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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...

Big Ears Begins + All the FREE Art, Music and More This Week

Leslie Bateman·March 28, 2025

It’s Thursday and I’ve just picked up Michael from L.A. from the airport. I don’t know what his last name is — he’s saved in my phone as “Michael from L.A.” — but he’s our friend....

Pilot Light Answers ‘What For?’ With Free 3-Day Festival

Leslie Bateman·March 27, 2025

Since the Pilot Light first kicked open its dark, nondescript door on May 22, 2000, the Old City nonprofit venue has been committed to a singular mission: providing “a place for new ideas.” Its goal was...

Krutch Park Extension Springs to Life with New Art Installation

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 25, 2025

The Big Ears Vibe begins to permeate downtown Knoxville . . . Krutch Park embraces splashes of color year-round in the form of sculptures replaced each summer by the Art in Public Spaces an ongoing exhibition...

Wayne White Brings Double-Header of Music, Art to Big Ears

Leslie Bateman·March 24, 2025

I don’t know how you hang onto a southern accent after living in L.A. for 35 years. I’d scrubbed mine by sophomore year of college. I thought I had to, to be taken seriously. Chattanooga born-and-raised...

10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Downtown Library

Leslie Bateman·March 18, 2025

In our household, which includes a kindergartener, we burn through at least 14 library books a week (because my squirrelbrain can’t stand reading any bedtime book more than once). Let’s lowball it and say each book...

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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

Big Ears Begins + All the FREE Art, Music and More This Week

Pilot Light Answers ‘What For?’ With Free 3-Day Festival

Krutch Park Extension Springs to Life with New Art Installation

Wayne White Brings Double-Header of Music, Art to Big Ears

10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Downtown Library

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