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Knoxville to Host Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® 93rd Regional Conference in 2025

Heather Ryerson·December 18, 2024

Visit Knoxville announced recently that Knoxville, has been chosen as the host city for the 93rd Regional Conference of the South Eastern Region of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority, Incorporated®. The event will take place from...

Gettin’ Lit: The Freewheeling Origin Story of Tour de Lights

Leslie Bateman·December 16, 2024

Tour de Lights is a Knoxville institution: a slow-rolling, luminous constellation of 2,000 or so bikes parading through the downtown vicinity, flooding the streets with an unapologetic, it-just-keeps-coming deluge of holiday cheer. This year’s edition took...

Welcome Center Opens at the Sunsphere

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 21, 2024

Yesterday, Visit Knoxville and the City of Knoxville unveiled the new Sunsphere Welcome Center, which continues the evolution of the Knoxville icon. Guests (of which there are many) will now be able to walk up and purchase...

2024 Film Fest Knox – It’s a Wrap!

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 19, 2024

(Article by Robert Farago) According to popular belief, success has many fathers/mothers/gender unspecified caregivers. True that. The second annual Film Fest Knox owes its success to a well-coordinated team of movie-mad mavens, not unlike To Kill...

Going up! Film Fest Knox’s Elev8tor Pitch

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 18, 2024

(Today’s article is by guest writer Robert Farago.) My elevator pitch: check out Inside of Knoxville’s pithy peek at the aspiring moviemakers competing for cash and professional mentoring at the 2024 Film Fest Knox’s Elev8tor Pitch...

Knox Walls at Emory Place to Debut October First Friday

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 25, 2024

The largest art project in the history of the city, Knox Walls at Emory Place is currently wrapping up and will be unveiled at Emory Place (behind the northwestern row of buildings) at next Friday’s First...

Knoxville’s Largest Mural Project To Date Set to Get Underway

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 18, 2024

Murals can enliven a city, set a tone for a city, and simply provide a fun space to explore. Last week I wrote about Strong Alley between Market Square and Gay Street, which has long been...

Construction on Sunsphere Welcome Center to Begin

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 22, 2024

Visit Knoxville, which operates the Sunsphere, announced this week that construction will begin next week on the second phase of their plans to improve the Sunsphere while adding to its functionality. The first phase of their...

Knoxville Tourism Highlights and Numbers

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 1, 2024

Visit Knoxville released a trove of information this week on what they have been up to in the most recent quarter, along with tourism data going through the end of the previous year. Events sponsored by...

Tour de Lights 2023 Lights Up the Town with Holiday Market and Ride

Heather Ryerson·December 12, 2023

The 2023 Tour de Lights was a partnership between Bike Walk Knoxville and Visit Knoxville. This new partnership brought some exciting changes and kept the fun ride and costume contest participants have enjoyed in the past....

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Knoxville to Host Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® 93rd Regional Conference in 2025

Gettin’ Lit: The Freewheeling Origin Story of Tour de Lights

Welcome Center Opens at the Sunsphere

2024 Film Fest Knox – It’s a Wrap!

Going up! Film Fest Knox’s Elev8tor Pitch

Knox Walls at Emory Place to Debut October First Friday

Knoxville’s Largest Mural Project To Date Set to Get Underway

Construction on Sunsphere Welcome Center to Begin

Knoxville Tourism Highlights and Numbers

Tour de Lights 2023 Lights Up the Town with Holiday Market and Ride

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville