News Hole [ˈnüz ˈhōl] — The vast media chasm that devours and records bits of timely information from around East Tennessee and beyond. This is a sporadic roundup of thought-worthy morsels scoured from its depths.
That “local landmark” of a music mural in the Old City is no more. What’s coming in its place? Your guess is as good as anybody’s.
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A Knox County jury just convicted this guy of felony burglary for stealing DVDs from Walmart, a case that would commonly be tried as misdemeanor shoplifting.
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While some folks may be threatening to pull business or conferences from Tennessee over the recent passage of a controversial counseling bill, promoters behind Bonnaroo say they’ll keep on keeping on “radiating positivity in the face of this unfortunate ruling.”
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Sunday marked the 34 years since the start of Knoxville’s famed 1982 World’s Fair. Yet it’s golden disco ball of a legacy lives on to this day.
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A new locally-owned artisanal coffee shop is opening in North Knoxville in the former location of a different locally-owned artisanal coffee shop. The Artistic Bean is set to open in K-Brew’s former location on N. Broadway St. K-Brew moved to a new location about two blocks away a few months ago.
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Comcast has announced it will raise its data cap to provide customers with the service they’re already paying for and likely expect.
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Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, LOCATE Arts has launched its website, www.locatearts.org, which lists exhibits of contemporary visual art across the state as well as artists working in the field, plus a blog with artist profiles and studio visits (something S. Heather Duncan has written about before). The nonprofit’s Knoxville co-founders Brian and Carri Jobe are kicking off the effort by curating an exhibit of Tennessee-based artists called LOCATE Arts presents: mysterious flight of the peacock, opening at a new Nashville gallery May 7.
Photo: Clay Duda/Knoxville Mercury
Former Mercury staff reporter Clay Duda has covered gangs in New York, housing busts in Atlanta, and wildfires in Northern California. And lots of stuff about Knoxville.
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