Sugar Mama’s is Open – Grand Opening Celebration Next Week
Sugar Mama’s – a bakery with beer and other foods – recently opened on the 100 block with the intention of trying a low key, soft kind of opening in order to get the kinks worked...
The Tennessean Brings High End Luxury to Downtown Knoxville
A few weeks ago announcements were formally made that The Tennessean (531 Henley St.), a blend of high-end luxury hotel rooms and condominiums, would soon come to the former state office building beside the downtown Holiday...
Fourth and Gill 2016 Tour of Homes
The 2016 Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes could not have had nicer weather. Urban Woman and I got there not long after it started to find that it was already flooded with participants. I’ve...
Rossini Festival 2016
I’ll share a few words today and hit you with photographs that tell the story much better in any case. The day was a perfect day with a few clouds in the morning, then blue skies...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/24 – 5/3/2016)
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: Old Crow Medicine Show (with Margo Price)
Last weekend Old Crow Medicine Show stopped in Knoxville to play two shows at the Tennessee Theatre. Saturday night’s show sold out while Sunday’s must have come close. Fans who attended the shows witnessed vintage Old...
The Knoxville Gay Men’s Chorus: A Musical Jewel for the City
As it turns out, most major cities – including those in the south – have gay men’s choruses. Atlanta has one, Nashville has a huge mixed chorus as does Charlotte, while Birmingham has two – they...
New Design for Tombras (KUB) Building Approved
The first time I remember discussing the KUB building at 620 S. Gay, was on a walking tour led by Kim Trent. I expressed my distaste for it and she pointed out that it is mid-century...
Final Chapter: Just Ripe Closes (And One Additional Business)
The “final chapter” caption might seem a little melodramatic, but I really do feel I’ve documented this little storefront at 513 Union Avenue more intensely than anything else I’ve written about. In January of 2011 I told...
Juice Box Opens at 1324 N. Broadway
Just a bit north from downtown on Broadway at Glenwood Avenue, somewhere near the convergence of the Old North and Fourth and Gill neighborhoods, a collection of cool spots has started to aggregate. I’ve written about...