Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/28 – 4/6/2021)
As events are opening up, we’re listing a combination of virtual and live events. The rules are the same – if you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims –...
Knoxville Urban Guy
COVID-19: 3/26/2021 Update (International, National, State and Local)
Welcome back to the weekly COVID updates and our first weekly update on a Friday. I’ve enjoyed shifting my focus to the increasing number of activities and openings happening in the city, but we have to...
What’s the Big Idea? Spotlights on a City’s Creative Class
At the heart of a vibrant city with a bright future is a group of people, working alone or collaboratively, dreaming, creating, inventing and making the next thing happen. These are the people celebrated by the...
Big Ears Festival Returns in 2022; Big Ears Music Returns in April
For many downtown restaurants, hotels and other businesses, the weekend the Big Ears Festival comes to town is their biggest of the year. 20,000 tickets were sold to the festival in in 2019, with fans and...
Plans Set for Kern’s Food Hall + Market
After a long meandering path (I first wrote about it in August 2015, most recently in May 2019), the Kern’s Food Hall + Market is set to begin serious construction by the end of April. The...
Flagship Kerns Opens in South Knoxville
The first of three phases of development of the Kerns Bakery site is complete, with the opening of Flagship Kerns, a 160 unit apartment complex on top of the hill overlooking the Kerns Bakery Building, with...
The Brewing and Distilling Center Expands
It’s a story we’ve seen repeated several times before as we’ve looked at business responses to the pandemic: Many businesses have taken the opportunity to make bold moves to prepare for an exciting post-pandemic Knoxville. I...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/21 – 3/30/2021)
As events are opening up, we’re listing a combination of virtual and live events. The rules are the same – if you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims –...
COVID-19: 3/19/2021 Update (State and Local)
Tomorrow marks the beginning of spring and (unlike today), it promises to be sunny and cool, just like an early spring day should be. We are celebrating in our family by bringing my fully vaccinated uncle...
530 Lounge Opens With New Spring Menu
The 530 Lounge, which officially opened on top of the Hyatt Place Hotel for the spring on Wednesday, offered a sneak peak on Monday and Tuesday to invited guests. As my initial article was written before...