November Scruffy City Ramble Tonight at the Square Room
It’s that time of the month again, and this may just be the one event that you can count on me blogging about each time it rolls around. It’s beyond great in a sea of greatness...
Icon Lounge is Open inside the Sunsphere
I finally got a chance to look inside the Icon Lounge on the fifth floor of the Sunsphere and it is a very cool spot. The occasion was a City People social and it’s always nice...
River Sports Outfitters Opens at 31 Market Square
Perhaps I wasn’t the only one startled to see River Sports Outfitters open for business at 31 Market Square this week. A very small, four sentence announcement on WBIR which ran five days before they opened provided...
Rick Terry’s Jewelry Designs Opens In Downtown Knoxville
About fifteen years ago Kimball’s Jewelers closed their doors on Gay Street. Even an optimist would have been hard pressed to predict that the downward spiral in center city would reverse enough to ever return a...
Commercial Shoot on Union Avenue
Here’ s a fun little happening that my new reporters stumbled upon and sent out via the Urban News Wire Service. Urban Brother and Urban Niece visiting from the rural hinterlands took in quite a bit...
Bill Cook, Jr. and Other First Friday Moments
I suspect it was me. I came home from work tired and my First Friday partner (Urban Woman) declared a night at home on that most active of nights downtown. So I left home alone, tired...
Downtown Cru Bistro: Fine Dining with a Warm Atmosphere
From the beautifully redesigned exterior to the wood paneled walls and the richly finished hardwood floors, everything about Cru Bistro, the long-awaited downtown restaurant, exudes warmth. It doesn’t stop there as Urban Woman and I were...
Vote. Just Vote.
I voted early. The great folks at the City County Building made it very easy, with several days of voting including Saturday and extended hours last week which went until, I believe, 8:00 PM, Monday through...
New Business Opens Downtown: Southland Lakefront and Mountain Properties
For the first three years I lived in downtown Knoxville, the strip of (potential) shops on the 400 block of Union Avenue consisted of nothing more than one business and a long strip of dark windows...
Pecha Kucha: Knoxville Creativity on Display
I attended my second Pecha Kucha event recently and was reminded of the many amazing Knoxvillians who surround us. This was the fifth edition of Knoxville Pecha Kucha, which appears to have found a home at...