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Dylan Bash Celebrates 20 Years of Bobness (With their 18th Show)

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 3, 2024

If not for the global pandemic, this would have been the twentieth annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash. 2020 and 2021 yielded to the nasty virus and this became the twentieth anniversary, but the eighteenth rendition of...

“Tools as Art: Work & Play” at the KMA

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 28, 2024

(Today’s article is by recurring guest writer and relatively recent Knoxville transplant Luke Frazier.) Expectations are a wicked curse, and the way they get wrapped up in the past is a big part of the problem....

Big Ears 2024: Big Knoxville Impact

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 23, 2024

I know I bring up Big Ears early and often. I know not everyone cares about the music involved nor has interest in attending the festival. For example, I spoke to a couple on the last...

Beautiful Weather and Great Music Greet the Southern Skies Music and Whiskey Festival 2024

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 13, 2024

The southern skies were perfect for Saturday’s third annual Southern Skies Music and Whiskey Festival. Enough clouds floated by to keep fans and musicians from over-heating and the temperatures peaked out around seventy degrees. It’s hard...

Adeem the Artist Serves Communion

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 7, 2024

(Today’s article is by recurring guest writer and relatively recent Knoxville transplant Luke Frazier.) I’ve been to at least twenty five Blue Plate Special performances, the live radio show that WDVX puts on inside the Visit...

Knoxville Opera Brings Cendrillon to Life This Weekend at the Bijou Theatre

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 2, 2024

This weekend Knoxville Opera presents three performances of Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon, a unique spin on the Cinderella story. The opera offers a great opportunity for those who may have never tried the opera or who want...

Clarence Brown Theatre Announces New Season: A Conversation with Artistic Director Kenneth Martin

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 2, 2024

Clarence Brown Theatre has announced its upcoming season even as this one winds down. Kenneth Martin joined the UT Theatre Department and Clarence Brown almost two years ago and the concluding season was hist...

The Burn Vote: A Musical Storytelling Event by River and Rail Theatre Company

Heather Ryerson·April 25, 2024

2020 marked an important milestone in our nation’s history, and it was anchored here in East TN. That milestone was the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment. The Woman Suffrage movement had been...

An Interview with Poet Brian Griffin

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 5, 2024

I first encountered Brian Griffin sometime in the mid-to-late 1990s. I belonged to a Southern Literature Book Group led by Flossie McNabb at Davis Kidd Bookstore in west Knoxville where we read Brian’s recent book of...

Searching for Friday Night

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 19, 2024

(Today’s article is by Inside of Knoxville Intern, Alexa-Marie Melendez. Her adventures are from March first Friday. The exhibitions she visited remain available for your pleasure — art doesn’t just happen on First Friday!) I moved...

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Dylan Bash Celebrates 20 Years of Bobness (With their 18th Show)

“Tools as Art: Work & Play” at the KMA

Big Ears 2024: Big Knoxville Impact

Beautiful Weather and Great Music Greet the Southern Skies Music and Whiskey Festival 2024

Adeem the Artist Serves Communion

Knoxville Opera Brings Cendrillon to Life This Weekend at the Bijou Theatre

Clarence Brown Theatre Announces New Season: A Conversation with Artistic Director Kenneth Martin

The Burn Vote: A Musical Storytelling Event by River and Rail Theatre Company

An Interview with Poet Brian Griffin

Searching for Friday Night

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