Hola Festival 2017
It’s always a fun event. I’ve loved it for years and Urban Girl, and now, Urban Boy have grown up with it. The Hola Festival, in its eighteenth year, has become not only an opportunity for...
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Downtown Art Wraps by the Knoxville History Project Appear Around the City
This past summer as the Urban Clan drove around the wild west, we stopped over in Missoula, Montana. I snapped a photo though the car window as I drove (don’t do this at home, children) of...
New Mural Going Up Near Central and Broadway (Plus the latest photos from Elkmont Exchange)
Murals are spreading all over town and I’m loving it. The most recent to appear is located in Old North. It’s at the corner of Irwin and Bearden Place. If that doesn’t ring a bell, it’s...
Clarence Brown Theatre Launches “Peter and the Starcatcher”
Urban Girl and I had a lovely outing last Friday night to Clarence Brown Theatre’s new production of “Peter and the Starcatcher.” If I heard the phrase, “Oh My God!” once, well, I heard it a...
Asian Festival Highlights a Fun-Filled Weekend
We’ve spent a lot of time talking about the “recent unpleasantness,” from last weekend, but what an incredible, fun-packed weekend it was! The Market Square Farmers’ Market is at its peak. The Lego Fan Expo in...
Monument Battle Lines Drawn in Knoxville – But Are the Lines Really That Clear?
It’s not a new issue, by any means, and Charlottesville was not the first place it played out. New Orleans recently removed many of the statues commemorating the Confederacy. One constituted a memorial to the white...
Fourth Annual Asian Festival Comes to Downtown This Weekend
The growth of the Asian Festival has been fun to follow. Festival organizers weren’t sure what to expect the first time around. Held in Krutch Park, response was good. The second year, held in the...
We Talked About History All Week, Had a History Fair and Now Turn to Science (of the History Making Sort)
Has there been a week in which more Americans discussed our history than this past week? While the controversy over Confederate monuments isn’t new – New Orleans removed theirs with great angst on all sides this...
We’re All Making Choices
This past Sunday, in what has become an almost regular event, another rally was held on Market Square. The rally, organized literally overnight, was held in response to the white supremacist and white nationalist marches in...
A Tour of Recent Downtown Art Additions
It’s easy to fall into patterns as you walk around downtown. Many people stick to the area around Market Square and the nearby portion of Gay Street. The Old City is the hang out for others....