For years it was easy to simply dismiss New Year’s Eve as “amateur night” for drinkers, stay home snuggled up in a chair and watch Dick Clark or whoever was commenting as that big ball dropped in Times Square. However, over the past few years it’s become harder and harder to pass up local New Year’s Eve entertainment. And this year, Knoxville is awash with great possibilities.
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Hurricane Chris spawns disaster. Discovery awaits, thanks to Kitsune. Frenchman adroitly picks his allies.
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The dish behind some of my celebrity encounters during 2009.
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“This is the only time we get to do the Smurfs’ theme song,” declares Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, drummer and bandleader of the Roots. “So let’s do it!” Since signing on as the house band for “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” a year ago, the Roots have morphed into an exciting new musicmaking machine — not to mention the best reason to keep your television glowing past midnight.
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