COVID-19: 6/12/2020 (Including Today’s Health Department Briefing)
It’s Friday. I hope that still has some meaning for you. I also hope that as you make the weekend special you do so safely. We are so fortunate to have been spared the worst of...
COVID-19: 6/11/2020 Update
It’s almost the weekend. It’s almost mid-June. It’s almost half-way to who-knows-what? The passage of time is altered in ways that we could never have imagined. Past markers like weeks and weekends, like days to the...
Music for a Pandemic (or Anytime) from the Sedonas and R.B. Morris
We may only be touching the tip of the music and other art made during or released during the pandemic. We might expect that artists isolated during this time might tap the muse for inspiration and...
COVID-19: 6/10/2020 Update (Including Today’s Health Department Briefing)
Heat is a thing, right now. Despite being a bit early on the calendar, it is clearly summer outside in Knoxville. Cries for change in our justice and other systems have heated up across our country....
Public Defender’s Office Holds Vigil to Highlight Racial Injustice
Monday evening this week, the Public Defender’s Office of Knox County, along with others across the state and country, held a candlelight vigil “in solidarity to honor those who have been killed at the hands of...
COVID-19: 6/9/2020 Update
This marks the second week the Knox County Health Department has held press conferences on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. There is no press conference on Tuesday and Thursday. According to Dr. Buchanan, the move was made...
New Businesses are Coming, But Some Old Ones Are Going Away
It doesn’t take a genius to surmise that post-pandemic Knoxville will not be the same. In some cases, that means we’ll have new businesses, like a donut shop, a tea and herb bar, and a cat...
COVID-19: 6/8/2020 Update (Including Today’s Health Department Briefing)
As we begin another week of COVID-19 reports, the county, state, country and world seems to be lurching simultaneously in opposing directions, with some evidence indicating the pandemic is worsening, even as the world economies that...
The Donut Shop Opens on Broadway
Father and daughter duo, Brian and Avery Gentry, to whom I introduced you in March, have opened their business at 724 North Broadway. Originally hoping to open in April, the business had a soft-soft opening for...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (6/7 – 6/16/2020)
As events are opening up, we’re listing a combination of virtual and live events. The rules are the same – if you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims –...