Tour de Lights 2013
The seventh annual Tour de Lights was held last night and I wasn’t there. Listen closely and you can hear me grumble. I’ve been to the last several and I really hated to miss this...
Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour 2013, Part One
There aren’t many activities that Urban Woman and I enjoy more than touring old homes. There’s something magical about a structure that has seen more history than any of us will see in a lifetime. Love,...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013: Ten Worst Floats (and more!)
I’m not sure how I got started writing so much about the bad parts of our annual Christmas Parade. It’s not my style to be negative, let alone downright snarky, but when this event happens I...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013: Top Ten Floats (Plus a few)
#2 Best Float – Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013 I’ll go ahead and say that Andrea was correct in her assessment that this was one of the better parades. I doubted her when she said it but,...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013
Ah, the Knoxville Christmas Parade. I really want to love you, really I do. But you make it so hard. It would be easy to give a pass to this year’s event. Conditions were pretty miserable...
The Downtown Knoxville Week Ahead (12/8 – 12/14/2013)
If you see an event I’ve missed and you’d like to plug, please comment below or e-mail me (knoxvilleurbanguy@gmail.com) and I’ll try to add it. The list may, accordingly, be expanded through the week. Staying true...
Postcards from the City: Knoxville, Autumn 2013
I’m back at critical mass with photographs which never quite made it onto a blog, so I’m giving you some of them on a rainy Friday. Hopefully you will find some of them interesting, as did...
Suttree Landing Park: The First Step in South Waterfront Development
This isn’t particularly timely – an announcement was made in late October. I attended the meeting at which it was unveiled and discussed, but other stories seemed to rise to the fore, a month passed and...
Fantasy of Trees 2013 Conclusion: Gingerbread Houses
I said I’d bring you the gingerbread houses from the Fantasy of Trees, and here they are. I think I enjoy them as much or more than the actual trees, though I think “Fantasy of Gingerbread...
28th Annual Fantasy of Trees
I think my family started attending the Fantasy of Trees around twenty-five years ago. Through personal experience we’d come to greatly appreciate the people at Children’s Hospital and we were happy to support any event that...