Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/26 – 2/4/2025)
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Bethie Lou’s Fabulous Gift Store Moves Around the Corner
Last March, when Beth MacDonald and her partners, after seven years of ownership, sold the building at 110 South Central Street, she faced a decision with her business. Bethie Lou’s Fabulous Gift Store, which had opened...
Ghost Walking Market Square
(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...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/19 – 1/28/2025)
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Knoxville Becomes Tennessee’s First Charging Smart City (Plus Big Ears News, Japanese New Year!)
As the country slowly and inexorably moves toward electric vehicles, the City of Knoxville continues to keep pace or better. Yesterday the announcement came that Knoxville is the first city to join Charging Smart. Their website...
A Farewell to Nikki Giovanni and a Word on Words
I’ve been unable to shake thoughts of the loss of poet, activist, and life-force Nikki Giovanni who left this world just over a month ago. While many other events from the past two or three months...
Pedestrian Bridge Project Gets $24.7 Million Federal Grant
This is the first article I’ve written about the pedestrian bridge project. It may seem an odd omission to readers, so I’ll start this one with a bit of editorializing to explain myself, and then we’ll...
Snow in Downtown Knoxville, January 2025
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...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/12 – 1/21/2025)
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...
Two Closures and an Opening
As mentioned yesterday, the end of one year and the beginning of the next often ushers in change in the downtown business world. Closings are almost a given and, often, there are new businesses giving it...