Monthly Archives: December 2012

Downtown Christmas progressive dinner: eight friends celebrating life in the center city

A bunch of downtown buddies usually use our periodic progressive dinners to recruit more fun people to downtown. But this Christmas season, we decided to keep it small and only include the actual participants themselves. We’ll go back to the … Continue reading

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There’s snow business like hospitality business

Ever wondered what it would be like to actually be inside a snow globe? Mary Bogert, general manager of the Knoxville Convention Center and a great Moxley Carmichael client, decided to explore that. So when it came time for the … Continue reading

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It was a Dickens of an evening!

What the Dickens? We just threw on our dress clothes and headed to Cherokee Country Club to check out the Knoxville Symphony League Ball. With this year’s theme being “A Charles Dickens Christmas,” the invitations said to wear either formal … Continue reading

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Kreis Beall: At Blackberry, the answer is always yes

“Thirty-six years have gone very quickly,” Kreis Beall told the 75 guests gathered on the tent-covered porch of her beautifully appointed Lyons View Drive home recently. That’s how long it’s been since Beall, then a 23-year-old mother of a four-month … Continue reading

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Eating at Eddie’s: pairing food, wine, beer and fun

There was a little nip in the air recently when supporters of the Dogwood Arts Festival gathered for an interesting fundraiser at the Kingston Pike home of the city’s deputy mayor, Eddie Mannis. The little chill was perfectly fine since … Continue reading

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Les Trois Chefs: good eating for a good cause

If your idea of a good time is tasting course after sumptuous course prepared by three excellent chefs and paired with great wines by an expert, then a fundraiser called Les Trois Chefs is the event for you. Held last … Continue reading

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