A Great Urban Weekend – With Very Few Photographs
There are times, like this weekend, I have a great time in our little urban orb, but much of it isn’t photographable – or at least I just want to enjoy it without being on the...
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The Downtown Week Ahead (September 15 – 21, 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...
First Friday, September 2013, Pictures and Stories
Somehow the week just slipped by without an opening to slip in the First Friday photographs. It was an incredibly packed First Friday that found me falling far short of my goals to make the complete...
State Street Garage Is Open for Business – and Nearly Finished
It is surprising when I consider that the State Street Parking Garage has been underway for over a year. This doesn’t include the planning stage, but it was a year ago July that the plans...
The Standard – and a “Destination Restaurant?”
Since I was next door at the Armature and it was a Sunday, meaning no one was around to tell me not to walk around the buildings, I toured the Standard and the building beside...
Revisiting the Armature Building: Inside and Outside
The Armature Building on Jackson Avenue, just around the corner from the 100 block and a bit to the west, has to be one of the coolest conversions in a downtown full of them. I first...
Downtown Knoxville Food Fight
We have crumbling buildings that need to be rescued. We have buildings being torn down, parking problems, decisions to be made about the future of entire city blocks. We have a homeless population that seems to...
The Downtown Week Ahead (September 8 – 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...
Pamela Schoenewaldt Launches Her Second Book: Swimming in the Moon
I first met author Knoxville author Pamela Schoenewaldt a half dozen or more years ago. I was a drifting, struggling writer and I’d had her writing group suggested to me. Offered to members of the Knoxville...
Is it Dangerous to Park Downtown?
It’s something that I wondered before we moved to the city nearly four years ago. For those of you who scoff, consider that we’d been parking in an enclosed garage attached to our house for the...