New Feature Length Movie to be Filmed in Knoxville
It’s exciting to learn that a new movie will be made in Knoxville. It’s exciting when someone from Knoxville makes a movie. When someone from Knoxville plans to make a movie in the city, it’s a...
COVID-19: 8/17/2020 Update
Welcome to a new week. Here’s hoping it is a good one for everyone. There are some good numbers being reported. On the upside, I am seeing more people wearing masks downtown, so hopefully that will...
New Bar, Knox Brew Hub, Coming to Downtown
Less than a month after announcing the closure of downtown’s location of Casual Pint, comes the announcement that well-known local beer personality, Zack Roskop, will open a bar at the location. Knox Brew Hub, AKA “The...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (8/15 – 8/24/2020)
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: 8/14/2020 Update (Including Today’s Health Department Briefing)
Happy Friday. I hope your weekend is a good one. Our family picks up a chrome book and “manipulatives” for a kindergarten student today as we continue to ramp up for virtual education. Accomplishments this week:...
Two Downtown Businesses Expand into New Locations
It may seem counter-intuitive for a business to move to a new location and expand during a global health emergency. The news may be filled with dire economic reports, but for people with vision, this is...
COVID-19: 8/13/2020 Update
“Is it the weekend, yet?” Urban Boy, age five, asks me this each morning as I stumble out to make coffee in the kitchen, where he’s been patiently waiting for his coffee bean. We’re working on...
Knox County Board of Health Decides Not to Reduce Maximum Group Sizes
The Board of Heath met for their regularly scheduled meeting with an item on the agenda to consider reducing sizes of social gatherings which would be allowed under current regulations. The current limit was fifty and...
COVID-19: 8/12/2020 Update (Including Today’s Health Department Briefing)
Good Wednesday! We’re halfway through another action-packed week. New benchmark information is provided below which should give us a glimpse of how we are doing locally. Recent numbers of hospitalizations seem to be better and deaths...
Inaugural Big Ears Festival Streaming Series Begins with R.B. Morris and Band on August 21
For many of us who passionately love music, one of the greatest losses of the current era is the loss of live music. Being in the presence of live musicians, watching the interplay between band members...