Pride Month: Knoxville Proud
This week marks the end of Pride Month for 2018. Last week Knoxville celebrated our Pride Parade and Festival downtown and it was a wonderful event that highlighted the absolute best that this city has to...
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Pride Month: Sharing Art and Culture
In recent years the LGBTQ community has seen a massive rise in visibility in the media. Where remaining closeted was once crucial to the success of someone’s career there is now a large and growing population...
Pride month: Past & Present Knoxville LGBT Gathering Places
(This is a second in a series of articles about Pride and Knoxville’s LGBTQ communities by guest writer Oren Yarbrough) If you walk up to someone in Knoxville and ask where the nearest gay bar is...
Knox Pride Month: An Introduction and History Lesson
*Today we welcome guest writer and local architect, Oren Yarbrough. Oren will explore several topics related to Pride Month over the next weeks. Here’s Oren: Today is the first day of June and the official beginning...
Knoxville Has a Theater District? A Brief History of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Four of Four
Here is the final part of Oren Yarbrough’s four part series on Knoxville’s rich history with theatres. If you haven’t already done so, please check out the first three (Part One, Part Two, Part Three). It’s...
Knoxville has a Theater District? A brief history of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Three of Four
As promised last week, here is the continuation of a look at Knoxville’s Theater District by local writer and architect, Oren Yarbrough. If you missed the first two parts, please do yourself a favor and check...
Knoxville has a Theater District? A brief history of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Two of Four
This is a continuation of a four-part series on Knoxville’s Theatre District written by guest writer Oren Yarbrough, Architectural Intern with DIA. (Part One, Part Three, Part Four) Here’s Oren: Ironically, the location of today’s “Theatre...
The Telephone Building – The Second of Two Articles on the Downtown AT&T Building
(Ed: Today is the second of a two part series by Oren Yarbrough, architectural intern at DIA.) In the last article, I described the varied and interesting history of the collection of buildings that today makes...
The Telephone Building: The First of a Two Part Series on the Downtown AT&T Building
Today we welcome guest columnist Oren Yarbrough. You’ve seen his comments here. He’s an intern architect with DIA on Gay Street and he’s got a particular interest in what I’ve called the ugliest building in the...