Big Ears 2015: Day One
The best advice I saw tweeted during the first day of the festival was to forget about the music you can’t hear and focus on what you are hearing. Very good advice. Consider that the first evening...
A Small Window into Big Ears
I’ve studied my schedule for Big Ears and begun the process of acquainting myself with the artists. There are familiar faces and sounds: Kronos Quartet serves as the glue for this year’s festival, collaborating with numerous...
Schulz Brau Brewing Company Coming to Downtown (North Side)
Schulz Brau Brewing Company is another very cool business coming to that section of downtown bounded by Central, Old Gray Cemetery and Broadway. It’s a couple of blocks west of the Art and Salvage Shop and the...
Knox Heritage Art and Salvage Shop Moves, Improves – and Needs Your Help
When Knox Heritage made its move from the Carriage House to its new location at Westwood, attention turned to finding a new location for the salvage room. Huddled in a very small portion of the carriage...
Meet Your Downtown Pharmacist: Charlie Southerland
About a month passed after I first broke the word that downtown would soon have a pharmacy when I got a Facebook message from a person identifying himself as the pharmacist who would be the face of...
Maker’s Donuts: Doughnuts On the Way for Downtown
Now that a pharmacy is on the way to downtown, I haven’t heard a consensus for what we need next. I have heard doughnuts mentioned more than once and, while it might not be the most...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/22 – 3/31/2015)
If you want to be certain to be 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 FB...
Your Planner for Knoxville Festival Season 2015
Isn’t it great to live in a geographical location that has four pretty specific seasons? The downtown year starts off with what I’d call “Hunker Down and Endure It” season (Jan-Feb), “Festival Season” follows (March –...
A New Option for Downtown Food: Better Bushel
Food. It’s always an issue for those of us who live downtown. One of the great conversations when I moved downtown in 2009 was “what will you do about groceries?” The idea suggested was that...
Inside the JC Penney Building Restoration and Renovation
In what might be the highest profile re-development project in the history of the city, a team of developers joined to essentially re-build the JC Penney Building. Tim Hill of Hatcher-Hill Properties, who is working on...