Death in the City
One of the themes often sounded when people talk about cities is the high previlence of crime and danger to one’s person. Particularly discussed is muggings and murders. Even locally, whenever a crime is reported to...
30 Market Square: So, what’s up with that?
Market Square now has very few vacancies. I count two: 15 Market Square, which housed Abode until just before the end of the year and 30 Market Square. Hopefully, 15 will be occupied soon enough, but...
The Semi-Regular Business Update
Just when it seems safe to say that the business comings and goings have been covered for a while, new developments present themselves in bunches. Some of these businesses have been mentioned before, but there is...
A Camel, Easy Riders a Nasty Creek and a Broken Bridge
These are a few of the sights around the city recently. It’s funny how I can walk past something dozens of times and see it, but not really see it for what it is. The camel...
Pamela Schoenewaldt reads from her new novel "When We were Strangers"
Pamela Schoenewaldt spoke to a full house at the Laurel Theater, reading from her novel, When We Were Strangers, released just last week by Harper Collins. Already it is garnering positive reviews from such sources as Publisher’s...
Sunday in the City: Spring Continues to Hover and Tease
Sunshine, Short Sleeves and one Cool Bell, Market Square, Knoxville, January 2011 Young Couples, Strollers and a Warm January Day, Knoxville 2011 If Saturday was a nice day, Sunday was even better. Temperatures that struggled to...
Saturday in the City: A Promise of Spring in January
Market Square on a warm January Day, Knoxville 2011 There was more going on this weekend than music, of course. Downtown and all of east Tennessee was beset by a wonderful, if transitory, warming. People all over...
Waynestock: For the Love of Drew, Night Three
The final night of the three night festival offered an exciting musical line-up and promised to be an emotional night with Psychotic Behavior, Drew Bledsoe’s band slated to be the final act on the schedule. The...
Waynestock: For the Love of Drew, Night Two
Relix Theater in former White Store, N. Central, Knoxville Fortunately for us working types, the second night of the festival was a Friday night, so sleeping in figured into the possibility of another late night. With...
Waynestock: For the Love of Drew, Night One
The Relix (pronounced like the word “relics”) Theater is an unassuming storefront in Happy Holler – which is an area about a mile and half out Central Avenue from downtown proper. It’s across the street from the Time Warp...
For the Next Few Days, It’s Waynestock!
If you are like me, you hear about great local bands, but you never seem to be able to catch some of them with the greatest buzz. I probably do catch more than my share, but...
Anarchists Among Us? What happens when a liberal comes to Knoxville?
What if that liberal prefers to refer to himself as a socialist? What if he is comfortable with the label “anarchist” and questions the legitimacy of the power of any government, including our own? How would...
The Black Lillies Cruz Through CD Release Concert
Black Lillies sold out Bijou debut of “100 Miles of Wreckage” Excitement built for months among local music lovers for the sold out Black Lillies CD release concert at the Bijou. I first heard about it...
Fred Eaglesmith with High Kotton at the Blue Plate Special
How could you improve the live radio concerts hosted weekdays at noon on WDVX for several years now? Add a weekend show, that’s how. Many of us can’t be downtown at noon, but judging from the crowd in...