Knoxville Pride Parade 2024
The Pride Parade stepped off on Friday night on lovely Gay Street. Rains hit just a few minutes before the start, but stopped in time for the event. Last year a similar shower left a rainbow...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/6 – 10/15/2024)
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Lilienthal Gallery Presents “Street” in Conjunction With the Opening of Knox Walls (And More Tips for Your Weekend)
Lilienthal Gallery, a place known for stretching artistic boundaries in East Tennessee, continues doing so with their current exhibition, “Street.” Debuting tonight for First Friday, the exhibition runs through December offering a new perspective on street...
The ET Community Design Center Highlights Work, Celebrates Projects
The East Tennessee Community Design Center operates under the radar of most people in the sixteen counties they serve. The hundreds of people who have been involved in the projects they’ve helped get started know how...
Otsu Opens at the Mill and Mine
Otsu, the latest restaurant by Jesse Newmister and Margaret Stolfi opened in the Mill and Mine last week, bringing a new twist on Asian-fusion restaurant offering a generous menu of dumplings and other Japanese and pan-Asian...
Old City Performing Arts Center Sold: River and Rail Theatre to Relocate
In the nearly ten years of its existence, Founding Artistic Director Joshua Peterson says River and Rail Theatre has launched itself twice: Once in the beginning and again after the pandemic. In 2019 the group purchased...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (9/29 – 10/8/2024)
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Discovering Downtown: A Farmers Market Date
(Today’s article is by contributing writer Matt Hollingsworth) It’s a bright, warm Saturday on Market Square, and the street is overflowing with more people than I’ve ever seen at West Town Mall or Turkey Creek. Recently,...
Alchemy Lounge and Cigar Bar
(Today’s article is by contributing writer Robert Farago whose blog you can find here.) I’m not sure when I started smoking cigars, but I know when I’ll stop: when they pry a stogie from my cold,...
Knox Walls at Emory Place to Debut October First Friday
The largest art project in the history of the city, Knox Walls at Emory Place is currently wrapping up and will be unveiled at Emory Place (behind the northwestern row of buildings) at next Friday’s First...
In Search of Good Urban Design: Tiktoker Jon Jon Wesolowski
(Ed. Note: Today’s article is written by new contributing writer Matt Hollingsworth. Matt, a Knoxville native and Farragut resident, has written local interest articles for Farragut Life, Monroe Life, and McMinn Life, as well as science...
Hola Festival 2024
(Ed. Note: Today’s article is by new contributing writer Robert Farago, a Rhode Island native who moved to Knoxville from Austin, Texas. He’s worked in media since age 13, serving as a video editor at CNN,...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (9/22 – 10/1/2024)
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...
Proposed Hill and Locust Development Gets Approval from City Council
For those present at last night’s City Council Meeting who have followed the ups and downs of the Hill and Locust tower development, not much new ground was covered. The project, for those who might have...