East Tennessee History Fair, 2014
It’s always a fun event and includes so many events that it’s impossible to do them all. I worked pretty hard most of the day and didn’t make it to several major events that I really...
Culture
East TN History Center: There’s a lot Going On
Urban Girl and I have been hanging around together a lot the last couple of weeks and it’s caused me to take some fresh looks at some things I’ve allowed to blend into the background. One...
Southern Literature Converges in the City
Last year I wrote a piece about my friend Flossie McNabb at Union Avenue Books. I told, among other stories, the story of how she and I met sometime back in the 1990s at Davis Kidd...
Armstrong/Strong Alley Update: New Art
It’s been a long time since I wrote about the Artist Alley Revamp Project. For the back stories, which started nearly two years ago, start here, go here, here, here and here. It’s been almost exactly a year since I checked...
Written in Stone: Inscriptions on Market Square
Recently a friend asked about the inscriptions written in granite on Market Square. She’d looked at them and found them wanting. Focusing on the three primary, and larger, quotes on the square she noted that they...
Five Plus Six Jazz Ensemble
Knoxville is a jazz-rich city. It shouldn’t logically have a jazz scene at all. As an Appalachian city our heritage runs in other directions from old time to bluegrass, from a bit of blues to country,...
Art That Captures the Senses
I enjoyed the art last Friday and the small crowds I mentioned earlier made it possible to actually enjoy it up close. I’m afraid First Fridays aren’t usually the best viewing times for the various exhibitions,...
Scott Miller Highlights Final Tennessee Shines for the Season
It’s one of the best musical series going in a city that has many excellent musical series ranging from daily to weekly, monthly and annually. Tennessee Shines in its first incarnation offered a monthly show in...
Exactly Where is Parkridge and What is Happening There?
The title alone is a confession of my ignorance. I’d heard “Parkridge” mentioned in the same breath as “Old North” and “Fourth and Gill,” so I knew it was one of the “ring” neighborhoods around downtown....
“Princess Cut” Forces a Painful Conversation
Our culture’s willingness to talk about anything no matter how personal at anytime seems to expand with every Cialis commercial. It’s as if any topic is an acceptable topic no matter where or in what company...