Posted on June 11th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
How does a workaholic artist relax? By making more art, of course!
Julie Bernal, 27, works 40-hour weeks at Moxley Carmichael as a graphic designer. Her clients include Pilot, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Young-Williams Animal Center, Premier Surgical Associates and many other members of our great, high-profile client list. Julie designs
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Posted on June 9th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
The McCarthys have moved to Loudon County. Andie Ray has sold Vagabondia. Robert Loest has passed away. And I’m afraid we are about to lose another downtown icon: Taylor, the downtown rose guy.
Oddly, although downtown seems to be booming, Taylor says business is down for him. He says he is selling fewer flowers this year [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Does this ever happen to you? You have out-of-town guests and suddenly, while taking them around your hometown, you kind of see your own city through their eyes?
That happened to me this weekend — and let me tell you: we looked great!
The occasion was the visit of my brother, Jimmy, his wife, Tess, and her [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
In 1988, Knoxville auctioneer-car dealer Sam Furrow was awakened by a call from a banker. “Mr. Furrow, your dealership is out of trust to us for about $2 million,” the man said. Furrow sat up and shouted, “It can’t be!”
How could that happen to a car dealership that made more than $700,000 in nine months of that year, Furrow wondered.
“The [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Because once a year, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra hosts a very special evening for those who do! Here are some sights from last night’s Lucas Richman Society Dinner, which honors those donors. Come along!
This year’s event went like this: cocktails and appetizers in the beautiful lobby of the Tennessee Theatre. The KSO was rehearsing on stage [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
We were just filing into The Foundry for the 7th annual Diva Luncheon, a fashion show of wearable art that is part of the Dogwood Arts Festival. The facility’s banquet manager, Jason Grahl, looking worried, rushed up to Mickey Mallonee, the chair of the event.
“I need to ask you something,” he said, his brow furrowed. [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
You might think that you don’t really know any songs by Air Supply, the soft-rock duo from the late ’70s and ’80’s. But, believe me, you do!
That’s what 500 or so of us found out Saturday night when we showed up at the Knoxville Convention Center for Center Stage, the premier annual fund-raiser for East [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Many of us have been on Market Square all winter long - and have loved it!
But there is something extra magical that happens to Market Square when spring is in the air. Like this weekend.
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Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Several years ago, I stopped going to the arts and crafts booths set up on Market Square during the Dogwood Arts Festival. I think it was the year I saw booths selling crocheted covers for toilet paper rolls and trivets made of Popsicle sticks. The offerings were just plain dreck. An embarrassment, really.
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Posted on March 26th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Just a quick post about a few downtown signs that I see all the time and that crack me up every time I pass them.
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