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Ghost Walking a Section of Walnut Street

Paul James·March 31, 2025

(Today’s article is by guest writer Paul James of the Knoxville History Project.) Walk along Walnut Avenue between Summit Hill Drive and Union Avenue today and you’ll find that it’s a relatively unremarkable spot compared to Market...

Friday Tidbits: Gay Street Bridge Funding and More

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 21, 2025

Lots of news bits slip out and around the city every day. We deliver some of them in full-length stories, while others fit better in a list of sorts. Early this month several hit that fit...

Low Meadow Farms Offers Backcountry Experience in Downtown’s Backyard

Leslie Bateman·March 20, 2025

Happy First Day of Spring! The daffodils are blooming, the air is perfectly lukewarm, and we’re collectively emerging from our winter dens. You rub your eyes and there it is again, like clockwork – nature! –...

Carribell Carousel, Courtesy Barbara Swineford

A Conversation with Barbara Swineford, UTK’s Carribelle Carousel the Clown and Much More

K.W. Leonard·March 19, 2025

If you were a child visiting UTK’s Carousel Children’s Theatre in the late 1960s and early 1970s, you may remember a clown balancing a dragonfly on your nose or leading you in a song. When I...

10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Downtown Library

Leslie Bateman·March 18, 2025

In our household, which includes a kindergartener, we burn through at least 14 library books a week (because my squirrelbrain can’t stand reading any bedtime book more than once). Let’s lowball it and say each book...

Baseball: Promotions, Parking, and Ticket Info

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 13, 2025

It’s almost professional baseball time in Tennessee. The Knoxville Smokies will see the first ball of the season and the first ever in their new stadium tossed in just under five short weeks. Rampant baseball fever...

Knox Forest School Hosts Benefit with Ben Sollee

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 12, 2025

I heard about this event last week and immediately had lots of questions. First, what the heck is Knox Forest School and how did I not know that such an interesting thing was happening right under...

Introduction Knoxville Is a Crash Course in Civic Engagement

Leslie Bateman·March 11, 2025

Every great city needs people who know what’s going on, who care about their neighbors, and who are willing to step up when it counts. Knoxville is growing fast, and as much as we all love...

Ghostwalking the Gas-lit Streets of Knoxville: As dark as 40 black cats in the bottom of a well

Paul James·March 10, 2025

(Ed. Note: Today’s article is by Paul James, Director of Publishing and Development for the Knoxville History Project.) It’s far too easy to take for granted the casual flick of a light switch. One hundred and...

The Changes to Downtown Parking Set to Begin

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 25, 2025

“Don’t follow leaders, watch the parkin’ meters!” ∼ Bob Dylan Last November I detailed the Kincannon administration’s parking plan which came in response to the parking report commissioned by the city government. The plan called for...

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Ghost Walking a Section of Walnut Street

Friday Tidbits: Gay Street Bridge Funding and More

Low Meadow Farms Offers Backcountry Experience in Downtown’s Backyard

A Conversation with Barbara Swineford, UTK’s Carribelle Carousel the Clown and Much More

10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Downtown Library

Baseball: Promotions, Parking, and Ticket Info

Knox Forest School Hosts Benefit with Ben Sollee

Introduction Knoxville Is a Crash Course in Civic Engagement

Ghostwalking the Gas-lit Streets of Knoxville: As dark as 40 black cats in the bottom of a well

The Changes to Downtown Parking Set to Begin

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