Romping Around High Ground and Fort Dickerson Parks
Kids need to get outside. They need to burn their extra energy and connect to the natural world. They need to feel a sense of place outside their four walls. And I’ll be the first to...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (8/23 – 9/1/2020)
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: 8/21/2020 Update (Including the UT Chancellor’s Update)
Welcome to the weekend! We’ve made it through another week of updates and we’re ending the week with all numbers; international, national, state and local looking promising. Celebrate (but keep up the work)! I think we...
Planning for the Weekend and Beyond
It’s the weekend! Here’s a way to celebrate: Check out the beginning of the Sites and Sounds from Big Ears series starting tonight. The series will take you to some of the best sites Knoxville has to...
COVID-19: 8/20/2020 Update (Including Today’s Health Department Briefing
Our family’s travel fantasies are running amok. We’ve gone from talking about the first place we’d want to go when we can travel again, to what we miss most about travel, to ranking favorite trips from...
Knox County Board of Health Meeting (8/19/2020)
Dr. Buchanan presented the benchmarks (which were updated this afternoon). She repeated the numbers from the earlier report. Regarding the new case benchmark, she said it remained yellow even though reductions in numbers are evident. Testing...
COVID-19: 8/19/2020 Update
I’ve recently realized that many social media conversations closely parallel those with my resident 5-year-old. It goes something like this: Me: Statement Him: Unrelated Response Me: Respond to His Unrelated Response Him: Squirrel! What has happened...
New Development Comes to the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Street
The building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Street sat vacant for years. Built over 100 years ago, it had seen better days and stood by itself across from the opulent and refurbished Knoxville...
COVID-19: 8/18/2020 Update (Including Today’s Health Department Briefing)
A little coolness in the air last evening and this morning says that summer is waning, though it won’t give up without a fight. The SEC announced football schedules yesterday, hoping this fall will be modestly...