Category: Knoxville

City Council votes 7-1 to regulate monkeys with an ordinance written for dogs. “We have one number. The number is four.”

The Greater Knoxville brewery census has again certified a final count of “between 24 and 38, inclusive.” Two breweries have opened since the census ended.

The last known White Stores shopping cart, recovered from Third Creek after roughly forty years, is headed to a museum. “I knew by the handle. You don’t forget the handle.”

A $180,000 feasibility study on reviving Boomsday concludes the city can afford one firework — an eight-inch chrysanthemum, $340 through state contract. “Nobody specified the quantity. It’s the same sky.”

Two weeks after losing the county mayor’s race, Beau Hawk has broken ground on Little Venezuela, raising a flag he describes as legally distinct from any national banner. “I’m older, and the optics are on purpose.”

The fair is “thrilled to explore the next chapter of the fair experience” at AgriCentre East, a branded destination campus that is currently 120 acres of cattle pasture on Rutledge Pike.

Five men charged with drag racing on I-140 executed what TDOT is calling “the smoothest lane closure Pellissippi has seen in a decade” — at midnight, with three sedans and zero barrels.

The contested pedestrian tunnel at the Kerbela site becomes Knox County’s first landmark designated before construction. The draft plaque reads, in full, “ON THIS SITE, A TUNNEL.”

After Sullivan County proposed hanging Flock Safety’s CEO, Knox County advances a measured alternative: shunning him at Rotary, per the county’s new five-tier Vendor Displeasure Matrix.

A 900-word First Amendment analysis posted to Maryville Speaks Out! with commenting disabled has been declared constitutionally unanswerable. “Hamilton never faced this,” legal scholars concede.

Knox County officials cut the ribbon on the last dog park approved by the 2020 community vote, dedicating it to the dogs who didn’t make it. A bronze plaque beside the gate reads “They Waited Patiently.”

This week, news emerged that Randy Burleson, owner of Knoxville favorites Aubrey’s and Bistro By The Tracks, has purchased Old City’s standout, The Crown and Goose restaurant.  Many theories flew around social media as to what will become of The Crown and Goose now that Executive Chef Jeffrey DeAlejandro will no longer be guiding the…

Coming off a disappointing third-quarter earnings report, Regal Entertainment Group enlisted the help of Morgan Stanley & Co. to review strategic options to increase revenue for the chain. What might have appeared to be a daunting task, turned out to be rather simple when viewed by an outside consulting group with no true knowledge of…