Knoxify

With a large ani­mal shel­ter and dog park pres­ence we think it’s safe to say that there are a lot of pet own­ers in the Knoxville area. Some let Fido and/or Garfield roam the house dur­ing the day and some keep them stowed away in a pet crate. But oth­ers use pet sit­ting or day­care ser­vices which may sound crazy at first, but our research indi­cates there are a lot of busi­nesses in our area that pro­vide such services.

If you use a pet sit­ter or take your ani­mal to a day­care ser­vice, who do you use and what has your expe­ri­ence been?

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Photo by: Velo Steve

When Suzy asked our new-business-themed Fri­day ques­tion on Feb­ru­ary 5th we didn’t know what would hit our com­ment sec­tion. By the end of the day we had heard Knoxville loud and clear: bring Trader Joe’s to Knoxvegas!

Of the 39 responses to our ques­tion, 19 com­menters asked for a Trader Joe’s — a whop­ping 49% of you! Accord­ing to their web­site, the clos­est TJ’s to Knoxville is located in Roswell, GA.

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Watch­ing bub­bly teenagers morph into dis­ci­plined war­riors is an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence. One minute they’re gig­gling and gos­sip­ing. The next minute they’re per­form­ing water bal­let on dry land – or on a cold hard floor, to be pre­cise. Instruc­tor Laura Raines beats a drum and guides the girls through a series of lat­er­als, lunges, pliés and relevés that are part of the Hor­ton Tech­nique of mod­ern dance designed to develop core strength. It’s just one hour out of the 15 – 20 hours a week the GO! Con­tem­po­rary Dance Works troupe spends in prepa­ra­tion for its upcom­ing per­for­mances at the Bijou The­atre on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 20 and Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 21.

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Given the recent buzz about a national chain pos­si­bly land­ing in Down­town Knoxville, we thought today’s ques­tion was fit­ting. On a side note, one of the most pop­u­lar posts here at Knox­ify was/is a retail rumor.

What stores or national chains would you like to see in Knoxville?

Photo by: Rod­Beg­bie

For peo­ple who don’t bleed orange, the fierce, irra­tional loy­alty of Ten­nessee foot­ball fans is per­plex­ing. You might think we’re unbal­anced and over-the-top in our alle­giance to the Vols. You might think we’re blithely unaware of big­ger issues and that we ought to get our pri­or­i­ties in order. What we need is a real­ity check, right?

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Mr. Bee­son, our famous cof­fee and beer guru, wants to know:

Who has the best beer selec­tion in Knoxville?

Photo by: photo credit: john­paul­goguen

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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Gar­rett Craw­ford has con­tributed to our flickr pool about as much as any­one. Given the qual­ity of work he sub­mits it’s no sur­prise that we’ve fea­tured his work in our View of Knoxville series mul­ti­ple times. Today, we’re going to let Garrett’s work take you on a visual tour of Ney­land Sta­dium. Enjoy!

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Fred­erico Fellini was an idio­syn­cratic Ital­ian film direc­tor renowned for blend­ing fan­tasy and baroque images into his work. A cin­e­matic pio­neer, Fellini cre­ated what critic Robert Richard­son referred to as an “aes­thetic of dis­par­ity” in his films, aban­don­ing tra­di­tional plot and char­ac­ter devel­op­ment in favor of a “dis­parate suc­ces­sion of sequences” to cre­ate a “cumu­la­tive impres­sion.” Fellini left a fas­ci­nat­ing legacy, includ­ing the term “paparazzi” derived from Paparazzo, the pho­tog­ra­pher friend of jour­nal­ist Mar­cello Rubini, played by Mar­cello Mas­troianni in La Dolce Vita, Fellini’s iconic flick. Fellini, who once worked as a clown, died on Hal­loween in 1993.

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This photo was taken by Gar­rett Crawford

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