes landscapes of Italy

By OnePaper staff

The glory that is the gardens of Italy will bloom for three days in Nashville, when the 18th Annual Antiques and Garden Show takes center stage at the Nashville Convention Center, February 14-17. This year’s theme, Brava Italia!, pays homage to the classical and timeless beauty, design and variety of Italian gardens and landscapes. The always popular event, which benefits Exchange Club Charities, Inc. and Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, has been named a Top 20 Event by the Southeast Tourism Society.

Orchestra Nashville spoons up treat at Leipers Fork

By Paul Erland

When the former Nashville Chamber Orchestra recently came to a fork in the road, they took it. The orchestra has a new name with a new connotation, but the same mission – to engage and inspire audiences and performers with innovative presentations, both classical and modern, that celebrate Music City’s diverse and eclectic musical community.

His works soothe the tile-tale heart

Even if Ben Gilliam loses his sight, he won't stop looking into people's souls.

Ziba the last word in beauty

People are beautiful if you love them, is an idea that, so long as Katie Mirian lives and breathes and cuts hair, will never go out of fashion.

Lost highways revisited

Artist David Malcolm Rose, in his collection of scale-model reproductions of those icons of a half-century ago, has preserved for posterity a slice of a culture just about dead - has sanctified what Nietzsche called "knowledge of the past...for the service of the future."

Monkey business is building

The stocking is a staple of Christmas, of course, but a Lynchburg resident is doing her part to make the humble sock just as heartwarming and famous a family tradition. Sara (a.k.a. Sadie) Hope has devoted her retirement years to an unusual and benevolent project, in a time when many seem bent on making monkeys of their neighbors: making monkeys for her neighbors.