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Downtown Window Decorations, Part 1

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 17, 2012
The announcement of the winner of this year’s Window Decorating Contest in downtown Knoxville was overshadowed, as was everything else this past Friday, by the shootings in Connecticut. This isn’t really the forum for a discussion...

Tour de Lights 2012

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 14, 2012
It’s a great, quirky tradition played out on a December night each year. Sometimes the weather is bitter, like it was a couple of years ago when the temperature hovered in the 30’s and a persistent...

Visit Knoxville Makes an Urban Guy Video

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 13, 2012
I can agree with the Grateful Dead: It’s been a long, strange trip. Just over three years ago Urban Woman and I moved to the center city. With some anxiety about the unknowns involved, we took...

Henley Street Bridge: Progress and Problems

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 12, 2012
  Henley Street Bridge Construction, Knoxville, October 2012 It’s been a while since I posted photographs of the Henley Street Bridge construction, so I’m including a few that I took in a few weeks ago. According...

Knoxville Christmas Parade 2012, Part 2

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 11, 2012
As I said yesterday, this year’s parade was a bit better for my taste. I mentioned some of the reasons I feel that way and most of them are back-handed compliments, but here’s one that’s straight-forward:...

Knoxville Christmas Parade 2012

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 10, 2012
By crowd-count, this year’s parade looked like a big success, to me. I did not like the new parade route because it seemed to shorten the front end and make it more crowded. When the dust...

Christmas Market and Parade Highlight the Weekend

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 7, 2012
As always, there’s more fun to be had than time in the city this weekend. I’m going to forego my First Friday detailed run-down and highlight just a few special things that have come to my...

No Partridge in a Pear Tree in Knoxville this Christmas

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 6, 2012
Quite possibly the only pear tree in downtown Knoxville recently disappeared from the small green space between Kendrick Place and the Masonic Temple. After years of treatment for blight, it finally became so diseased that it...

Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour 2012

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 5, 2012
Urban Woman and I have wanted to take this home tour for years and something always came up or we let it pass before we got our act together. This year we were determined to be...

Great Music, Free Tickets and a Near-Death Experience: Just Another Friday Night in Knoxville

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 4, 2012
As anyone who read last Friday’s blog post can attest, there was simply too much to do downtown last weekend. Friday night I made the decision to only go two places: Alive After Five at the...
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