Flow: A Brew Parlor Closes on Main Street
When it opened in December of 2014, I joined Brad Peer, owner, in having high hopes for the shop. Situated on Main Street, Flow: A Brew Parlor sits far from other retail and culinary options. I...
Open Streets, Spring 2016
The second Open Streets Knoxville event could not have ordered a more perfect day. With sunshine and temperatures in the sixties and low seventies, it was picture perfect. This time around was different for everyone –...
International Biscuit Festival 2016
The festivals and major events keep rolling through spring in Knoxville and this weekend saw a couple of massive events. First, the International Biscuit Festival hit downtown on Saturday and approximately a million (give or take)...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/15 – 5/24/2016)
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: The Sound of Silence
It may seem an odd topic for a column devoted to sound, but it’s been on my mind a recently. It started with Big Ears. I spent a lot of the weekend considering sound. I heard...
Open Streets is This Weekend – And It Is Bigger and Better
Of course, there’s also this other festival on Saturday. I’m going to go ahead and assume that most everyone, including some who live under a rock know that the International Biscuit Festival will happen this Saturday...
White Buffalo: New Children’s Boutique Set to Open in the Old City
I’ve talked recently about the shift happening in the Old City. Long thought of for its night life, there’s some day life emerging. Last summer, for example, I wrote about the Basement Community Art Studio located just...
TVA Towers Offered For Sale – Can We Dream A Little?
We are truly seeing some once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in downtown Knoxville. After a number of years of incremental changes, we are being confronted, in several instances, with the chance to make significant revisions in the fabric of...
Wild Wing Cafe Will Not Come to the Kress Building
Business is complicated and sometimes something that seems improbable happens and, more often, something that seems a done deal comes unraveled. Such is the case with Wild Wing Cafe moving to the Kress Building. It becomes...
Kaizen Asian Restaurant to Open Downtown
One of my favorite downtown spots, 416 Clinch Avenue, will soon be the site of a new restaurant “drawing inspiration” from Japanese, Thai and Szechuan cuisines. Kaizen takes the spot formerly occupied by a series of restaurants,...