The old Kerbela Shriners temple sits on 5.7 acres at the south side of Sevier Avenue, out at Dawson Street — one of the largest single pieces of land left on the corridor. Thursday afternoon, the plan to turn it into a 55-plus apartment community goes back before the Knoxville-Knox County Planning Commission as agenda item 44.

★What's actually being asked

This is a Level III alternative compliance request, which is planning-speak for: the design doesn't meet the rulebook, and the applicant is asking the commission to allow it anyway. Specifically, it seeks relief from seven South Waterfront Form-Based Code standards, including maximum lot size, building footprint, setbacks, and transparency — the requirements that govern how big a block can get and how much of a ground floor has to be windows rather than wall. Planning staff didn't publish a thumbs up or down; the recommendation points commissioners to the approval criteria in Article 7.0.2.G and the Zoning Administrator's report.

★How it got to a fifth agenda

The case was filed in February, automatically postponed 30 days in April, postponed again in May, then heard in June and again on July 9. At the July meeting, commissioners pressed on how public the finished site would actually feel — including whether a pedestrian tunnel drawn into the plan would be open to the neighborhood or reserved for residents — and sent the applicant back to revise. Revised material came in through August 5.

★If you want a say

The meeting starts at 1:30 PM Thursday in the Main Assembly Room at the City County Building, 400 Main Street, and it's open to the public. Comments and requests to speak go through knoxplanning.org — though the site has been down this week; if it won’t load, the Planning office is (865) 215-2500 — and the staff planner on the case is Mike Reynolds. Whatever happens Thursday, it's the biggest decision on Sevier Avenue this year.

If "we should try that brunch place on Blount" has been on your list since it opened, the list just got a deadline. Mimosas has announced it will reopen on August 26 as Puckers Sports Grill Knoxville — which leaves two more weekends of it being Mimosas.

★What's changing, and what isn't

Puckers is the Gatlinburg sports grill, and the Knoxville version is pitched as a bigger-swing take on it: game-day room, wall of televisions, chef-driven food and cocktails, a few hundred yards of river between it and Neyland Stadium. The company says the Mimosas brunch favorites keep a place on the new menu, and that the Mimosas concept itself is expected to come back at some point.

★Which means this weekend

Brunch runs 9 to 3 Saturday and Sunday, and the room stays open until 10 Saturday and 9 Sunday. It's a short walk from the greenway and a shorter one from the bridge, and for two more Sundays the bottomless-mimosa version of South Knoxville is still on the board.

After a weekend of festival crowds, Ijams Park turns the volume back down on Sunday — but not all the way off. Two o'clock is the good hour: an open bluegrass jam on one side of the property, an afternoon of storytelling on the other.

★The jam, which anyone can join

The East Tennessee Bluegrass Association's monthly jam runs 2 to 5 on the third Sunday, and August 16 is the third Sunday. It's free, it's open to the public, and every skill level is welcome — you don't audition, you just find a spot in the circle. All acoustic bluegrass instruments are invited, though the association is on record drawing the line at harmonicas and spoons. Warm weather puts it outside on the plaza. If you don't play, come sit and listen; that's a role too.

★And the rest of the afternoon

Hope Irwin's Self Care Sunday yoga starts at 11:30 at the Visitor Center, and at two the Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association brings Stories from Nature out to the trails until 3:30 — registration requested. Yoga, then pick your two o'clock: banjos or bedtime stories for grown-ups.

Here is the pitch, and it's a fair one: most things you take the kids to, you watch. You watch the movie, you watch the show, you watch them play. All Play Live comes to Kern's Saturday morning to put the grown-ups on the floor instead — 10:30 to noon, ninety minutes of family team games and parent-versus-child challenges run by FanXP Events.

★What you're signing up for

Expect competitions, twists, and the specific indignity of losing to a nine-year-old in front of a food hall. It's listed as free and all ages, with registration through Eventbrite — worth grabbing a spot rather than walking up. And the practical advantage of Kern's for this: when it's over, breakfast, coffee, and twenty vendors are already in the building.

Hi-Wire's Knoxville taproom opens the weekend Friday night with Ted Lasso trivia, seven to nine. Fair warning to the casual fan: this is a crowd that knows which biscuit, in which tin, in which episode. Bring somebody who's watched it twice.

★Then both mornings, the soft landing

The taproom's weekly yoga class runs 11 to noon Saturday and Sunday — the standing version of a SoKno weekend, where the mat comes first and the pint is optional and afterward. It's a short hop from the Urban Wilderness trailheads if you'd rather earn it first.

Earl's sits at 610 Waterfront Drive, down where Suttree Landing meets the river, and it runs a different special every single day — which turns the weekend into a small planning exercise. Thursday it's ten-dollar Patrón mango margaritas from four to six, Friday nine-dollar spicy pineapple ones on the same window, both with a dollar off liquor, beer, and wine.

★Then the all-day rungs

Saturday the clock goes away: eight-dollar house margaritas all day, doors 10:30 to 11. Sunday is seven-dollar mimosas and Bloody Marys, also all day, until nine. Walk down from Sevier Avenue, sit where you can see the water, and let the river do the entertaining.