Sweet P’s Downtown Restaurant Set to Open Next Week
If I’ve been asked once, I’ve been asked twenty times, “When will Sweet P’s open?” or “Is Sweet P’s still planning to open?” I didn’t know any more than any of the rest of you until...
Raising a Glass to George Barber and Restoring His Final Home
One hundred years ago last month, George and Laura Barber died within nine days of each other while living in a small home in Parkridge. A snow-delayed dinner party was held in that home last week...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/15 – 3/24/2015)
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...
New Website, New Paper, Interesting Facts and a Couple of Announcements
How’s that for a hodgepodge of topics in a title? Several interesting events and new resources are emerging while others are sorting out as they must. It’s never dull around this place. First, the new...
Knoxville Pubs and Other General Goodness From an Outside Perspective
A few more of those rankings by outsiders have been circulating and I always think they are interesting. One of these is even more so because they purport to rank pubs across the whole state, not...
Pieces of our Heritage: Bijou Jubilee 2015 and Tennessee Shines
This Saturday night at the Bijou Theatre Scott Miller and the Commonwealth will take the stage for the annual Jubilee. It’s an annual celebration of the building once slated for demolition, the salvation of which ultimately...
Mardi Growl 2015
This is one of those articles in which the words aren’t nearly as important as the photographs and the photographs demand a massive amount of time, so I won’t clutter this post with words. I walked...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/8-3/17/2015)
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...
A Simple and Realistic Plan for Downtown Knoxville
As I noted in a recent article, the Urban Land Institute has released its final report. The full report may be viewed here. My article drew quite a few comments (32) and extensive interest. The conversation...
Abbey Fields: Bringing the Farm to the City
It’s not something you might expect to find in a former industrial area near the heart of a city. Approaching the former Standard Knitting Mills site, the building looms large in the distance. Captivating...