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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....

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. ...

The Pilot Light’s Annual Halloween Show Has Been Going Strong for 20+ Years 

Leslie Bateman·October 31, 2024
(Ed Note: Today’s article by contributing writer, Leslie Bateman.) Three-hundred sixty-four days a year, The Pilot Light devotes itself to being an incubator and oasis for original music – i.e. sorry, no cover bands. Holding space...

Recapping “Solastalgia” + Support Your Local Giant Puppets and Circus Performers!

Leslie Bateman·October 26, 2024
(Ed. Note: Today’s Rare Saturday Article is by guest writer Leslie Bateman) It’s a small wonder no one crashed their car on the Clinch Avenue viaduct earlier this month, distracted by the spellbindingly bizarro scene unfolding...
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