Around and About Chattanooga

Weekdays, 10am - 10:30am & 8pm - 8:30pm

Around and About Chattanooga is a local weekday radio program with interviews, feature news stories and information about the Tennessee Valley.

Comments?  Story ideas?  Questions about an interview you heard?  You can contact the public affairs desk at (423) 425-2224 or email Mike-Miller@utc.edu.

Chattanooga is transforming into one of the nation's most progressive, vibrant cities.  Guests on the Around and About program discuss the cultural events, art communities, environmental initiatives and other creative forces that are helping continue this transformation.

The concert calendar airs every Thursday with a look at what's happening around town in the music scene.

Looking for a story or an interview you heard?  Scroll down for streaming audio of recent Around and About segments.  You can also subscribe to the Around and About Chattanooga podcast feed.  iTunes link here.

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4:23pm

Mon July 23, 2012
Mental Health

Dealing With A Stressful Pregnancy

For some women, pregnancy can be filled with anxiety and depression. Dr. Terri Rieth counsels women with high-risk and high-stress pregnancies.

4:05pm

Mon July 23, 2012
We Have The Power

EV Charging Network: We Built It, But Will They Come?

As part of Ecotality's nationwide, $230 million-dollar EV Project, Chattanooga businesses have installed electric vehicle chargers in more than twenty locations around the city.  Right now, local drivers don't stop by very often for a power-up. 

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10:28am

Mon July 23, 2012
Education

Stuff the Bus

United Way of Greater Chattanooga is gathering school supplies to Stuff the Bus for children in need.

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11:18am

Thu July 19, 2012
Full Throttle

Buzz About Electric Bikes Still Mostly Overseas

Chattanooga has its own electric bike shop, but it's marketing to a tough demographic: Americans.  In China and Europe, electric bikes are a popular form of transportation. But in the U.S., we prefer to do all the pedaling ourselves -- or drive a car.

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10:01am

Thu July 19, 2012
Arts & Culture

Back Alley Productions

Kaylee Smith is the driving force behind Back Alley Productions, a new theater company working to keep the community in community theater.

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12:18pm

Wed July 18, 2012
A Night At The Picture Show

'Ella' To Premiere At Tivoli

A short film shot in Chattanooga will premiere this weekend at the Tivoli Theater, which itself is a prominent location in the film. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 21, for the 8 p.m. screening of "Ella." The film will be followed by a Q&A and a screening of the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

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10:30am

Wed July 18, 2012
El Duderino

'The Big Lebowski' and Its Followers

 

To some, the 1998 film The Big Lebowski shares the same ideas and qualities as Buddha, Nietzsche, and William Shakespeare. 

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9:51am

Wed July 18, 2012
From Chattanooga to Aquarius

Youngest Member of Mission Aquarius

Credit One World One Ocean

Ella Van Cleave is the youngest member of Mission Aquarius, the expedition to the last operating undersea research laboratory. 

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12:26pm

Tue July 17, 2012
(Almost) Open For Business

Five New Businesses To 'Pop Up' On Chestnut St.

A bagel shop and a gaming lab are among the five new businesses set to open all at once downtown on Chestnut Street next month. It's part of a River City Company effort to bring more retailers downtown.

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10:42am

Tue July 17, 2012
A Call to Aquarius

Calling the Ocean Floor

Credit (c) Kip Evans

The Aquarius Reef Base is the last undersea research laboratory on the planet.

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10:49am

Mon July 16, 2012

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Fri July 13, 2012

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Fri July 13, 2012

3:32pm

Thu July 12, 2012
Airtight Homes

Habitat For Humanity To Use Green Building Standards

From now on, Habitat for Humanity will only build homes that meet a certain set of criteria for efficiency. The organization is working with Better Built, a Chattanooga program that helps people build homes that waste a minimal amount of water and energy.

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11:11am

Thu July 12, 2012
It's Going to Be Fairly Heavy

The Pew Movers

Glen and Juan are responsible for removing 170 pound pews from a local church. It's hard labor and very hot.

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Podcasts

  • Friday, June 14, 2013 12:00am
    Homesteading dates back to the pioneer days (remember Little House On The Prairie?), when families grew much of their own food on their own land. In the modern version, homesteaders avoid grocery stores by planting backyard gardens and raising pigs, rabbits and other animals for meat.
  • Friday, May 31, 2013 12:00am
    Since 2009, the Chattahooligans have been causing havoc in the stands of Finley Stadium for the city's soccer team, Chattanooga Football Club.
  • Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00am
    Eastern hemlock trees atop Signal Mountain and across the Cumberland Plateau are common right now, but many could die off in the next few years. The woolly adelgid, a tiny, invasive insect species originally from Asia, is spreading through the forest and slowly killing hemlocks
  • Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:00am
    Don Dudenbostel's photographs are featured this May in the River Gallery's exhibition Defining Roots. Dudenbostel's photos document disappearing, hidden and infamous aspects of Appalachian culture. Throughout the past few decades, he has photographed snake handlers, and moonshiners (particularly legendary moonshiner Popcorn Sutton).
  • Friday, May 10, 2013 12:00am
    WUTC 88.1 had a contest--we asked listeners to submit their best true stories about a wild, weird road trip. Ryan Darling won. Here, he tells the story of his roadtrip to Bloomington, Indiana. The trip turns into an odyssey filled with boredom, excitement, dangerous weather, a wedding, his ex-girlfriend, and hors d'oeuvres.