As announced yesterday, Knoxville Children’s Theatre is purchasing The Foundry. As part of that story, I also chatted with Sien Moon, Executive Director of KCT, about the origins and mission of this 18 year program coming...
(As a follow-up to Leslie Bateman’s interview with KMA Executive Director Steven Matijcio, we’ll explore KMA’s new exhibition, “States of Becoming.”) What does it mean to leave one culture and enter another? If the cultures hold...
No art exists in isolation, neatly contained within a frame tacked to a gallery wall. It lives within a vast, intricate web of place, time and meaning that floats both ways, art influencing life and life...
It’s hard to believe it’s been fourteen years since the first Waynestock in 2011. I covered it then in two parts. A lot has changed since then — the stage moved from the end of the...
It is cold and rainy as I write today. January seemed to never end and had me dreaming of ways to escape reality and rest after a busy holiday season. I couldn’t think of a better...
Jade Adams, owner of Oglewood Avenue, the popular plant shop in North Knoxville, has announced that she and fiancé Dylan Pacifico will soon open two new businesses at 15 Emory Place (former home of Pivot Point...
In May 2017 when I walked through the Old City to interview Zoran Stepanov about his new barbershop, E.D. Bailey, I expected to hear about cuts and write a simple story. Upon meeting Zoran, I quickly...
In recent years, South Knoxville waterfront development has surged. With the Rail to Trail and Sevier Avenue Streetscape projects along with the successful $24.7 million dollar RAISE grant for the pedestrian bridge, progress is happening from...
As one curtain closes on The Foundry at World’s Fair Park, another rises. In September, we reported on the closing of The Foundry after 32 years. For its next act, the Foundry will become the home...
In a hastily called press conference on Wednesday, Mayor Kincannon gave the anticipated Gay Street Bridge update that no one wanted to hear: The Gay Street Bridge will never again be open to vehicular traffic. While...
(Ed. Note: Yes, I know there is bridge news. The facts have largely been reported, but I hope to bring you a little something extra on that tomorrow.) We are a sporty town. Of course there’s...
On a recent sunny and warmish afternoon, I ventured out from the pile of blankets beneath which I’ve been hibernating to hike around Fort Dickerson Park. This 90-acre outpost of South Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness, hiding in...
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...
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...
(Ed. Note: Today’s article is by guest writer Paul James of the Knoxville History Project. Expect more Knoxville history from Paul in the coming months.) There are ghost walks and then there is ghost walking. It...
For the second year in a row we’ve gotten a significant snow in January. I’ll take it. In the early 1980s when I moved to Knoxville, multiple snows a year seemed normal. In recent years we’ve...
With over three hundred articles coming and going on the website each year, it is easy to miss a few each year. These ten might have been hard to miss as they were the most read...
Let’s take a minute before we look ahead into next year and consider the year that was. January gave us a powerful winter storm and several major stories. Downtown business and development news hardly slowed over...