Inside the Dakotas
(Ed. Note: As you all know, I grab chances to travel when possible, and I generally share the experiences with readers when I return. Today’s article covers a trip I recently made with Urban Woman, Urban...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (7/23 – 8/1/2023)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need...
Gangstagrass and the Will to Thrive
(Ed. Note: Today’s article is brought to you by guest writer Luke Frazier who does about as good a job summing up an unsummable band as possible. I first encountered Gangstagrass a decade ago as part...
Clarence Brown Film Festival to be Hosted by the Knox County Public Library
Do you know Clarence Brown? If you said, “It’s a theatre,” you get an “I” for incomplete. The theatre was named after a person, and do you know who he was and why the theatre would...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (7/16 – 7/25/2023)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need...
Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain Transition to New Ownership
Downtown Knoxville has been fortunate to have a working pharmacy, along with a great fountain, for the last seven years at Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain. Thanks to pharmacy original owner Ron Sherrill, who also owns that...
New 2023-2024 Downtown Sculptures, Part Two (Including My Two Favorites)
As I said in the last article, this year’s crop of sculptures decorating the city has more appeal to me than I’ve felt in the last several years. Any given year offers great works, of course,...
New 2023-2024 Sculptures Appear Around Downtown (And Other Places)
Last month Dogwood Arts installed the 2023-2024 Art In Public Places Sculpture Exhibition, which includes over two-dozen sculptures created by a wide range of American artists. The sculptures rotate out each year to be replaced by a new...
Nicole Perez: Downtown Knoxville’s Resident Tiger Lady
I recently met Nicole Perez, Clinical Psychologist, downtown resident, and wildlife photographer extraordinaire. She’s originally from Puerto Rico, and her journey between the two is about as interesting as what she’s currently up to. She moved...
Trains of Thought
(Ed. Note: Today’s article is by sometimes guest writer Luke Frazier.) The first time I got really blasted in Knoxville was a couple of days after I moved here last September. I was on West Jackson...