Visit Knoxville Makes an Urban Guy Video
I can agree with the Grateful Dead: It’s been a long, strange trip. Just over three years ago Urban Woman and I moved to the center city. With some anxiety about the unknowns involved, we took...
Union Avenue Books
Union Ave. Books and Caryn Schafer in Child-Friendly Downtown Knoxville
To continue yesterday’s theme: downtown Knoxville isn’t just for aging hipsters and college students. I sometimes hear people say, “I’d love to live downtown, but it’s not really a place to raise children.” Yes. It. Is....
3rd Annual International Biscuit Festival 2012
I hope you had a chance to make it downtown this past Saturday. It’s hard to imagine the humble little biscuit causing the level of commotion it induced in our little city, but so it was....
In a New York Moment
There are different moments when I’m in downtown Knoxville that I’m reminded of other cities I love. Recently at the French Market sitting outside on a crisp day enjoying a crepe and watching people walk by,...