2026 State of the City Address & What’s Next Knoxville?
I love Knoxville so much it catches in my throat sometimes. I love its beauty and its stories. I love the heart it wears on its sleeve and the grey of its nuances. I love its...
DESIGNSLAM! Imagines the Future of Standard Knitting Mill
It’s Thursday night and the buzz of conversation rises above the clinking of pint glasses at Alliance Brewing Company on Sevier Avenue. Teams huddle around tables with maps and magic markers. This is DESIGNSLAM!, a rapidfire...
Kerbela Site at a Crossroads as Developer Revises Plan
The future of one of South Knoxville’s most prominent sites, the Kerbela Shriners Temple property, is still taking shape as a proposed redevelopment attempts to balance community expectations with the realities of making the project viable....
FILM FEST KNOX’s Monthly Screening Series Is Well-Curated & FREE
There’s a lot of great art that flies under the radar. But, for me at least, film feels like the easiest to miss. I know “good” when I see it; I just don’t always know where...
Scenes from Knoxville Opera’s 2026 Rossini Festival
Downtown always feels fully lived-in during Rossini Festival weekend, Knoxville Opera’s annual international street fair featuring four performance stages, food, vendors and much more. I came out for a while both days to roam and enjoy...
Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk 2026
One of IOK founder Alan Sims’ most heroic annual traditions was photographing every single square of the Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk. Over the years, he developed a highly specific methodology, which involved hauling a step ladder...
‘Knoxville Girl’ Gets Her Revenge in Wayne White’s New KMA Exhibition
If you need a refresher on the macabre plot of famed Appalachian murder ballad “Knoxville Girl,” it goes like this: Willy takes his girlfriend for a walk, beats her to death with a stick for no...
Sienna Art Gallery & Gifts Opens at 129 S. Gay Street
A new gallery has opened in downtown’s Arts District on the 100 block of Gay Street. Sienna Art Gallery and Gifts, located at 129 Gay Street in the space most recently occupied by Daché Boutique (and...
Riverview Tower Sells to Apex Bank for $44.17 Million
Riverview Tower, the 23-story office building at 900 S. Gay Street we last reported on in December 2025, has been sold to Knoxville-based Apex Bank for $44.17 million. The sale, which was announced yesterday, includes the...
D1 Training & Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance Open Joint Facility at Covenant Health Park
As the Knoxville Smokies kicked off their season Friday night, another kind of opening was unfolding just beyond the outfield. D1 Training and Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance (TOA) officially opened their new shared facility on the ground...
Lilienthal Gallery’s ‘Pattern: The Art of Repetition’ Explores the Meaning Beneath the Motif
Walk into Lilienthal Gallery’s new Pattern: The Art of Repetition, and your brain gets to work doing what it does best: making sense of what’s in front of it. Patterns help us organize and process information....
A Field Guide to the 2026 Dogwood Arts Season
It’s peak dogwood season and, right on schedule, Knoxville’s favorite blooms are back. As is their patron saint: Dogwood Arts. Conceived in 1955, this nonprofit organization powers the extended celebration of three of my favorite things—beautiful...
Esteemed Local Historian’s Shocking Confession: ‘I’ve Just Been Making Sh*t Up This Whole Time’ – April Fools!
In a revelation that has sent shockwaves through Knoxville’s history community, longtime local historian Jack Neely admitted Tuesday that much of the city’s now widely accepted historical narrative has been, in his words, “more of a...
Advisory Group, City Officials & Public All Suddenly Agree on New Chilhowee Park Plan – April Fools!
In a stunning display of civic unity not seen since the great “Zipper Merge Awareness” campaign of 2017, the City of Knoxville, the Chilhowee Park Advisory Group (CPAG), and what officials described as “an overwhelming, almost...