Beautiful Knoxville

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So, you thought Knoxville was in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but throwing beer caps in the dust? Think again, here is a selection of what you can do in our fair city when you are not too busy studying and doing first rate research:

What's the weather down there?

Everything you wanted to know about Knoxville, Tennessee

Learn about our web community

Search the Knoxville Internet Directory

Check out a play at the award-winning Clarence Brown Theatre

Listen to the best music at the Bijou Theatre

Or, at the Knoxville Opera Company

Read the News-Sentinel, our main newspaper

Or, perhaps check the Metro Pulse, our alternative weekly

Visit the Knox County Library system

Listen to WUOT, the campus public radio

Or to News-Talk 99, the major chat radio in town

Look at wonderful exhibits at the Knoxville Museum of Art

Take a walk to the Ijams Nature Center

Visit the Knoxville Zoo

Or the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge

Hungry? Check out our Restaurant guide

Movies playing in Knoxville theatres

Don't miss the Dogwood Arts Festival

Or the East Tennessee Brewers' Jam

Go for a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Drive down to Chattanooga to check the Tennessee aquarium and 3D Imax theatre

Among many other things happening around here...