What’s the best way to reward the biggest donors to the Knoxville Botanical Garden? Why a garden party, of course! In one of the best gardens in Knoxville.

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Last Wednesday was Knoxville author Cormac McCarthy’s 78th birthday. McCarthy, not a Knoxville native but a resident of Knoxville for many years, inserted many Knoxville references in his literature and has developed something of a cult following in these parts.
To celebrate his birthday, the new downtown bookstore Union Ave Books held a reading of his [...]

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We stepped back in time Saturday night and, although the evening was lovely, the experience made us so grateful to live in the modern day rather than in Knoxville circa the late 1700s.
The occasion was part of the Summer Supper series benefiting Knox Heritage and it involved cocktails

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I don’t know about you, but when I think about making a refreshing summer cocktail, cucumbers are not an ingredient that springs immediately to mind.
That may change now as a result of last Saturday’s so-called Market Mixer, a project of the Market Square Farmers’ Market. This is a monthly event during which the Farmers’ Market [...]

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It started when I was browsing Twitter the other day and realized my friend Randall Brown from the News Sentinel was on a beach somewhere. His tweet: “Exchange at beach bar: What do you have along the line of non-alcoholic drinks? Barkeep: What do you mean?” Hahaha. I thought that was amusing.
Later, he had a [...]

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Here’s the thing about downtown dwellers: we are on a mission to get all our friends to move downtown, too! Our latest targets are Monique and Bruce Anderson and Judith and Michael Foltz. Monique and Bruce are temporarily living downtown since their Sequoyah Hills home was destroyed by a tree falling on it during a [...]

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Randy Boyd, the CEO of Knoxville-based PetSafe, spoke to the young-ish business folks in Nucleus Knoxville for about 20 minutes recently. Here’s what they found out:

Boyd is committed to making Knoxville the most pet-friendly city in the country — and he is succeeding.
He wants every kid in Tennessee to have the opportunity to go to [...]

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With something called a “SlutWalk” on the agenda followed a few hours later by a “freeze flash mob” on Market Square, you just knew that this past First Friday in downtown Knoxville would be the best ever. And it was.
The SlutWalk was actually a pretty serious event. Seems a cop in Canada made a bonehead [...]

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