I caught a quiet weekday last week to slip into the Emporium to enjoy the September exhibitions. Opening night (always on First Friday) is a fun time to meet the artists, see friends, and enjoy the...
A thin thread connects yesterday’s article about the Mechanics Bank and Trust Building and today’s article about a renovated home in the Maplehurst section of downtown. As it happens, when the bank president, Thomas O’Connor was...
In 2004 downtown Knoxville was a very different place. It wasn’t all bleak and abandoned, but it was a far cry from what we experience every day in 2017. Many of the goods and services we...
As I talked with Nanci Solomon, owner of Rala, and long time owner of Reruns, she pointed out that she opened Rala the same month I started writing this blog: June of 2010. At the time,...
Here’s what this is not: a comparison between Asheville and Knoxville. I haven’t attempted a comparison between two cities in about three years and recently I was told by someone who remembered the last one that...
If there is a single gateway drug to downtown living that many of us share, it is the City People Downtown Home Tour. According to the information published by the group, it’s been going on...
I’ve had a few photographs tucked away from the Artist Alley Revamp Project which I don’t believe ever made it into earlier posts. A few people came into the project late and others took a long time....