Seeing With His Heart
By Chandra Harris-McCray In the stillness of the night, faint stars from a cutesy nightlight reflect on the bedroom ceiling and on the faces of plush animals and dolls neatly lined on wall shelves....
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Entertainers Dixie Carter Best known for: Designing Women Most remember Dixie Carter best as the outspoken and opinionated southerner Julia Sugarbaker in the television series Designing Women...
View ArticleVols in Space
When Barry Wilmore returned to Earth on March 11, it took UT out of space for the first time in six months. That absence didn’t last long, though. Scott Kelly—who, like Wilmore, is a graduate of UT’s...
View ArticleFifty Years Later
Clara Childress Register’s fondest memories of her days at UT were as a cheerleader in the 1960s. One particularly memorable game against Bear Bryant and his Crimson Tide featured quarterback and...
View ArticleJohn Cullum
Knoxville native John Cullum (’53) is a two-time Tony Award winner who is best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of Holling Vincoeur on television’s Northern Exposure. The Clarence Brown Theatre...
View ArticleThe Story of the Stuff
Ashley Maynor (’04, ’13) has a complicated relationship with stuff. Not just any stuff. Condolence stuff. The things that people send after tragedy occurs. The banners, teddy bears, letters, and more...
View ArticleUT Alumni Bring Hollywood Home
By Tyra Haag (’04) UT alumni Gordon Whitener and Brett Thomason brought Hollywood home this summer with Dog Years, a feature film starring acting legend Burt Reynolds. Whitener and Thomason, both...
View ArticleLearning on the Set
By Tyra Haag (’04) Three cinema studies students spent their summer as interns for Dog Years, a feature film set in Knoxville starring Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds. Juniors Crue Smith and Lori...
View Article100 Years of Homecoming
On November 11, 1916—a date that hadn’t yet become Veterans Day—the undefeated Vols beat Vanderbilt 10–6 and “gladdened the hearts of hundreds of alumni who had journeyed back to the Old Hill for the...
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Logan Marshall-Green Screen: Upgrade (Grey Trace), Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jackson Brice), Prometheus (Charlie Holloway) Logan Marshall-Green (’99) has been around the stage his whole life but has come...
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