KNOX-ILL is a graffiti event, not a paint-and-sip. Printshop's calendar puts it in one line, "Knox-Ill is back, with another day of sprays," and the photo on the listing says the rest: a writer bent over a blackbook, the sketchbook graffiti artists carry, with a marker in his hand and a can of Knox-Ill Writer's Brew at his elbow. "Writer" is the word graffiti artists use for themselves. For twelve hours on Saturday, ten in the morning to ten at night, they paint live on the brewery's property on Island Home Avenue while the taps pour.

★The brewery has done this before

It is a standing date. Printshop brewed a Citra IPA as "the official beer of Knox-Ill 2022," and this year's edition comes with its own can again: Knox-Ill Writer's Brew, a 5.4 percent dark lager with toffee notes, brewed and canned in South Knoxville. The Old Sevier District put the day on its October can't-miss list alongside the grocery opening up the street.

★What to expect

Come to watch; the painting is the show, and it runs all day, so there is no start time to miss. The brewery stacks the rest of Saturday around it: a yoga class in the warehouse at ten thirty, then a fish fry from three to eight. The weather is on the painters' side, partly sunny and 82 with only a slight chance of a shower after two.

Knox County has never had a trail 50K. It gets one Saturday morning, when the Urban Wilderness 50K leaves the Gateway Park at the end of James White Parkway at 7:30 and heads out on a thirty-one-mile loop that touches four city parks, a wildlife management area and three pieces of private trail land, Ijams Nature Center, the Drop Inn and the Helix trails among them. The organizers put the climbing at close to four thousand feet. A 10K leaves the same line at nine and runs a figure-eight up to View Park for the look at Chilhowee Mountain and the Smokies.

★Where the course goes

The race's own description of the opening miles: a half mile of greenway to spread the field out, the first climb of the day up Red Bud, a descent through Rendezvous past the Drop Inn cabins, then into Ijams Nature Center for the rolling climbs on Burnett Ridge and Ross Marble and a gentle stretch through the Hickory Loop. If you are out on those trails Saturday morning, expect runners, and give them the line.

★The practical part

Registration closes Wednesday, October 7, at 11:59 PM, and the race shirt deadline has already passed. Packet pickup is Friday from four to eight at SouthSide Garage on Sevier Avenue, which the race prefers to the race-morning line; bibs are also available at the start from 6:30 until fifteen minutes before each gun. Volunteers sign up through the same site.

The 808 opened on Sevier Avenue on Friday with High Step Society and followed it with Marcy Playground on Saturday. Its first midweek show is also its first sell-out: Paul Oakenfold and The Crystal Method on the Mission Underground tour, Thursday, doors at seven and music at eight, eighteen and up. The venue announced the sell-out last week and thanked the buyers for selling out the grand opening show, adding that some tickets might come back as things change.

For the rest of the neighborhood, a sold-out room at 808 Sevier means a full street. The venue is blunt about the Borderland Tees lot next door: do not park there, you will be towed. It suggests a rideshare. The district's public options are the Riverwalk Garage at the west end and the gravel lot under the James White Parkway bridge at the east end.

Alliance Brewing's calendar is mostly standing items, salsa on Tuesdays, the songwriter open mic on Wednesdays, and a DJ night is the exception. Thursday's is the second go-round with the DJ who posts as Goblin: "We doing the damn thing again," the announcement reads, with the music at eight. The brewery is open until ten on Thursdays, and with a sunny 84-degree day cooling to the mid-50s after dark, the patio is the place to start before the floor fills.

Feral Kitty is releasing new music, and the band is doing it in the lounge. Friday's show at Fly by Night, the seventies cocktail bar in the Sevier Avenue building that also holds Redbud Kitchen, is the release party, billed as Hard Candy, with Horcerer and Adam Gray on the bill. The band's own post has the whole plan: come early, stay late, get feral. Fly by Night is open from four until one on Fridays, and the martini list is the house specialty.

"Did someone call for a dance party?" is how the DJ put it. Dizzle Phunk's official debut is Saturday night at Fly by Night, with a pumpkin on the date and a promise of funky good vibes with a side of bass, groove, disco and hip hop. It is the second night running the lounge has a show: Feral Kitty's release party is Friday. Fly by Night is open four to one on Saturdays.

The After Brunch Special is Comedy Sphere's idea of a matinee: walk out of brunch and into a stand-up show, with the mimosa energy intact. Saturday's edition at the Pink Cactus seats at two, starts at two thirty and costs five dollars. Six comics are on the bill, Keith Marcell, Daniel Castillo, Trey Galyon, Hope Conner, Lauren Reilly and Sam Kelly, with Justin Chavez hosting. The Pink Cactus serves Latin-inspired food and cocktails downstairs, the front-yard patio has covered seating and yard games, and the private karaoke rooms upstairs are free for an hour every Thursday this month.

Trailhead posts its month as a flyer, and October's has a show every weekend. Friday's is Daniel Kimbro featuring Stranger May, on the outdoor stage at seven, with the taps inside and Gato Peligroso cooking. The beer market's weekly pattern around it: happy hour all day Monday, the SloKno run club Tuesday at six, Singo Wednesday at seven, trivia Thursday at seven, and Sunday music at four. Friday is sunny and 84 with a clear night in the mid-50s, a good one for the patio.

Trailhead's Sunday slot is the early one: music at four on the outdoor stage, which this week is the duo Two Heads Are Better Than One. It is the last show of the weekend on the beat and the easiest to get home from. The forecast is partly sunny and 79 with a 40 percent chance of a shower, so check the beer market's feed on the day if the sky turns.

A Big Day, in birding, is a race against the clock to see or hear as many species as possible. Ijams Nature Center's October version is gentler: two hours on the trails with a naturalist, learning to bird by sight and sound during fall migration and recording what you find on the eBird app. The program is written for complete beginners and for people who already keep a list.

It is fifteen dollars, for ages fourteen and up, and covers up to two and a half miles of uneven trail with plenty of stops. Parking is free for participants. Arrive five to ten minutes early at the Visitor Center. Saturday starts sunny and cool, the best birding light of the week.

Every Saturday morning, volunteer storytellers read in the woods at the Nature Playscape, and this week the theme is flowers and plants: What's Inside a Flower and a pile of other books about beautiful, blooming things. Some weeks there is a hands-on activity; some weeks the kids just roam the playscape. It is free, and it runs from ten to noon. Park at the Mead's Quarry lots, five dollars a car unless you are a member, and follow the signs down the connector trail.

Last week it was fishing lures on the tower. This week Legacy Parks says a third mural for the SoKno Rail Trail & Art Walk is under way, on the back of Kern's: Anna Charney's design celebrates Tennessee's botanical beauty with stylized dogwood, trillium, common milkweed, blue iris, passionflower and tulip poplar. It joins Naomi Haverland's Shiny Objects, which was finished last month.

The art is already off the walls, too. Two large-scale sculptures by Nathan Pierce and Brian Ferriby are now installed along the trail, and Legacy Parks promises more sections of trail, more murals and more sculptures in the coming weeks. Watching a wall get painted costs nothing; Kern's is open seven to eleven Thursday and Friday, eight to eleven Saturday and nine to nine Sunday.

Printshop's calendar calls it the return of the vegan barbecue: Southern Fried Vegan, which the brewery introduces as VegNews and USA Today's number-one vegan barbecue joint, sets up on Sunday from one to four. The menu is southern staples and sandwich specials, fried chickun, smoked meats, mac and cheeze, beer-battered Beyond burgers, jambalaya, po' boys, cajun corn and totchos, all nut-free with gluten-free options. It is the back half of a Printshop weekend that starts with the live-painting day on Saturday.

Earl's runs a different special every day of the week, eleven to ten, and the Thursday-to-Sunday run is Patrón mango ritas, spicy pineapple ritas, house margaritas and then mimosas and Bloody Marys. Saturday's game is an away one, Tennessee at Arkansas with a 4:15 kickoff, and Earl's lists its Vols board for the day: two dollars off drafts and pizza, six-dollar Orange Bliss cocktails, beer buckets at six for the price of five, and four- and five-dollar shots. On Sunday the Titans host the Texans at one, which lines up with the mimosas.