Local Christmas Music for Your Stocking
As always, Knoxville enjoys an embarrassment of riches in the musical arena. This Christmas season has given us at least three new disks featuring local artists. You can’t go wrong with any of the three, so...
Bikes, Bright Lights and Biting Cold
Santa and his Rudolph, Tour de Lights, Knoxville, December 2010 To avoid the Christmas spirit in downtown Knoxville, you must be determined to revel in your inner Scrooge. From Christmas Wrestlers to gorgeous lights, we’ve got...
Shopping in the City: Downtown Shopper’s Guide
Print from Rala This is not going to be an exhaustive give guide like you might find in Metropulse. I do think it is worth mentioning, however, that great shopping is waiting for you downtown –...
Blue Plate on Ice and a Tasty Menu at Lattitude 35
Tony Lawson, Knoxville Music Icon Those blessed bad weather days just kept coming last week and, for me, that meant a daily trek through the ice or snow to WDVX studios on Gay Street for the...
Creative Explorers or Con-men wanting to see the World on Your Dime?
Justin Valee and Jeremiah Taylor create on Market Square Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell the difference between creative, brave and thus admirable people and others who are simply avoiding the real world the rest of us...
A Bizarre Theft, a Time Traveler and a Possible Alien Abduction
On the surface it was a normal Saturday morning in downtown Knoxville. I stayed in to do the weekly domestic tasks common to downtown and suburban residents alike. By 11:00 AM I was itching to get out...
Blight? We’ve got blight.
Corner of Summer Place and Locust, Knoxville, December 2010 It was interesting to read the article on blight in the Knoxville News Sentinel. According to the map provided, there are no blighted properties in downtown. Of course, there are...
More Blue Plate Special: Snowy Day Edition
I have to say I absolutely adore being downtown when life is just a little off-kilter. Sunday mornings are a bit like that with the whole “Sunday Morning Coming Down” feel. Holidays are even more that...
No Music, Just a Cold, Snowy, Beautiful Night
Snowy Night in Krutch Park, Knoxville, December 2010 Friday I looked in the Daily Plan-it to see what music might be coming up downtown that I needed to catch. Angel Martinez at the Preservation...
It’s late, It’s Smoky and It’s Good
Preservation Pub, Market Square, Knoxville The last time I ventured out on a late night to hear a band at the Preservation Pub, it was cleverly disguised as a place called the Mercury Lounge. I struggled...