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Love. It feels like a troublesome topic to tackle—even in February. So let’s begin simpler, with a chair. If I were to set a chair in front of you and ask you to write a definition of it without using the word itself, you might describe…
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Shortly after our last issue came out, my friend Mike Faulkner sent me a message saying how much he enjoyed my last publisher’s note, which outlined six ways of becoming the best version of ourselves. He suggested that I had left out number…
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It was the early 1950s. A young man from Lancashire, England found himself in the wild frontier of Guyana, South America, in search of becoming a cowboy. Longhorn cattle and mustang roamed the nearly three-million acre spans, as the…
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As with any art form, a photographer tells stories, explores ideas, and evokes emotion by knowing the rules well enough to bend them. Lines, angles, shadows, color, composition, light source, background—these all come into play. And the…
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Trust is an intangible that doesn’t automatically happen, no matter the talent level. Just because the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team brought in the nation’s No. 1 freshman class, there are no guarantees success will…
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Many eaters keep their distance from sushi because they do not want to consume raw fish, but sushi is much more than that. It evolved from a fish preservation technique that started in 4th century southeast Asia. That same technique is used…
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The bond between a person and their car is a tale so familiar that you’ve probably given your ride a personality and a name, or at least know a song about it. Knoxville painter Bobbie Crews brings that bond to life through her paintings…
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In the midst of celebrating its 40th season, Knoxville Opera opens its spring calendar with a performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, an opera that was left without its conclusion due to the composer’s untimely death.  Thankfully, one of…
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Cityview readers have crowned new champions in 61 categories, proving that Knoxville’s best just keeps getting better.
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The University of Tennessee football program might well be operating in panic mode the rest of the season. Getting steamrolled at home by a longtime SEC rival – with a head coach already teetering in a precarious predicament – can change…
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