Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/5 – 5/14/2019)
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...
Clinch River Brewing Not Coming Downtown: Property Purchased and Available
It’s been a long and twisting journey for the bottom floor of the Holston building at 531 South Gay. While the upper floors are one of the strongest success stories in downtown, having been converted from...
Broadway Market Leaves Location and Needs Help
It was almost two years ago when I first wrote about Broadway Market opening in the sliver of a building at 1328 North Broadway. The building had housed K-Brew, another coffee shop, a pop-up by chef...
2019 Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes, Part Two
The 2019 Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes featured a range of homes, from stand-alone, to more urban-style homes inside an elementary school. The tour also include a former high school converted to apartments and two...
2019 Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes, Part One
The annual Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes is always a highlight of our spring. Urban Woman and I have taken the tour for about a decade and it never gets old. If nothing else, the...
Dogwood Arts Festival Culminates a month of Festivals
I’ve likened it to the grand finale at a fireworks show. It is a sort of final explosion in a series of festivals – though Rhythm n Blooms and a sporadic list of other festivals will...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/28 – 5/7/2019)
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...
The Latest Iteration of Strong Alley Serves the Instagram Generation
Who would have ever guessed that an alley which has historically and still, judging by smell, been the site of not-always-savory activity would turn into one of the most photographed spots in the city. The question...
Is Knoxville Becoming a Food Destination?
Which cities in the U.S. do you associate with great food? I grew up taking occasional trips with my parents to Brennan’s in New Orlean’s for one of the first brunches in the country. It remains...
The Madwoman of Chaillot Begins Its Run at the Clarence Brown Theatre
Who would ever believe a plot that involved unscrupulous businessmen attempting to make money from a source that would destroy natural beauty? In the case of the Madwoman of Chaillot, the natural beauty is actually man-made...