i definitely will. we're working on a web presence! it's a really new thing, we've just had 2 events so far. i'll post up fb events (and whatever we get going in the coming month) here.
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link
I'm in town for the next week & and a half; anything fun going on?
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
in my NO-to-NY move i'm staying a night at the eastern knoxville motel 6 i stayed at after katrina, because they were nice to me and gave me a huge discount.
then i will eat at the mcdonalds in bulls gap tennessee, where i remember eating the best mcgriddle i have ever had, served to me by the most pleasant fast food employees i have ever encountered. can the experience possibly live up to my perhaps-traumatized memories? keep an eye on this thread for updaets
― adam, Thursday, 24 July 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Totally taking my kids to this next weekend: https://www.facebook.com/events/785600241485238/.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 25 July 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
awesome! see you there
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Saturday, 26 July 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
Does this start at 330 or 4pm? Website says 4
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
oops it started at 4
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 3 August 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
That's okay. We wound up getting downtown late and hungry. Made it to Market Square which was a hilarious contrast in terms of development and economic stratus.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 4 August 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/knoxville_mercury_metro_pulse.php?
innaresting, esp the profit/nonprofit mix
If all goes as planned, the Knoxville Mercury will launch in February, and it will be in many ways a resurrection of Metro Pulse—a mix of news, opinion, features, and entertainment, aimed at a civic-minded, well-educated, mostly 30-something audience. Like a typical alt-weekly, the Mercury will publish a free printed paper, plus a website with daily stories and an arts calendar. But its structure would be distinctive: The new publication would operate as a for-profit subsidiary of a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization devoted to the city’s history and culture.
― WilliamC, Friday, 12 December 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Hey, I’m a very (very!) infrequent poster but obsessive reader of ILX. (I met a few of you during the last Big Ears at brunch with tipsy mothra.) I’m one of three former Metro Pulse editors involved in the above project to launch a new alt-weekly in Knoxville. We have what we think is a solid plan to make it financially viable and editorially independent—you can read more here: http://www.knoxmercury.com
MP was a good paper. We won a lot of awards—for news reporting, criticism, and music and arts coverage. A handful of ILXors wrote for us or were written about by us over the years. Knoxville’s had a good run over the last 10 or 15 years, but the city needs a publication that supports local music and arts, keeps an eye on local government, and connects people who make good things happen. (We also did A LOT of Big Ears coverage—we were the only major outlet in town that understood the festival from the start.)
Part of our plan is a Kickstarter campaign, which you can find out more about here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/789676771/knoxville-mercury-launch
If you can donate, please do! It’s a good cause, and it doesn’t take much to help. If you can’t donate, help us spread the word.
And now back to your regular ILX programming …
― mte, Saturday, 20 December 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
Flying back to Tellico Village for a week tomorrow. Does anyone have any contacts with the KnoxMakers group?
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Saturday, 20 December 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
hey, that's great news re. knoxville mercury!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 21 December 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
This band from Knoxville is pretty fun.
http://massdriverrockpower.bandcamp.com/album/mass-driver
― earlnash, Sunday, 21 December 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
hey mte!! i am in knoxville now. have just forwarded that link to every knoxvillian i know.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 December 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, Tracer Hand! Every time you share, an angel gets its wings, or something like that.
― mte, Sunday, 21 December 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
hey kingfish - i know some knoxmakers ppl
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 December 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I have met some of the Knox Makers guys -- last I heard they were looking to start a maker space in Knoxville proper (current one is in Oak Ridge). They're nice fellas.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
Tracer, when did you move back to the US?
If I get the chance, I'm going to try to stop by their meeting this week. I've gotten hooked on wiring up Arduino shit.
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
So, monday we went to dollywood, and I posted some photos which will hopefully amuse.
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
For example, these are not the unlicensed cartoon characters I'd first expect to see at an airbrush kiosk in Dollywood in 2014, but there you go:
https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10464060_10152511779226596_9063586482227108219_n.jpg?oh=31dd362df32a2936700792e94eae2d88&oe=55457F1A
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
i've spent years avoiding dollywood or indeed the whole Pigeon Forge scene. sounds horrible.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 29 December 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Dollywood is great and amusingly strange. Bits of Branson mashed in with Colonial Williamsburg mashed with a Six Flags/Cedar Point.
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
Uh, any suggestions for the least annoying moviegoing experience for my extended clan to see a certain space movie on Xmas day? I wanna avoid Turkey Creek multiplexes like the fuggin' plague.
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
HELLO
there is a new community radio station in knoxville! WAZO
http://wozoradio.com/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 January 2017 10:47 (seven years ago) link
YASSIN FALAFEL! Hometown hero!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz4Q_SlbZgQ
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
The lede from a short item I wrote for our daily email. What a world.
The talk of local social media yesterday was the announcement that Tom Boyd, the inventor of DNA testing for dog poop and the father of our state university president, plans a $40 million resort behind a South Knoxville Walmart that seems clearly derivative of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. He even wrote his own accompanying book -- which you can download for free -- called The Bobbins -- Outcast to the Inner Earth.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
guys this looks incredible! (the “Jazzbilly” thing)https://knoxvillehistoryproject.org/events/https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscOyurzIuH9zGM8ITIr-T1RAixF037MNgi wish it was in person but still
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 February 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
Thanks I’ve been getting antsy missing two years’ wort of Big Ears festivals.
― Mosholu Porkway (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 February 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link
Was just thinking about the shrimp and grits at Tupelo Honey :(
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 22 February 2021 03:15 (three years ago) link