Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour 2013, Part 3
I’ll present a couple of additional homes from the tour today and, as a bonus I’ll throw in one of the several beautiful churches in the area. Tomorrow I’ll conclude the series as we head into...
Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour 2013, Part Two
As promised, here’s a return to some of the beautiful homes included in this year’s tour of Victorian homes in Old North. It’s interesting how every home has a back story which is often as...
Holiday Window Fronts and Window Wonderland Winners
Here’s the second round of holiday window decorations, as promised yesterday. The winners were announced Monday afternoon and I have those listed at the bottom, so you can pick your favorites and make you predictions before...
Holiday Window Fronts in the City
The City of Knoxville held a window decorating contest this December dubbed the “Window Wonderland Window Decorating Contest,” and I’m sure some of the beautiful holiday displays resulted from that effort. There are other decorations, however,...
The Downtown Week Ahead (12/16 – 12/21/2013)
If you see an event I’ve missed and you’d like to plug, please comment below or e-mail me (knoxvilleurbanguy@gmail.com) and I’ll try to add it. The list may, accordingly, be expanded through the week. Staying true...
Tour de Lights 2013
The seventh annual Tour de Lights was held last night and I wasn’t there. Listen closely and you can hear me grumble. I’ve been to the last several and I really hated to miss this...
Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour 2013, Part One
There aren’t many activities that Urban Woman and I enjoy more than touring old homes. There’s something magical about a structure that has seen more history than any of us will see in a lifetime. Love,...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013: Ten Worst Floats (and more!)
I’m not sure how I got started writing so much about the bad parts of our annual Christmas Parade. It’s not my style to be negative, let alone downright snarky, but when this event happens I...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013: Top Ten Floats (Plus a few)
#2 Best Float – Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013 I’ll go ahead and say that Andrea was correct in her assessment that this was one of the better parades. I doubted her when she said it but,...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013
Ah, the Knoxville Christmas Parade. I really want to love you, really I do. But you make it so hard. It would be easy to give a pass to this year’s event. Conditions were pretty miserable...