If you haven’t been to Market Square on a Saturday, recently, you owe it to yourself to drag out of bed and get down there. If you are interested in buying produce or even catching the...

You know you’ve seen or heard that some place, but where or when was it? You’ve probably known someone who fit the description, but that’s not it. If you’ve walked around Market Square and you’ve looked...

As I walked through Market Square on my way to the recycle center, I passed these guys and did a double take. They didn’t look like any buskers I’d seen there before. The group played a...

Well, public art is a controversial topic in a number of ways. Who should pay for it? Should public funding be used? How should it be selected? Whose are and which topics are worthy of display...

In the 1950’s and 1960’s Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys toured the country in a bus proudly sporting the name of their sponsor, Martha White Flour. I remember listening to them...

Go ahead, raise your hands. How many of you would move to downtown Knoxville if you were certain you could recycle? OK, so maybe it isn’t quite a poll worthy question, but it seemed like a...

What’s missing? What should we have? It’s a favorite discussion of the residents downtown. “Somebody ought to . . .” The ending of the sentence is completed any number of ways. Grocery stores will have to...

The Entrance to Black Market is Prepared Before Opening Often that’s the case. We’re so interested in the next new thing to open downtown that we strain to see through cracks in the windows or doorways...

Summit Hill/Central Avenue Entrance to the Downtown Dog Park One of the things you might wonder about living downtown is how in the world anyone could have a dog without a big suburban yard for them...

The Bijou Theater celebrated its annual Jubilee with the Emmylou Harris concert that I blogged about earlier, as well as a series of tours and workshops the following afternoon. The festivities concluded with a rare performance...