Rhythm and Blooms Announces Their 2014 Lineup
I’ve heard some great music in recent months. The photographs here are from a show I saw last October in the Square Room, which remains one of the best listening rooms downtown. I’ll have more about...
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The Chocolate Factory is Now Bradley’s Chocolate Factory
Bradley Hamlett didn’t set out to be a chocolate mogul. Originally from Knoxville, he landed in Florida as a teenager. Hanging out on the beach and riding his bike about, he noticed a chocolate shop with...
Postcards from the City, Late 2013
As I do periodically, here’s a baker’s dozen of images that caught my attention this past fall. I love taking images of interesting people in general in the city, but particularly of children in the city....
An Inside View of Tailor Lofts – A Year Later, Plus Five Bar Restaurant Preview
It just over a year ago – in early January – that I took you inside Tailor Lofts, the former Arby’s Building at 430 South Gay. If you don’t remember what the place looked like, you...
An Interview with Jeremy McDonnell of Rocky Top Crossfit
As I reported last week, Rocky Top Crossfit is coming to 309 North Central Street just outside the Old City. At the time I reported it I had not been able to catch up with co-owner...
The Downtown Knoxville Week Ahead (1/12 – 1/18/14)
If you see an event I’ve missed and you’d like to plug, please comment below or e-mail me (knoxvilleurbanguy@gmail.com) and I’ll try to add it. The list may, accordingly, be expanded through the week. Staying true...
Way Back Into the Past
We’ve done some heavy lifting this week with a pretty intense business focus, but the weekend is here, so why not end with a little fun? While we’re interested in business, in the end, that’s sort...
Exciting new – and different – Kind of Business coming to Downtown
We need a name for the area just beyond the Old City all around Depot from Central to Gay, out each to Broadway. There is much happening in that area that I find myself writing about...
A Little Urban Mystery at the Train Station
Did you notice the inscription on the fireplace behind Charlotte in one of the photographs from yesterday’s blog? It’s on one of many fireplaces scattered around the Southern Railway Train Station and, since I didn’t have...
Winter (Farmers’) Market Coming to Southern Railway Station
I’m always being schooled by the many, many smarter people than myself that I continually run into. It wasn’t that many months ago that I had a conversation with a group and the idea of Winter...