Inside of Knoxville

Low Meadow Farms Shares Backcountry-Lite 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...

Summer Dreamin’: A Sneak Peek at Augusta Quarry

Leslie Bateman·February 12, 2025

On a recent sunny and warmish afternoon, I ventured out from the pile of blankets beneath which I’ve been hibernating to hike around Fort Dickerson Park. This 90-acre outpost of South Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness, hiding in...

KMA Director Steven Matijcio and the ‘Appalachian Imaginary’

Leslie Bateman·February 6, 2025

No art exists in isolation, neatly contained within a frame tacked to a gallery wall. It lives within a vast, intricate web of place, time and meaning that floats both ways, art influencing life and life...

What’s the Big Deal About This Downtown EV Charging Station?

Leslie Bateman·January 22, 2025

Driving an electric vehicle (EV) can feel like playing a game of connect-the-dots, where the dots are charging stations. The more dots on the map, the easier—and less stressful—the game becomes. In Tennessee the dots are...

Construction Underway Soon for Sevier Avenue Streetscapes Project

Leslie Bateman·January 10, 2025

“The commercial spine of Sevier has faded to a pale copy of its past character.” – 2006 South Waterfront Vision Plan Twenty-ish years ago, a baby-faced, ambitious city mayor named Bill Haslam invited the city to...

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....

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Low Meadow Farms Shares Backcountry-Lite 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’

Summer Dreamin’: A Sneak Peek at Augusta Quarry

KMA Director Steven Matijcio and the ‘Appalachian Imaginary’

What’s the Big Deal About This Downtown EV Charging Station?

Construction Underway Soon for Sevier Avenue Streetscapes Project

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

Underground Knoxville Emerges with The Furnace

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