Category: Knoxville
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Just Dew It with a side of Pecans
The approach of Big Ears, in addition to a fantastic slate of music, gives us pause to appreciate things homegrown. It also reminds us of how nice it is to be in Knoxville, and how lucky we are to have witnessed and participated in all the work that has gone into making our city a…
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March Artist Rick Whitehead
This month on Market Square, Tomato Head will be the home to an intriguing exhibit by artist Rick Whitehead; it features a dramatic series of pictures from the equally dramatic tornado season of 2011 when funnel clouds and hail descended upon Knoxville in nearly Biblical proportions. “It’s a series of photographs that I took over…
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National Tortilla Chip Day
Although many people celebrate National Tortilla Chip Day with big bowls of yellow or white chips, we like to pause on this auspicious day and ponder the chip less taken; the blue tortilla chip. My own journey away from the yellow and white chips of my errant youth began in my mid 20’s during a…
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National Bagel and Lox Day at Tomato Head
First of all, we’re early – but we’re okay with that. National Bagel and Lox Day is actually on February 9th, which is this coming Tuesday; but that doesn’t feel right to us at all. Seeing as Bagels and Lox are really one of the essential parts of a worthwhile brunch menu, we reckon that…
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Tomato Head’s Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
A quick glance back over January used to distress me. The opening month of the New Year was littered with broken promises; all the assurances to myself that the New Year would bring a new me lay in ruin alongside the detritus of failed resolve: candy wrappers, self-help books, and, in one particularly ambitious year,…
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NEW WINTER HOURS FOR MARKET SQUARE
Although we anticipate this lasting until late March, the groundhog didn’t see his shadow so it could be even earlier. Beginning immediately, they are: Monday – Thursday (11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.), Friday (11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.), Saturday (10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.), and Sunday (10 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Keep an eye on…
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Happy National Chocolate Cake Day!
It doesn’t seem that long ago that chocolate always meant milk chocolate, and, more often than not, that meant Hershey’s. Even now when I check out through certain grocery store lines and see the collection of candy bars I can find myself singing an old Hershey’s commercial under my breath: “Hershey’s is the great American,…
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January’s Featured Artist: Jonathan Howe
In Nature, Emerson wrote, “love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is Art.” Jonathon Howe, our featured artist this month, finds beauty in many places – from the warmth behind a face…
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January’s Featured Brewery: Devils Backbone Brewing Company
Lexington, Virginia is situated in Rockbridge County about 300 miles northwest of Knoxville; as driving goes, it’s a fairly straight 4 hour drive trip up I-40 and I-81. There are more than a handful of reasons to make that trip, especially if you’re a Civil War buff; both Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are…
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Happy New Year!
Whenever I think about superstition, my mind almost always turns first to Tom Sawyer. He and his gang were fierce believers in this almost practical magic that relates certain behaviors to otherwise unrelated outcomes: dead cats and a special chant will cure warts, a dog’s howl signals death, and an inch worm found on the…