Greg Wood

Stillhouse Tavern, a new addition in a familiar spot, brings a top-notch nightlife environment back to the Homberg Place area.

Recently, my dad came into town for a few days and it challenged my entire nightlife approach. He's not a big drinker, but he enjoys going out.

Hanna’s on the Strip is one of the first bars I ever went to in this town. It ended up being a staple of my college experience. But I never make it back anymore, mostly because I associate it only ...

Although it's not football season, which always seems to be the most popular of all sports around here, the next couple of weeks feature some top-notch competition with the NBA and NHL playoffs winding to a close.

Over the past few weeks the Roaming Gnome on UT's Strip has come highly recommended to me. While hanging out at Tin Roof, I struck up a conversation with a group of patrons in their early 20s who told me ...

After a May 2007 encounter with a couple at the now-defunct club The Maxx, I started wondering: Why do couples even go out to bars in the first place?

Few bars in town have the legacy that Old College Inn has. If you talk to anyone who's lived in Knoxville long-term, at the very least they've been to the bar, if it wasn't a crucial part of their college ...

The Sunspot continues to be a quiet little oasis among the excitement on Cumberland Avenue.

When I went to Tin Roof on a recent Friday night I saw three specific things that I feel fully sum up the Tin Roof experience.

It's been a while since I checked in on Urban Bar. Every time I meet new people, they always want to convene at there. Since I used to love the place, I figured it was beyond time to check it ...

When it comes to drinks, price versus quality is always a complicated issue, as is staying in versus going out. So recently I've been asking around to figure out what beers bring people out of the house.

Most people know that the Bloody Mary is primarily a morning beverage. Specifically, it’s used to (theoretically) cure hangovers, providing the “hair of the dog” approach. Nothing eases the pain of an evening of excessive alcohol consumption like more alcohol.

Ever since Public House opened several months ago people have been raving about it. Friends repeatedly tell me how great it is. I even overhear people talking about it at other bars. So on a recent Thursday night a friend ...

Will Tyree and Rusty Penland tend bar at Side Splitters more often than anyone else. At just about any given time one of the two (if not both) is working. “We’re like a bartending team,” Will says.

Since I've spent the past several weeks hitting up bars with live entertainment, I decided to mix it up and explore another wildly common motive for bar-going: to watch sports.

I'm consistently impressed with what Brackins Blues Club in Maryville has to offer.

Recently I've had multiple people ask me about Baker-Peters Steak Mansion and Jazz Club. Most of them have never been but always wanted to go, and some of them have been but didn't know what to think.

Pauly Shore — famous for his roles in ’90s films such as “Encino Man” and “Son-in-Law,” performing as a VJ on MTV, as well as recent productions “Adopted” and “Pauly Shore is Dead” — will bring his stand-up comedy to ...

Several years ago my friend Chris and I were at Preservation Pub on a Tuesday night when our High Life-guided evening led us into a conversation with a man in his late 40s sitting at the bar by himself.

Knoxville's Mid-Life Crisis comics, consisting of Alex Stokes, Jay Pinkerton and Sandy Goddard, kick off a two-week-long tour at Side Splitters on Sunday.

As soon as you walk into Maryville's Two Doors Down one thing stands out: the stage. It has a commanding presence.

In April 2010, Joy of Music School Executive Director Frank Graffeo was contacted by a Los Angeles producer who claimed to be working on a documentary about volunteer work.

Irish Times in Turkey Creek is quickly becoming one of my favorite venues in town. What's growing on me most is the venue's atmosphere.

As soon as I walked in the door to Barley's early on a recent Friday evening I was reminded of something I'm growing very sick of in this town: cash-only cover charges. So when the door man told me and ...

Theatre for the New South, a Chattanooga-based company, is putting on a six-part theater series later this spring, but unlike conventional live performances, these shows take an unorthodox path.

If you've been to Market Square's Cafe 4 or Square Room, odds are you've seen Dustin Burnett, who's been working for the restaurant/concert venue since it opened in late 2008.

No other ethnicity can call themselves the ‘racial slurs of comedy,’ ” says local comedian Matt Ward, creator of the “Crackers of Comedy” group. “All you can have is the Crackers of Comedy.” On Feb. 23, Ward and Atlanta-based comic ...

Hearing rumors of Rookies' expansion or remodeling brought me and two friends out to one of my favorite neighborhood bars on a Friday night.

Although Valentine's Day falls on a Monday this year, there's no shortage of romantic nightlife options.

I'll admit that I'm surprised I've ended up at Prince Deli twice in the past month. It's never been a place I've gone regularly. But I've noticed something interesting in my recent visits - Prince Deli has changed a bit ...

Every so often the nightlife scene gets stale to me and I need to spice up my outings somehow. Just as I started falling into that rut of boredom again, the Bijou Theatre (and UT's Cultural Attractions Committee) provided me ...

With a winter as cold as this one, my usual cocktails aren't warming me up enough. In years of bar-hopping, I've never had the warm mixed drink commonly referred to as a Hot Toddy. So I recently got a few ...

On Wednesday, Feb. 9, Side Splitters hosts another round of the "Clash of the Comedy Titans" between Team Knoxville and Team Chattanooga.

The local comedy scene continues to spread in an underground fashion with the recent additions of Prince Deli and Sports Bar's biweekly open mic and Preservation Pub's biweekly booked comic showcase.

It took me several tries to find Green's Tavern in West Knoxville. Not only is it hidden from the busy road of Kingston Pike, but the windows have blankets draped over them, and their sign is a subtle, canvas-printed banner ...

On a recent Thursday night four friends and I found ourselves standing around downtown trying to figure out what to do. We had just finished up a round of drinks and were wondering if we should kick it up a ...

Grier Lequire has been a familiar face around Half Barrel, 1829 Cumberland Ave., since the place opened in 2005.

Hearing that Preservation Pub opened up a second floor is like hearing Heaven remodeled, or that the deceased members of the Beatles were resurrected and reunited with their former band mates for a recording session yielding an equally-as-perfect follow up ...

On a recent Wednesday night a friend and I headed down to celebrate the Longbranch's 34th birthday - quite a feat considering how frequently bars on the Strip disappear or morph into something else.

In 2007 Knoxville instituted a smoking ban for bars and restaurants. In many major cities, similar legislation already exists. However, Knoxville's "ban" (which is part of a statewide ban) is misleading. Smoking is still allowed in bars that are 21-and-up ...

This year took me to new locations while giving me an appreciation for venues I've visited for years. I've enjoyed checking out bars that have popped up in former locations of familiar bars. And it's been interesting to see how ...

I don’t keep my love of karaoke a secret, and I never have. I never get sick of performing poor renditions of overplayed, mediocre classic rock songs, attempting to channel the spirit of John Kay, Dennis DeYoung, Lou Gramm or ...

New Amsterdam is the kind of place you should go with a large crowd on a Friday or Saturday night.

Going out on a Sunday night with a threat of snow usually makes for less than ideal nightlife experiences. But those were the circumstances surrounding my friend Lisa's birthday celebration, and our evening at Chez Guevara couldn't have gone better.

The Hill, a bar in the back of the massive grid that is Fort Sanders, has a lot of potential.

I was first introduced to the "barcade" phenomenon a few years ago when I was in New York City, hitting their bar scene hard for research purposes.

You could blink and miss Toots Little Honky Tonk, a neighborhood bar off of Central Ave in North Knoxville. The small, non-flashy rectangular building sits adjacent to a neighborhood, across from a gravel parking lot, and doesn’t have an illuminated ...

Months ago I wrote half-jokingly about where I'd go to watch my favorite baseball team, the Texas Rangers, play in a hypothetical World Series setting.

Marc Inocco has worked as a bartender at Sidestreet Tavern a little over a year, though he’s a familiar face in the Knoxville bar scene.

I've been a frequenter of Half Barrel for years, and every time I go I enjoy it a little bit more.