It's the beginning of a new week but I just want to take a minute to review the weekend. As we are an entertainment-based publication I would like to take this time to note some entertaining news. Now brace yourselves because it's about Harry Potter.
I know there are those of you out there who don't give a flip about a boy wizard with a wand but just humor me. Yes, I am a Harry Potter fan. Yes, I dressed up and went to two late night book release parties as a child. Yes, if asked and with a few drinks in me I could recite spells for you. (Please don't, I've already embarrassed myself beyond recognition in front of my friends multiple times.) But this weekend history was made. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had the highest grossing international opening ever while first breaking the record for a midnight opening at $22.2 million. I was a part of that. No, I did not dress up or wait in line for 14 hours but I did show up. And I enjoyed it. And for a little over two hours I remembered what it was like to be a kid again and get lost in something magical. It seems the world did too.
Now I can't offer you magic but maybe I can offer you entertainment. So check out the Mosts and the events and see if anything catches your eye. And if not, well that's just ridiculous.
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Knoxville's answer to the Partridge Family (they even played their own instruments!), The Generation Gap played locally, made records, and performed on local television throughout the 1970s. This vintage television clip is from the Ladies Day Show, with Margie Ison. The very fact that this clip survives is a miracle as most television programming from the era no longer exists.
You know you've seen it around and you know you want to know more about it...
This art has popped up around downtown Knoxville (beyond?) over the last several months (or longer?). It's a curious enough thing that we've made some space for it on metropulse.com. With the (very) faint hope of answering the question invariable uttered by those who talk about it. "Who's doing that, anyway?"
On Tuesday, the KnoxViews blog reported that an angry and disruptive Commissioner Greg "Lumpy" Lambert showed up at the Monday night meeting of the Joint City/County Task Force on Ridge, Slope and Hillside Development and Protection and "basically took over the meeting."
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Chad Hellwinckel is confident he can win over most any one who objects to the legalization of hens within city limits--if they'll give him time to explain.
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