The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (12/6 – 12/15/2015)
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 Rhythm of the Rain
I know. I’m sort of cheating here. Saturday Sounds articles are supposed to be about music. Still, there’s something about the sound of rain, isn’t there? The sound of rain hitting the roof (preferably tin, though...
Holly’s 135 Adds Space, Makes Changes (Plus a Concert Giveaway)
It’s seems like Holly’s 135 has been downtown for a long time, but it’s only been a bit over nine months since the Grand Opening in the midst of an ice storm. It was an eventful...
Window Wonderland Contest Underway Downtown
According to the City of Knoxville’s website the annual window decoration event is underway and will run from November 27 – December 17. Called “Window Wonderland,” businesses were encouraged to decorate their window – or windows –...
Knox Whiskey Works Hosts Grand Opening Friday!
I’ve said it before, I sometimes feel like I write about some distant future that never seems to arrive. The first time I sat down with Stanton Webster to talk about the crazy idea of bringing...
Beer for Breakfast? Yes. . . and Help a Knoxville Girl
When my friend Joey Natour, co-owner of Pete’s Coffee Shop suggested that I write about an upcoming “brinner,” which would include beer pairings from Casual Pint, I had some questions. First, what’s a “brinner?” Simple enough...
Thanksgiving Into Christmas 2015
I hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. Mine was very good as I was surrounded by family for the entire week. My ideas about what we’d do were probably a bit ambitious, which...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (11/29 – 12/8/2015)
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: Donna the Buffalo (and Peter Rowan)
I’ve seen Donna the Buffalo a number of times and I’ve always enjoyed them. I had the added excitement this time around of photographing them with a nice camera. Still, I had that feeling of, “Well...
A Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend in the City: What to Do?
What’s it like in the city on a holiday? What’s going on and what is there to do? The answers to those questions are likely as varied as the number of people you’d care to ask....