What Happens Next in the City?
What happens next in the city? It’s the question that makes many of you tune in each morning to see the daily topic on this blog. Many of us feel like simple observers in the...
Downtown Knoxville Radio (DKR) Begins Broadcast on the Internet
There’s a new sound to be found on your computer. It’s new, but it may sound very familiar. Downtown Knoxville Radio began broadcasting last night just before midnight with a playlist dominated by east Tennessee...
Holly’s 135 Officially Opens in the Middle of an Ice Storm
I hope it’s smoother sailing for the restaurant after their first day. They opened at 11:00 AM on Monday and by noon ice was falling from the sky in prodigious amounts. The motley crew at the...
New Business Coming to 36 Market Square!
It didn’t take long, which is in itself an indication that there is no need to despair about downtown when a few businesses close. Orange Leaf Yogurt closed at the end of 2014 due to problems...
Another Parking Lot Set to Become a Building!
For many years we’ve only seen one-way traffic downtown and I’m not talking about the streets. We’ve torn down many buildings over the last decades and produced surface parking lots. We’ve not gone in the...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner, 2/15 – 2/24/2015
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...
Knoxville Opera Presents “Carmen” (and does some pretty cool things on the side)
Knoxville Opera allowed me to view their final dress rehearsal in the Tennessee Theatre Wednesday night. I wasn’t alone, as I was joined by several hundred students from surrounding schools and many of their parents. The...
Downtown Knoxville Set to Get Modern/Old Fashioned Pharmacy on Gay Street
It’s been number one on virtually every local resident’s list of businesses we need downtown. What seemed like nothing more than a dream a few weeks ago is now set to become reality: Locally based, family...
Inside of Knoxville: Live Edition
When I started writing articles for Inside of Knoxville nearly five years ago, my intention was to inform interested people about life in the city. There seemed to a void in available information. Outside of Michael...
Boxwood Brake: New Furniture, Sundries Store Opens Downtown
Darbi Henley has opened Boxwood Brake, a new store in the West Jackson Workshops at 514 West Jackson, that has a little bit of everything. The door proclaims, “furniture, apothecary, wares.” It’s about as good an attempt...