Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk 2018
It’s sort of stunning, once these events start rolling, just how rapidly they tick off. It’s hard for me to believe we are well on our way through Festival Season. Last weekend, as I noted in...
Sidewalk Sideshow Debuts Downtown
There was a lot going on in downtown Knoxville this weekend. Saturday, particularly, was the point of intersection for multiple events that could put a squeeze on downtown parking. The Orange and White game drew somewhere...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/22 – 5/1/2018)
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...
Knoxville High Independent Living Opens Its Doors
It’s been a long road, one that Rick Dover acknowledges has sometimes been frustrating, but he also says it’s what he enjoys most – making the improbable happen despite the obstacles. I first wrote about Knoxville...
Nineteen Story Apartment Building Planned for North Waterfront
Word has been circulating for quite a while that a major development was planned for the north waterfront, just to the east (by twenty feet) of the Henley Bridge. I first mentioned the rumors and named...
Nest Closes: What Is Wrong With Retail on the 100 Block of Gay Street?
I started this website in June of 2010. In July I wrote my first article about the block. Then Mayor Haslam dedicated the re-opened, refurbished block which had undergone a dramatic re-working which had taken eighteen...
Burwell Gardens Announced: Community Gardens in Oakwood-Lincoln Park
In a recent article I mentioned the fact that there are numerous slivers of land – many of them in older neighborhoods where lots were once smaller and current codes do not allow construction of...
Knoxville Opera’s Rossini Festival 2018
A miracle happened this past weekend in downtown Knoxville. It could not have been lost on several of the tens of thousands who arrived in the center city for the annual Rossini Festival. It must not...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/15 – 4/24/2018)
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...
A Downtown Business Moves to Fountain City
It’s been a bit of a moving target over the years, for various reasons. I first wrote about it in February 2013 when a second location for the west Knoxville business opened a half mile out...