Knoxville Christmas Parade 2013
Ah, the Knoxville Christmas Parade. I really want to love you, really I do. But you make it so hard. It would be easy to give a pass to this year’s event. Conditions were pretty miserable...
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The Downtown Knoxville Week Ahead (12/8 – 12/14/2013)
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...
Postcards from the City: Knoxville, Autumn 2013
I’m back at critical mass with photographs which never quite made it onto a blog, so I’m giving you some of them on a rainy Friday. Hopefully you will find some of them interesting, as did...
Suttree Landing Park: The First Step in South Waterfront Development
This isn’t particularly timely – an announcement was made in late October. I attended the meeting at which it was unveiled and discussed, but other stories seemed to rise to the fore, a month passed and...
Fantasy of Trees 2013 Conclusion: Gingerbread Houses
I said I’d bring you the gingerbread houses from the Fantasy of Trees, and here they are. I think I enjoy them as much or more than the actual trees, though I think “Fantasy of Gingerbread...
28th Annual Fantasy of Trees
I think my family started attending the Fantasy of Trees around twenty-five years ago. Through personal experience we’d come to greatly appreciate the people at Children’s Hospital and we were happy to support any event that...
Thanksgiving, Lights, Action
Urban Girl, Urban Daughter and Urban Father, Thanksgiving, Downtown Knoxville, November 2013 It seems to go faster every year. Time in general, of course, but also the duration of any event. We want the next event...
The Downtown Week Ahead (December 1 – December 7, 2013
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...
Knoxville Walking Tours: Bringing the Past to Life
I’ve been trying to get together with Laura Still for quite some time to tag along on one of her walking tours. I’ve known Laura, mostly from a distance for years through the Knoxville Writer’s Guild...
Knox Heritage Fantastic Fifteen (Plus Sundry Happy Parties)
Sometimes the news just needs to be good. There are so many battles to fight. Fort Sanders seems to falling before our very eyes as Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center seeks to destroy three more...