Love and Theft in the City: Is Downtown Knoxville Safe?
Do you feel safe in the city? Is that a false sense of security or is Knoxville a safe place? Is downtown more or less safe than the rest of the city? I’ve lived in the...
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St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2019
If you were anywhere near downtown Knoxville this weekend, you saw lots of green. Large green hats, green beads and glasses, people dressed in green and dogs dressed in green and even beverages adopting the traditional...
A Little Snow and a Few Little Pictures
I got up early to make sure I got some good photographs of the snow. By the time I walked outside the flakes were huge and beautiful. It’s a good thing I got out when I...
Electronics in the City: Digital Zombies
Sometimes I wonder what cities were like before our lives were taken over by electronics. I should be able to remember that era, but it’s hard. It’s probably a genie in the bottle at this point,...
Knox Heritage: New Leadership, New Directions, Same Mission
I’ve recently met with (relatively) new Knox Heritage Executive Director Todd Morgan a couple of times. He stopped into WUTK for a delightful interview on January 6 and then for coffee the next day. Knox Heritage is...
Where is Downtown?
Not that it’s disappeared. It’s still there, but there are questions about exactly where it might be. A friend asked me this question recently then, after a rambling answer, suggested it might be a good topic...
A Parking App is Available and More Spaces Are Coming: A Downtown Parking Update
Very early in my stint as a downtown blogger I was told by a city official that parking was a never-ending conversation in every city. Obviously, it was true. We were talking about downtown parking in...
Downtown Knoxville Top Ten Stories of 2018
And so, here we are. The top ten stories as determined by readership. A quick glance of the list reveals that only three of the ten were centered in what was considered downtown only a short...
The Biggest Downtown Knoxville Stories of 2018
I really enjoy looking back each year at what worked, what didn’t and what got the most reader reaction on the blog. The themes are often the same: You enjoy reading about businesses opening and closing...
Lights in the City: Windows and More
Here’s one last glimpse of Christmas before we turn our focus onto the new year. I hope you have a beautiful day and enjoy the Christmas windows, trees and patios throughout the city. If you missed...