As you can plainly see, not only are our wristbands the ultimate in smart fashion accessories, they in no way whatsoever impede the consumption of liquid refreshments of your choice.

But please, don't use the 520 T-shirts as bar napkins!

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Downtown Knoxville's in that hour between the end of dinnertime and the start of Saturday night live music. Here at the 520 Pub Crawl LiveBlogger Desk, we're starting to see some new arrivals, and making sure they don't get past without pub crawl wristbands and 520 swag.

PrideFest started winding down out on the square about an hour ago, though a singer/guitarist is still holding court on stage. Tables here at Preservation Pub emptied for a few minutes but the club's filling up again. The crawl's just getting warmed up, so get down here!

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The bride wore white -- Knoxville520 white, that is -- at this bachelorette party at Barley's in Old City, one of our Pub Crawl hotspots.

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Sara "Site Supreme Sultaness/Sultry Singer" Schwabe assumes the position -- the position from which wristbands and 520 site demos are properly delivered.

Note the perky, sincere smile. Observe the alert, upright posture. And pay close attention to the accessorizing of the staff-exclusive red 520 shirt. Not just anyone can pull off that head wrap and sunglasses thing. Trust your friendly 520 Pub Crawl LiveBlogger on this.

Finally, focus on the Emily Post-proper handling of the wristbands, such as to make recipients feel confident they're getting the real deal.

And yes, Schwabe's the one who's going to make this site fly. Go, Sara, go!

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Knoxville520 would like to thank the folks at First Bank for donating their "B" to help with the Downtown Club and Pub Crawl.

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At several of the Pub Crawl locations, we're showing off Knoxville520 live. You, too, can learn how to find the best nightlife events in town every night of the week!

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A patron who stopped by for 520 goodies at one of our Gay Street stations got a funny look on his face when we invited him to put his e-mail address on our sign-up sheet.

"You're not gonna bombard me, are you?" he asked, contorting his face with a look of bemused concern. Or, possibly, concerned bemusement. Your 520 Pub Crawl LiveBlogger frankly isn't sure how to tell the diff.

The answer, for him and all y'all: nope. We plan to start an e-newsletter one of these days Real Soon Now, with our picks for the best things to do and places to go each week in Knoxville. That's what the sign-up is for.

Rest assured Knoxville520 is completely unarmed, politically neutral and unable to sustain any form of bombardment, even spam. We just want you to have fun out there, and we're here to help!

Our future newsletter will be weekly, at most, and if you get tired of us (impossible!) you can drop us like a sack of flour. We're resilient. Really.

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Michael Lowe shows off newly acquired 100-percent cotton swag at Preservation Pub.

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Knoxville520 launches for real on Saturday, June 10 with the Downtown Club and Pub Crawl.

After all, what's a nightlife site launch without a little nightlife of its own?

Come to Downtown Knoxville starting at 5:20 p.m. (of course!) for drink specials and free cover offers at nine hot spots: Barley's, World Grotto, Preservation Pub, Oodles/Uncorked, Sapphire, Manhattan's, Patrick Sullivan's, Urban Bar and Cafe and Backroom BBQ.

Look for 520 folks to get your wristbands for free cover (age 21 and up, natch). Once inside any of these establishments, ask your friendly bartender to pour you a 520 Cocktail. And be sure to get your Tic-Tac-T-Shirt play card. Get it stamped across, down or diagonally at three of the nine hangouts and you can get your own Knoxville520 T-shirt.

Listen up: Supplies of wristbands, T-shirts and other 520 swag are limited -- first come, first serve, so get yourself there and don't get caught napping!

And through the miracle of Internet technology, we will be live-blogging from the pub crawl right here on Knoxville520 Blogs. Who knows? Show up at the right place at the right time, and you might see your lovely mug here.

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I'm a singer, an actor and a director. I feel at home behind a mic, on a stage and in a director's chair. Computers scare me.

One of the incredible aspects of producing theater is that even though multibillion-dollar budgets produce spectacular Spectaculars with holographic helicopters, falling chandeliers or mountains that rise up out of the floor, the process is pretty much the same as in Ancient Greece. You can produce great art on no budget and with very little technology. After all, Aeschylus and Euripides didn't use HTML code to write and produce great works. Therefore, I'm going to blame my supreme lack of "techiness" on my years in the theater.

Continue reading "Confessions of a webmistress in the making" »

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