Final Shopping Weekend in the City
It’s finally here: the last shopping weekend before Christmas. Stumped on what to give Uncle Joe? He probably doesn’t want just another gift from a big box national chain. If I know Uncle Joe, and I...
Last Minute Christmas Gift: Buy Local Music
2012 should go down as one of the absolute best years in local music releases. I can’t imagine there has ever been one better, though Wayne Bledsoe could likely educate me on the matter. All I...
December Scruffy City Ramble is Tonight
Tonight will be the final show of 2012 for Scruffy City Ramble. As usual, the lineup is eclectic and the show promises to be another excellent installment. It starts at 7:00 in the Square Room, with...
2012 Knoxville Jingle Bell Run
This year’s Jingle Bell Run to benefit the Arthritis Foundation benefited from unseasonably warm temperatures. The first time I attended a Jingle Bell Run must have been about four or five years ago when Urban Son-in-Law...
Downtown Window Decorations, Part II
We’ll start the final post of window displays with the winning display. Cafe Four did a fine job with the window above and the one below. I’m not sure I would have given them first place,...
Downtown Window Decorations, Part 1
The announcement of the winner of this year’s Window Decorating Contest in downtown Knoxville was overshadowed, as was everything else this past Friday, by the shootings in Connecticut. This isn’t really the forum for a discussion...
Tour de Lights 2012
It’s a great, quirky tradition played out on a December night each year. Sometimes the weather is bitter, like it was a couple of years ago when the temperature hovered in the 30’s and a persistent...
Visit Knoxville Makes an Urban Guy Video
I can agree with the Grateful Dead: It’s been a long, strange trip. Just over three years ago Urban Woman and I moved to the center city. With some anxiety about the unknowns involved, we took...
Henley Street Bridge: Progress and Problems
Henley Street Bridge Construction, Knoxville, October 2012 It’s been a while since I posted photographs of the Henley Street Bridge construction, so I’m including a few that I took in a few weeks ago. According...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2012, Part 2
As I said yesterday, this year’s parade was a bit better for my taste. I mentioned some of the reasons I feel that way and most of them are back-handed compliments, but here’s one that’s straight-forward:...