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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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Turn It Up

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Coach Josh Heupel and Quarterback Hendon Hooker’s up-tempo offense makes all things possible in 2022 In college football, the past is never dead. It is not even past. As long as Lane Kiffin walks the Earth, there will be airborne…
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The Izakaya Way

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Japanese-style pub Kaizen offers an informal, peaceful atmosphere When you walk into a restaurant and see one of Knoxville’s top chefs enjoying a birthday dinner with her family, you figure you’re in for a good meal. “I would come here…
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The Amazin’ Vols

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With swagger, guts, and fun-loving bravado to spare, the UT baseball team brings home an SEC Championship Tennessee Volunteers pitcher Chase Burns faced a tough situation in the third inning against Auburn on April 29. Bases loaded.…
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Authentic Appalachia

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Jeff Carter, the original Dancing Bear Appalachian Bistro chef, has returned to his roots Before anything else, make a note to visit the Dancing Bear Appalachian Bistro in Townsend and order Executive Chef Jeff Carter’s North Carolina…
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Sim Por Favor

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At Brazeiros, fine dining meets a Brazilian tradition of generous offerings of carne If you get movie star treatment from owner Vilmar Zenzen at Brazeiros in Bearden, it’s because he’s had practice. After he launched a…
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