Image via Wikipedia General Burnside from the American Civil War is most known outside of Knoxville for his famous sideburns. Inside Knoxville he was better known for taking over the town during the war and holding...

I recently mentioned the wonderful “Cradle of Country Music (Walking) Tour,” and provided a link that, it turns out did no more than mention that there was such a thing and that it might be retrieved at...

Friday, July 30 (I know I’m going back a couple of weeks, but so much has been happening!), offered yet another great day for music downtown. Mary Gauthier was in town for a joint show with...

I’m having a hard time transitioning from the scenes of this weekend’s neo-Nazi march back into the fun and positive vibration I most often feel downtown. Sometimes a thing comes along that is so powerful in...

It’s been twenty-four hours since, hopefully, the last of our unwanted guests left town. The day was exhausting both physically and mentally. In some respects, even though I was face-to-face with the reality, it was still...

  An announcement was made several weeks ago that a permit had been issued for a KKK and neo-Nazi march in Knoxville. The spokesperson for the group when the story broke was from Detroit and it...

One of the stops I’ve not made, which is strange, as many times as I’ve walked down Gay Street, is 417 South Gay: J’s Mega Mart. I now realize it has been discussed by others, but...

First Friday for August featured the first glimpse most of us have gotten to the new KAT center. While the official opening won’t come until later this month and the ribbon cutting ceremony isn’t until next...

When I read heard the story – which I think was on Knoxnews – I got excited thinking that we were about to get curbside recycling downtown. We aren’t. Still, maybe we are a step closer....

You may have read my blog from July 27 regarding the mystery of the origin of the arch in the picture above. As the title to the post indicated, I suspected it was a  case for Ask...