Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/16 – 4/25/2017)
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...
City Proposes New Short Term Rental Regulations
It’s been almost six months since the city held a public hearing to discuss short term rentals. Starting at that point, city officials took public comment and began formulating a policy to regulate short term rentals....
A Market Square Business Leaves, Another Downtown Business Takes Its Place
A number of you have noticed that Local Motors has left downtown and its 11 Market Square Address. Both when I first wrote about their opening and when I wrote about their retail re-boot, a number...
Rhythm n Blooms 2017 is a Spectacular, Sprawling Success
I’ve been a bit slow getting this out and I appreciate your patience. After shooting over 1100 photographs and taking in about twenty-five hours of premium entertainment over a fifty-hour period of time I was happy...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/9 – 4/18/2017)
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...
Options to Do Good and to Think Deeply This Weekend
If you count Rhythm n Blooms, where many of us will spend the entire weekend, as one event, there are 58 other options for vying for your weekend fun, according to my 10 Day Planner. The...
Magnolia Records Opens Downtown
It’s a headline that would have been confounding just a few years ago. CD sales obliterated vinyl in the 1980s and predictions held vinyl would become the eight-track tape of its generation. At that same time,...
The Tennessean, Knoxville’s New Luxury Hotel, Officially Opens
In its soft opening last weekend, Nicholas Cazana, president of the company which owns the property, said The Tennessean Hotel was filled to capacity giving his new staff a good sample of what they anticipate will be...
Moments and Movements Around Town Which Made Me Stop, Take Note and Think
Today I’ve got a bit of random ramblings. I see a lot of things as I walk around town. Some of them don’t fit neatly into an article, but I find them interesting, none-the-less. I probably...
Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk 2017
Each year I write about the Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk, I’m tempted to say the art is better than it’s ever been. Looking at the art included here (and that not included), it’s easy to see...