The City is Alive With Urban Music
What is urban music? Consider the connections you make with various kinds of music. Country and bluegrass music make me think of rural hinterlands. I attached sixties folk and folk rock to cities like New York,...
Culture
Building Purchased for Old City Performing Arts Center
Just over a year ago, River and Rail Theatre Company announced plans to open the Old City Performing Arts Center. It was an ambitious plan to convert the old Cor-Tenn building at 111 Central Street into...
Fragile and Fading Structures Near Downtown
May is National Preservation Month. Knox Heritage, our local preservation organization, uses the month to highlight properties which appear to be in real danger of being lost. Previously titled “Fragile Fifteen,” the list is now called...
Rhythm n Blooms 2019: The Look Back
A wonderful edition of the annual Rhythm n Blooms, presented by Dogwood Arts and Attack Monkey Productions, has come and gone leaving festival goers exhausted and, hopefully, with a satisfying fill of their music craving for...
En Plein Air: Artists recreate Knoxville Scenes
A couple of weeks ago, you might have noticed artists spread around Market Square painting the scene before them. You might have encountered some of these same artists at any number of locations in the Knoxville...
2019 Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes, Part Two
The 2019 Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes featured a range of homes, from stand-alone, to more urban-style homes inside an elementary school. The tour also include a former high school converted to apartments and two...
2019 Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes, Part One
The annual Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes is always a highlight of our spring. Urban Woman and I have taken the tour for about a decade and it never gets old. If nothing else, the...
Dogwood Arts Festival Culminates a month of Festivals
I’ve likened it to the grand finale at a fireworks show. It is a sort of final explosion in a series of festivals – though Rhythm n Blooms and a sporadic list of other festivals will...
The Latest Iteration of Strong Alley Serves the Instagram Generation
Who would have ever guessed that an alley which has historically and still, judging by smell, been the site of not-always-savory activity would turn into one of the most photographed spots in the city. The question...
Is Knoxville Becoming a Food Destination?
Which cities in the U.S. do you associate with great food? I grew up taking occasional trips with my parents to Brennan’s in New Orlean’s for one of the first brunches in the country. It remains...