COVID-19: 8/20/2022 Update
Welcome to the third installment after my resumption of COVID-19 reports. I would love to say there is some promise in the numbers this week, but encouragement is hard to find. Our best hope for the...
Caswell Manor Takes First Step Toward Providing Permanent Supportive Housing
The consensus among experts in the field is that permanent supportive housing is the way to significantly impact homelessness. The idea is simple: Get those who are willing off the street and into housing with enough...
Scooters, Scooters Everywhere . . .
In an era of COVID-19, shootings in the city, increased homelessness and Black Lives Matter, downtown residents can still find a little room for Scooter Outrage. Controversial from their initial rollout, the delightfully fun, environmentally helpful,...
Fai Thai Kitchen is Now Open
It didn’t take long for Fai and Nathanael Blais to get the action moved from the popular Fai Thai Food Truck into their new location at 522 South Gay Street. Barely more than two weeks after...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (8/15-8/24/2021)
As events are opening up, we’re listing a combination of virtual and live events. The rules are the same – if you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims –...
COVID-19: 8/13/2021 Update
Here’s the second update since my return. The return came, of course, because the numbers are once again trending in the wrong direction. I wish I could say I pulled the trigger too fast and things...
Redbud Kitchen Opens at 906 Sevier Avenue
A new restaurant recently opened just below and to the front of Hi-Wire Brewing. Redbud Kitchen is the second restaurant opened by Morristown residents Wally and Lisa Long. It joins a growing number of restaurants, breweries...
KARM Has an Idea Amid Concerns Regarding Homeless
There might be small, attainable, ideas which could helpfully impact local homeless issues. There are large ideas which could potentially help end the homeless crisis in our city, though they are less obtainable. Residents and business...
Details for Second Bell Released
After a promising start as Knoxville’s first music festival to be held in Suttree Landing Park, 2020 saw a disruption of Second Bell’s regular August blow out. In an effort to continue the flow of music,...
Tourists Return to Knoxville: The April – June Stats
Remember the shock we all felt when some area hotels sent the vast majority of their workers home in March 2020? We hoped it would be a short blow to the local travel and tourism business,...