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Director Correctly Predicts Outdoor KnoxFest’s Success

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 7, 2015

While I covered the Rossini Festival weekend-before-last, I asked Heidi Hornick to cover Outdoor Fest which is an important event emphasizing the great outdoor activities available immediately in the downtown area. It’s really important to get...

End of the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemorated in Knoxville

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 6, 2015

As I walked through Krutch Park last Saturday on my way to a delightful discussion of downtown with a small group of parishioners at the First Presbyterian Church, I passed a friend among the gathering groups...

City People Home Tour 2015, Part Two

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 5, 2015

We’ll start the second half of the revue of the tour with one of my favorite homes in the city, in one of my favorite buildings. The Holston was one of the first to be converted...

City People Home Tour 2015, Part One

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 4, 2015

So many things are happening downtown just on the weekends, that it’s hard to keep up. The City People Home Tour is one of the most important, in my opinion. It gives a wide audience the...

The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/3 – 5/12/2015)

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 3, 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...

Farmers’ Market and Civil War Commemorations for Your Weekend

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 1, 2015

I’ll bet when you read about the City People Home Tour yesterday you thought, “That sounds like a fun downtown weekend,” and you were right. Then maybe you looked at the events listing at the top of...

The 30th Annual City People Home Tour is This Weekend

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 30, 2015

I’ve called it a gateway drug before and it really is. David Dewhirst put it nicely when he said, “The City People Home Tour is the very best tool for downtown Knoxville to illustrate to a...

Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes, Part Two

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 29, 2015

We started and ended our tour of the neighborhood at the Central United Methodist Church. I didn’t include it in the first article, both because we saw it last and because I wasn’t happy with my...

Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes 2015, Part One

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 28, 2015

Yet another event that seemed doomed by the weather forecast turned out beautifully. Urban Woman and I love touring historic homes and were happy the weather provided an opportunity to walk the level, well laid-out tour...

Rossini 2015 Hits both a High Note and a Dry Note

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 27, 2015

Earlier in the week, the forecast looked bleak. I wanted to talk up the Rossini Festival, but even while doing so, the echos of Rossini Past resonated through my brain. We’d seen the movie before: Monsoon...

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Director Correctly Predicts Outdoor KnoxFest’s Success

End of the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemorated in Knoxville

City People Home Tour 2015, Part Two

City People Home Tour 2015, Part One

The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/3 – 5/12/2015)

Farmers’ Market and Civil War Commemorations for Your Weekend

The 30th Annual City People Home Tour is This Weekend

Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes, Part Two

Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes 2015, Part One

Rossini 2015 Hits both a High Note and a Dry Note

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville