Image via Wikipedia It’s (almost) spring and that means things really start hopping downtown. First Friday is today and there are a number of exciting and interesting events planned. The one that is topping my list...

Please forgive me my vehicle fetish. I never realized I had one until I started this blog. Since I almost always have a camera on hand when I’m walking about downtown I take pictures of what...

Future Home of Blue Coast Burrito, 37 Market Square, Knoxville Fresh on the heels of Nama’s opening last week came news that Blue Coast Burrito would hold an Open House from 4:00 to 6:00 on Tuesday....

Here are more of the homes that caught my eye as I recently walked through Fort Sanders. I realize one of them is a church, but I thought it was interesting. It seemed to be missing...

Home in Fort Sanders, Knoxville There are many great homes in and around Fort Sanders. Some of them are lovingly cared for by single-owner occupants. Some of them are sub-divided into as many apartments as could...

Residential demolition was so thorough in downtown Knoxville, that in the main part of the city proper there are very few structures standing that were originally intended as homes. Some of those have suffered “improvements” over...

Knox Heritage Green House, Fort Sanders, Knoxville, February 2011 This will be the first in a series of posts centered in the Fort Sanders area. The densest populated area in east Tennessee, the neighborhood is known...

Urban Woman enters Nama on Opening Night, Gay Street, Knoxville, February 2011 I realize it was more like a four block move, but this Nama is not your mama’s Nama. It has probably three times the...

Not the Civil War – the Civil Wars. Never heard of them? You must be really old. Like maybe twenty-six or seven. Judging from the audience assembled for their performance, the demographic definitely skews young. If...

Shortwave Society Video, Locust Street, Knoxville, February 2011 Sometimes I go about begging the muse for a small tidbit, some simple morsel of an idea to write about in the middle of winter. The muse can be...