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What’s happening South, Downtown, East
South Knoxville
Vestival returns this year on its traditional Mother’s Day-weekend Saturday, and organizers are hoping for pre-pandemic-size crowds. The Candoro Marble property is the location for all kinds of fun …
Tennessee Theatre celebrates 1982 World’s Fair
On May 1, 1982, Knoxville welcomed the world. Forty years later, the Tennessee Theatre is welcoming Knoxville to a look back on the 1982 World’s Fair and what it meant …
Howdy, neighbors
West Knoxville
The Ivan Racheff House & Gardens’ spring plant sale runs 9 a.m.-3 p.m. this Saturday (4/30). The historic home, headquarters of the Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs, is at …
Lakeshore Park trees: Xs and ohs
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a pickleball court.”
Wait, that’s not what Joyce Kilmer wrote. Maybe that’s the version the Lakeshore Park Conservancy stumbled onto …
Excitement builds for Vestival, Candoro
In South Knoxville, one of the sure signs of spring – apart from redbud and dogwood blossoms – is Vestival, the music and arts festival hosted at the Candoro Marble …
Honoring the late Sherri Gardner Howell
It was on March 15 – three weeks ago yesterday – that our beloved KnoxTNToday colleague Sherri Gardner Howell passed away at age 67. She was on a Caribbean cruise …
West Hills vol named ‘Good Neighbor’
After a two-year interruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the city’s engaging Neighborhood Conference came back to life on Saturday.
A combination of celebration and inspiration, The Neighborhood Conference recognized …