Knoxville Overground, a group “dedicated to empowering independents”, is seeking nominations for the best of local startup’s. Categories include women in entrepreneurship, Web and persistence. Know a business or person worthy of your nomination?

Friday marked the start of official practice as the UT Men’s Basketball team began preparations for the 100th season of men’s basketball at UT. In the meantime, blogger RBK has been counting down The Top 25 Moments of the Bruce Pearl era on his Bruce Ball Blog. You can start with number twenty-five on his […]

Designsensory, the design firm we told you about two weeks ago, has revamped the Web site for the Tennessee Theatre. The site is now as beautiful as its 80 year old counterpart.

One of our readers was kind enough to point us in the direction of the Tennessee Adoption Tour. On Friday, October 10th, the group will ride into World’s Fair Park around 5:30PM. If you’re itching to hop on your bike, check their site for more information.

Josh Flory of Property Scope reported that a tour of Knoxville Underground is set for tonight. “Knox Heritage and Dewhirst Properties are hosting a tour of Underground Gay Street tonight from 5 to 8.” In typical non-profit fashion, Knox Heritage has made this a “members-only” event. Tell ‘em Knoxify sent you, maybe they’ll let you in.

Local design group Designsensory has updated their own site. Another amazing design. In case you didn’t know, they’re responsible for the award winning site TNVacation.com.

Knoxville ranks 60th on the Milken Institute/Greenstreet Real Estate Partners Best Performing Cities Index.This list is indicative of how well Knoxville is creating and sustaining jobs and economic growth. Click here for more. Go Knoxvegas! [via]

Patrick Hunt, aka tragichipster, is showing off his new startup Tingz in San Francisco this week. Catch his presentation via streaming video here.

We told you about Ryan Haynes. Now, we’re telling you about John Duncan, III. With the announcement of Tim Burchett possibly running for mayor, someone informed us that Duncan, a YPK member, is seriously thinking of running for Burchett’s Senate position. Interesting news indeed. Any thoughts here? Looks like the new generation of Knoxville politics […]

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