Photographs in Search of a Blog
View from 11 Cafe, 100 Block, Knoxville Here are a few scenes that caught my attention recently. The photograph of the 100 Block is from the window of 11 Cafe. I love the little bar along...
Spring, Spanish and Soccer via SLR
Soccer Styling in front of Soccer Taco, Market Square, Knoxville I’m not sure winter ever happened in Knoxville this year, but it appears spring is here. There are many things to love about springtime anywhere, but...
It’s the shops, but more accurately, it’s the people
Anne at Bliss Home, 29 Market Square, Knoxville I recently wrote a post about Morelock Music and I talked about how comfortable it feels as a place to just hang out. It’s true, the shop is...
Urban Environmentalism
I remember hearing a story on NPR a few years ago that really turned my thinking upside down regarding environmental stewardship and urban vs. rural living. I’d always thought of living in the country as being...
Trees in the City
Market Square through the trees on the south end of the square Green space in a city adds immensely to the pleasure of living there. It breaks up the “concrete jungle” feeling and is quite soothing...
Is Knoxville Really One of the Gayest Cities in America?
Pridefest on Market Square We’ll start our poll discussion with one that I will readily admit surprised me. Advocate magazine, which is a gay and lesbian themed magazine, focused their annual poll on smaller, less obvious...
Prodigious Polls Proliferate
It seems they are everywhere. Knoxville places in or tops all types of polls, some of them flattering, some not so much. Over the coming days I’ll talk about several from the last year or so...
Political Food Fights
Bistro at the Bijou, Knoxville Has eating always been this political? It seems it is ever more so, recently in this city. There have always been political/social/religious overtones to eating. Some cultures such as Indian cultures...
Bountiful Brunch at Bistro at the Bijou
Bistro at the Bijou, Knoxville, February 2012 When we decided to have lunch with friends on a Saturday, Urban Woman suggested Bistro at the Bijou. After some discussion – perhaps tongue-in-cheek – about whether the politics...
Deli Opens at The Market at Union and Gay
Sign Announcing the Market Deli, Knoxville The Market at Union and Gay opened just last summer after the closing of General Store in the same spot a few months earlier. It opened as one part convenience...