Inside of Knoxville

Gettin’ Lit: The Freewheeling Origin Story of Tour de Lights

Leslie Bateman·December 16, 2024

Tour de Lights is a Knoxville institution: a slow-rolling, luminous constellation of 2,000 or so bikes parading through the downtown vicinity, flooding the streets with an unapologetic, it-just-keeps-coming deluge of holiday cheer. This year’s edition took...

Underground Knoxville Emerges with The Furnace

Leslie Bateman·December 13, 2024

Beneath the 100 block of Gay Street lies a hidden piece of Knoxville’s history. You can see it – or imagine it, at least – when you peer down through the “skylights” blocked into the sidewalk....

Old North Knoxville Victorian Holiday Home Tour, Part 2

Leslie Bateman·December 11, 2024

With all due respect for 14-foot inflatable Grinches, animatronic manger scenes and light displays visible from space, I’ll take a string of popcorn and some paper snowflakes lovingly scotch-taped to a window over grandiose holiday decor...

Old North Knoxville Victorian Holiday Home Tour, Part 1

Leslie Bateman·December 11, 2024

The ghosts of Christmas past, present and future were out in full force for last weekend’s Historic Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour. And I mean that literally—one tour-goer came barreling past me down the creaking...

100 Block to South Waterfront: Why Lauderdale Design Group Made the Leap

Leslie Bateman·December 3, 2024

Meaningful design shapes more than spaces — it shapes how people feel and interact with the world around them. It sparks curiosity, evokes nostalgia, creates a sense of pleasure and belonging. “We’re always looking for the...

Art Dialogues With History in ‘Greetings From Vestal IV’ at Candoro Marble Building

Leslie Bateman·November 25, 2024

The Candoro Marble Building is a study in contrasts. Nestled in South Knoxville’s proud, idiosyncratic Vestal neighborhood, it’s an unexpected architectural jewel—a 101-year-old Beaux-Arts landmark built as the office and showroom for the Candoro Marble Company. ...

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Gettin’ Lit: The Freewheeling Origin Story of Tour de Lights

Underground Knoxville Emerges with The Furnace

Old North Knoxville Victorian Holiday Home Tour, Part 2

Old North Knoxville Victorian Holiday Home Tour, Part 1

100 Block to South Waterfront: Why Lauderdale Design Group Made the Leap

Art Dialogues With History in ‘Greetings From Vestal IV’ at Candoro Marble Building

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville