In one of his finest short stories, Earnest Hemingway wrote of a man who, having given up on such ineffables as beauty, desired of life only “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” …
It’s Time to Start Treating the Fort Loudoun Reservoir Like a Real River
Knoxville has a parkway that is not a parkway (the James White) and a river that is not a river, at least not in the tradition of a naturally flowing …
What Should We Do With the James White Parkway?
Infrastructure wasn’t much of a hot-button topic in this country until relatively recently. There have always been occasional inter-beltway debates over Amtrak funding and other rail-related projects. That said, during …
The Delible Lightness of Building
“’Course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” —Noah Cross, Chinatown (1974) History, both long past and recent, demonstrates the …
An Art Untrue: Difficult Lessons From the New Walnut Street Garage
An old friend once quipped, “The half-life of missing the point is forever.” He could have been speaking of the new Walnut Street parking garage in downtown Knoxville. Just as …