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At Long Last, Soccer Taco
Last April, you may recall, we here at the MP national headquarters were quite excited by the prospect of Bearden's Soccer Taco opening a downtown location....Read More Published 08/27/2009 at 4:00 PM 0 comments -
Introducing: Lookin' Around with Lauren (Part I)
As the first order of business, I will need to introduce myself. My name is Lauren and I am an editorial intern (or, "Calendar Elf",...Read More Published 08/27/2009 at 2:13 PM 0 comments -
Candidates' Forum for City Council Elections
We noted this in our Meet Your City column this week, but it's also worth pointing out here: A City Council candidates' forum will be...Read More Published 08/26/2009 at 5:55 PM 0 comments -
Photoblogging: Health-Care Protest and Anti-Protest
Our Art Director Travis Gray photographed the Pro-and-Anti-Health-Care-Reform-Protest that occurred on Saturday in front of the Federal Building downtown. Here are his observations:All in all, a generous...Read More Published 08/24/2009 at 3:27 PM 1 comments -
Cast Your Votes: Movies & Bartenders
We've got a couple of new reader polls underway that you may want to participate in:First, Movies on Market Square is coming back (starting Sept....Read More Published 08/24/2009 at 12:40 PM 0 comments -
Town Hall Meeting: It Should Be a Corker
While there promises to be a health-care protest and counter-protest this weekend downtown, as noted at KnoxViews, it looks like we're also getting a genuine...Read More Published 08/21/2009 at 5:05 PM 0 comments -
Photo Update on Wildwood: Hillside Task Force's Cautionary Tale
Back in October, when we did a story on the Joint City-Count Hillside-Ridgetop Task Force, the group was using the Wildwood Gardens subdivision as a...Read More Published 08/21/2009 at 4:04 PM 0 comments -
bonus belew
Normal 0 0 1 948 3985 Tutto Buono 84 14 6641 11.1282 0 0 0 First week of August, I spoke with Adrian Belew...Read More Published 08/20/2009 at 10:43 AM 0 comments -
Second Harvest has trying, record-breaking year
Earlier this year we covered the East Tennessee Foundation's emergency grants to local food and service providers, including Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee....Read More Published 08/19/2009 at 4:46 PM 0 comments -
Sat. To-Do List: Hollerpalooza and Feast With the Beasts
My weekends are typically spent at Target buying bulk diapers (don't ask), but this Saturday, two prime Knoxville festivals beckon:* First, we have the 4th...Read More Published 08/13/2009 at 2:39 PM 0 comments -
GQ Goes to Kingston
I completely missed this article on the TVA ash-spill disaster in the June GQ, but our national-politics columnist Frank Carlson pointed it out to me....Read More Published 08/13/2009 at 2:24 PM 0 comments -
love for sale
Everybody's favorite arts and crafts enclave, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, is holding its third art auction of the year on Saturday, August 14th....Read More Published 08/12/2009 at 9:34 AM 0 comments -
Special Screening of "The Hurt Locker"
MP contributor April Snellings was mightily impressed by The Hurt Locker, declaring "If any movie this summer has earned a must-see label, this is it." On...Read More Published 08/06/2009 at 5:06 PM 0 comments -
Risque Vol Photo Shoot... ick!
Randy Neal over at KnoxViews blogged this video earlier today, but it's so jaw-droppingly weird that I just have to multiply its viral impact with...Read More Published 08/05/2009 at 4:42 PM 0 comments -
Jack Neely on WUOT
Our own Jack Neely -- first-place winner for non-daily sports writing published in 2008 -- will be a guest on WUOT's equally award-winning program, Dialogue, tomorrow (August 5)...Read More Published 08/04/2009 at 9:27 AM 0 comments -
The Magic of Google Caches
Just a little addendum to Charle's post on Brian's Blog and his/its claim that he/they never wrote a positive post about Scott Frith:"Brian's Blog is perplexed by...Read More Published 08/01/2009 at 12:08 AM 0 comments