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Metropulse.com's Most-Clicked List
Good goobly, will this year ever end? Almost there... and we have just enough time for yet another "year in review" list: metropulse.com's most popular...Read More Published 12/31/2009 at 12:27 PM 0 comments -
Wamp Reaches out to Country Singers
U.S. Rep. and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Zach Wamp is looking to country musicians to help him pave a path to the governor's mansion. His reasoning? ...Read More Published 12/29/2009 at 9:43 AM 0 comments -
Haslam Makes Tennessean's Top Political Movers List
Mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Haslam has made Nashville newspaper The Tennessean's list of top political movers in 2009, along with rival U.S. Rep....Read More Published 12/28/2009 at 3:10 PM 0 comments -
Conflicting Movie Blurbs: What We Say Now Vs. What We Said Then
A whole bunch of the movies our esteemed critics picked as the best of 2009 got considerably less reverential treatment at the hands of our...Read More Published 12/23/2009 at 3:42 PM 0 comments -
New Local History Book Very Neely-esque
So I was at Border's last Saturday, struggling to unclench my 3-year-old's powerful fingers from a LEGO 72-piece fire station set, when I spotted a...Read More Published 12/21/2009 at 5:23 PM 0 comments -
TN Senators Speak out against Health Reform Bill
As you may have already heard, at 1 am this morning the Senate passed a crucial vote to end debate and bring the health care...Read More Published 12/21/2009 at 10:48 AM 0 comments -
TVA CEO Tom Kilgore Holds Press Conference
Frank here. In recognition of the year anniversary of the coal spill and as part of renewed communication effort, TVA CEO Tom Kilgore and senior...Read More Published 12/18/2009 at 3:41 PM 1 comments -
Wake Scheduled for Ali Akbar: Longbranch Saloon, 12/29/2009
Just confirmed: A wake for Ali Akbar will be held at the Longbranch Saloon on Cumberland Avenue on Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 7 p.m. The...Read More Published 12/18/2009 at 10:36 AM 0 comments -
EPA Delays Decision on Coal Ash
Frank here. The EPA has just announced it's delaying a much-awaited proposal for regulating coal ash. As I wrote in my story published yesterday, EPA...Read More Published 12/17/2009 at 2:59 PM 0 comments -
Thieving, Drunk Toddler's the Only Ten I See
Frank here. While living abroad and around the country, whenever I received a link about something that had happened in Tennessee, I knew it couldn't...Read More Published 12/17/2009 at 12:05 PM 0 comments -
Ali Akbar, 1945-2009
We learned this afternoon that our old friend Ali Akbar died on Tuesday at UT Medical Center. He was 64.Ali, who was known as Horace...Read More Published 12/16/2009 at 4:35 PM 0 comments -
RIP Horace Pittman, aka Ali Akbar
Word's just coming in that Horace Pittman, better known as Ali Akbar, a long-time presence on Knoxville's music and art scenes, has died. He was...Read More Published 12/16/2009 at 4:30 PM 0 comments -
No Chocolate For You
One of the most popular local foodie events is the annual Chocolate Fest. Going on 25 years, it's been sweetly raising funds for the National Kidney...Read More Published 12/16/2009 at 10:19 AM 0 comments -
"The Road" Finally Leads to Knoxville
Last month we ran a review of the long-anticipated screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road. We don't often have access to press screenings,...Read More Published 12/15/2009 at 3:08 PM 1 comments -
Rep. Bart Gordon Won't Run in 2010
Another TN House Democrat has announced he's going to retire rather than face a tough reelection campaign next year. Rep. Bart Gordon, a 13-termer first...Read More Published 12/14/2009 at 4:14 PM 0 comments -
Has the Market Square District Registered a Trademark for First Night? (UPDATED)
The Market Square District Association appears to be trying to head off the kind of controversy that's recently sprung up around First Fridays in Knoxville...Read More Published 12/11/2009 at 4:28 PM 0 comments -
Dolly's Imagination Library Cutting Costs
Dolly Parton's international Imagination Library program is pretty amazing -- it mails books each month to children, free of charge, no questions asked. In Knox...Read More Published 12/07/2009 at 1:32 PM 0 comments -
Pizza Wars! Hard Knox vs. Brixx
"Who has the best pizza in town?" is an epic question that can never be fully answered -- it depends on what kind of pizza...Read More Published 12/03/2009 at 6:24 PM 0 comments -
NY State Senator's Common Sense Speech on Gay Marriage
Frank here. A friend alerted to me this speech by New York State Senator Diane Savino on extending marriage rights to same-sex couples. Savino doesn't...Read More Published 12/03/2009 at 5:57 PM 0 comments -
Senator Corker's Daughter Carjacked
Frank here. Last night Sen. Bob Corker's daughter, 22-year-old Julia, was the victim of a carjacking in Northwest Washington. She was not injured and the...Read More Published 12/03/2009 at 1:10 PM 0 comments -
Look for the Red Balloons!
Frank here. Apparently to commemorate the 40th birthday of the Internet, DARPA, or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the government entity where the Internet was...Read More Published 12/01/2009 at 3:57 PM 2 comments -
Marking World AIDS Day in Knoxville
Today is World AIDS Day, an event that can sometimes get lost in the shuffle due to the common misperception that AIDS has been...Read More Published 12/01/2009 at 12:07 PM 0 comments
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