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David Keith got into act­ing to meet girls. Or so he claims.

Keith explains that he never got involved in the emo­tional side of his career, mean­ing he didn’t buy into the Hol­ly­wood hype that derails so many young actors. Nor does act­ing define his iden­tity. “I got paid to have fun,” he says with his trade­mark crooked grin. So when Brian Salesky, exec­u­tive direc­tor of Knoxville Opera, made Keith “an offer he couldn’t refuse,” he agreed to tackle a very dif­fer­ent kind of role – that of the Pirate King in Gilbert & Sullivan’s beloved operetta, The Pirates of Pen­zance, com­ing to the Ten­nessee The­atre March 12 – 14.

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On Tues­day, Decem­ber 1st from 6 – 9 p.m. in the Square Room at Café 4 — that would be tomor­row — the Social Media Club Knoxville will hold their Win­ter Panel which is titled “Social Media Lia­bil­ity, Ethics & Pol­icy”. In lay­man terms: how not to get sued for using social media. Hey, it hap­pens. If you’re inter­ested please RSVP here.

On the spur of the moment, I decided to attend the Vet­er­ans Day pro­gram at the Ten­nessee Vet­er­ans Ceme­tery this year. Although I drive by the solemn rows of tomb­stones every day, I’d never ven­tured up the hill to the octag­o­nal struc­ture at the top. This year, in the wake of the Fort Hood mas­sacre, I felt moved to do so. I wanted to honor our vet­er­ans in a per­sonal way. My dad, a Korean War vet­eran, went with me to the ser­vice hosted by the Ten­nessee Chap­ter of the State Guard Asso­ci­a­tion of the United States. Nei­ther of us knew what to expect.

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WDVX’s monthly live broad­cast, Ten­nessee Shines, is now estab­lished as the go-to venue for great, some­times eclec­tic, music. The lat­est install­ment was a con­cert with no real sin­gu­lar high­lights, just per­for­mance after per­for­mance that proved to be con­tin­u­ally lumi­nes­cent, with every musi­cian at the top of their game.

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This is a guest post by Chad Huskey.

I would like to ramble…no actu­ally I think gush would be the appro­pri­ate word. Yup, Gush, I would like to gush for a moment about a cer­tain Knoxville event that is near and dear to my heart. The Knoxville Brew­ers Jam. Just let those words roll off the tip of your tongue, “Knoxville Brew­ers Jam”. Ahhh yes, the hairs on the back of my neck are stand­ing up.

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“Nei­ther snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couri­ers from the swift com­ple­tion of their appointed rounds.” — The Postman’s Creed, 1912

Appar­ently, beer drinkers have a code, too: “Nei­ther rain nor gloom of cloud cov­er­age nor cold nor mud nor coin­cid­ing UT foot­ball game stays these beer drinkers from the swift con­sump­tion of the over-abundance of beer.”

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Sat­ur­day night, Octo­ber 17 is a date that will go down in his­tory – albeit, quirky cul­tural his­tory, but his­tory nonethe­less. This chilly evening marked Knoxville’s inau­gural Snug Pub Crawl, hailed by one local tweeter as the “tweet-up of the cen­tury.” Twenty-some-odd Snuggie-clad seek­ers gath­ered at the appointed time on Mar­ket Square for a group pic­ture. Head Snug­gite, Saul Young, served as pho­to­jour­nal­ist for the event that drew par­tic­i­pants from as far away as Chattanooga.

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This photo was taken by Moon­pieGirl

The View of Knoxville series is derived from pho­tos in our flickr group. Add your pic­tures and we might fea­ture them here.

Kim Henry, Pres­i­dent of City Peo­ple, dropped us a reminder that the 2009 City Peo­ple Down­town Home Tour is right around the cor­ner. On Octo­ber 11th, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, you will be able to tour more than 15 res­i­dences located through­out Down­town Knoxville. Units are housed in every­thing from care­fully restored his­tor­i­cal build­ings to loft ware­house space to beau­ti­ful new construction.

If you live in Knoxville or plan to visit the area on Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 10, I encour­age you all to check out Knoxville Twes­t­i­val!

Knoxville Twes­t­i­val is part of a char­i­ta­ble event tak­ing place in com­mu­ni­ties all around the world. Twes­t­i­val uses the power of the local Twit­ter­verse to encour­age com­mu­nity mem­bers to come out in per­son to a fun event to be held at the Knoxville Zoo on Sep­tem­ber 10, 2009 from 7-10pm, and to donate money to a des­ig­nated local char­ity: The Sal­va­tion Army of Knoxville.

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