-
Minvilla Re-Bid
From next issue's Ear to the Ground:Minvilla, the embattled 1913 townhouse row in Fifth Avenue, was once expected to be finished by now as a...Read More Published 03/31/2009 at 5:37 PM 0 comments -
Club W: Fitness That's Affordable
The YWCA of Knoxville has come up with a plan for locals who have stopped going to the gym--or never started--because the cost is prohibitive....Read More Published 03/31/2009 at 5:07 PM 0 comments -
[The Slug] Freeman Resigns As TNDP Treasurer
Tennessee Democratic Party Treasurer Bill Freeman, who took some partisan heat recently when it was revealed that he used to be a GOP contributor, handed...Read More Published 03/27/2009 at 4:38 PM 0 comments -
A New MP Column on National Politics
In this week's issue, we're introducing a new monthly column that pokes our collective nose into the affairs of Washington D.C.: The Hill to the Hills. But...Read More Published 03/26/2009 at 2:22 PM 0 comments -
Dispatches from Nashville: The Gubernatorial Campaign
In an analysis piece today, Nashville Scene's Jeff Woods says that, judging by the teeth-bearing and flared-nostrilism going on between the Wamp and Ramsey campaigns,...Read More Published 03/26/2009 at 11:15 AM 0 comments -
Sundown 2009
The schedule for this year's Sundown in the City series has been announced. Lots of repeat performers, but lots of local bands, too. Shows are...Read More Published 03/25/2009 at 10:12 AM 0 comments -
Listening to the Radio
So, I'm listening to NPR this morning and they feature this piece about the Quiver(full) Movement, a fundamentalist Christian sect largely centered around having tons of...Read More Published 03/25/2009 at 8:37 AM 0 comments -
[The Slug] UMD's Matt Landon Has His Day in Court
Modern-day folk hero Matt Landon, the passionate and eloquent thorn in TVA's large and obtuse side since the Kingston Coal Ash Spill, yesterday went to...Read More Published 03/24/2009 at 1:44 PM 0 comments -
Oops! UT Loss Scrambles Shopper Cover
Sandra Clark, publisher of the weekly Halls Shopper-News and its neighborhood spinoffs, apparently got a little bit ahead of herself planning the cover story for...Read More Published 03/24/2009 at 9:40 AM 0 comments -
Vote for Truman!
As a longtime reader of 16-year-old Truman Melton's column in the South Knox • Seymour Community Times, I was most pleased to learn that he's the #1 seed in...Read More Published 03/23/2009 at 1:50 PM 0 comments -
Support Public Radio and Earth: Benefit for WUTK and EarthFest
WUTK is hosting a benefit concert for its own perennially cash-strapped budget and EarthFest at Barley's on Friday, April 17. Singing-and-songwriting YouTube sensation Julia Nunes...Read More Published 03/20/2009 at 11:11 AM 0 comments -
Graphically Good News About Print Media
Hey, some print media is thriving. Graphic novel sales are booming, with the Watchmen leading the way. Of course, Metro Pulse, as always, is way ahead...Read More Published 03/19/2009 at 4:39 PM 0 comments -
Dubious Achievement Award of the Day: CEOs Think Tennessee is Neato
According to this article from Chief Executive Magazine, a survey of 543 of the nation's top CEOs ranks Tennessee as the number five best state...Read More Published 03/19/2009 at 3:19 PM 0 comments -
Bolero!
From Classical Cafe:Knoxville Symphony Orchestra this week - Bolero!Rainbow Body -- Christopher TheofanidisConcerto in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra, op. 47 -- Jean SibeliusTill...Read More Published 03/19/2009 at 12:07 PM 0 comments -
Grits-N-Gravy Film Fest
Keith McDaniel, the director of the annual Secret City Film Festival in Oak Ridge, is kicking off a new festival this weekend: the Grits-N-Gravy Southern Film Festival. Whereas...Read More Published 03/18/2009 at 9:52 AM 0 comments -
Campfield: Irish=Drunk, Lazy Papists
Stacey "The Rep" Campfield takes the culture wars out of the uterus and into the heritage of more than 30 million Americans in his blog's...Read More Published 03/17/2009 at 3:33 PM 0 comments -
Him and His Likker: Moonshiner "Popcorn" Sutton Dead
Infamous East Tennessee moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton died yesterday, just days before he was to start an 18-month term in federal prison. Officials say his...Read More Published 03/17/2009 at 12:41 PM 0 comments -
Superdrag Vs. The Minutemen
Buzzgrinder has photos of Superdrag's show at Barley's on Friday night. S'drag frontman John Davis also remembers The Minutemen in this post. ...Read More Published 03/16/2009 at 10:33 AM 0 comments -
Disapproving Rabbits--now that's fun
Intrepid Metro Pulse reporters are under all sorts of stress... taunts about secretly working for the News Sentinel, hiked rates ($7 a DAY!) in the...Read More Published 03/13/2009 at 1:15 PM 0 comments -
In Case You Missed It: Superdrag Reunited, Playing Tonight, New Album Out
In case you didn't read about local alternapop stars Superdrag getting back together here or here, this is a friendly reminder that the original lineup...Read More Published 03/13/2009 at 12:18 PM 0 comments -
[The Slug] Campfield Responds to House Dems Agenda
I knew he wouldn't let us down. Stacey "The Rep" Campfield, Tennessee's most entertaining legislator, today lambasted the State House Democratic Caucus' 2009 agenda. And,...Read More Published 03/13/2009 at 11:28 AM 0 comments -
TVA Protest Planned for Tomorrow
Via Katie Allison Granju's blog "Because I Said So" at knoxnews.com:Event: March on TVA Knoxville March 14 2009"This saturday help us march on the largest...Read More Published 03/13/2009 at 11:24 AM 0 comments -
[The Slug] Reading: Awesome! At least if you, like me, don't care to spend your time with other humans
The full, 50-page Madoff guilty plea transcript is now at the U.S. Attorney's special Madoff web page. ...Read More Published 03/12/2009 at 4:07 PM 0 comments -
Cowboy Crazy: Marshal Andy Celebrates 25 Years on TV
Marshal Andy, Knoxville's greatest singing cowboy (never mind that he's been pretty much the only singing cowboy in Knoxville the last 30+ years), celebrates the...Read More Published 03/12/2009 at 3:26 PM 1 comments -
[The Slug] Dear TN Legislators, Here's Why You Don't Censor the Press
From today's edition of the Memphis Commercial Appeal (emphasis added by me):Kiandre Sims was well armed the night he kicked in a back door and...Read More Published 03/12/2009 at 2:28 PM 0 comments -
[The Slug] TN House Dems Release 2009 Agenda
The Tennessee House Democratic Caucus released its 2009 legislative agenda today. The main agenda items are as follows (Note: I am disappointed that as of...Read More Published 03/12/2009 at 2:07 PM 1 comments -
[The Slug] Texas Investor Seeks to Buy Rocky Mountain News Archives
According to this story from Denver's Westword, Texas money man Brian Ferguson is currently in negotiations with Metro Pulse AllFather, E.W. Scripps, to purchase Rocky's...Read More Published 03/12/2009 at 1:41 PM 0 comments -
[The Slug] Out of Context: Headline of the Day
From the Knoxville News Sentinel: Pope looking for a job[Note to Blogself: Joke about economy goes in this space. Also appropriate here are inoffensive digs...Read More Published 03/12/2009 at 11:21 AM 0 comments -
FOUND: Denim and Diamonds Tour
FOUND Magazine's Denim and Diamonds Tour, with FOUND founder Davy Rothbart and his brother Pete showing off and holding forth on the prize stuff that...Read More Published 03/11/2009 at 11:57 AM 0 comments -
10 Year Plan Site Task Force Halted
A mere two days before their first sit-down, the The Task Force on Permanent Supportive Housing Siting Considerations has been put on hold in the face...Read More Published 03/10/2009 at 4:08 PM 0 comments -
Movies at the Bijou
New movie series at the Bijou Theatre starts on March 20 and 21 with 8 p.m. screenings of The Big Lebowski (for my money, the...Read More Published 03/10/2009 at 1:30 PM 1 comments -
Unlikely Pairings: Mr. Mack vs. Dave Landeo
The Jaystorm Project's upcoming EP, A Brand New Funk, may contain the unlikeliest pairing of any local release ever. It's not exactly a pairing, okay,...Read More Published 03/10/2009 at 12:24 PM 0 comments -
Forced to Remember: Another Church Shooting
For days now I have been fretting about small white daffodils with orange centers. My really big raft of them, near the house, disappeared somehow...Read More Published 03/09/2009 at 8:54 AM 0 comments -
Watching Watchmen in the Wee Hours
Every now and then I am really impressed with Knoxville. Like when we could never find parking because there were so many spectators for Knoxville...Read More Published 03/06/2009 at 10:19 AM 0 comments -
[The Slug] "Sir, Your Driver's License, Please"
Update: Now TVA's arrested Landon for "trespassing" (on a public road, while driving a resident of that road to her home.) And, the video's made...Read More Published 03/05/2009 at 1:08 PM 0 comments -
BOK 2009: Keepin' It Local
And thus it begins once again -- our annual readers' poll recognizing the coolest things in town that make Knoxville unique. This marks the 15th year...Read More Published 03/05/2009 at 10:56 AM 0 comments -
get green like a gramophone
Off the grid tunes for next time the power goes out. Or next time you get stuck watching the grandkids. green like a gramophone from...Read More Published 03/04/2009 at 9:53 PM 0 comments -
Does this bus stop at 82nd Street?
If you haven't already seen it, the current issue of Metro Pulse features an exceptional cover story on bus travel by Charles Erickson. People who...Read More Published 03/04/2009 at 4:12 PM 0 comments -
Back in Style: Rico Stache Bash Celebrates Upper-Lip Hair
The mustache is cool again, sort of, as this piece from The New York Times back in January indicates. (Either "too gay" or "too straight"...Read More Published 03/04/2009 at 1:40 PM 0 comments -
On Nicknames and Anachronisms in College Sports
The mothership's new Knoxville.com entertainment site has a jokey poll today asking for new nickname suggestions for the Lady Vols. It got me thinking, though....Read More Published 03/04/2009 at 10:58 AM 0 comments -
[The Slug] Before It Becomes a Crime
There is no point in posting the following information except for the introduction of Tennessee State House Bill 959, which has shockingly passed committee. This...Read More Published 03/03/2009 at 4:42 PM 0 comments -
[The Slug] TVA Issues Corrective Action Plan
So, a day after the TVA's Office of the Inspector General released this little bit of news detailing just what the company's employees have been doing...Read More Published 03/03/2009 at 2:27 PM 0 comments -
Happy 100th, Howard
Raise a glass on Wednesday, March 4, to an East Tennessee native the likes of which we'll never see again. It's Howard Armstrong's 100th birthday....Read More Published 03/03/2009 at 11:27 AM 0 comments -
Throw Down Your Heart: Bela Fleck at UT
Banjo hotshot Bela Fleck will appear at the University of Tennessee's McClung Museum on Wednesday, March 4, for a screening of Throw Down Your Heart,...Read More Published 03/03/2009 at 8:38 AM 0 comments -
Grants available for local women and children assistance programs
The East Tennessee Foundation announced last week that it's accepting applications for grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000, from the Mount Rest Fund, for Knox...Read More Published 03/02/2009 at 10:47 PM 0 comments -
With a Little Help From Her Friends: Benefit for Edye McComas
Edye McComas, a popular figure behind the scenes of Knoxville's restaurant community for years--at Tomato Head and currently at Nama in Bearden--suffered head injuries a...Read More Published 03/02/2009 at 8:33 PM 0 comments -
Art for the People: Vote!
You have until March 9, bright and early (or 9 a.m. EST, whichever comes last) to vote on your 10 favorites to be displayed in...Read More Published 03/02/2009 at 5:22 PM 0 comments -
Ack! Entries Into the Aether
Somehow, our Movable Type system zapped several posts from last week. (Which also happened over at Katie Allison Granju, so maybe it's catching.) Although there were...Read More Published 03/02/2009 at 4:41 PM 0 comments -
A UT Prez Candidate I Can Endorse
It is worth joining Facebook to see a wonderful self-nominated candidate for University of Tennessee's presidential spot. Here's a sample of the platform of Kali...Read More Published 03/02/2009 at 2:41 PM 0 comments
The Daily Pulse: Archives
Metro Pulse staff members instantaneously commit their innermost thoughts to the Internet for your information and/or amusement.
