The Battle of the Bulge, the Nuremberg Trials, the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Watergate and the Iran Hostage Crisis; these are just a handful …
Storm of the Century clobbered Knoxville 30 years ago
Mother Nature is being her tempestuous self, teasing us with a taste of spring just before dipping the thermometer again and reminding us that winter ain’t over till it’s over. …
Goodbye to the wild Ginger Man
This is Cumberland Avenue requiem week, so here’s another one. I wouldn’t dare try to follow Beth Kinnane’s excellent summation of the modern history of The Strip, so I’ve borrowed …
Swan song for The Strip: It’s just Cumberland Avenue, now
Back in 1990, I was a cub reporter at the late, great Knoxville Journal. At the end of August that year, I broke a story about the coming demise of …
North Central stakeholders air landscaping concerns
Pittman Properties probably owns more rental homes in the neighborhoods surrounding the Downtown North Central Corridor than any other landlord, so it was no surprise that CEO Bill Pittman was among …
The ‘greening’ of The Strip
The city of Knoxville will plant 93 big trees on Cumberland Avenue from Dec. 18-21 as a final step in the two-year reconstruction of the primary connector between West Knoxville …