Culture
Nourish Knoxville Celebrates 20 Seasons of the Market Square Farmers’ Market
Browsing a farmers’ market, taking in the beautiful colors and fragrances, talking to the growers, and listening to them share their passion for their goods and produce is one of the simplest and most soul-nourishing ways...
Our Common Nature Shines a Beautiful Spotlight on this Place We Call Home
That a French born cellist, son of Chinese immigrants, would be the person to bring loving focus to the Appalachian region we call home, only underscores the message that he brought with his Our Common Nature...
Southern Skies 2023 Delivers a Solid Second Year of Spectacular Music
The second annual Southern Skies Music Festival produced by Dogwood Arts, with music curated by the Dirty Guv’nahs, endured some rough initial weather to deliver an excellent musical product. The artists selected by the Dirty Guv’nahs...
Candoro Marble Celebrates 100 Years
Built in 1923 as an office and showroom for the Candoro Marble Company, the Candoro Marble Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places(2005). Purchased by the Aslan Foundation in 2014, they aimed to...
Business
Are High Quality Restaurants Sustainable? An Interview With J.C. Holdway Owner and Chef, Joseph Lenn
A few months ago, the New York Times published a guest editorial by celebrity chef Vivian Howard. She operated her flagship restaurant Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, N.C. for fifteen years. Noting the recent closure...
French Fried Vintage Opens Today at 7 Emory Place
This past February, Jenny Salata and April Burger announced their new location and expansion of French Fried Vintage at 7 Emory Place. Originally located at 1520 North Central Street (until this past Wednesday!), the store opened...
Valley Medical Opens Downtown Walk-in Clinic and Primary Care
⁷Valley Medical Clinic, 418 South Gay Street, Knoxville, May 2023 Valley Medical has opened at 418 South Gay Street in the Phoenix Building (just down the hallway from the Phoenix Pharmacy). In addition to being accessed...
Daché is Open at 129 South Gay Street
A new women’s apparel and accessories store opened April 1 at 129 South Gay Street (formerly Double S Wine Bar). Offering an extensive collection of clothing for such a small space, the shop brings something different...
Development
Business and Development Updates: Whatever Happened To . . .
As I did near the end of last month, I’m passing along a few morsels I’ve collected about businesses and development projects. Sometimes there isn’t much to say other than there are a lot of details...
Regas Square Events Opens as Knoxville’s Newest Event Venue
Knoxville has plenty of venues to host events, large and small. ‘Regas Square Events at 333 W Depot, Suite 120, Downtown Knoxville, wants to be your next choice. It “is a 4,300-square-foot venue filled with natural...
Announcing Kern’s Bakery Vendors!
Lengthy development projects offer few guarantees. Projections change, delays impact opening dates, and construction finds prompt design changes. In the case of Kern’s Bakery, we see all of this as well as changes in some vendors...
Progress: Kern’s Bakery Experience is Full Steam Ahead
We first brought you the news of Kern’s Bakery reinvention in 2019. This multi-use market, food hall, and entertainment venue has raised eyebrows since. With multiple delays, pandemic shutdown, supply chain issues, permitting, weather, surprise construction...
Events
Open Streets Knoxville 2023 Rounds Out Weekend Festivities
Bike Walk Knoxville sponsored its 10th Annual Open Streets event this weekend in North Downtown Knoxville. The first-ever loop route took walkers, bikers, skateboarders, and roller skates through the streets of Knoxville that are ordinarily for...
Rhinestone Fest 2023 Sparkles Up The Old City
This was quite the weekend for downtown and the nearby area. Bike Boat Brew and Bark set up residence along the river bank on Saturday morning. Rappelling off the Trotter Building with Over the Edge started...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (6/4 – 6/13/2023)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me) and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...
Weekend Events You Don’t Want to Miss
You could say many things about Knoxville, but boring isn’t one of them. This weekend is a prime example of so many things to do and not enough time to do them, but that will not...
Life
A Sneak Peek at a Home on the Downtown Home Tour (Coming June 10)
The Downtown Home Tour is a tradition that dates back about thirty years and I’ve often mentioned it as a hook that caught Urban Woman and myself. After seeing the incredible range of sizes, styles, and...
Fragile and Fading Knoxville Landmarks 2023
This week, as part of Preservation Month, Knox Heritage published its Fragile and Fading list. Included are area landmarks, most but not all of which are buildings, that are in danger of being lost, generally to...
A Weekend in the City
Sometimes we get swept up into the city on a weekend with activities planned and unplanned and the article I’d planned for Monday doesn’t come together. It happened this weekend and it reminds me why I...
Mayor Presents State of the City and Budget Priorities 2023
As has been the tradition in Knoxville, Mayor Kincannon presented her State of the City address yesterday, along with highlights of her proposed budget for the next year. Held in the Western Heights community, the chosen...