The City is Alive With Urban Music
What is urban music? Consider the connections you make with various kinds of music. Country and bluegrass music make me think of rural hinterlands. I attached sixties folk and folk rock to cities like New York,...
Building Purchased for Old City Performing Arts Center
Just over a year ago, River and Rail Theatre Company announced plans to open the Old City Performing Arts Center. It was an ambitious plan to convert the old Cor-Tenn building at 111 Central Street into...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/26 – 6/4/2019)
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...
Smart Trips: A New Director and New Directions
Do you have a favorite department or division of city government? I have several (I’m weird like that), but one of them falls under Knoxville-Knox County Planning (formerly the Metropolitan Planning Commission). I’ve written about Smart...
City Council Approves Supreme Court Site Plan
Earlier this week, City Council unanimously approved the most recent incarnation of plans for redevelopment of the parking lot portion of the Supreme Court site bounded by Locust, Church and Henley Street. While mostly the same,...
Ruby Sunshine Opens at 37 Market Square
The thirteenth location of Ruby Sunshine restaurant opened on Monday in downtown Knoxville at 37 Market Square. It becomes the second location in Tennessee (Franklin opened two months ago) for the restaurant based in New Orleans,...
Fragile and Fading Structures Near Downtown
May is National Preservation Month. Knox Heritage, our local preservation organization, uses the month to highlight properties which appear to be in real danger of being lost. Previously titled “Fragile Fifteen,” the list is now called...
Rhythm n Blooms 2019: The Look Back
A wonderful edition of the annual Rhythm n Blooms, presented by Dogwood Arts and Attack Monkey Productions, has come and gone leaving festival goers exhausted and, hopefully, with a satisfying fill of their music craving for...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/19 – 5/28/2019)
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...
Bluhen Botanicals Opens Flagship Hemp Location in the Old City
It’s been a dizzying eight months since I first reported that Bluhen Botanicals had launched an ambitious local hemp and CBD operation. Within five months they’d expanded operations and secured a $30 million influx of funding...