Labor Day in the City: Boomsday 2012, JFG Sign and More
So, I’m a little slow recovering from all the Labor Day weekend activities. I just couldn’t quite make myself sit down to blog at 10:30 last night when I finally got a chance after a good,...
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New Business Opens Downtown: Nothing Too Fancy
After months of anticipation, the wait is finally over for the third new storefront in the New Union Shops downtown. Nothing Too Fancy is different from anything that’s opened so far in the city and they...
Battle of the Bands: Gospel vs. Three Chords and a Dog vs. Oud
I’d gotten the word on Facebook: Laith Keilany had thrown down the gauntlet. He declared, oud in hand, that he would take back Market Square once and for all for high quality buskers everywhere while expurgating...
Immigration Protest Downtown Results in Arrests
I pulled into the parking garage after a long day at work, dreaming of hitting the couch for a little nap. My phone rang with a tip that something was happening on Gay Street and people...
Union Ave. Books and Caryn Schafer in Child-Friendly Downtown Knoxville
To continue yesterday’s theme: downtown Knoxville isn’t just for aging hipsters and college students. I sometimes hear people say, “I’d love to live downtown, but it’s not really a place to raise children.” Yes. It. Is....
“Kidstuff” Offers High Quality Music for Children
Every Saturday morning at 10:00 AM, Sean McCollough teams up with WDVX to host “Kidstuff,” an excellent musical variety show for children. The last Saturday of each month the show is presented before a live audience...
Brent Thompson’s Write Nite, Preservation Pub
Brent Thompson, local writer and musician drives his vision of art and words to the stage of Preservation Pub every Thursday night. Conflicts have conspired to prevent my attendance at the first two or three, but...
The James Park House
While Urban Woman and I missed a few parts of the East Tennessee History Fair. I’ve already mentioned the Roy Acuff fiddle, which I believe has come home to live, so I’ll see it later. We...
East Tennessee History Fair – and a Farmers’ Market All-In-One!
Granted my ears still rung from Friday night’s festivities, but Saturday morning offered more of the strange, great, cool temperatures we’ve enjoyed in August. Maybe it’s payback for July which just simply wasn’t nice. After having...
Dirty Guv’nahs Rock the City: CD Release Party on Market Square
By the time Madeline Rogero, America’s Coolest Mayor, stepped up on the stage with her grandson, Market Square had become an ocean of people. People stood on tops of buildings, looked out from windows and covered...