Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (12/22 – 12/31/2024)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need...
Events
Knoxville to Host Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® 93rd Regional Conference in 2025
Visit Knoxville announced recently that Knoxville, has been chosen as the host city for the 93rd Regional Conference of the South Eastern Region of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority, Incorporated®. The event will take place from...
Gettin’ Lit: The Freewheeling Origin Story of Tour de Lights
Tour de Lights is a Knoxville institution: a slow-rolling, luminous constellation of 2,000 or so bikes parading through the downtown vicinity, flooding the streets with an unapologetic, it-just-keeps-coming deluge of holiday cheer. This year’s edition took...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (12/15 – 12/24/2024)
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Old North Knoxville Victorian Holiday Home Tour, Part 2
With all due respect for 14-foot inflatable Grinches, animatronic manger scenes and light displays visible from space, I’ll take a string of popcorn and some paper snowflakes lovingly scotch-taped to a window over grandiose holiday decor...
Old North Knoxville Victorian Holiday Home Tour, Part 1
The ghosts of Christmas past, present and future were out in full force for last weekend’s Historic Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour. And I mean that literally—one tour-goer came barreling past me down the creaking...
Downtown Christmas Parade 2024 Continues Tradition of Bringing Holiday Spirit for Nearly a Century
I have to agree with Harry Richman as he crooned the Harold Arlen tune back in 1932: I really do love a parade. Something about the intersection of music, art and pageantry grabbed my attention from...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (12/8 -12/17/2024)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need...
Those New Holes in Downtown Streets Are Actually a Good Thing
Over the last few days there’s been a lot of noise and a bit of dust on Union Avenue and Market Street. Holes about the size of manhole covers have been cut into the streets at...
Runners, Fireworks, Lights, and Skates: Knoxville is All In on the Holidays
What appeared to be several thousand people filled Krutch Park and Krutch Park Extension, as well as a large portion of Gay Street for the annual lighting of the Christmas Tree. Anticipation built as Milkman and...