I haven’t been able to share much of this holiday season, so I wanted to give you some of the beautiful windows and other Christmas scenes from around downtown, in case you’ve not been able to...
Mark removed the mask supplying a breathing treatment, looked intently into my face, and carefully enunciated, “The unicorns control the channels.” By the time he shared this cryptic jewel we were about thirty-five or forty days...
It only felt right to follow up on last week’s post before moving forward with more stories from the city. A lot is happening around town, and I need to get back to covering it, for...
Voices down the hallway issue commands, offer assurances, and resonate with anxiety. Machines swish, beep dissonant tones, and cast digital glows across the room in greens, blues, and oranges. The smell is clean and antiseptic, and...
I realize you don’t come here for your weather report but I can’t help myself. The heat is more a personal enemy as I try to walk as much as possible to the places I need...
Work will soon be underway on a couple of projects that might catch your eye as you walk around downtown. Neither are likely to change the course of downtown development, but they are each examples of...
There are contradictory sentiments among the voting populace. I don’t mean conservative and liberal or Democrat and Republican. I mean the feeling that my vote doesn’t matter anyway and the opposing feeling of urgency to cast...
Knoxville continues to make various buzz lists. Our reputation as an adventure town has certainly grown in recent years with the installation of a zip line at Ijams, the Urban Wilderness in general, our extended greenways...
Earlier this week I wrote about Emory Place. To take the photographs and speak with Tim Hill for the article, I walked from close to Market Square. I stopped at Vienna Coffee along the way and...
Is summer almost over? Am I the only one wondering? According to the calendar we are not quite a third of the way through. By the measure of a traditional school year — with June, July...