Henley Bridge Gets Glow-Up Just in Time for Georgia Game
The year of our lord 2025 shall forever be remembered in Knoxville as the Year of the Bridge. (For the record, this is IOK’s second bridge story just this week). I figure it’s time for a...
Gay Street Bridge Repairs on Schedule; City Also Studying Possible Future Replacement Options
This morning the City of Knoxville shared an update on the Gay Street Bridge, which has been closed since last June. This is the release in full. With the Gay Street Bridge expected to reopen in...
Catching up With Ashley Capps About the 2026 Big Ears Lineup & Beyond
The 2026 Big Ears Festival lineup has just been announced and it’s a banger. Featuring over 250 events in 20+ downtown venues across four days (March 26-29), Big Ears is a world-renowned, boundary-defying celebration of music...
Compass & IOK Present ‘City Council Candidate Forum: The Game Show’
Elections are serious business, but candidate forums don’t have to be stodgy affairs. This fall, Compass and Inside of Knoxville are teaming up to try something different. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m., all City...
A (Cringing) Plea for Your Support of Free, Independent, Local Journalism
So, I was sitting with Alan last week on his balcony overlooking Krutch Park. Alan sipped coffee, retired life looking real good on him. A bald eagle circled overhead like it was auditioning for a Lee...
Former KMA Director David Butler Is at Home With Art
When Iliana Lilienthal asked—well, told—David Butler she wanted a select batch of his pastels for Lilienthal Gallery’s Deconstructing Landscapes exhibition, he was caught off guard. She’d spotted them in his South Knoxville home during a party...
See Inside Sauna House, Moving Into Former Mighty Mud in North Knoxville
If it feels like Knoxville is in its sauna era, that’s because it is. Last winter, South Knoxville enjoyed two pop-ups: Sage Sauna at Trailhead Beer Market (Alan wrote about that here), and Sauna House at...
ETCDC Community Collaborative Reimagines Knox Central & KCS Sites
Community input and the importance of process have been hot topics this week. One nonprofit that helps facilitate collaboration—and has come up with a pretty neat system for doing so—is the East Tennessee Community Design Center...
I Went on a Cat Journey & You Can, Too
Some mornings you wake up already feeling like a spent husk of a human. Then your cat sits on your chest, stares into your eyeballs with unsettling intensity, and purrs like a tiny life coach whispering,...
Magnolia Redevelopment & the Fight for Chilhowee Park
It’s 2019, and East Knoxville residents have turned out at the Jacob Building to imagine a future for Chilhowee Park. City staff and a consulting team are on hand to listen. “If you could look into...