2020

Local NASCAR champion Trevor Bayne is brewing up something fresh and new. I didn’t know what to expect when I met with the 2011 Daytona 500 champion. When I think of NASCAR drivers, Mountain Dew comes to mind, plus left turns and the…
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With winter’s frosts becoming more and more infrequent, we firmly set our sights on spring. As life blossoms around us, now is the perfect time to exercise that potentially green thumb. The soil in East Tennessee can vary greatly…
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I have always been fascinated by the properties of light. This interest has influenced my life’s work over the past 50 years. As a photographer, I can’t think of a more important aspect of the work than light. Living in Los Angeles, I was…
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It’s about this time of year with spring right around the corner that I am reminded of the importance of motorcycle safety. In my years of practice, I have represented many injured motorcycle riders and all of those cases have a…
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As early as 1856, journalists began to refer to baseball as our National Pastime. People all over the country played, watched, and read about a sport supposedly invented in 1839 by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York, now the home of…
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Knox Mason in the downtown Embassy Suites maintains its culinary roots. Downtown Knoxville’s latest addition to the hotel scene gets your attention when the glass doors of the new Embassy Suites lobby on Gay Street whisk open to reveal…
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Knoxville’s famed band The Black Lillies combines the familiar sounds of rock & roll with the down-home folk tunes we know and love. Led by lead singer Cruz Contreras, the band has been actively performing and producing music for more…
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Will the blue wash over Knoxville’s traditional red political landscape. On a WATE-TV show in 2003, after Bill Haslam was elected Knoxville mayor, I concluded that he might be the “last overtly Republican mayor of Knoxville.” That could…
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So, you’ve decided you’re in the mood for Italian. Not just run-of-the-mill Italian but, Italian fare featuring authentic entrees loaded with fresh herbs, cheeses, spices, meats, vegetables, and of course, the aroma. Fortunately, Knoxville…
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In this installment of our Building Trends series, Cityview takes a look at the latest developments in home storage and organization just in time for spring cleaning. As we enter into this new decade, we mark roughly one century of…
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