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The Downtown Week Ahead (September 15 – 21, 2013)

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 15, 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...

First Friday, September 2013, Pictures and Stories

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 13, 2013

Somehow the week just slipped by without an opening to slip in the First Friday photographs. It was an incredibly packed First Friday that found me falling far short of my goals to make the complete...

State Street Garage Is Open for Business – and Nearly Finished

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 12, 2013

It is surprising when I consider that the State Street Parking Garage has been underway for over a year. This doesn’t include the planning stage, but it was a year ago July that the plans...

The Standard – and a “Destination Restaurant?”

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 11, 2013

Since I was next door at the Armature and it was a Sunday, meaning no one was around to tell me not to walk around the buildings, I toured the Standard and the building beside...

Revisiting the Armature Building: Inside and Outside

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 10, 2013

The Armature Building on Jackson Avenue, just around the corner from the 100 block and a bit to the west, has to be one of the coolest conversions in a downtown full of them. I first...

Downtown Knoxville Food Fight

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 9, 2013

We have crumbling buildings that need to be rescued. We have buildings being torn down, parking problems, decisions to be made about the future of entire city blocks. We have a homeless population that seems to...

The Downtown Week Ahead (September 8 – 14, 2013)

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 8, 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...

Pamela Schoenewaldt Launches Her Second Book: Swimming in the Moon

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 6, 2013

I first met author Knoxville author Pamela Schoenewaldt a half dozen or more years ago. I was a drifting, struggling writer and I’d had her writing group suggested to me. Offered to members of the Knoxville...

Is it Dangerous to Park Downtown?

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 5, 2013

It’s something that I wondered before we moved to the city nearly four years ago. For those of you who scoff, consider that we’d been parking in an enclosed garage attached to our house for the...

City Fatigue: Can the City Be Too Much?

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 4, 2013

Last night I walked toward Market Square at 8:00. I’d made the decision to forgo the Little Walter Tribute to attend the Donald Brown jazz show at the Square Room. It was a bit of a...

The Downtown Week Ahead (September 15 – 21, 2013)

First Friday, September 2013, Pictures and Stories

State Street Garage Is Open for Business – and Nearly Finished

The Standard – and a “Destination Restaurant?”

Revisiting the Armature Building: Inside and Outside

Downtown Knoxville Food Fight

The Downtown Week Ahead (September 8 – 14, 2013)

Pamela Schoenewaldt Launches Her Second Book: Swimming in the Moon

Is it Dangerous to Park Downtown?

City Fatigue: Can the City Be Too Much?

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Announcing Kern’s Bakery Vendors!

Lilienthal Gallery Celebrates Spring Exhibition with Splashes of Color and a Great Vibe

Progress: Kern’s Bakery Experience is Full Steam Ahead

A Weekend in the City