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Into the Dazzling Limelight of Knoxville
As part of my sacred editorial duties, I will running around town on Friday publicizing our 2009 Best of Knoxville Reader's Poll. You'll be able to hear...Read More Published 04/30/2009 at 11:32 PM 0 comments -
This Will Stink Up Downtown
If you were downtown tonight for the Big Head Todd and the Monsters show at Sundown in the City, you probably saw this: What the...Read More Published 04/30/2009 at 8:49 PM 0 comments -
Procession of Healing Sweeps Nation
Remember the "Procession of Healing", that fake funeral procession that went through downtown last year? Probably not, but you've already figured out that it's a...Read More Published 04/30/2009 at 2:08 PM 0 comments -
The Sherpa: Best of Knoxville - It Didn't Kill Us
After hours upon hours of loving but arduous work, the Metro Pulse staff can proudly claim to have produced one of the biggest Best of...Read More Published 04/30/2009 at 12:25 PM 0 comments -
Is Lingerie Legal on Market Square?
We're fools for the dying art of publicity stunts, and today PETA did not disappoint. We received an e-mail from them yesterday with this engaging subject line:LINGERIE-CLAD...Read More Published 04/30/2009 at 11:51 AM 0 comments -
Update on Guns In Bars: Bill in Conference Committee
That basically means the House has agreed to sit down with the senate and try to reach a compromise. The point of contention is an...Read More Published 04/30/2009 at 10:00 AM 0 comments -
Found in FOUND
Matthew Everett found this slip in the library's copy of FOUND, a bound anthology of highlights from FOUND magazine. (It must be a very popular...Read More Published 04/29/2009 at 4:44 PM 0 comments -
The Legislature That Ate Tenn.: Moving Closer to a Politicized Judiciary
Sorry, Rikki Hall. The State Senate Government Operations Committee has approved a piece of legislation that would eliminate the non-, or at least bi-partisan judicial...Read More Published 04/29/2009 at 1:49 PM 0 comments -
Frank Niceley Wants To Kill Ponies
Yesterday, State Rep. Frank Niceley presented HB1428 to the House Agriculture Committee. If passed, the bill would allow horse-meat processing plants (from which the meat...Read More Published 04/29/2009 at 9:57 AM 1 comments -
Movements move in both directions
Yesterday President Obama asked the courts to roll back a Bush-era law allowing coal mine operators to dump waste near streams. It's one of the...Read More Published 04/28/2009 at 12:14 PM 0 comments -
The Sherpa: We'll Get This Best of Knoxville Done If It KILLS Us
The Sherpa is a new recurring feature on The Daily Pulse blog. I'll throw out some of the coverage that's gotten attention on our website,...Read More Published 04/28/2009 at 9:33 AM 0 comments -
The Sherpa: Hello, and it's Monday
The Sherpa is a new recurring feature on The Daily Pulse blog. I'll throw out some of the coverage that's gotten attention on our website,...Read More Published 04/27/2009 at 10:21 AM 0 comments -
High School Zombies Attack!
No, that's not in reference to my own high school experience, but rather to a zombie movie shot and assembled by theater students at Farragut...Read More Published 04/24/2009 at 2:19 PM 1 comments -
How Long Must We Wait?
We are excited. Very, very excited by the appearance of this sign at #9 Market Square:Our dream of Speedy Gonzales lunch combos will finally become...Read More Published 04/24/2009 at 1:31 PM 0 comments -
Today in Shocking: Tenn. Legislature Shows Restraint on "Guns in Bars"
The State House yesterday voted 45-44 against the nearly restrictionless Senate version of the "guns in bars" bill.Now the bill goes back to the Senate. Calendar's...Read More Published 04/24/2009 at 10:20 AM 0 comments -
Jobless Rate Perfect Right ... Now
Take careful note of this moment and try not to move or breathe too much. I just got a press release, and as of this...Read More Published 04/23/2009 at 2:40 PM 0 comments -
UT Police Release Names of Dorm Robbery Suspects
UT Police have arrested two suspects, 18-year-old Tedrick Mcgregor and 20-year-old Shelby Scott, in connection with an armed robbery of a UT student in his...Read More Published 04/23/2009 at 11:17 AM 0 comments -
This Just In: Abby Ham to Re-Ignite Love Affair With Knoxville
Knoxville media Barbie doll Abby Ham--who jumped from WBIR to a job in Cleveland just a few months after she stirred up controversy for shoving...Read More Published 04/22/2009 at 4:37 PM 0 comments -
Marble Alley Proposal
Buzz Goss's ambitious project known as Marble Alley, outlined in the News Sentinel today, promises to be a major piece of the downtown puzzle, and...Read More Published 04/22/2009 at 12:57 PM 0 comments -
Bonus Web-Only Citybeat: "Guns In Bars" Looming in Tenn.
Gun Crazy The oft-proposed "guns in bars" bill may finally get its show-down by Charles Maldonado Maybe it should come as no surprise that HB0962/SB1127,...Read More Published 04/21/2009 at 6:12 PM 0 comments -
Au Revoir, Orangery
I didn't write a eulogy for the Orangery when its closing was announced last month because I was waiting for the second shoe to drop....Read More Published 04/21/2009 at 4:52 PM 0 comments -
American Lion wins Pulitzer
This morning brought the announcement that Newsweek editor Jon Meacham's biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Meacham, a Chattanooga...Read More Published 04/21/2009 at 8:39 AM 0 comments -
Braden's, RIP
The closing of Braden's, the biggest furniture company in the downtown area, is something to mourn. If you've never been there, take this last chance....Read More Published 04/20/2009 at 6:50 PM 0 comments -
"Just Good Old Middle Class" on $250,000 a Year
This story (from yahoo.com by way of The Wall Street Journal) about the looming financial hardships for Sevierville surgeon Donald Parnell Jr. and his wife...Read More Published 04/20/2009 at 5:09 PM 1 comments -
Curse This Economy and What It Drives Us To Do
Sold "as is"? Doubtless only the surly, misbehaving youngsters are left by the third day of the sale... View image...Read More Published 04/20/2009 at 1:18 PM 0 comments -
Guns As Art?
The Arts & Culture Alliance is presenting art prints of rifles and guns at the Emporium Building. Guns are indeed an intractable part of our...Read More Published 04/20/2009 at 11:32 AM 0 comments -
Chirpy the Angry Eco Bird
Knoxville has a new champion of ecological awareness! Every spring he arrives to remind us to protect our environment in his own inimitable, grumpy way....Read More Published 04/20/2009 at 9:21 AM 0 comments -
Attorney General Settles With Pilot, Will Sue Weigel's for Price Gouging
The state has announced a settlement with 27 gas stations in East and Middle Tennessee, including 3 Knoxville Pilot stations, for price gouging in the...Read More Published 04/16/2009 at 2:22 PM 0 comments -
"Guns In Bars" Bill Passes State Senate
SB1127, which will allow permit carriers to bring their guns into restaurants that serve alcohol, today passed the Tennessee State Senate in an astonishing 26-7...Read More Published 04/16/2009 at 2:07 PM 0 comments -
Record Store Day: Wilco at Disc Exchange
Didn't get tickets to Saturday's sold-out Wilco show at the Tennessee Theatre? You were planning to visit Disc Exchange for Record Store Day that afternoon...Read More Published 04/16/2009 at 12:22 PM 0 comments -
Don't Try This at Home. Please.
Stupid stuff people do with Metro Pulse boxes and then post on the Internet:...Read More Published 04/16/2009 at 9:36 AM 0 comments -
Let's Lunch With Manovinyl!
Lunch with Jay Nations is always a pleasure, particularly at King Tut Grill. The former owner of Raven Records is one Knoxville's true originals--an affable fellow...Read More Published 04/15/2009 at 5:25 PM 0 comments -
Quick Impressions of Angry White People Rally
I just got in from the Knoxville Tea Party, and boy is my freedom threatened. I regret to say that I didn't stick around for Stacey...Read More Published 04/15/2009 at 4:55 PM 0 comments -
No Wine In the Grocery Cart
Not for now, anyway. Rep. David Shephard (D-Dickson), who introduced a bill that would allow grocery stores--not just liquor stores--to sell wine, asked the house subcommittee...Read More Published 04/15/2009 at 3:38 PM 0 comments -
Saving Newspapers: The Musical
I wish we had the time, energy, and photogenic qualities to do stuff like this:The East Bay Express in Oakland is one of my favorite alt-weeklies;...Read More Published 04/15/2009 at 10:03 AM 0 comments -
Judge Rules First Amendment Applies to Internet
Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner has ruled that the First Amendment guarantees of a free press apply to websites, too. Attorneys for the...Read More Published 04/15/2009 at 9:11 AM 0 comments -
Knoxville Tea Party Just Got Campf-ed!
The Knoxville Tea Party (Ear to the Ground link), a protest of "big government spending" (Except for massive yearly off-budget war supplements that go to...Read More Published 04/14/2009 at 3:30 PM 0 comments -
When Is a Convention Center Hotel Not a Convention Center Hotel?
The News Sentinel's Josh Flory reports that the Tennessee Building Commission has approved the sale of the former Supreme Court building property at Henley Street...Read More Published 04/14/2009 at 3:06 PM 0 comments -
Construction Update: 100 Block of Gay Street Closing
If you left anything down on the 100 block of Gay Street, you better get it quick--construction's shutting down the street, starting on Monday, April...Read More Published 04/14/2009 at 9:01 AM 0 comments -
A New Rainbow Coalition?
We got a press release last week from a group called the Knoxville Patriots, which is convening on Wednesday afternoon at World's Fair Park at...Read More Published 04/13/2009 at 6:14 PM 4 comments -
Asheville out-hips us again
A few weeks ago, we ran a feature about the surprisingly few urban trends of 2009 that hadn't made it to Knoxville yet. One of...Read More Published 04/13/2009 at 4:58 PM 0 comments -
Anxiety Attack-Prone MP Writer on Radio Tomorrow
Please listen to me stammer my way through my second ever radio interview tomorrow at 8 a.m. on 94.3 FM's "J on the X" morning...Read More Published 04/13/2009 at 3:49 PM 0 comments -
Obama Unicorn Sunsphere
Dan Lacey, the Painter of Pancakes, has just put one of his most recent works--the above portrait of a triumphant Barack Obama astride a unicorn,...Read More Published 04/13/2009 at 3:18 PM 0 comments -
I Refuse to Make a "Seinfeld" Reference in This Headline
Jerry Seinfeld gears up for his upcoming appearance, along with the rest of the former Seinfeld cast, on Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm with a...Read More Published 04/13/2009 at 1:21 PM 0 comments -
Bald Eagle Killed; Reward Offered
Reward Offered for Information about Bald Eagle Death on Lake Norris The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency are investigating...Read More Published 04/10/2009 at 3:33 PM 0 comments -
Sundown in the City kicks it old-school
The heavens parted and good weather arrived just in time for the first Sundown in the City concert in Market Square last night. Arrested Development headlined, with...Read More Published 04/10/2009 at 2:58 PM 0 comments -
Squeeeal!
So why is there a line of women standing around on Market Street, tucked behind a barricade? And why, at approximately 12:35 p.m. did they open...Read More Published 04/10/2009 at 1:29 PM 0 comments -
Blog Romance
We get a lot of e-mails here at MP. They usually break down thusly: 60 percent expressions of outrage, 20 percent helpful suggestions/tips, 12 percent...Read More Published 04/10/2009 at 11:42 AM 0 comments -
[The Slug] City Releases Draft Statement on Market Square Use Policy
Following a flurry of complaints and questions as to how events on Market Square should be booked by the city, there was a public meeting...Read More Published 04/09/2009 at 4:34 PM 0 comments -
We're Going to be Famous! (not the good kind)
Yes, once again Knoxville is vaulting into the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons. This time it's our wacky, vent-crawling secret agents! If you'll...Read More Published 04/09/2009 at 3:50 PM 0 comments -
NOM NOM NOM
The National Organization for Marriage, or NOM, is a group of married people who feel "threatened" by the fearsome specter of other people, um ......Read More Published 04/09/2009 at 12:06 PM 0 comments -
Turning a Statistical Oddity Into a Trend Story
More Americans were killed in horrific mass shootings last month than were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since the beginning of the year. Now, one...Read More Published 04/09/2009 at 11:11 AM 0 comments -
Tennessee for real
This is the face I'll be making when I walk over to catch Arrested Development on Market Square tomorrow eve. (Free, Thursday, Dishwater Blonde goes...Read More Published 04/08/2009 at 4:20 PM 0 comments -
NAME THAT FONT
And if you happen to own it, be righteous and name your source.Thiz biz iz on the corner of Holston and Holston in East Knoxville....Read More Published 04/08/2009 at 1:42 PM 0 comments -
Surprise: McGill Beats Ford in Farragut
Some analysis of yesterday's Farragut elections by Larry Van Guilder at KnoxViews, and full results here....Read More Published 04/08/2009 at 11:41 AM 0 comments -
Matt Landon Wants to Teach You How to Burn Stuff
Knoxville's favorite environmental [I am holding off from calling him a "firebrand"] is apparently a fire artist. This Craigslist listing will explain what that is:Greetings fellow burners,(Please...Read More Published 04/07/2009 at 3:16 PM 0 comments -
Fourth and Goal for Gridiron Burgers
A lot of people have wondered just what's going on with the Gridiron Burgers location that was supposed to have opened next to the Regal...Read More Published 04/07/2009 at 1:53 PM 0 comments -
Obama Votes for Tennessee... basketball
President Obama riled some fans and no doubt delighted the ESPN.com execs by filling out an NCAA tournament bracket predicting University of North Carolina as...Read More Published 04/07/2009 at 1:35 PM 0 comments -
Dateline: NASHVILLE
Something happened in Nashville last week, and something didn't. Rep. Bill Dunn withdrew the Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act from subcommittee consideration, to give himself...Read More Published 04/07/2009 at 9:53 AM 0 comments -
Local LGBT Teens Demo How to Break the Silence
High school students from area Gay Straight Alliances (and those whose schools are still trying to get a GSA together) created a public...Read More Published 04/06/2009 at 10:37 AM 0 comments -
[The Slug] Convention Center Needs Raise In Allowance...
Completely resents having to go visit city and beg as if it's, like, God or something. (See also: MP Cover Story on the Knoxville Convention Center's...Read More Published 04/02/2009 at 11:46 AM 0 comments -
Bruce Pearl to Memphis? Mike Hamilton's Life Just Got Tougher
This morning we ran a story about University of Tennessee Athletic Director Mike Hamilton and the possibility that his job security depends on new football...Read More Published 04/02/2009 at 10:57 AM 0 comments -
It's Here! Pants!
We're very excited about this new publication about to be launched very soon. It's for men! It's Pants! Here's a preview of the first cover:Pants-premier.pdfFor...Read More Published 04/02/2009 at 10:28 AM 0 comments -
Truman Update
When we last checked in with Truman Melton, 16-year-old columnist for the South Knox • Seymour Community Times, he was campaigning in the second round of Zinch.com's "March Madnezz."...Read More Published 04/02/2009 at 9:27 AM 0 comments -
FYI: Today is April 1
And this week's Metro Pulse starts hitting the stands in the early evening.A timely confluence of events. ...Read More Published 04/01/2009 at 3:52 PM 0 comments -
[The Slug] Though April Fools News Jokes Are Annoying
I thought this one from the TNDP was pretty good:Tennessee Democratic Party Calls for Common Sense Gun LawsWednesday, April 1, 2009 NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Democratic...Read More Published 04/01/2009 at 11:45 AM 1 comments -
Jack to the Bee
One of our recurring local comic strips, The Weekly Cheese, often causes a bit of consternation among discerning readers: The humor can be rather bizarre...Read More Published 04/01/2009 at 10:20 AM 0 comments
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