Glimpses of Spring, Knoxville 2016
Even though today’s morning temperatures may not acknowledge it, the truth is spring has sprung and it’s one of the most beautiful times to live in east Tennessee. Don’t let the perfect days or afternoons pass...
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Saturday Sounds: The Black Lillies (Plus Margo and the Pricetags)
Ah, lessons learned: I can’t go to a show, take several hundred photographs, sort through, select and edit the keepers and get it to you by early the next morning. So, here’s a little belated installment...
Guy Marshall Set to Play Blankfest This Weekend
One of my favorite musical/variety festivals last year was Blankfest with Moon Taxi, This Mountain and many other great bands. Guy Marshall is a local band which just released their first full-length album, “The Depression Blues,”...
11th Annual Dylan Bash Draws a Large, Happy Crowd
The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash is one of those rare times of the year when I allow myself to take a First Friday and just settle in for an event I love, though there are often...
Dogwood Arts Festival 2015 Hits Market Square
What a great weekend. The Dogwood Arts Festival on Market Square is one the entire urban family circles on our calendar months ahead of time. With a wide array of arts, from photographs and paintings...
Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk 2015
One of the best events of the spring, the annual Chalk Walk turns Market Square into a colorful, vibrant center of artistic activity for a full spring day. It’s fun to see the drawings early in...
Red Door: Boudoir Photography Comes To Market Square
A second above street-level business has opened on Market Square. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been over a year-and-a-half since I wrote about the opening of Coldstream Market upstairs at 34 Market Square, just above Earthbound...
Ice and Snow in the City, February 2015
It’s become a tradition for me to walk about in the snow each winter and take photographs of downtown Knoxville. The twist this year was that our initial snow wasn’t a snow at all, but was...
Written in Stone: Inscriptions on Market Square
Recently a friend asked about the inscriptions written in granite on Market Square. She’d looked at them and found them wanting. Focusing on the three primary, and larger, quotes on the square she noted that they...
Knoxville’s Tenth Annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash
In a way it seems it has been around forever, but for the last ten years, in one form or another, a celebration has been held to honor the birthday of Bob Dylan who turned 73...