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Inaugural Knoxville Book Festival Bookmarks Its Place

Leslie Bateman·April 8, 2025

‘Tis the season! It’s April and there was A LOT happening downtown this half-gorgeous weekend, from the Dogwood Arts Festival Chalk Walk to the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon to a large demonstration flanking Henley Street and...

Big Ears Through the Kaleidoscope, Part Two

Leslie Bateman·April 2, 2025

And we’re back! Read my part one here and Alan’s part one here. His part two will be along this afternoon. Saturday, March 28: Big Little Ears Thomas, our 5-year-old, is in a bad mood. He...

Big Ears Through the Kaleidoscope, Part One

Leslie Bateman·April 1, 2025

We got this little toy kaleidoscope from the Knoxville Museum of Arts’s Museum Shop a few months ago. As our 5-year-old Thomas played around with it, the wonderful shopkeeper Vicki Wyric told us about an artist...

Big Ears Begins + All the FREE Art, Music and More This Week

Leslie Bateman·March 28, 2025

It’s Thursday and I’ve just picked up Michael from L.A. from the airport. I don’t know what his last name is — he’s saved in my phone as “Michael from L.A.” — but he’s our friend....

Pilot Light Answers ‘What For?’ With Free 3-Day Festival

Leslie Bateman·March 27, 2025

Since the Pilot Light first kicked open its dark, nondescript door on May 22, 2000, the Old City nonprofit venue has been committed to a singular mission: providing “a place for new ideas.” Its goal was...

Wayne White Brings Double-Header of Music, Art to Big Ears

Leslie Bateman·March 24, 2025

I don’t know how you hang onto a southern accent after living in L.A. for 35 years. I’d scrubbed mine by sophomore year of college. I thought I had to, to be taken seriously. Chattanooga born-and-raised...

Low Meadow Farms Offers Backcountry Experience in Downtown’s Backyard

Leslie Bateman·March 20, 2025

Happy First Day of Spring! The daffodils are blooming, the air is perfectly lukewarm, and we’re collectively emerging from our winter dens. You rub your eyes and there it is again, like clockwork – nature! –...

10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Downtown Library

Leslie Bateman·March 18, 2025

In our household, which includes a kindergartener, we burn through at least 14 library books a week (because my squirrelbrain can’t stand reading any bedtime book more than once). Let’s lowball it and say each book...

Introduction Knoxville Is a Crash Course in Civic Engagement

Leslie Bateman·March 11, 2025

Every great city needs people who know what’s going on, who care about their neighbors, and who are willing to step up when it counts. Knoxville is growing fast, and as much as we all love...

Between the Lines of Jered Sprecher’s ‘Under the Branches’

Leslie Bateman·March 5, 2025

Jim Maples wants to know what I’m doing, standing in his Chapman Highway liquor store parking lot, staring at a brick wall. Jim, owner of Southland Wine & Spirits, puts two and two together when I...

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Inaugural Knoxville Book Festival Bookmarks Its Place

Big Ears Through the Kaleidoscope, Part Two

Big Ears Through the Kaleidoscope, Part One

Big Ears Begins + All the FREE Art, Music and More This Week

Pilot Light Answers ‘What For?’ With Free 3-Day Festival

Wayne White Brings Double-Header of Music, Art to Big Ears

Low Meadow Farms Offers Backcountry Experience in Downtown’s Backyard

10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Downtown Library

Introduction Knoxville Is a Crash Course in Civic Engagement

Between the Lines of Jered Sprecher’s ‘Under the Branches’

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