So What Makes Christmas in the City a Top Twenty Tourism Event?
While I haven’t run a poll, I think it is safe to assume that every city in the U.S. has holiday celebrations of various sorts starting this time of year. No doubt many of them are...
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Downtown Art Wraps by the Knoxville History Project Appear Around the City
This past summer as the Urban Clan drove around the wild west, we stopped over in Missoula, Montana. I snapped a photo though the car window as I drove (don’t do this at home, children) of...
Bike Boat Brew and Bark – And That Doesn’t Come Close to Covering It
It’s really almost too big to wrap my head around for a small article. Knoxville is known for many things and we aspire to be known by others. Cycling, water sports, craft breweries and being dog...
Urban Guy Takes a Ride in a (Semi) Autonomous Vehicle (AKA Driverless Car)
I recently took a field trip, thanks to Visit Knoxville, outside my normal habitat of downtown, in order to take a ride in Olli, the autonomous vehicle developed by Local Motors. The current version is a...
The Tennessean, Knoxville’s New Luxury Hotel, Officially Opens
In its soft opening last weekend, Nicholas Cazana, president of the company which owns the property, said The Tennessean Hotel was filled to capacity giving his new staff a good sample of what they anticipate will be...
USA Cycling National Championships Coming to Knoxville
In a great coup for Visit Knoxville and the Visit Knoxville Sports Commission, the USA Cycling Pro Road and Time Trial National Championships will be held in Knoxville, with courses starting and ending in the Old...
Give a Piece of Knoxville Music History For Christmas: Arthur Q. Smith Honored
I’m sure more than a few of you are looking for that perfect, last minute Christmas gift. I’m also sure many of you love Knoxville as much as I do and like to support local writers...
Let’s Get Outside and Celebrate Who We Are: Bike, Boat, Brew and Bark
I’ve heard several discussions recently about our identity or identities as a city. Are we the home of the Vols? The guardians of the Sunsphere? We’ll always be those things, for sure, but we’ve got so...
Plainview Digital/Plainview TV and Brett Winston; Keeping it Creative
Sometimes my job puts me in awkward positions. Today’s story starts with a couple of them. In 2012 I wrote about the Waynestock Concerts, as I do every year, and particularly, I wrote about a group...
Top Four Good News Stories from the City
It’s easy to fall into a pattern of bad news or complaints. We tend toward the negative much more readily than the positive, for some reason. Sometimes I do that on this blog, as positive as...