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Music as Resistance: My Notes from Big Ears 2026

Leslie Bateman·March 31, 2026
Music, and art generally, have always been modes of resistance. When something moves from the inside out, it pushes, almost by definition, against whatever is trying to press in the other direction. Sometimes that’s rules. Sometimes...

What Could Be Next for ‘The Greyhound’?

Leslie Bateman·March 30, 2026
Another epic iteration of Big Ears Festival is in the books and I need, like, 24 hours to process my feelings. So I’ll be back tomorrow with a recap. In the meantime: a postcard from inside...

Your Guide to FREE Music & More This Big Ears Week

Leslie Bateman·March 26, 2026
If you’re not among the 40,000 people from all 50 states and 21 countries clutching a wristband to this year’s sold-out Big Ears Festival, you’re still very much in the game. Dozens of Big Ears events...

Bliss Owners Open ‘Golden Threads’ Vintage & Secondhand Shop on Gay Street

Leslie Bateman·March 24, 2026
The corner of Gay and Union, the ground floor of the Miller’s Building, is the primest of prime downtown real estate. But after Regions left some years ago, it lingered in limbo. Techstars was there, technically,...

A Step Ahead Foundation Turns Back the Clock for ‘Back to Prom’ Night

Leslie Bateman·March 23, 2026
I am, as of this writing on Sunday evening, still sore from dancing. Friday night at The Mill & Mine, A Step Ahead Foundation of East Tennessee threw its third annual Back to Prom fundraiser, and...

Eugenia Williams House Opens Its Doors to Arts, Culture & Community

Leslie Bateman·March 20, 2026
Who was Eugenia Williams? The enigmatic Coca-Cola heiress kept her guard up through life and into death, her privacy as literal as the tall brick wall that kept busybodies from peeking into her Lyons View Pike...

The 2026 Knoxville St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Photos

Leslie Bateman·March 17, 2026
I’m trying to turn into a parade person. I really am. Maybe I had a traumatic parade experience as a kid, or maybe I’m just a human alive in the world today, but I’ve always deeply...

Volunteers Tackle Neglect at West View’s Historic Black Cemeteries

Leslie Bateman·March 16, 2026
There’s a small, old, overgrown cemetery in my South Knoxville neighborhood that I bushwhack into from time to time when I’m feeling morbid. A sign by the road reads Historic Grave Site: Relatives of Sam Houston....

Your 2026 Guide to Downtown St. Patrick’s Festivities

Leslie Bateman·March 14, 2026
A lovely, warm St. Patrick’s Day weekend is upon us, and downtown Knoxville is always ready to raise a pint. Festivities kick off this weekend and continue through St. Patrick’s Day proper (which looks to be...

Barley’s St. Patrick’s Day 5K Runs on Friendship & Memory 

Leslie Bateman·March 13, 2026
The 13th Annual Barley’s St. Patrick’s Day 5K returns this Sunday, March 15 with a course that begins at Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria in the Old City and ends on home plate at Covenant Health Park....

Downtown Goes to the Dogs for 19th Annual Mardi Growl

Leslie Bateman·March 10, 2026
Sometimes the exact thing you didn’t know you needed is a bunch of dogs in costumes. That turned out to be the case Saturday morning, when about 350 dogs — escorted by nearly 600 humans and...

‘Alice in Appalachia’ Reopens in New Gay Street Location & a Case for Novelty 

Leslie Bateman·March 9, 2026
A few years ago while visiting Reykjavík, Iceland, I discovered there was a whole bar there themed after the Coen brothers’ 1998 film The Big Lebowski. Which happens to be my favorite movie. It had an...

The Wests Go South: ‘Buffleheads’ Brings Duckpin Bowling & More to Former Everything Mushrooms Space

Leslie Bateman·March 5, 2026
Today’s story is co-presented by Blank News and Inside of Knoxville.  Standing inside the cavernous warehouse at 1004 Sevier Avenue, Scott West gestures toward the massive garage doors lining the front wall and imagines them thrown...

Alice Gerrard Headlines Multi-Day ‘Celebration of Women in Old-Time Music’ + ‘I’ve Endured’ Exhibition

Leslie Bateman·March 4, 2026
For generations, women helped carry old-time music forward: teaching songs at home, playing in family bands, and preserving traditions that would eventually shape country and bluegrass. Yet their contributions rarely made it onto the stage or...
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