The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/3 – 5/12/2015)
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Events
Farmers’ Market and Civil War Commemorations for Your Weekend
I’ll bet when you read about the City People Home Tour yesterday you thought, “That sounds like a fun downtown weekend,” and you were right. Then maybe you looked at the events listing at the top of...
The 30th Annual City People Home Tour is This Weekend
I’ve called it a gateway drug before and it really is. David Dewhirst put it nicely when he said, “The City People Home Tour is the very best tool for downtown Knoxville to illustrate to a...
Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes, Part Two
We started and ended our tour of the neighborhood at the Central United Methodist Church. I didn’t include it in the first article, both because we saw it last and because I wasn’t happy with my...
Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes 2015, Part One
Yet another event that seemed doomed by the weather forecast turned out beautifully. Urban Woman and I love touring historic homes and were happy the weather provided an opportunity to walk the level, well laid-out tour...
Rossini 2015 Hits both a High Note and a Dry Note
Earlier in the week, the forecast looked bleak. I wanted to talk up the Rossini Festival, but even while doing so, the echos of Rossini Past resonated through my brain. We’d seen the movie before: Monsoon...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/26 – 5/5/2015)
If you want to be certain to be included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a...
25th Annual Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes is Sunday
Coming on the same weekend as the Rossini Festival, the Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes could be overlooked. If you overlook it, you will miss one of the great jewels of the downtown area. Knoxville’s...
Il Trovatore and Rossini Festival: It’s Opera Week in the City
If you have any interest in opera, this is your week to get out and explore a bit. It starts with Il Trovatore at the Tennessee Theatre. Giuseppe Verdi’s adaptation of the play by Antonio Garcia...
Thousands Gather for Sixteenth Annual Earthfest
Given that it was another one of those weekends with simply too much to cover, I asked Heidi Hornick to cover Earthfest while I covered the Dogwood Arts Festival on Market Square. Held on the World’s...