Hola Festival 2018
I’m pretty sure I’ve never reported on an Hola Festival this far after the event itself. Modern attention spans being what they are, people have moved on. Still, I think the event is worth documenting each...
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Saturday Bonus: Open Streets and Old Gray Cemetery Lantern and Carriage Tour
Here’s another Saturday bonus, brought to you by the ridiculous amount of events, developments and otherwise newsworthy stories coming out of downtown. In the past, both Open Streets and the Lantern and Carriage Tour of Old...
New Pop Up Concert Series Announced
It’s been over three years since I first told you about a unique series being promoted by Kent Oglesby of Knoxville Music Warehouse and Garrett Thomson. The series was a set of “secret” shows. Artists were...
Alias Grace Offers a Chilling Glimpse Into Our Darker Psyche
Clarence Brown Theatre offers a full season, each year, of excellent theatrical productions. A season ticket is a well warranted purchase. That said, the productions at the smaller sister Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre are often...
Big Ears Lineup Announced – Tickets Available
It’s the end of September so, of course, it’s time to announce spring music festival lineups, right? It’s never too early for those of us who wait all year for the music we love and for...
An Interview with a Knoxville Treasure: Dr. Bill Snyder
October 1 is a bit of a momentous day. The Tennessee Theatre celebrates the precise 90th anniversary of their opening day, October 1, 1928. It culminates their 90 years in 90 days celebration and it also...
Art Slams, Wine Bars and Bricks? A First Friday Weekend
After not doing so for some time, last month I got out into the thick of First Friday, focusing on outlying participants. I noted that it’s been a while since our gang participated very much in...
The Power of a Visual Image to Produce Change
What’s in a photograph or a video beyond simple pleasure or entertainment? Is a photograph nothing more than a representation of the ordinary? What are the images that impact us? How does an image or footage...
Art Making Places and Places Making Art
We’ve all experienced it, perhaps most often in an urban setting. Take a scruffy warehouse, add lights and art and suddenly, the space is “cool.” It’s a place people want to hang out. Same with an...
2018 Asian Festival Bigger Than Ever
The organizers for the fifth annual Knoxville Asian Festival hoped and projected the festival might draw as many as 40,000 people to its expanded downtown footprint. This wasn’t simply a fantasy number. Last year the festival...