Last June, Rachel Milford pitched an idea to her craftsy friend, Shelagh Leutwiler, to make an old-man puppet head and do some kind of busking, maybe. Leutwiler was up for …
Knoxville’s Bike Plan Maps Out a Decade’s Worth of Improvements for Bicyclists—But Can It Find the $38 Million?
The Knoxville Bike Facilities Plan Report released in February makes the bold claim that “Knoxville, Tennessee is experiencing a bicycling renaissance.” Is it, really? Maybe. An April 8 public meeting …
Williams Creek on the Mend in East Knoxville’s Urban Forest
Daily Street is a narrow, unstriped road running north and south through East Knoxville. As I turn off Brooks Avenue onto Daily, a neighborhood of unassuming ranch-style houses lies to …
Inside Striped Light: Knoxville’s Newest Letterpress Aims to Become an Art-Scene Catalyst
The almost lost art of handset letterpress begins with a tiny rectangle of lead, called a sort, measured in the minuscule units of points and picas. The sort has a …
Small Stories, Extraordinary People
The name for our one-of-a-kind marsupial, the only marsupial in North America, comes from the Algonquin word apasum, which means “white dog” or “white animal,” due to its white face …