Author: Knoxville Progressive

Dem In Knoxville is leaving.  No, this isn’t a “goodbye cruel world” diary (Yeah, I know some of you are disappointed, but I’m not that easy to get rid of, like the drunk in the corner with the...

Louis Edwards, a New Orleans novelist and an associate producer of the Jazz and Heritage Festival, said, “No other city is so equipped to deal with this.” A French Quarter resident, Mr. Edwards was taking refuge last...

It’s another Friday night here in the Froggy Bottom Café, but the crowd is subdued, and rightly so; there’s only one thing on everyone’s mind tonight, the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....

Heeeloooo? No one seems to be home.  Guess we’ll open up the Froggy Bottom Café for the Friday Night Jazz Jam a little early today, for the happy hour crowd.  So enjoy; it’s all on the house since...

If it’s Friday night, then it’s time to open the Froggy Bottom Jazz Lounge again, where the music’s hot, the drinks are cool, and the hippest amphibia can hang out and groove after a week of work and political...