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...
Count this Penny
A Weekend Rich in Diverse Entertainment
We entered the weekend fresh off the excellent performance of La Bohème by Knoxville Opera. Urban Girl’s first opera, it set a high bar. With various rounds of illness and school closings, Urban Girl got to...
Rhythm n Blooms Kick-off and Day One
I realize that the sensible journalistic move here would be to do one article re-capping the Rhythm n Blooms Festival: Sum it up, mention a highlight or two, throw in half a dozen photographs and move...
New Year’s Eve in the City: 2015 into 2016
I know there are other stories which have already broken around downtown for the new year – and I’ll get to those, but this being a marathon of stories and not always a sprint, I’m going...
Rhythm n Blooms 2015: Day One
What an amazing weekend of great music. I can’t imagine the odds against a city our size having just one of the two excellent music festivals we’ve enjoyed in the last couple of weeks, let alone...
Tennessee Shines Returns from Hiatus
The absolute best weekly show downtown returns tonight at the Knoxville Visitor’s Center. Hosted by Paige Travis and Bob Deck for WDVX, Tennessee Shines airs from 7:00 to 8:00 PM each Monday night. Most often, two...
Images of Knoxville, 2012: Music, Children and Animals
As the year concludes, I’m trying to clean out my files and post images which I like, but for which I didn’t find a proper blog. I’ll do it in two posts. This one focuses on...