Eric Johnson will play at Songbirds on the south stage on Friday, March 20, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30-$35 and available here . Review for Eric Johnson The Austin, Tx.-based guitarist, vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist will release a new album Friday titled EJ Vol II. To celebrate his 11th studio album Johnson has set out on a 55-date tour, spanning nearly three-months, ... (click for more)

Enjoy a leisurely Sunday afternoon European Tour: Part One concert on March 1 when Chattanooga State’s Symphonic Band, under the direction of Nicholas Hartline, will embark on a two-part musical journey beginning at 2:30 p.m. The first leg will include Germany, England, Russia, Ireland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania. The concert will also feature French horn soloist, and Chattanooga ... (click for more)

The board of the new downtown Business Improvement District voted on Wednesday to have its three-member finance committee take another look at providing help to four non-profits that are asking to be exempted from assessments. The board, acting on the recommendation of the finance panel, earlier rejected any reductions in amounts charged to the non-profits that filed appeals. ... (click for more)

An official of the Boston Business Improvement District has been chosen to be executive director of the new Chattanooga BID. The local BID board on Wednesday approved the selection of Steve Brookes, who joined the Downtown Boston BID in March of 2011. He serves as the Boston BID's Clean & Hospitality Operations Director. In that role, he oversees the team of the BID's ... (click for more)

More brilliant thinking from the city of Chattanooga. Let’s take a five lane road leading from Highway 153 to the airport and make it three lanes, add some bike lanes, sidewalks and landscaping. Who are these idiots that come up with ways to waste money? Bike lanes? Really? How often are the ones on Shallowford at 153 being utilized? Never! I traveled Shallowford to and from ... (click for more)

I am not a big fan of Bill Hagerty, the early front-runner to replace Lamar Alexander as Tennessee’s next Senator, because I dislike the thought of six more years with a partisan puppet. Hagerty was in Chattanooga earlier this week to tell the Hamilton County Pachyderm Club how loyal he is to President Donald Trump, how much he enjoys laughing at the Democrats’ presidential field ... (click for more)