Culture
A Christmas Carol Returns to the Clarence Brown Theatre
The Christmas season kicks off this week as Knoxville’s cherished holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol, returns to the Clarence Brown Theatre (CBT) stage from November 21 to December 21. I sat down with managing director Tom...
2024 Film Fest Knox – It’s a Wrap!
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 a Wolf, the full-length...
Pier 865: New Art Emerges
I’ll confess that my expectations for the new sculpture at the intersection of Gay Street and Summit Hill Avenue remained low up to the moment it began to emerge on the large platform where it will...
Recapping “Solastalgia” + Support Your Local Giant Puppets and Circus Performers!
(Ed. Note: Today’s Rare Saturday Article is by guest writer Leslie Bateman) It’s a small wonder no one crashed their car on the Clinch Avenue viaduct earlier this month, distracted by the spellbindingly bizarro scene unfolding...
Business
2024 Film Fest Knox – It’s a Wrap!
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 a Wolf, the full-length...
Central Bottle Opens Today in Happy Holler
Like so many business openings or development projects, this one has taken longer than hoped, but D.L. Bergmeier, general manager and co-owner of the new Central Bottle, is happy to finally swing the doors open today...
Spellbound Vintage Opens at 716 S. Gay St.
Knoxville has another nifty vintage shop for lovers of all things cool, old and thrifted! You can find Abby Hamilton and Gracie Terry, the girls behind Spellbound Vintage and Art booths around town in pop-up markets...
Ice Cream Shoot-out on Gay Street
South Gay Street has three ice cream parlors within hailing distance of each other: Cruze Farm, Kilwins and The Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain. The Eurythmics put it best: “sweet dreams are made of this.” When it...
Development
Welcome Center Opens at the Sunsphere
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...
I Took a Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Andrew Johnson Building – You Can Do the Same
The Friends of the Library and Oliver Hospitality are hosting a behind-the-scenes sneak peek event at the Andrew Johnson Hotel before renovations begin. Meet Me at the AJ is set for 5:00 – 9:00 on Friday, November 15. Tickets...
Reimagining the Downtown Connection to the Interstates and Reclaiming Human Space
When originally imagined, the Interstate system was intended to connect cities. And it did. Small towns that once enjoyed passersby slowly began to die. Cities that had thriving centers were cut in half, with large swaths...
Carpenter’s Union Building Demolished, City Summit Moves Forward
Atop a hill bounded by Vine, Locust, and Cafego Place, overlooking the city, the former Carpenter’s Union Building has been demolished. Construction of City Summit will soon begin on the site, ultimately producing more homes downtown....
Events
Going up! Film Fest Knox’s Elev8tor Pitch
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 contest. Eight finalists. One winner. Yes? A few...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (11/17 – 11/26/2024)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need...
Southern Skies Festival Announces Headliner; Big Ears Adds to Lineup
Charley Crockett to Headline 2025 Southern Skies Music & Whiskey Festival The fourth annual Rendition of the Southern Skies Music and Whiskey Festival is set for Saturday, May 10th, with headliner Charlie Crockett. The festival, held...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (11/10 – 11/19/2024)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need...
Life
Knoxville Honors Veterans in the 2024 Veterans Day Parade
The 2024 Veterans Day Parade made its way down Gay Street, yesterday. Stepping off at 10:40 in order to arrive at the grand stand by 11:00 am. The 11:00 am marker remains important as the day...
Kincannon Administration Puts Forth Parking Proposal
The latest round of parking conversation ensued yesterday, as Mayor Kincannon presented her proposal for changes to be made to downtown parking. The proposal is the outgrowth of the study commissioned by the city which I...
Public Space is Public Space: We Decide What Happens There
It’s easy to think of public spaces as immutable; set in their current uses forever. It simply isn’t so. Market Square is pedestrian space, right? But it used to serve automobile and wagon traffic around the...
Housing Affordability and Historic Preservation, Related?
It is generally accepted that America (and Knoxville) has a housing shortage and, particularly, a shortage of affordable housing. At the recent Preservation Conference hosted by Knox Heritage, keynote speaker Katlyn Cotton, Associate Principal at PlaceEconomics,...