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10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Downtown Library

Leslie Bateman·March 18, 2025

In our household, which includes a kindergartener, we burn through at least 14 library books a week (because my squirrelbrain can’t stand reading any bedtime book more than once). Let’s lowball it and say each book...

Violin Display, Violins of Hope, March, 2025

Violins of Hope Brings a Message of Hope As It Returns to Knoxville

K.W. Leonard·March 4, 2025

Violins of Hope returns to Knoxville this week for a month-long series of events aimed at educating the community about the Holocaust through the powerful stories of restored violins from Jewish Holocaust victims. The story of...

Clarence Brown Film Festival to be Hosted by the Knox County Public Library

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 17, 2023

Do you know Clarence Brown? If you said, “It’s a theatre,” you get an “I” for incomplete. The theatre was named after a person, and do you know who he was and why the theatre would...

Find Your Books: Downtown Library, Union Avenue Books Open With New Twists (Plus a Weekend Recommendation!

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 29, 2020

Today the Lawson McGhee Library is open for business downtown, as well as seven other of the nineteen Knox County Public Library locations across the county. Each branch and the downtown library will open up to...

A Downtown Amenity for Children Hiding in Plain Sight

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 20, 2020

While it might look quiet on the outside, if you enter the Lawson McGhee Library, take a sharp left and walk down a flight of stairs, it’s likely on any given day that you’ll encounter a...

Cormac McCarthy, A German Band and a Freshly Painted Wall

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 8, 2018

Many of us love both books and Knoxville. When the two merge in the form of Knoxville writers or writing about Knoxville, it’s a pretty heady intersection for someone like myself. Knoxville has lots of literary...

2015 Children’s Festival of Reading is Great Fun for the Everyone

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 19, 2015

That reading is an essential skill to be encouraged in our culture, I hope is a point on which we all agree. Unfortunately, I fear it is an endangered practice. I’m afraid, frequently, most adults read...

Now the Books: Children’s Festival of Reading 2013

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 21, 2013

I told you last week there were two world-class festivals in town for the weekend and I really meant what I said. The International Biscuit Festival gets great press, as it should, and twenty thousand people...

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Knox County Public Library

10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Downtown Library

Violins of Hope Brings a Message of Hope As It Returns to Knoxville

Clarence Brown Film Festival to be Hosted by the Knox County Public Library

Find Your Books: Downtown Library, Union Avenue Books Open With New Twists (Plus a Weekend Recommendation!

A Downtown Amenity for Children Hiding in Plain Sight

Cormac McCarthy, A German Band and a Freshly Painted Wall

2015 Children’s Festival of Reading is Great Fun for the Everyone

Now the Books: Children’s Festival of Reading 2013

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville