Inside of Knoxville

Dylan Bash Celebrates 20 Years of Bobness (With their 18th Show)

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 3, 2024

If not for the global pandemic, this would have been the twentieth annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash. 2020 and 2021 yielded to the nasty virus and this became the twentieth anniversary, but the eighteenth rendition of...

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (6/2 – 6/11/2024)

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 2, 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...

Downtown Home Tour One Week Away (Here’s a Look at a VIP Home)

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 31, 2024

The East Tennessee Historical Society presents the Downtown Home Tour 2024. Previously presented by the now defunct City People organization, a downtown home tour has been a staple of most years since around the turn of...

Knoxville Has Great Walkability: Are We Walking the Walk?

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 30, 2024

According to Walkscore.com, downtown Knoxville has a walkability score of 85 (Very Walkable). It’s the most walkable zip code in the city. Adjacent areas in Fort Sanders and UT get scores nearly as high. All other...

Knox Brew Tours To Make Its Last Run This Fall

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 29, 2024

It’s been a long and successful run. When I first wrote about Knox Brew Tours and interviewed a very young Zack Roskop, the year was 2014. We met inside Casual Pint and I took a photograph...

“Tools as Art: Work & Play” at the KMA

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 28, 2024

(Today’s article is by recurring guest writer and relatively recent Knoxville transplant Luke Frazier.) Expectations are a wicked curse, and the way they get wrapped up in the past is a big part of the problem....

The List of Kern’s Food Hall Businesses Continues to Grow

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 27, 2024

I dropped in on Kern’s Food Hall over the weekend to see what is new. At the time of the Grand Opening, just about six weeks ago, a promise was made that new businesses and activities...

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/26 – 6/4/2024)

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 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...

Competing Downtown Parking Survey and Report Released

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 24, 2024

Last week the city released the study it commissioned from Walker Consultants offering a 163 page look at the state of parking in the city and changes they suggest to improve accessibility and fairness including, as...

Big Ears 2024: Big Knoxville Impact

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 23, 2024

I know I bring up Big Ears early and often. I know not everyone cares about the music involved nor has interest in attending the festival. For example, I spoke to a couple on the last...

Inside Turns

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 22, 2024

(Today’s article is by recurring guest writer and relatively recent Knoxville transplant Luke Frazier.) One of the advantages of aging (and I find myself on the hunt for them these days) is having chunks of time...

Potluck Now Open at Pretentious Glass

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 21, 2024

It’s been quite a journey for Melanie LaFoy in a relatively short time. She opened Potluck Cafe on Broadway just last year and was forced to close that location around the end of April this year....

Contra Vintage Shop Is Now Open in the Old City

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 20, 2024

If you read my profile of Danny Perez a few weeks ago as part of the article about Contra Vintage Shop coming to downtown, you know that he has a habit of exceeding expectations. He’s done...

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/19 – 5/28/2024)

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 19, 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...

Dylan Bash Celebrates 20 Years of Bobness (With their 18th Show)

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (6/2 – 6/11/2024)

Downtown Home Tour One Week Away (Here’s a Look at a VIP Home)

Knoxville Has Great Walkability: Are We Walking the Walk?

Knox Brew Tours To Make Its Last Run This Fall

“Tools as Art: Work & Play” at the KMA

The List of Kern’s Food Hall Businesses Continues to Grow

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/26 – 6/4/2024)

Competing Downtown Parking Survey and Report Released

Big Ears 2024: Big Knoxville Impact

Inside Turns

Potluck Now Open at Pretentious Glass

Contra Vintage Shop Is Now Open in the Old City

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/19 – 5/28/2024)

10-Day Downtown-ish Planner: Nov. 15-24

Your Field Guide to FILM FEST KNOX 2026

Ghost Walking the 200 Block of Gay Street, Part 2: Sweeping Changes in the 1970s

And the 2026 Keep Knoxville Beautiful Orchid Awards Go To …

Among the Trees of Old Gray Cemetery with W. Jim Cortese