Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

For Chris Gentry, this year’s Jingle Eve event is a kind of homecoming.

The annual event returns from 4:30-9 p.m.on Nov. 22, a district-wide celebration that kicks off the holiday season, welcoming upwards of 8,500 attendees who shop, stroll and sip their way around the neighborhood.

“Jingle Eve has a pretty special place in my heart, because when I opened Gentry’s BBQ General Store on Ivanhoe Road years ago, [Jingle Eve] was when my store really got noticed and we took off. People knew who I was, where I was,” Gentry says. “We had a fantastic night, not only financially, but we got to meet the neighborhood and then people started coming.”

Gentry closed the shop a couple of years ago, but it’s enabled him to get back to his first love:

See Full Page