New Brewery: Last Days of Autumn
Just about the time I think I’ve got a handle on all the new breweries coming to the downtown area, I find another. I’ve nosed around the area out Jackson on McCalla over to Magnolia and...
Knoxville Children’s Theatre Mounts Excellent Production; Offers Great Opportunity for Young Thespians
The Knoxville Children’s Theatre is a great asset to the downtown area – though it’s a bit of a stretch out Central. Once housed closer to downtown proper, in the building on Tyson where you’ll soon...
An Anniversary for two Missing Buildings and an Empty Lot
Yesterday an anniversary of sorts passed without so much as a thought. It’s something that some people would rather be forgotten. It’s something that only the most spiteful among us might be interested in celebrating. I...
Sapphire Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
Last Friday night Aaron Thompson, owner of Sapphire threw a party to celebrate the establishment’s tenth anniversary and to thank the people who have made it possible along the way. Aaron acknowledges the list is long, and...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (9/20 – 9/29/2015)
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 Milk Carton Kids
This week’s show with the Milk Carton Kids showed that Knoxville audiences really can quieten down and listen intently to a musical performance. The show opened with The Contenders, a duo similar in musical style to...
Plainview Digital/Plainview TV and Brett Winston; Keeping it Creative
Sometimes my job puts me in awkward positions. Today’s story starts with a couple of them. In 2012 I wrote about the Waynestock Concerts, as I do every year, and particularly, I wrote about a group...
Updates on Babalu (JC Penney Bldg) and Wild Wing Cafe (Kress Bldg)
I’m going to try to keep this a bit more brief after writing approximately one million words yesterday. I had another million, but cut myself off. I appreciate the response so many of you had to Jeremiah...
Jeremiah Welch Shares His Art; Needs Your Help
You’ve probably seen him playing his cello around downtown, you may have noticed his inclusion in an article about buskers in the most recent Mercury. In a town with not so many African-American cello players, he...
The Scarecrow Foundation, Gator Hator Week and Ending Hunger in America
You may have noticed the “Gator Hator Week” ad on the website for the last few weeks. When Jimmy Buckner, head of the Scarecrow Foundation, sent me a query about placing the ad, I asked what...