Vol. 1 — No. 10Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Aug 20–23, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 10 · Aug 20–23★ soknoear.com
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See
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Pages & Pours at Fly by Night
5:30–9 PM · RSVP · Sevier Ave
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20
Pint night at Hi-Wire
$4 drafts · 2020 Barber St
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20
Earl's — $10 Patrón ritas
4–6 PM · 610 Waterfront Dr
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21
Scruffy City Soul Machine
6 PM · Kern's
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21
Re-Discovery Camp opens
Evening · 18+ · Ijams Park
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21
Ho'Down Social — line dancing
8–11 PM · free · Kern's
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Storytelling at the Nature Playscape
10 AM – noon · free · Ijams Park
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SCHOOL OF ROCK AT KERN'S
From 11:30 AM · free · runs through Sunday
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Weekly yoga at Hi-Wire
11 AM – noon · also Sunday
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Fairy Tales & Fuzzy Tails
2–6 PM · books & adoptable pets · Hi-Wire
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Karaoke rooms at the Pink Cactus
By the hour · 1147 Sevier Ave · all ages till 9
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Self Care Sunday Yoga
11:30 AM · Ijams Park
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Stained glass workshop
2–4 PM · RSVP · Hi-Wire
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Earl's — $7 mimosas & Bloody Marys
All day · 610 Waterfront Dr
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Last day for Mimosas on Blount
Reopens Aug 26 as Puckers Sports Grill
SoKnoThuFriSatSun

The last weekend of Mimosas: one more brunch before the sign comes down

The brunch room on Blount Avenue serves its final Saturday and Sunday this weekend. It closes August 25 and reopens the next morning as Puckers Sports Grill Knoxville — which makes these the last two brunches under the old name.

The last brunch service on Blount
Where
Mimosas, 115 Mimosa Ave, off Blount
Sat Aug 22
9 AM – 10 PM · brunch 9 AM – 3 PM
Sun Aug 23
9 AM – 9 PM · brunch 9 AM – 3 PM
Last day
Tue Aug 25
Then
Reopens Wed Aug 26 as Puckers Sports Grill Knoxville
Staying
The Mimosas brunch favorites keep a place on the new menu

There is a particular kind of South Knoxville morning that happens a few hundred yards off Blount Avenue: eggs, a tall glass of something citrus, and no particular plan for the rest of the day. Mimosas has been the room for that morning. This weekend is the last one it gets under that name — the restaurant closes Tuesday, August 25, and opens the next morning as Puckers Sports Grill Knoxville.

What's actually changing

Puckers is a Gatlinburg institution — Chad Kennedy opened the original in 1999, and his daughter Hannah, who now runs Kennedy Concepts, is bringing it over the mountain. The Knoxville version is pitched bigger: chef-driven food, a proper cocktail list, and the kind of game-day room that a spot this close to Neyland Stadium can fill on a fall Saturday. The company has also said the Mimosas brunch favorites keep a place on the new menu, and that the Mimosas concept itself is expected to come back somewhere down the line.

So: this weekend

Brunch runs 9 to 3 both Saturday and Sunday, and the room stays open past it — until 10 Saturday, until 9 Sunday. It's a short walk up from the river and a shorter one from the bridge. If you have been meaning to go, this is not a nudge; it's the last call. And if you have never been, that's the better reason to go — you get to see the room the way the neighborhood knew it, once, before it becomes something else.

The final weekend
Sat 9 AM – 3 PMBrunch service
Sat until 10 PMDinner and the bar
Sun 9 AM – 3 PMThe last brunch
Sun until 9 PMLast night of the weekend
Tue Aug 25Final day as Mimosas

Top Stories & Events

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Kern'sFriSatSun

A soul band, a free line dance, and 150 kids playing rock: Kern's takes the whole weekend

Friday belongs to grown-ups — Motown covers at six, boots on the floor at eight, both free. Then Saturday and Sunday the stage goes to the students, and that's free too.

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Ijams ParkFriSatSun

Ijams Park is running a summer camp for adults, and Saturday night you sleep in a tent

Re-Discovery Camp is three days of caving, kayaking, naturalist hikes and campfire s'mores for anyone eighteen and up. If that's a bigger commitment than your weekend allows, the park's free Saturday storytelling is still on.

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Old SevierThuSatSun

Old Sevier's weekend: a book night Thursday, adoptable dogs Saturday, stained glass Sunday

The corridor runs a quiet, generous weekend — cheap pints and a reading night to open it, a grown-up book fair with rescue animals in the middle, and a craft workshop to land it.

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Old SevierThuFriSatSun

No band, no ticket, no crowd to sing in front of: the Pink Cactus just opens the door

The big pink house at 1147 Sevier has private karaoke rooms upstairs, a bar and Latin-inspired food downstairs, and a patio with yard games. Nothing is scheduled this weekend — that's rather the point.

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Old Sevier

The Kerbela plan is approved: 225 apartments, a public plaza, and a walkway to the river

The Planning Commission signed off last Thursday on a 55-and-over community for the old Shriners site at Sevier and Dawson. The version that passed carries public space the earlier drafts didn't.

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Suttree LandingThuFriSatSun

The specials board: a different deal every day at Earl's

Down where Suttree Landing meets the river, Earl's runs its own weekly ladder — a new special each afternoon, then two all-day ones once the weekend lands.

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