Around and About Chattanooga

In our final election segment, we talk to Guy Satterfield, who is running for Chattanooga mayor against Andy Berke and Chester Heathington, Jr.  Early voting ends Feb 28th.

Mayoral candidate Andy Berke joins us for an interview.  The upcoming March 5th election has three candidates vying for Chattanooga mayor.  WUTC asked all three candidates about their leadership experience, family background and positions on various issues.

Three candidates are running for Chattanooga mayor: Andy Berke, Guy Satterfield and Robert Chester Heathington, Jr.  WUTC interviewed all three candidates and asked them about their leadership experience, family background and positions on various issues.  In this segment, Heathington joins us.

Mark Making, a Chattanooga organization promoting public art, spearheaded a mural project inside the Hamilton County Jail. The mural is called Universe Space and portrays planets, supernovas, black holes, and other cosmic imagery. The mural was made with the help of eleven inmates.

Read Across Chattanooga is the local celebration of the National Education Association's Read Across America and the anniversary of Dr. Seuss' birthday. 

Funded in large part by a MakeWork grant, Cyclopaedia is one of the most complex avant-garde theater productions in Chattanooga recently.  Tim Hinck, the creator, says it’s non-narrative—an experimental work that comments on communication.  Cyclopaedia runs from February 21st – 25th at the Center For Creative Arts.

Better Block Glass Street is working with neighbors and volunteers to invigorate a community.  The Glass House Collective has been working with businesses and residents near the intersection of Glass Street and North Chamberlain Avenue to revitalize the area. 

Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans For The Arts, discusses the positive economic impact from art and nonprofit arts organizations.  Lynch will be a keynote speaker at the February 21st fundraising kickoff event for ArtsBuild.  (Lynch will also participate in the Cam Busch Endowed Arts for Health Lecture Series on February 21st.)

Photographer Gregg Segal's work has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. His subjects include professional cosplayers, senior Olympians, and actors such as Louis CK, Steve-O, and Forest Whitaker.

Rise Up Chattanooga is a temporary sculpture combining ladders on loan from the community to represent how we come together to achieve our hopes and dreams.  The goal is to collect 500 ladders that will be leaning on each other to climb toward the sky. 

In this interview, Cam Busch discusses art and health.  The 13th annual Cam Busch Endowed Arts for Health Lecture Series will be Thursday, February 21, 2013 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the Hunter Museum of American Art. 

BMW of Chattanooga has donated a limited edition 1 Series M Coupe for auction to benefit the Austin Hatcher Foundation. 

Jo "Someday" Swanson and "Hillbilly Bart" Houck are the first people to attempt a thruhike on the Great Eastern Trail (GET), which is America's newest long-distance trail and stretches 1800 miles across nine states. 

   Dave Isay from StoryCorps talked to WUTC's Michael Edward Miller about the appeal of hearing couples' how-they-met stories.  Such tales are collected in the book All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps.

People aren't born with instruction manuals and the transition from youth to young adult can be pretty tricky.  Young and Wiser is a nonprofit that works with high school and college students to develop life skills leading to success.