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VOL. 7 NO. 8
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Outdoors
February 25, 2013
From the wings to the stage
Outdoor Living Special Section Find out where the wild things are and much more in this month’s “My Outdoors.”
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Coffee Break
Fans of Judy Gardner’s shop, the Silk Purse, already know that the store now shares space with Tea at the Gallery in Western Plaza. One of the new fixtures in the brightly decorated store is a little green table. That’s where customers can sit down with Judy to talk about their fashion needs. “I love working with women,” she says. “I like to find the look that’s right for them. When they look right, they feel happy.”
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Julie Cox dances the role of the Egret Queen in a Key West, Fla., production of “The Nutcracker.” Photo submitted
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By Wendy Smith
Messing with Lakeshore Park Hard to imagine why state Rep. Steve Hall who represents the neighborhoods surrounding Lakeshore Park off Lyons View Pike (such as Westmoreland, Riverbend and Rocky Hill) would sponsor a Stacey Campfield bill to sell the property owned by the state adjacent to the park to the highest bidder and thereby prevent this property from being added to the existing city park. It seems sure to alienate many of his constituents, writes park proponent Victor Ashe.
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Meet Tom Dillard Tom Dillard flashes a slightly embarrassed grin upon hearing that a lot of his peers consider him the gold standard by which other lawyers are measured. “I hope that doesn’t mean that gold is losing its value,” he said. “At a certain age, if you don’t get disbarred or prosecuted, people do give you some respect. But I sure appreciate that, and I’ve been very fortunate.” Betty Bean profiles Knoxville lawyer Tom Dillard in this month’s LawDogs.
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For most people, becoming a professional dancer is about as likely as becoming an astronaut or a professional baseball player. But for Julie Cox, who teaches at Studio Arts for Dancers and Dancers Studio in West Knoxville, the dream is a real possibility, in spite of the obstacles she’s encountered on her journey. As a child, Cox studio-hopped in order to get sufficient dance time. Ballet became such a part of the family’s life that her mother, Carolyn Cox, opened the Dancer’s Shoppe, now located at 147 N. Peters Road. When she was 14, Cox moved to Lynchburg, Va., to attend Virginia School of the Arts, a boarding school that allowed her to get a high school education while dancing six to eight hours a day. She stayed until her senior year, when
She had performed in the “island style” production three times before, and decided that if she didn’t survive the 2012 show, she wasn’t ready for professional auditions. She danced the role of the Snow Queen, called the Egret Queen in the Key West production, without a hitch. As she danced, her body healed. “I think it was because I was happy,” she says. “I was doing something I loved.” Cox is now actively auditioning on weekends. Instead of regretting the breaks she’s been forced to take from pursuing her professional career, she feels she’s grown during her time at home. Teaching has improved her dancing because she’s been able to apply her own instruction, she says. She also has a new perspective. “It’s not always bad looking in from the wings.”
Village Fine Art Gallery closing after 17 years By Betty Bean Come April, Village Fine Art Gallery owner Carolyn Mullins and her husband, Bill, are going to the house – the one near Pawley’s Island, S.C. – eight doors down from their 3-year-old granddaughter, Caroline. Caroline’s parents, Kathryn Mullins Edwards and Jim Edwards, live there, too. The other Mullins daughter, Sheryl Pless and her husband, Jeff, live in Knoxville. Bill retired from his job as a broker with Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace last year, and the Mullinses are now closing down the gallery that has been Carolyn’s labor of love for 17 years, the past 11 years at 4660 Old Broadway. Carolyn has notified her cus-
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back, neck and shoulders. “I thought I was done,” she says. “It was like everything had been taken away, and it wasn’t my choice.” Because of the celiac disease, her body couldn’t absorb pain killers, and physical therapy had limited value due to Cox’s extreme flexibility. She decided to pursue recovery through ballroom dancing, which she had taken as a child. Her goal was to “wake her body up.” She found support, and a partner, in her boyfriend, Justin Brocketti, who taught ballroom dance. She began to feel better, so she returned to her first love – ballet. She resumed teaching classes locally, and performed as the Arabian princess in the Oak Ridge Civic Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” last fall. She also took on a performance of “The Nutcracker” in Key West, Fla.
she returned to Knoxville for ankle surgery. After graduating from Central High School, Cox auditioned for the Nashville Ballet training program, where she danced from 9:15 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. After a year, her goal to be part of the company was thwarted by her ankle injury, and she came back to Knoxville. She stopped dancing for two months and recovered, then auditioned for the Richmond Ballet. She trained in Richmond for a year before she was diagnosed with celiac disease. The immune system disorder meant that some mornings she couldn’t move because of the pain. Once again, she returned to Knoxville. Cox was just beginning to audition again when she was rearended in a car accident on April 20, 2011. Her doctor said she had sprained all the ligaments in her
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