Downtown Window Decorations, Part II
We’ll start the final post of window displays with the winning display. Cafe Four did a fine job with the window above and the one below. I’m not sure I would have given them first place,...
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Downtown Window Decorations, Part 1
The announcement of the winner of this year’s Window Decorating Contest in downtown Knoxville was overshadowed, as was everything else this past Friday, by the shootings in Connecticut. This isn’t really the forum for a discussion...
Tour de Lights 2012
It’s a great, quirky tradition played out on a December night each year. Sometimes the weather is bitter, like it was a couple of years ago when the temperature hovered in the 30’s and a persistent...
Visit Knoxville Makes an Urban Guy Video
I can agree with the Grateful Dead: It’s been a long, strange trip. Just over three years ago Urban Woman and I moved to the center city. With some anxiety about the unknowns involved, we took...
Henley Street Bridge: Progress and Problems
Henley Street Bridge Construction, Knoxville, October 2012 It’s been a while since I posted photographs of the Henley Street Bridge construction, so I’m including a few that I took in a few weeks ago. According...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2012, Part 2
As I said yesterday, this year’s parade was a bit better for my taste. I mentioned some of the reasons I feel that way and most of them are back-handed compliments, but here’s one that’s straight-forward:...
Knoxville Christmas Parade 2012
By crowd-count, this year’s parade looked like a big success, to me. I did not like the new parade route because it seemed to shorten the front end and make it more crowded. When the dust...
Christmas Market and Parade Highlight the Weekend
As always, there’s more fun to be had than time in the city this weekend. I’m going to forego my First Friday detailed run-down and highlight just a few special things that have come to my...
No Partridge in a Pear Tree in Knoxville this Christmas
Quite possibly the only pear tree in downtown Knoxville recently disappeared from the small green space between Kendrick Place and the Masonic Temple. After years of treatment for blight, it finally became so diseased that it...
Old North Knoxville Victorian Home Tour 2012
Urban Woman and I have wanted to take this home tour for years and something always came up or we let it pass before we got our act together. This year we were determined to be...