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River and Rail Announces New Season Schedule and Memberships

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 4, 2023

Last night River and Rail announced its 2023 – 2024 season and ticket packages to a select group of sponsors. The enticing lineup includes productions that face the world as we know it in an honest...

Gangstagrass and the Will to Thrive

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 19, 2023

(Ed. Note: Today’s article is brought to you by guest writer Luke Frazier who does about as good a job summing up an unsummable band as possible. I first encountered Gangstagrass a decade ago as part...

Knoxville Museum of Art Debuts New Exhibit and Plans Changes to Higher Ground Exhibit

Heather Ryerson·July 18, 2023

My first introduction to the Knoxville Museum of Art was in February 2020, before the world shut down. My husband had just finished the Intro to Knoxville class. We viewed a video that showed the process...

Clarence Brown Film Festival to be Hosted by the Knox County Public Library

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 17, 2023

Do you know Clarence Brown? If you said, “It’s a theatre,” you get an “I” for incomplete. The theatre was named after a person, and do you know who he was and why the theatre would...

New 2023-2024 Downtown Sculptures, Part Two (Including My Two Favorites)

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 13, 2023

As I said in the last article, this year’s crop of sculptures decorating the city has more appeal to me than I’ve felt in the last several years. Any given year offers great works, of course,...

New 2023-2024 Sculptures Appear Around Downtown (And Other Places)

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 12, 2023

Last month Dogwood Arts installed the 2023-2024 Art In Public Places Sculpture Exhibition, which includes over two-dozen sculptures created by a wide range of American artists. The sculptures rotate out each year to be replaced by a new...

Trains of Thought

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 10, 2023

(Ed. Note: Today’s article is by sometimes guest writer Luke Frazier.) The first time I got really blasted in Knoxville was a couple of days after I moved here last September. I was on West Jackson...

A Small, Quiet Celebration of and Farewell to a Local Son

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 4, 2023

This past weekend, Evelyn Gill organized a celebration of the life and work of Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy, who was born in 1933, died on June 13. He’s claimed by more than one place, but Knoxville’s claim...

A Haunting in Harlem: An Encounter with Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 30, 2023

Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over—...

Poet Linda Parsons Launches Her Latest Work, “Valediction”

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 23, 2023

Linda Parsons, Knoxville resident, poet, and playwright, has produced her tenth book, “Valediction.” An assemblage of poetry and brief essays, the new work forms the basis of her reading this Saturday at Union Avenue Books. Hers...

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River and Rail Announces New Season Schedule and Memberships

Gangstagrass and the Will to Thrive

Knoxville Museum of Art Debuts New Exhibit and Plans Changes to Higher Ground Exhibit

Clarence Brown Film Festival to be Hosted by the Knox County Public Library

New 2023-2024 Downtown Sculptures, Part Two (Including My Two Favorites)

New 2023-2024 Sculptures Appear Around Downtown (And Other Places)

Trains of Thought

A Small, Quiet Celebration of and Farewell to a Local Son

A Haunting in Harlem: An Encounter with Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance

Poet Linda Parsons Launches Her Latest Work, “Valediction”

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