Vol. 1 — No. 9Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Aug 13–16, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 9 · Aug 13–16★ soknoear.com
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What’s Happening ThursdayWhat’s Happening FridayWhat’s Happening SaturdayWhat’s Happening Sunday
See
AUG
13
Kerbela hearing — Planning Commission
1:30 PM · item 44 · City County Building
AUG
13
Earl's — $10 Patrón ritas
4–6 PM · 610 Waterfront Dr
AUG
13
Communion — projected hummingbirds
8–10 PM · $5 · Ijams Park
AUG
14
Ted Lasso Trivia
7–9 PM · Hi-Wire, Barber St
AUG
14
Communion — final night
8–10 PM · $5 · Ijams Park
AUG
15
HUMMINGBIRD FESTIVAL
7 AM – 1 PM · banding from 7 · Ijams Park
AUG
15
All Play Live at Kern's
10:30 AM – noon · parents vs. kids · free
AUG
15
Weekly yoga at Hi-Wire
11 AM – noon · also Sunday
AUG
16
Self Care Sunday Yoga
11:30 AM · Ijams Park Visitor Center
AUG
16
Bluegrass jam on the plaza
2–5 PM · free · Ijams Park
AUG
16
Stories from Nature
2–3:30 PM · Ijams Park trails
AUG
26
Mimosas reopens as Puckers
115 Mimosa Ave · Blount Ave
Kern'sSat

Parents versus kids: All Play Live turns Kern's into a game show Saturday morning

Ninety minutes of team challenges and parent-against-child competitions at the food hall, built on the premise that families are tired of watching things. Listed free, all ages.

Sat Aug 15
10:30 AM – noon · 90 minutes
Where
Kern's, 2201 Kern's Rising Way
Who
All ages · run by FanXP Events
Cost
Listed free · register through Eventbrite
Nobody gets a seat

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.

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More From This Weekend

Ijams ParkThuFriSat

Three nights of hummingbirds: a projected light walk, then the whole festival

Ijams Park gives its smallest resident a three-day send-off. Thursday and Friday, eight enormous animated projections turn the trails into an after-dark gallery. Saturday, the festival takes the homesite from seven in the morning.

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Old SevierThu

The Kerbela plan comes back Thursday — and this time it's on the agenda for a decision

Five and a half acres at Sevier and Dawson, a 55-plus apartment community, and a request for relief from seven South Waterfront design standards. It goes before the Planning Commission at 1:30 as item 44.

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SoKnoThuFriSatSun

Two more weekends of Mimosas before the sign changes

The Blount Avenue brunch room reopens August 26 as Puckers Sports Grill Knoxville. The brunch dishes are staying on the menu — the name is the part that's changing.

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Ijams ParkSun

Sunday at Ijams Park: bluegrass on the plaza, stories under the trees

The third-Sunday jam is free and open to anyone who brings an acoustic instrument, the Smoky Mountain Storytellers take the trails at two, and yoga opens the afternoon at 11:30.

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Old SevierFriSatSun

Ted Lasso trivia Friday at Hi-Wire, then yoga both mornings

The Barber Street taproom runs a themed trivia night to open the weekend, and its standing yoga class holds down eleven o'clock on Saturday and Sunday.

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Suttree LandingThuFriSatSun

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

Out on Waterfront Drive, Earl's runs its own weekly ladder — a new special each afternoon, and two all-day ones once the weekend lands.

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