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Downtown Knoxville Christmas Lights and Decorations 2024, Part Two

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 20, 2024

As promised, here’s the second part of the annual tour of downtown Christmas lights. I hope you enjoy the effort to make the sparkle for everyone to enjoy. Kudos to the City of Knoxville for making...

Downtown Knoxville Christmas Lights and Decorations 2024, Part One

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 19, 2024

I recently enjoyed my annual trek around downtown peering into windows and entering a few buildings in search of the pretty holiday decorations so many people enjoy. We’re not New York City when it comes to...

Fascinating Friends Around Us: An Interview with Marcel Holman

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 6, 2024

On a recent Friday late-night at Bistro at the Bijou a friend and I enjoyed a great jazz combo while sipping beverages. For me, Ben Maney on keyboards provided the main attraction, but my attention was...

P Smith Releases “Chronicles and Narratives: Tales from Strawberry Plains & Gay Street”

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 4, 2024

It was nearly three years ago when Patti Smith (“P” to everyone who ever met her) said one last farewell to the condo on the 100 block of Gay Street where she’d lived for twenty seven-years....

Knoxville Honors Veterans in the 2024 Veterans Day Parade

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 12, 2024

The 2024 Veterans Day Parade made its way down Gay Street, yesterday. Stepping off at 10:40 in order to arrive at the grand stand by 11:00 am. The 11:00 am marker remains important as the day...

Kincannon Administration Puts Forth Parking Proposal

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 8, 2024

The latest round of parking conversation ensued yesterday, as Mayor Kincannon presented her proposal for changes to be made to downtown parking. The proposal is the outgrowth of the study commissioned by the city which I...

Public Space is Public Space: We Decide What Happens There

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 5, 2024

It’s easy to think of public spaces as immutable; set in their current uses forever. It simply isn’t so. Market Square is pedestrian space, right? But it used to serve automobile and wagon traffic around the...

Housing Affordability and Historic Preservation, Related?

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 4, 2024

It is generally accepted that America (and Knoxville) has a housing shortage and, particularly, a shortage of affordable housing. At the recent Preservation Conference hosted by Knox Heritage, keynote speaker Katlyn Cotton, Associate Principal at PlaceEconomics,...

A Walking Tour of Henley Street with Bike Walk Knoxville

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 24, 2024

Bike Walk Knoxville, founded in 2012 by Caroline Cooney, focuses on improving biking and walking in the Knoxville area, “. . . to make sure all ages and abilities in the community have safe and accessible...

Interlopers, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 21, 2024

I recently had dinner on a patio off Market Square. The food met all expectations, the early autumn Knoxville weather shined like a diamond, and I relished the sounds of a language I could not identify...

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Downtown Knoxville Christmas Lights and Decorations 2024, Part Two

Downtown Knoxville Christmas Lights and Decorations 2024, Part One

Fascinating Friends Around Us: An Interview with Marcel Holman

P Smith Releases “Chronicles and Narratives: Tales from Strawberry Plains & Gay Street”

Knoxville Honors Veterans in the 2024 Veterans Day Parade

Kincannon Administration Puts Forth Parking Proposal

Public Space is Public Space: We Decide What Happens There

Housing Affordability and Historic Preservation, Related?

A Walking Tour of Henley Street with Bike Walk Knoxville

Interlopers, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers

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