tootin' tennessee's hornz

my beloved hometown, and college town of 2pz founders keekerz and joel, knoxville, tn, aka k-town, aka scruffy city, aka knox vegas, is headlining the nytimes arts homepage right now.  big ears festival (b.ears festival, for short) just ended and they had some things to say about it.

What all this adds up to is that Big Ears seems to be a festival about the experience of listening, full stop, rather than listening to genre X or tradition Y. It gives concertgoers — in comfortable theaters, in a comfortable town without a lot of other distractions — as much power as a composer or performer in determining what music means, gambling that those concertgoers might over time grow a culture around that feeling. (nytimes)

go knoxville!  and vols.  btdubz, cuonzo isn't going to marquette.

good lord.

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Law enforcement officials in Ohio on Wednesday said they believed they had captured all but three of the animals that escaped from an exotic animal preserve after the owner of the property released the animals before he fatally shot himself.

At least 25 animals — including lions, wolves, bears and at least one tiger — were shot and killed by deputies and other law enforcement personnel armed with assault rifles to prevent the animals from attacking humans, said Sheriff Matt Lutz of Muskingum County.

At least one of the fleeing animals — it was unclear which species — was struck by a vehicle on a highway adjacent to the 46-acre preserve, and one of the monkeys kept at the compound was killed by a lion, officials said. (via)

what a shitshow!!

thx deej.