Hey, Let’s Hang Out Together: Where You’ll Find Me
I’ll be involved in several events over the next few days, plus one at the end of next week, and I’d like to invite you to join me at each of them. For those of you...
The Farragut Hotel Building to Become a Hyatt Place Hotel
It’s been a long and tortured journey for the former Farragut Hotel. Under utilized, forlorn and nearly abandoned for decades, its become a point of discussion in recent years. One ambitious plan to return it to...
Big Ears 2016, A Final Look: Inuksuit at Ijams and People on the Street
Throughout the festival, I was struck with how many people it must take to decide who to invite, to contact and negotiate with each artist, to find and reserve venues and to make a schedule, to...
Big Ears, A Second Glance
After arriving home on my bicycle, drenched, fatigue setting in and with a disappointing show to end the previous night, I’d had my enthusiasm tempered a bit. I had other business to take care of in...
Big Ears 2016, A First Look
The Big Ears Festival could be considered multiple festivals. The music remains the focal center, of course, and involves its own personal, interactive and extremely eclectic journey. Film supports general ethos established by the music and...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/3 – 4/12/2016)
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...
Urban Gardening Hits the Old City
We move to the city for so many reasons. Downtown Knoxville offers the great opportunity to walk to numerous amenities, for example. Some of us are happy to leave behind obligations of lawn care and working...
“Just Tennes-saying” Offers You a Chance to Explore Your Local Architecture
Over the last (nearly) six years this blog has offered each of us the chance to talk at some length about design, place and the built environment. These are topics of which I knew nothing when...
Covenant Health Opens Convenient Care Downtown
It’s been more than a year since Eddie Mannis announced his plans to bring a pharmacy and a walk-in clinic to the Phoenix building on Gay Street. In October of last year the Phoenix Pharmacy opened its...
Harrogate’s Lounge, Downtown’s Arcade and Bar, Opens on Gay Street
It took a little longer than Anne Ford and Matt Pancetti might have hoped. Last October when I announced we had arcade games on the way to Gay Street, they hoped to be up and running...