Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (7/10-7/19/2022)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me) and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...
An Updated Look at Downtown Knoxville Density
From time to time since 2014, I’ve used a graphic on this website that shows how dense downtown buildings were packed in around the mid-1930s and how much density we lost between then and 2014. Over...
Downtown K-Town Connect Ambassadors: What Do They Do?
Since the program was announced last April, the ambassadors employed in the K-Town Connect program have been daily working their way around downtown. You might spot them in their bright neon-green shirts. The program launched almost...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (7/3 – 7/12/2022)
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New Moon Rising Gifts and Goods Celebrates Grand Opening
New Moon Rising Gifts and Goods at 206 Randolph Street (right behind Mark Nelson Denim) is open for business today and celebrating with a wide range of events. Owner Lee Yarnell has long anticipated this dream....
Pro-Choice Protests Erupt in Knoxville After Roe V Wade Overturned
As was expected after the leaked opinion last month, Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court Decision which declared legal abortion to be a woman’s constitutional right, was overturned last Friday. The decision, which was also...
Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes and Secret Gardens 2022, Part Two
We pick up the tour at 605 Caswell, just across from 610 where yesterday’s article ended. Built in 1905, the home went through multiple hands, with owners sometimes staying as little as a year. In 1919,...
Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes and Secret Gardens 2022, Part One
I would like to express a word of thanks to the Fourth and Gill Neighborhood Association who presented their thirty-second tour of homes and gardens this past Saturday. The tour was wonderful, as always, but I’m...
U.S. Cycling Championships Bring Thousands to Downtown Knoxville
The weather was steamy, but cooler than it might have been. The crowds were enthusiastic from downtown through South Knoxville and for a weekend, the eyes of the cycling world was on Knoxville. This year’s races...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (6/26 – 7/6/2022)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me) and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...