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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...

Knoxville + Great Books = Great Gifts

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 21, 2018

Here’s your last weekend before Christmas guide for your literate friends and family members. Why not give them something to think about, something to learn from or simple, Knoxville-based informational or photographic pleasure. We love our...

Union Avenue Books’ New Look

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 11, 2018

It was two months ago today that Union Avenue Books announced plans to expand their floor space by about fifty percent. The recently vacated storefront beside them offered the possibility of bumping up to around 2100...

Union Avenue Books Announces Expansion

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 11, 2018

Nobody reads anymore, right? The independent bookstore is dead and digital reading devices have replaced traditional books. If anyone wants a book, they order it online. Right? Apparently, the simplistic narrative doesn’t tell the complete...

Knoxvillian Laura Mansfield Wrote the Book on Dealing With Aging Parents

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 10, 2018

She didn’t set out to write the book. It started with posts on her personal Facebook Page chronicling the trials, tribulations and sometimes hilarity of caring for her aging parents, Gmamma and DooDaddy. The posts garnered...

A Weekend Rich in Diverse Entertainment

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 13, 2017

We entered the weekend fresh off the excellent performance of La Bohème by Knoxville Opera. Urban Girl’s first opera, it set a high bar. With various rounds of illness and school closings, Urban Girl got to...

Final Knoxville Christmas Photographs 2015

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 28, 2015

It seemed this Christmas season was busier than ever around downtown. I struggled to list all the events happening around the city in my ten-day-calendar. It’s slowed a bit, now, except for one final blow-out on...

Celebrations and Shakespeare in the City

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 20, 2015

Late last week downtown was filled with celebrations of various sorts. Interestingly, three events in two days centered on literary achievements of sorts. Tuesday evening saw a celebration of a surprise publication and of the beginning...

Local Books For Christmas Gifts

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 20, 2014

I don’t normally write an article for Saturday and I’ve certainly got enough going on to fill my time otherwise today, but I need to do a sort of “make up post.” See, I’d planned to...

Southern Literature Converges in the City

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 4, 2014

Last year I wrote a piece about my friend Flossie McNabb at Union Avenue Books. I told, among other stories, the story of how she and I met sometime back in the 1990s at Davis Kidd...

Union Avenue Books

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

Union Avenue Books’ New Look

Union Avenue Books Announces Expansion

Knoxvillian Laura Mansfield Wrote the Book on Dealing With Aging Parents

A Weekend Rich in Diverse Entertainment

Final Knoxville Christmas Photographs 2015

Celebrations and Shakespeare in the City

Local Books For Christmas Gifts

Southern Literature Converges in the City

Broadway Market to (Softly) Reopen

Regal Celebration of Lights Kicks Off the Holidays

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (11/28-12/7/2021)

Celebrations, Small Businesses and More

First Creek at Austin Signs First Leases Today