A History of Reading: The first book ever sold at Union Avenue Books For those of you who read Monday’s post about closed businesses and contemplated moving out of the city, I hope Tuesday’s post about...

Nama moved to the 500 Block of Gay Street Judging from the responses to yesterday’s blog post, I think I’ve caused a great depression to settle over everyone who loves, laments and cheers for our little...

In this, the second year I’ve written Stuck Inside of Knoxville, the pace of change continues to be breath-taking. It’s sometimes hard to see as events happen, alterations are made, new faces emerge and old ones...

Hudson K and the Circus, First Night Knoxville This will be the final installment of the First Night Knoxville 2012. What a great night. Thank you City of Knoxville and sponsors. We’ll turn to other topics...

Black Atticus at the Hotel Oliver It’s a long title to a post and it was a lot to take in. After I left the sweet sounds of Carrie Rodriguez at the East Tennessee History Center,...

Carrie Rodriguez at the Square Room, Knoxville After I left Jodie Manross at the Miller’s Atrium, I rushed over to the East Tennessee History Center auditorium for the performance of Carrie Rodriguez. The performances in this...

Dixieland Jazz at the Square Room, First Night Knoxville 2012 From the beginning of First Night choices had to be made. I wanted to see most of the music and I was interested in how the...

View of Krutch Park, First Night Knoxville, 2012 It seems odd to call it First Night 2012 because most of what happened happened before midnight, but I suppose the rest of the night that followed was...

Every year is a mixed bag for most of us. Some of us had a great year and some of us had a pretty rotten year. Most of us had a little bit of both and...

Keith (keyboard) and Kenneth Brown (drums) of the Nu-Jazz Fourtet One of the great things about having a few days without that little detail of a day job rearing its head is the opportunity to take...