50 Ways to Spend a Weekend (or at least three)
Of course, given my penchant for anything cheap and musical, the Indie Grrls Fest was a perfect way to spend my weekend, but one of the things I love about the city is that everybody is...
Quick! Before you read! Where could I find an owl downtown?
Former YMCA: Crown Court Condos Here is another of those little things that are easy to pass by without tuning in. Several things make this little oddity easy to miss: It’s on Locust Street, which isn’t the...
Indie Grrls Hit Town
Knoxville was the chosen city for this year’s annual Indie Grrl festival. In its third year and looking for a city to call home, hopefully the search has ended. Karen Reynolds, local songwriter and host of...
General Burnside Asserts Himself Unexpectedly
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...
The History of Knoxville Country Music Saved or Lost?
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...
Free Music, A Little More Pricey Music and Great Food
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...
One Final Moment before Moving On
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...
Final Musing on a Not So Amusing Event
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...
Knoxville Says, "No Thanks," to neo-Nazis
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...
A Strange Place in Our Midst
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...