Day: February 17, 2005

don’t know why, but I keep having that thought.

Chuck Morris, President of Board of the Bijou Theatre, has announced plans to bring the theatre to solvency. Aided by the cash influx recently provided by Sam Furrow, the Bijou is being redeveloped as a home for wayward mothers.

The Central Business Improvement District has unveiled new vending machines that will be placed throughout Downtown Knoxville to help with feeding the homeless. These machines, each sponsored by a local restaurant, will allow pedestrians to insert small change and receive various bits of leftovers from the previous day. These leftovers can then be given to…

With no fanfare, and only one simple press release, a new slogan for the City of Knoxville was announced today and is expected to appear on billboards in the near future as part of a $2,200 marketing blitz. The new tagline, created during a four-month series of focus groups is simply “Don’t Go To Chattanooga.”

Much to the surprise of the usual crowd at MacLeod’s Pub, a calm night of enjoying a beer with friends recently turned into much more. Comus, Roman god of mirth and revelry, paid a visit to this local downtown icon. One astonished MacLeod’s regular said that Comus has changed his life forever. “Rather than just…

The Inaugural Knoxville Marathon, presented by Covenant Health, is scheduled for March 20th, 2005. We at Knoxpatch are very excited to see an event of this size coming to our humble city and wanted to update you about what has happened with the event in the past two months. Covenant Health has become the presenting…