Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (7/9 – 7/18/2023)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...
Artisan Woodworking and Design Gallery Opens on Tyson Street
A new business, Artisan Woodworking and Design Gallery, has opened at 810 Tyson Street, just down the street from Remedy Coffee. I visited recently and came away surprised at the range of art for sale in...
A Small, Quiet Celebration of and Farewell to a Local Son
This past weekend, Evelyn Gill organized a celebration of the life and work of Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy, who was born in 1933, died on June 13. He’s claimed by more than one place, but Knoxville’s claim...
Angry Dumplings Opens on the South Side
Jason and Vanessa Chau have opened Angry Dumplings at 1119, Suite A Sevier Avenue. The name is a take-off on the Angry Birds game that was popular a while back and is intended to convey the...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (7/2 – 7/11/2023)
Sunday, July 2 Downtown Knoxville Vendors / Outdoor Dining Options / Take-Out and Curbside Delivery Hours TCYPAA Interest Meeting, 530 W Fifth Ave, 12:30 pm Anderson County Animal Shelter Adoption Event, Elst Brewing Company, noon Self-Care...
A Haunting in Harlem: An Encounter with Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over—...
Three Buildings at 108 – 120 East Jackson Avenue Are Sold
A small cluster of investors continue to add to their downtown holdings. In the latest move, Boghani Properties, LLC, in a deal brokered by Will Sims of Oliver Smith Realty and Development, purchased three buildings at...
USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships Bid Knoxville Farewell
The USA Pro Road National Championships first landed in Knoxville in 2016. The road race expanded the following year to add the Criterium, a 1.1 mile loop through downtown that features all-out sprinting for 70...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (6/25 – 7/4/2023)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...
Poet Linda Parsons Launches Her Latest Work, “Valediction”
Linda Parsons, Knoxville resident, poet, and playwright, has produced her tenth book, “Valediction.” An assemblage of poetry and brief essays, the new work forms the basis of her reading this Saturday at Union Avenue Books. Hers...