Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (11/3 – 11/12/2019)
If you want to be certain your event is included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a...
Sometimes Life Gets Real
Voices down the hallway issue commands, offer assurances, and resonate with anxiety. Machines swish, beep dissonant tones, and cast digital glows across the room in greens, blues, and oranges. The smell is clean and antiseptic, and...
Supreme Court Site Redevelopment Officially Gets Underway
It’s been many years coming. The reclamation of the city block bounded by Church Ave., Cumberland Ave., Locust St., and Henley St. has seen several aborted attempts at returning it to life. I first reported on...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/27 – 11/5/2019)
If you want to be certain your event is included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a...
Madame Butterfly Presented By Knoxville Opera
Knoxville Opera begins its new season in the Tennessee Theatre with a production of Madame Butterfly. First produced in Milan, Italy, in 1904, the opera has gone from being not well received initially to one of...
Piano Damaged: Vandalism Ruled Out By Organizers (Updated Title to Reflect Most Recent Information)
It was such an optimistic idea: Artists would make their art on instruments that passersby could use to make more art. Conversations would start over music, people would be moved. More art on the street would...
Cas Walker: Still With Us
I recently sat in a local doctor’s office waiting room reading the excellent new book, Cas Walker: Stories on His Life and Legend, edited by Joshua Hodge for the University of Tennessee Press. An elderly couple sat...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/20 – 10/29/2019)
If you want to be certain your event is included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a...
Broadway Viaduct Removal Beginning Right Away: Details Announced
It’s hard to believe that two large viaduct projects that have been discussed for many years are finally becoming reality. The removal of the Jackson Avenue Ramps is already underway, and work on the removal of...
Gay Street Yoga Opens Downtown
Mary June Thompson became downtown Knoxville’s newest small business owner yesterday with the opening of Gay Street Yoga at 317 N. Gay Street, across from Vienna Coffee and Regas Square Lofts. It may represent the beginning...