Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (12/8 -12/17/2024)
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...
Fascinating Friends Around Us: An Interview with Marcel Holman
On a recent Friday late-night at Bistro at the Bijou a friend and I enjoyed a great jazz combo while sipping beverages. For me, Ben Maney on keyboards provided the main attraction, but my attention was...
Those New Holes in Downtown Streets Are Actually a Good Thing
Over the last few days there’s been a lot of noise and a bit of dust on Union Avenue and Market Street. Holes about the size of manhole covers have been cut into the streets at...
P Smith Releases “Chronicles and Narratives: Tales from Strawberry Plains & Gay Street”
It was nearly three years ago when Patti Smith (“P” to everyone who ever met her) said one last farewell to the condo on the 100 block of Gay Street where she’d lived for twenty seven-years....
Runners, Fireworks, Lights, and Skates: Knoxville is All In on the Holidays
What appeared to be several thousand people filled Krutch Park and Krutch Park Extension, as well as a large portion of Gay Street for the annual lighting of the Christmas Tree. Anticipation built as Milkman and...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (12/1 – 12/9/2024)
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Downtown Holiday Events Seriously Launch
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. It’s always been my favorite holiday, though not for the reasons you might expect. The pilgrim story was great for me, until I got a bit older and learned...
A Headless Governor and a Mystery on Gay Street
On a recent Sunday afternoon two families along with others gathered at 601 South Gay Street to unveil a piece of art, a window into Tennessee History, and a mystery all in one sculpture. Is it...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner
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Green Valley Dispensary to Open at 323 Union Avenue
Green Valley Dispensary, owned by Alicia Douglas, will soon open at 323 Union Avenue, in the space recently vacated by New2Knox. She hopes to have the shop operational by early December. Originally from South Georgia, Alicia...
Welcome Center Opens at the Sunsphere
Yesterday, Visit Knoxville and the City of Knoxville unveiled the new Sunsphere Welcome Center, which continues the evolution of the Knoxville icon. Guests (of which there are many) will now be able to walk up and purchase...
2024 Film Fest Knox – It’s a Wrap!
(Article by Robert Farago) According to popular belief, success has many fathers/mothers/gender unspecified caregivers. True that. The second annual Film Fest Knox owes its success to a well-coordinated team of movie-mad mavens, not unlike To Kill...
Going up! Film Fest Knox’s Elev8tor Pitch
(Today’s article is by guest writer Robert Farago.) My elevator pitch: check out Inside of Knoxville’s pithy peek at the aspiring moviemakers competing for cash and professional mentoring at the 2024 Film Fest Knox’s Elev8tor Pitch...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (11/17 – 11/26/2024)
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...