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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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Anaba

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Chef Seisuke "Sei" Fukuoka brings his superb and authentic Japanese cuisine to Gay Street Emerging from his behind-the-bar kitchen area with a playful grin, Chef Seisuke Fukuoka, who goes by Sei, presents a chef’s special, Okonomiyaki…
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Spicing Up SoKno

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In the early 1900s, a streetcar line was extended across the Gay Street Bridge and along the waterfront to the planned suburb of Island Home Park. Around that time a Craftsman-style home was built at 1147 Sevier Avenue, just where it bends…
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Rocky Mountain High

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On a stretch of North Broadway, an oversized blond-wood privacy fence cut in the silhouette of a mountain range surrounds two buildings that once housed Rentals Rentals and a Dr. Pepper bottling plant. These spaces were combined, taken down…
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Dine Like It’s 1929

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Executive Chef Carol Scott is happy to explain the name Kitchen 919: “Whenever you have family or friends in your home, the gathering place is always the kitchen. The Kitchen brings people together. The zip code is 37919, hence the 919.”…
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