Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/15 – 10/24/2023)
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...
Stunning Additional Artists Announced for Big Ears Festival 2024
As has been the case in recent years, the Big Ears Festival (March 21-24, 2024) announced an initial round of artists last month and is now announcing a second wave of artists. The first announcement contained...
Knoxville Opera Presents Falstaff This Weekend (A Sneak Preview)
My family didn’t attend the opera when I was young. We made the trek to Nashville a number of times to attend the Grand Ole Opry, but that’s about as close as we got. If your...
Addison’s Used and Rare Books Changes and Thrives
Addison’s Used and Rare Books (and Events), celebrated its one-year anniversary in June and continues to grow and evolve. When I mentioned to owner Brian Worley that some people were skeptical when he opened, and questioned...
Downtown Ambassador Program Expands
K-Town Connect, the program sponsored by Visit Knoxville and managed by Block by Block has served downtown’s central business improvement district (roughly downtown from the river to the tracks, from the coliseum to the World’s Fair...
Pride Parade 2023 Celebrated on Gay Street
The annual Knox Pride Parade was held Friday evening and the event blended protest and joy, confrontation and affirmation, and hope with reality. The reality in Tennessee is that anti-LGBTQ legislation increasingly holds sway. Numerous bills...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/8 – 10/17/2023)
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...
Canadian Artist Anna Razumovskaya’s Journey from Russia to Knoxville
Pivot Point Gallery opened at 15 Emory Place in March 2022. As crowds gathered for the grand opening, volumes of engaging art awaited. More than one might appreciably absorb in one evening, the wide range of...
JFG Sign On South Knoxville Hill Goes Missing: What We Know
On Tuesday afternoon, the JFG sign on the hill just on the other side of the Gay Street Bridge was dismantled and removed. It set local social media abuzz: Why was it removed? Where did it...
Time Travel at The Vintage Geek Museum
Imagine stepping back to simpler times when stunning entertainment and informational options exploded into our lives. Pong, Frogger, and — if your school was really advanced — playing Oregon Trail on the Apple II e. All...