The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/29 – 6/7/2016)
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...
There’s Nowhere To Park Downtown! (Not) City Announces Parking Changes
It’s the only topic guaranteed to be discussed in every city the rest of our lifetimes and beyond. Generations of us have lived in suburbs where the parking expectation is that we park in front of...
Is Knoxville the “Boulder of the East?”
I’ve heard about Boulder, Colorado since sometime in the 1970s. In the 1960s it became a gathering point for some members of the counter-culture and I had friends who moved there a few years later. They...
Let’s Get Outside and Celebrate Who We Are: Bike, Boat, Brew and Bark
I’ve heard several discussions recently about our identity or identities as a city. Are we the home of the Vols? The guardians of the Sunsphere? We’ll always be those things, for sure, but we’ve got so...
New Restaurant Coming to Downtown: Blue Slip Bistro
Blue Slip Winery continues to evolve in its home at the Southern Railway Station. In January, 2014, the move from its Old City location was announced and it held its grand opening in November 2014. Owner...
How About a Pint of Science
Sadly, for me, my enjoyment of science went south sometime in my middle school years. It was probably me, but I remember harsh, uninspired teachers. It probably wasn’t the subject and it’s likely I didn’t give...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/22 – 5/31/2016)
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...
Saturday Sounds: BB King Tribute Concert
Let’s get back to music this week with a fun show at Relix Theatre Thursday night. BB King died just about a year ago and I missed a tribute concert held afterward at Relix Theatre and...
Courtyard and Residence Inn by Marriott May Come to Downtown
The vacant property located along State Street from Church over to Cumberland has been the subject of speculation for several years. Once the site of the Knoxville News Sentinel, the building that housed the newspaper was...
The Impeccable Pig Closes on Market Square
It’s been a while since I reported a closing on Market Square. Since a spate of closures around the end of 2014, I don’t think a single business on the square has called it quits. Coldstream...