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Brooks Clark has written for Cityview since 2000, when he traced the roots of Robert Mitchum's 1958 hit The Ballad of Thunder Road. He has reviewed restaurants for us since 2012, the same year his wife, Karen, started writing our elegant-home tours. Brooks was a writer-reporter at Sports Illustrated, an editor at Whittle Communications, an executive speechwriter at TVA, and writer for Office of Communications & Marketing at the University of Tennessee, where he received his MFA in nonfiction writing in 2016. Brooks teaches at UT's School of Journalism & Media.

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Turf Talk

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UT Professor John Sorochan leads the effort to develop turfgrasses for 16 World Cup venues across North America So the first question is, how did it happen? Why did FIFA—soccer’s international governing body based in Zurich,…
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Parisian Vacation

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Lilou’s Belle Epoque vibe and French cuisine, wines, and cheeses combine for an elegant cultural sojourn A gentle rain falls as the streetlamps cast shadows on the sidewalks and you enter the doors of Lilou, walk past the desk…
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Power to Spare

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The 2024 Vols have resilience, solid pitching, and sluggers enough to return to the College World Series. In a Saturday game against Georgia on Easter weekend, before a record crowd of 5,677 at the expanded Lindsey Nelson Stadium, the…
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