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Amos Oaks, Knoxville Community Media, May 2025

Knoxville Community Media Gives Voice to the People for 50 Years

K.W. Leonard·May 13, 2025

Back when you had cable, you may have passed a channel with locally-created television programs or Knoxville government meetings. Knoxville Community Media, formerly Community Television of Knoxville, brought you those programs and are still bringing voice...

The Scruffs at Match, Courtesy Faith Wood

Meet the Scruffs, One Knoxville SC’s Support Organization, As Soccer Moves Downtown

K.W. Leonard·April 23, 2025

When you go see One Knoxville SC during their opening match at Covenant Health Park on April 26 (this Saturday!), you will be led by a boisterous crowd singing songs, sending smoke into the air and...

Pier 865 Sculpture Unfenced and Unveiled with Little Fanfare: What to Make of It?

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 21, 2025

If you’ve walked around downtown in the last couple of weeks, you may have noticed the eastern sidewalk on the 200 block of Gay Street is clear after a year of obstruction due to fencing. Behind...

Absolute Beginners: A brief look at the history of baseball in Knoxville

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 16, 2025

(In honor of yesterday’s opening day for baseball at Covenant Health Park, today’s article by recurring contributor Paul James of the Knoxville History Project takes you waaay back to a time this opening day for the...

Marvel Cosplayers, Fanboy Anime Toy and Gaming Convention, March 2025

Fandom in the Center City

K.W. Leonard·April 4, 2025

I’ve been a fan of all things geeky since the 1970s. Growing up in an era when geeks weren’t socially accepted, I briefly let mainstream culture suppress my fandom, stopping purchases of comic books and avid...

Spring Exhibition Opens at Lilienthal Gallery Friday Night

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 3, 2025

How many artists have been encouraged by their parents to follow their vision and pursue beauty? Not so many, perhaps. Adán López Alemán felt the creative impulse from a young age and, growing up in a...

Big Ears 2025: Many Rivers to Cross, Part Two

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 2, 2025

“Many Rivers to Cross” is, of course, the title of the great Jimmy Cliff song from the movie “The Harder They Come,” which was shown at the festival. It’s also descriptive of the city during the...

Big Ears Through the Kaleidoscope, Part Two

Leslie Bateman·April 2, 2025

And we’re back! Read my part one here and Alan’s part one here. His part two will be along this afternoon. Saturday, March 28: Big Little Ears Thomas, our 5-year-old, is in a bad mood. He...

Big Ears 2025, Many Rivers to Cross, Part One

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 1, 2025

In the post-Big Ears afterglow, it’s time to reflect. Referencing many of our experiences as “a journey” rings almost hollow from overuse. Life, career, marriage, prolonged illness, and sometimes literal travel all give way to the...

Big Ears Through the Kaleidoscope, Part One

Leslie Bateman·April 1, 2025

We got this little toy kaleidoscope from the Knoxville Museum of Arts’s Museum Shop a few months ago. As our 5-year-old Thomas played around with it, the wonderful shopkeeper Vicki Wyric told us about an artist...

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Knoxville Community Media Gives Voice to the People for 50 Years

Meet the Scruffs, One Knoxville SC’s Support Organization, As Soccer Moves Downtown

Pier 865 Sculpture Unfenced and Unveiled with Little Fanfare: What to Make of It?

Absolute Beginners: A brief look at the history of baseball in Knoxville

Fandom in the Center City

Spring Exhibition Opens at Lilienthal Gallery Friday Night

Big Ears 2025: Many Rivers to Cross, Part Two

Big Ears Through the Kaleidoscope, Part Two

Big Ears 2025, Many Rivers to Cross, Part One

Big Ears Through the Kaleidoscope, Part One

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville