There has been so much going on downtown recently, that an article a day just doesn’t get it all in. I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this article and each item won’t necessarily...
This summer several news items dominated the country. One, of course, was the shooting in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston by Dylann Roof in which nine people were killed. While Fox News and others initially...
I hadn’t intended to post anything today, but it seemed like too significant a landmark to ignore: As of June 1, Inside of Knoxville is five-years-old. In other worlds, five years is nothing. In Blog World,...
It’s been nearly a year now since I bought my bike from Kickstand Community Bike Shop. I rode pretty steadily through the summer and into the fall, but crumbled when the weather turned cold. I didn’t...
In a reflection of how overwhelmed I’ve become with festivals, events and general information about downtown the last few weeks, I’ve been sitting on the story of the Knoxville Cannabis Hemp Rally held on Market Square for...
A weekend without a downtown festival. What would I do with myself? I could have ventured out to Vestival, which I’m sure was a lot of fun just over the river. We actually spent a good...
How’s that for a hodgepodge of topics in a title? Several interesting events and new resources are emerging while others are sorting out as they must. It’s never dull around this place. First, the new...
It’s become a tradition for me to walk about in the snow each winter and take photographs of downtown Knoxville. The twist this year was that our initial snow wasn’t a snow at all, but was...
I’ve touched on the East Tennesee Community Design Center in previous articles, here and here, for example. It’s an organization I first encountered through an early Pehca Kucha presentation. The website best describes what they do, “ETCDC...
Irony abounded. The temperature dropped through the thirties as the group gathered to discuss global warming. Their warning has everything to do with future generations, but the small group that gathered outside the Howard H. Baker,...