It was just over four months ago that I gave the most recent COVID-19 update. While I’m not picking up regular COVID updates again, it seemed a good moment to bring up the topic once more....
Many of you know Art Carmichael. As much as anyone, he is a part of the fabric of downtown. A downtown resident for years, I first met Art, I believe, at the Just Ripe Half Birthday...
Since the program was announced last April, the ambassadors employed in the K-Town Connect program have been daily working their way around downtown. You might spot them in their bright neon-green shirts. The program launched almost...
As was expected after the leaked opinion last month, Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court Decision which declared legal abortion to be a woman’s constitutional right, was overturned last Friday. The decision, which was also...
We pick up the tour at 605 Caswell, just across from 610 where yesterday’s article ended. Built in 1905, the home went through multiple hands, with owners sometimes staying as little as a year. In 1919,...
I would like to express a word of thanks to the Fourth and Gill Neighborhood Association who presented their thirty-second tour of homes and gardens this past Saturday. The tour was wonderful, as always, but I’m...
Knoxville has more than its share of good people doing good things. I love connecting with new people only to find out that we each have overlapping lists of friends and acquaintances who we admire, have...
For those of you who knew I was leaving town for a few days, this article won’t come as any surprise. I’ve taken the privilege since I started writing about this urban spot, to write about...
That there is a national, state, and local mental health crisis is a subject of wide-spread agreement. What produced the crisis, how to navigate the crisis, and how to get people the help they need is...
Here’s a look at where we are at the state and local level by month, something that I started early in the pandemic at the request of a reader. It provides an easier way to see...