Culture
Love, Glitter & Community at SoKno Pride
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” Of all the T-shirt slogans I spotted at SoKno Pride this year, that one won the day for me. Hating already seems like a lot of effort....
2026 Juneteenth Parade in Photos
The sun was shining this morning as paraders took to MLK Jr. Avenue for the Juneteenth Parade & Celebration. I settled in along a shady stretch of sidewalk in front of Jarnigan & Son Mortuary which,...
‘The Madam and the Trash Can’: An Afternoon in Hazel Davidson’s Parlor
A few weeks back I interviewed Knox expat Douglas Stuart McDaniel about his new book, The Dark Water Gospel: An East Tennessee Anthology. As promised, we’re now sharing a chapter excerpt from it. It centers on...
The Eight Great: June’s Can’t-Miss Arts & Culture Events
Knoxville has a rich and diverse arts and culture calendar that ranges from annual traditions we know and love and to unique one-off events and exhibitions that fly beneath the radar. “The Eight Great” is our...
Business
Happy Holler’s Club XYZ Announces Closure After 22 Years
For more than two decades, Club XYZ has been a fixture of Knoxville’s LGBTQ+ community. Now, on the heels of SoKno Pride (which I wrote about yesterday) that chapter is coming to an abrupt end. In...
ONE FIVE Grocery Store Targets 37915 Food Desert
Chris Battle sits on the tailgate of his white Chevy Silverado in the parking lot of 2265 McCalla Ave., a former Dollar General just off Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. He stares at the boarded-up building...
Iron Forge Brewing Company Opens at Covenant Health Park (Plus a Look Inside Jackie’s Dream)
Covenant Health Park’s journey towards developing spaces around the stadium took a major leap forward Thursday with a ribbon cutting and grand opening of Iron Forge Brewing Company. As baseball fans streamed into the Knoxville Smokies...
House of Strays: Knoxville’s Most Interesting Bar That Hasn’t Opened Yet
She wrote secrets in invisible ink on her sheet music. She pinned intelligence documents inside her underwear. She walked her cheetah named Chiquita through the streets of Paris and performed in cabarets while Nazi officers sat...
Development
Kerbela Development Proposal Returns But Core Conflict Remains
A lot has happened since I last reported in April on the proposed redevelopment of the Kerbela Shriners Temple site. Whether enough has happened is another question—one that will be answered this afternoon when the developer...
Knox Heritage Preservation Awards 2026 (The Downtown Edit)
May is National Historic Preservation Month and Knox Heritage, which champions that particular cause 24/7/365, celebrated with its annual East Tennessee Preservation Awards on May 21 at The Emporium. Some of the honorees were high-profile projects...
Downtown Development Update, June 2026
Here we are, six months after the last general overview of construction sites downtown and we’re mostly down to two visibly under construction and another that has invisibly neared completion. We’ll have more soon, no doubt....
‘Riella on 5th’ to Bring 121-Unit Affordable Housing Community Just North of Downtown
After 15 years of Inside of Knoxville harping about it, the secret is officially out: Downtown Knoxville is the place to be. But as its meteoric rise continues, the question gets sharper every year: who can...
Events
10-Day Downtown-ish Planner: June 21-30
Welcome to the 10-Day Planner! If you want your event included, please create a Facebook event, invite editor Leslie Wylie Bateman via the “invite” button on the event page, and it will be included. We need...
10-Day Downtown-ish Planner: June 14-23
Welcome to the 10-Day Planner! If you want your event included, please create a Facebook event, invite editor Leslie Wylie Bateman via the “invite” button on the event page, and it will be included. We need...
10-Day Downtown-ish Planner: June 7-16
Welcome to the 10-Day Planner! If you want your event included, please create a Facebook event, invite editor Leslie Wylie Bateman via the “invite” button on the event page, and it will be included. We need...
10-Day Downtown-ish Planner: May 31-June 9
Welcome to the 10-Day Planner! If you want your event included, please create a Facebook event, invite editor Leslie Wylie Bateman via the “invite” button on the event page, and it will be included. We need...
Life
Coffee Chat with New-ish Downtown Coordinator Ellie Moore
Downtown Knoxville has a lot of plates in the air, and somebody has to keep them all spinning in a (relatively) similar direction. Last month I met up with the City’s new-ish Downtown Coordinator, Ellie Moore,...
Goats Take a Bite Out of South Knox Kudzu
“Stop the car! Pull over!” I yelled to my husband Tommy on Friday evening just past Gay Street Bridge’s south landing. “There are GOATS!” Sure enough, a herd of goats was happily grazing on the scrubby...
Talkin’ Trash and Grabbin’ Butts
I promise I will deliver on the headline – though not maybe in the way you might expect. Should I lead with “Infrastructure?” What a snoozefest! Who cares about the details? Not my problem! Ah, you...
Ghost Walking Another Section of Walnut Street (W. Church to Union)
After last month’s short shuffle along Crooked Street, this time we’re going to stay on Walnut Street and head north past St. John’s Cathedral. All the residences that once existed on this block (as seen in...