New for Breakfast and Lunch: Brown Bag
It’s easy to live downtown and miss a few small jewels that target the downtown working crowd. I wrote about the Hot Bagel Company last summer, for example. Located in the edge of the old Whittle...
Business
Who’s Behind Those Beautiful Flowers?
It’s easy to get so used to seeing our downtown that you stop really seeing it. Little subtleties or perhaps even special qualities you once valued slip from your conscious view and fade to the background....
Start-ups, Rock and Roll and Demo Day: The State of the KEC
When mutual friend, and all around good guy, Rusty Odom, introduced me to Jonathan Sexton, I really didn’t know what to expect. I knew a little about his music, most recently photographing him at Blankfest playing with...
Scruffy City Hall: Another Reason to Love Downtown Knoxville
I may have mentioned this before, but one of the things that Urban Woman and I marvel at is that many of our favorite places and things to do didn’t exist before we moved. And we...
Bootleg Betty: New Business on the 100 Block
The 100 block of Gay Street continues to attract retail businesses. The latest, opening the beginning of this month, is Bootleg Betty, a shop featuring gently used bridal wear, party dresses and boots. Even though I’m...
Yassin’s Falafel House: Go. There. Now.
I’d contacted Yassin Terou weeks ago when I heard about his Falafel restaurant opening at 706 Walnut. Those of you who read this blog know there would be at least a couple of reasons for me...
Greenlee’s Bike Shop: Knoxville’s Oldest
Just across the street from Kickstand, at 1402 North Broadway on the corner of East Glenwood and Broadway, sits one of the oldest bike shops in the country and certainly the oldest in continuous operation in...
Kickstand: Dishing out Bikes and Hope
I first mentioned Kickstand a couple of weeks ago when I encountered Paul Laudeman and Kickstart volunteers at the Parkridge block party. Paul has been with the program from its formal beginning and heads it up...
Money, Coffee and Art: Changes on Gay Street
I heard from a helpful reader about the ATM which has been installed in front of the Phoenix Building. It took me a few days to get to 418 S. Gay Street to look into it,...