Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/11 – 3/20/2018)
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...
An Update on the Kerns Building and Site
It’s been over 2 1/2 years since we took a tour of the Kern’s Bakery Building with then owner David Dewhirst. Multiple plans were being considered and the ideas were fluid. The building and site had...
What’s a Realistic Hope for Downtown Retail in 2018?
I’ve lived downtown for nearly nine years. Before that, I came downtown for various reasons from the time I moved to Knoxville in 1982. Retail has been a major part of conversations for all of those...
Central Filling Station, Knoxville’s Food Truck Park, is Open!
Alden Larrick told me it was probably the worst weather weekend they could have found when the Central Filling Station (original article with all the details) officially opened its gates on an improbable Thursday on the first day...
Single Room Occupancy: A Relic Best Left to the Past or a Way to Make Cities More Affordable?
Single Room Occupancy (SRO) was once a norm in cities in the United States. Its demise was fed by a number of variables, but that it has nearly disappeared is of little dispute. Is that a...
Mardi Growl 2018
The eleventh annual Mardi Growl event has come and gone, once more. For many of us downtown if feels like the introduction to spring – albeit usually a chilly one. For me, it’s my little taste...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/4 – 3/13/2018)
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...
Is Knoxville’s Coffee Community about to “Bloom?”
What do Providence, Rhode Island, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, Los Angeles California and Knoxville have in common? It could be a major coffee event. It’s been a while since I talked about coffee in Knoxville, other...
2018 Downtown Knoxville Festival Guide!
It’s that time of year, again, and, as usual, definitions of when festival season starts and what constitutes a festival will continue to bedevil the effort to make any kind of coherent list. With hot weather...
After Multiple Strokes, Local Artist Chris Cornett Returns (and Could Use Your Help)
Just over five years ago I first encountered the art of Chris Cornett. The challenging nature of the works and the striking use of color captivated me at once. I took my first photograph of his...