Culture
The Eight Great: July’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...
Seeing All the Colors of the World Cup in Knoxville
Editor’s note: After at least five rounds of this with my husband Tommy, I know the drill: once every four years, life gets scheduled around the World Cup. Being out and about watching matches this edition,...
Knoxville Girls Rock Camp Cranks It Back Up
The conversation that finally brought Knoxville Girls Rock Camp back wasn’t about music. It was about a storage unit. For years, Mabry-Hazen House had generously partnered with the camp by providing storage space for its instruments...
2026 Guide to Free, Cheap & Outdoor Summer Movies
On Sunday our family wandered into Kern’s in search of a bite to eat and a place to cheer for World Cup underdog Cape Verde in its match against Uruguay (which, improbably, resulted in another surprise...
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
Historic Greenlee’s Bike Shop Building Has New Owner
As of today the property at 1402 N. Broadway, best known as the longtime home of “Greenlee’s Bicycle Hospital,” has a new owner. Buyer Poovindran Pillay already has a stake in the corridor, having last year...
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....
Events
10-Day Downtown-ish Planner: July 5-14
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 28-July 7
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 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...
Life
Reflecting on Knoxville’s Bicentennial Celebration & Other Upcoming Events at the East Tennessee History Center
The Semiquincentennial Anniversary of the founding of the United States is upon us tomorrow! As we approach a quarter millenia of the USA, my mind drifted to childhood memories of the Bicentennial and what a big...
The Treaty of Holston: 235 Years Ago, a Pivotal Event Led to the Founding of Knoxville
On July 2, 1791, some 235 years ago, Gov. William Blount likely woken up in his little cabin along the river and looked forward to the successful conclusion of a conference with Cherokee chiefs that had...
Miles Kredich Connects Personal Loss to Knoxville’s Transportation Future
Not quite three years ago, 24-year-old Ben Kredich was walking along Kingston Pike on his way to meet his father for dinner at Sunspot. It was a Monday evening tradition the two cherished. He never made...
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,...