(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...
Knoxville Opera presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” tonight at 7:30 pm at the Tennessee Theatre and again Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the same venue. Tickets start at $25. Last presented by Knoxville...
(Ed. Note: Today’s article is by contributing writer Matt Hollingsworth.) Four times a year, the Knoxville Museum of Art hosts a new exhibit, and now through November 10th, guests can explore the abstract art of Jo...
Lilienthal Gallery, a place known for stretching artistic boundaries in East Tennessee, continues doing so with their current exhibition, “Street.” Debuting tonight for First Friday, the exhibition runs through December offering a new perspective on 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...
The northwest corner of Summit Hill and Central Street has long offered a prominent example of the damage done to downtown in the 1970s and 1980s. Once filled with buildings, the half-acre space has offered a...
Dustin Cochran is not new to the Knoxville food scene. He began making the famous Myrtle’s Bakehouse cookies and popping up in markets and eventually the Marble City Market Food Hall in 2021. He also...
Otsu, the latest restaurant by Jesse Newmister and Margaret Stolfi opened in the Mill and Mine last week, bringing a new twist on Asian-fusion restaurant offering a generous menu of dumplings and other Japanese and pan-Asian...
If memory serves, the first time I heard of the possibility of a second phase for Marble Alley was the first time I heard about any of it. I think it was prior to 2010 that...
Continuing the thread from yesterday, here’s the latest look at the other large-scale projects currently underway in the downtown area. Of the two, it’s been longer since I looked at the Axle project and the differences...
Here’s the latest installment in the large development projects we’re following. It’s the first since July and a lot of progress has been made in each. Today we’ll focus on the 200 block of Gay Street....
It’s been a mystery as to why the pace of installing the new “Pier 865” sculpture by THEVERYMANY, a New York studio led by artist Marc Fornes seemed to slow to a stop. I’m pretty...
(Ed. Note: Today’s article is by contributing writer Matt Hollingsworth.) I don’t believe in ghosts, but I must admit this one is quite entertaining. I’m listening to the spirit of Thomas O’Connor (1836-1882) played gleefully by...
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...
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...
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...
Bike Walk Knoxville, founded in 2012 by Caroline Cooney, focuses on improving biking and walking in the Knoxville area, “. . . to make sure all ages and abilities in the community have safe and accessible...
I recently had dinner on a patio off Market Square. The food met all expectations, the early autumn Knoxville weather shined like a diamond, and I relished the sounds of a language I could not identify...
In 2016 I wrote an article asking “Is Knoxville the Boulder of the East?” My article was a response to an article declaring as much in Denver Life. Turns out I was able to make it...
The East Tennessee Community Design Center operates under the radar of most people in the sixteen counties they serve. The hundreds of people who have been involved in the projects they’ve helped get started know how...