Knoxville Christmas Parade 2012
By crowd-count, this year’s parade looked like a big success, to me. I did not like the new parade route because it seemed to shorten the front end and make it more crowded. When the dust...
Christmas Market and Parade Highlight the Weekend
As always, there’s more fun to be had than time in the city this weekend. I’m going to forego my First Friday detailed run-down and highlight just a few special things that have come to my...
No Partridge in a Pear Tree in Knoxville this Christmas
Quite possibly the only pear tree in downtown Knoxville recently disappeared from the small green space between Kendrick Place and the Masonic Temple. After years of treatment for blight, it finally became so diseased that it...
Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour 2012
Urban Woman and I have wanted to take this home tour for years and something always came up or we let it pass before we got our act together. This year we were determined to be...
Great Music, Free Tickets and a Near-Death Experience: Just Another Friday Night in Knoxville
As anyone who read last Friday’s blog post can attest, there was simply too much to do downtown last weekend. Friday night I made the decision to only go two places: Alive After Five at the...
Southern Living Shoots the City
I arrived home from work Friday shaking off my work week and getting back into city mode, only to find a groundswell of rumors that Southern Living Magazine had a photographer out and about on the...
What to do in the City This Weekend
Last weekend delivered an action-packed series of events downtown and this weekend promises great events, as well. Whether you want music, drama or shopping at the Christmas Market and all the shops downtown, it’s happening this...
Too Many Historic Homes to Tour?
Well, in a manner of speaking that’s what I came away with from the Knox Heritage 2012 Preservation Awards and Annual Meeting, but I’ll get to that later. It’s a feel-good meeting attended by several hundred...
Late Summer Images of Knoxville, 2012
I’m still working my way through a back log of photographs I like, but for which I never found the right blog. Several of these rank among my recent favorites. Hopefully you’ll like some of them,...
Fantasy of Trees and a Perfect Finale to the Weekend
Saturday morning presented the best opportunity for the Urban Family to enjoy the Fantasy of Trees. It’s been a Thanksgiving weekend tradition for almost thirty years – going back to the time the space at the...