Vol. 1 — No. 21Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Nov 5–8, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 21 · Nov 5–8★ soknoear.com
The South Knoxville Ear — We Hear Things.
Wanna party in the Dirty South?
★ Tonight's plan: happy hours → music → karaoke →
Old SevierFri

SoKno Sourdough's First Friday pairs artist Peter Riesing with Paradise Chocolate's new chocolate tonic

A bakery, a painter and a drink to taste.

SoKno Sourdough, the all-sourdough bakery on Barber Street, opens its doors for First Friday with Peter Riesing's art on the walls and Paradise Chocolate at a table. Paradise, the Knoxville bean-to-bar maker, was at the bakery for an earlier First Friday and is back with its bars and something new from its kitchen: a chocolate tonic, which it will be pouring as samples. The bakery and the chocolate are both small, woman-run South Knoxville businesses, and this is the kind of evening where you meet the people who make the thing. Paradise moves on to the Drop Inn's fire pit for Fall Fest on Saturday with s'mores and drinking chocolate.

When
Fri Nov 6 · First Friday evening
Where
SoKno Sourdough · 2006 Barber St, between Redbud Kitchen and Hi-Wire
On
Work by Peter Riesing · Paradise Chocolate bars · samples of a chocolate tonic
Original Dirty South Map Found

Click to see the original map of Knoxville’s Dirty South that was recently unearthed for the public to see.

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