Sign outside Asheville Store (photo from http://www.thetreeandvine.com/) Here’s more big news for Market Square: We are getting a great store called The Tree and Vine which currently has a location in Asheville. The Asheville store sells...

Chris Doody, James Trimble, Will Horton and John Phillips Take two of my favorite local bands and add my favorite weekly musical hour and you have the recipe for a great time. And it certainly was....

Jack Rentfro, Preservation Pub,(with Laith Keilany) A performance by Jack Rentfro and his ace band the Apocalypso Quartet is difficult to articulate to an uninitiated audience. Apparently initially encouraged by the late, beloved Phil Pollard, Jack...

Harpist on Market Square, Knoxville, February 2012 It’s hard to believe how quickly the winter has passed. There hasn’t really been much of one as far as the weather goes. It was just New Year and...

Vegetables ready, five pounds shrimp and one pound crab meat in the fridge We’re a long way from the Gulf Coast. Never is that more clear than Mardi Gras week. As an ex-patriot of Mobile, Alabama,...

That’s a lot of size Sure, I was convinced that size didn’t matter. I mean, it’s what you do with what you’ve got, right? I even blogged about it in one of my earliest posts, concluding...

Winter isn’t the biggest time of the year for construction, though with the winter we’ve had, conditions would have been pretty good for constructing on all but a few days. There are several projects about which...

710 and 712 Walnut Still Endangered Lengthy caption, I realize, but several things are simmering in the downtown stew today and I wanted to include them all. Let’s take them one at a time. Though several...

Boyd’s Jig and Reel, Old City, Knoxville, January 2012 I’ve been hanging onto the shots I took of Blue Mother Tupelo last month, but hadn’t found the right moment to work them in. In the meantime,...

Harley Chapeau on Market Square, Knoxville Harley Chapeau seems like part of the fabric of the square. He would blend in like so many visitors from west Knoxville if not for his dapper dress in his...