What Does UT Football Cost Our Community?
Let’s start by trying to stop some of the hate mail before I get it: I love college football. I’m not a UT football fan, but this identical article could likely be written about any number...
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Smart Trips: Saving Knoxville’s Air One Commuter at a Time
I’ve mentioned the organization before, but I’ve never officially written a piece about them, which is kind of shocking, as I’ve loved Smart Trips since very early in their history. Officially started in 2004 as a...
First Friday and a Great Weekend in the City
Downtown bustled with major crowds all weekend. Friday night brought out-of-town UT fans into the city for the game, First Friday events and the usual Friday night craziness. Saturday offered the Farmers’ Market, Chess in Krutch...
A Cool Building and a Fascinating Downtown Pioneer
While kicking around on the street in the area between Old Grey Cemetery and Central for the story on Bar Marley’s, I noticed the building at 800 Tyson, bedecked with a banner proclaiming, “Shoreline University Fellowship.”...
NY Daily News and USA Today: Downtown Knoxville Rocks
It’s gotten to the point that it’s hard to keep up with the national and regional accolades our city receives these days. It’s pretty easy to focus on the things that we think could be better...
Top Four Good News Stories from the City
It’s easy to fall into a pattern of bad news or complaints. We tend toward the negative much more readily than the positive, for some reason. Sometimes I do that on this blog, as positive as...
Another Small, Quiet Urban Touch
You’ve likely seen him on the square, sitting at one of the small metal tables, smoking Pall Mall menthol cigarettes and waiting. His chess board on the table before him, he doesn’t try to make eye...
Who’s Behind Those Beautiful Flowers?
It’s easy to get so used to seeing our downtown that you stop really seeing it. Little subtleties or perhaps even special qualities you once valued slip from your conscious view and fade to the background....
Kickstand: Dishing out Bikes and Hope
I first mentioned Kickstand a couple of weeks ago when I encountered Paul Laudeman and Kickstart volunteers at the Parkridge block party. Paul has been with the program from its formal beginning and heads it up...
A New Vehicle for My New Full Time Job
As I make the transition to full-time writer for Inside of Knoxville, our family is making a number of changes. One of the biggest is in the area of transportation. With the exception of a...