Upcoming Events You Do Not Want to Miss
Sometimes a series of events in the city seem to warrant highlighting. With so many events happening, it’s easy for some very worthy endeavors to get lost in the shuffle. Whether fresh new ideas in a...
Hola Festival 2018
I’m pretty sure I’ve never reported on an Hola Festival this far after the event itself. Modern attention spans being what they are, people have moved on. Still, I think the event is worth documenting each...
Loch and Key Productions: Taking the Next Leap
I recently visited the new home of Loch and Key Productions at 2411 North Central Street and enjoyed a wide-ranging conversation with owners Andy Feliu and Eli Hechmer and Lauren Fyfe, Producer and Director of Client...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/7 – 10/15/2018)
If you want to be certain your event is included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a...
Saturday Bonus: Open Streets and Old Gray Cemetery Lantern and Carriage Tour
Here’s another Saturday bonus, brought to you by the ridiculous amount of events, developments and otherwise newsworthy stories coming out of downtown. In the past, both Open Streets and the Lantern and Carriage Tour of Old...
Paysan Bread Brings Its Fresh-Baked Goodness to a New Home
For many regular customers of the Market Square Farmers’ Market, Paysan Bread has become a staple of their Wednesday or Saturday shopping excursions. The buzz has generated long lines and sold out stock and made them...
Beer, Music and Building Up a Community: Community Shares Presents Brewer’s Jam
I recently met Shelley Wascom, Executive Director of Community Shares, at Pearl on Union, a favorite coffee downtown coffee shop and a business that is emblematic of the downtown resurgence. It’s in the historic Daylight Building,...
New Pop Up Concert Series Announced
It’s been over three years since I first told you about a unique series being promoted by Kent Oglesby of Knoxville Music Warehouse and Garrett Thomson. The series was a set of “secret” shows. Artists were...
The Corner Lounge is Open!
Steve Brandon and John Harbison announced plans last June to bring Knoxville’s iconic Corner Lounge back to 842 N. Broadway. The building sat empty and the roads and sidewalks out front were overrun with machinery and...
Light Rail for the Knox-Blount Corridor: What’s next?
Ed. Note: This is the final installment of a four part series by Joe Hultquist. You can find the other installments here: 1st, 2nd, 3rd. The three previous articles in this series on light rail...