All You Can Eat, Pray, Love
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Elizabeth Gilbert did live and work here for a semester, the spring semester of 2005, and while she was here she and Felipe—whose real name has been revealed to be Jose Nunes—lived in the Hotel St. Oliver on Market Square. Full story »
More Secret History by Jack Neely
- A Visit to a Not-Quite-Forgotten Jazz Hangout
- The Last Train to Knoxville
- August Notes
- A Good-Sport Attempt at Early Voting
State Finances in Dire Straits?
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Gov. Phil Bredesen had a rather snippy exchange with some reporters recently that could be taken as a shot across Haslam’s bow, though he might have just been cranky that day. Haslam’s campaign theme during the primary was that as a business executive and a mayor he is better equipped to deal with the financial calamity facing the state. Full story »
More Frank Talk by Frank Cagle
- Gerrymandering or Gerry-Rigging?
- UT Should Pick a President Who Knows the Words to ‘Rocky Top’
- Haslam Won Everywhere
- Which Races to Watch as the Returns Come In
Knoxville-based Physician Group at Forefront of New Patient-care Model
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
Health care reform is by no means something that’s just being imposed from the top down by governmental mandates. It’s also emanating from the bottom up with initiatives on the part of doctors to change the way they practice medicine and get compensated. Full story »
More Insights by Joe Sullivan
- UT’s Laggard Graduation Rate
- Bill Baxter’s Sour Grapes
- County Commission’s Growing Stature
- Amid Ballooning Federal Deficits, Estate Tax Should Be Reinstated
100 Block Redux
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
One morning a few weeks back, the fence finally came down. There was no fanfare. That had come and gone. Workers just quietly removed the chain-link fence erected to contain the construction on the 100 Block of Gay Street. Full story »
More Shot of Urban by Michael Haynes
- It’s Time to Revisit Knoxville's Trolley Routes
- Rather Contain Buskers, We Ought to Extend That Market Square Vibe
- Without Enough Policing, Sundown Series Is Too Much of a Good Thing
- Construction on Gay Street’s 100 Block Grinds On, While Residents Lose Patience
The Unbearable Light-ness of Voting
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
A walk down the beer aisle at a supermarket gives testimony to the power of a free market. Whether your priority is quality, price, brand, or style, there is a product to meet your desires. A walk to your polling place reveals the opposite: few brands on the shelves, and competitors clamoring to sound alike. Full story »
More Sideways Glance by Rikki Hall
- Slim Pickings in This Year's Political Races
- A Tale of Two Calamities
- Henry
- Take Back Our Government
Empirical Data for the Ten-Year Plan
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Brian Margetts: First, I do not have any solution. [“Halfway Home” by Frank Carlson, Aug. 12, 2010] So if you are looking for one, skip forward. Second, I have been a business owner in Downtown North for 18 years and here is the “data” as I see it: Full story »
More Letters to the Editor
Heather Nijoli Robinson, 37, DJ, Purveyor of Vinyl, Part Owner of Soul Streamers
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Robinson tells Kate Furst how finding a rhythm in work, working as a DJ, and her desire to travel the country in a mobile dance party. Full story »
More The Casual Observer
- Bill Foster, 47, Retired Navy, Political Science Grad Student, Photographer
- MissC, Gym and Life Enthusiast
- Ian Thomas, Musician and Morelock Music employee
Larsen Jay, Local Entrepreneur and Producer of 'That Evening Sun'
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Head of DoubleJay Creative, which does high-tech PR and video work, Larsen Jay was once famous for spearheading Market Square’s holiday skating rink. But he turned motion-picture producer with last year’s release of That Evening Sun. Full story »
More Guest Speaker
- Libby Sherrill, Executive Producer, 'Beyond the Myth,' a Film About Pit Bulls and Breed Discrimination
- A Conversation With George Barris, Creator of the Batmobile
- C. Martin Croker: The Man Behind 'Space Ghost' Villain Zorak
- Black Atticus Discusses the Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam
French Lessons
Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
In the summer of my 18th year, I went to live in a part of Brittany called Nord Finistere. Finistere means “end of the earth,” and that seemed accurate to me. Full story »
More Midpoint by Stephanie Piper
State St., That Great Street
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Don, on the Tellico River: As a teenager I carried the News Sentinel and, at times, the Knoxville Journal. While carrying the “Downtown Route,” my manager dropped my bundle at the Commerce Avenue Fire Hall, located at the corner of Commerce and State Street. My first stop was The State Street Apartments, just across the street. It was a huge building, made of stone. And, if my memory serves me, it had three or four stories. What can you tell us about this old building? Full story »
More Ask Doc Knox by Dr. Z. Heraclitus Knox
Stacy Varon, a Spiritual Weeder
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
In a matter of minutes, Stacy Varon has me thinking anyone could take up this community gardening for the less privileged—would enjoy it, might even love it. She’s alight with happiness at the prospect. And not just for the Farragut Christian Church food pantry patrons, and the battered women and homeless who will benefit from this bountiful 1/3-acre side plot alongside St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church. No, she’s also tickled for the 20-30 people who work the garden—nearly a fifth the number who regularly attend this airy, tasteful place of worship on a given Sunday. Full story »
More All Foods Considered by Rose Kennedy
- Chard for Life
- Kevin Bradley Loves Kimchi
- Good Food Spoken Here
- Local Restaurants, Can't You Change and Also Stay the Same?
Looking for a Good Lawn-Mower Beer
Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
Even beer snobs have to mow the lawn sometimes. And when it’s 95 degrees with 70 percent humidity, even less strenuous outdoor activity—like sitting on a patio in the shade—can seem to call for something a little crisper, colder, dare I say lighter, than your more robust microbrews. Full story »
More Libacious by Jesse Fox Mayshark
Glowing Boxes from Glowing Bowl
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
As a raw-foods only café, Glowing Bowl was a difficult concept to warm up to (so to speak). However, I’d done it, and was certain that others would, too, if only they’d give it a try—once you’ve been exposed to it, such fresh, organic, expertly prepared food quickly makes the transition from nicety to necessity. Full story »
More Bonnie Appetit
UT Cafe a Learning Experience
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Standard journalism practice is to build up the underdog and take the leader down a peg or two. A visit to the Ready for the World Café (University Center, 1502 W. Cumberland Ave) might brace us for a dose of the former, since the venue is run entirely by students. On the other hand the café’s buffet lunch (the only meal it serves) costs $11, placing it in one of the higher echelons of the Knoxville buffet spread. Even given the absence of tax and service charge it’s something of a challenge to view this as value for money. Full story »
More The Gourmet Nose
Urban Amenities in a Tidy Old North Bungalow
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
I find few things more irritating than the conspicuous non-consumer. You know the type—always cluttering up your Facebook feed with causes to support or links to online surveys to calculate your carbon footprint (while bragging about their own, naturally) and generally taking a perverse pleasure in pointing out how, if more people lived like them, we could supposedly save the planet. Full story »
More Urban Renewal by Matt Edens
- Southeastern Glass: a Welcome Addition
- Further Center-City Redevelopment With This Lincoln Park Craftsman Bungalow
- New Loan Program Aims to Move Middle-Income Homebuyers Into Center City
- Give Me Land, Lots of Land
Final Check-Out
Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008
After roughly 10 months on the job I am giving up pursuit of the truth about Knoxville in its supermarket aisles. Though I believe the truth is still to be found in these stores—in produce perhaps, or inadvertently buried in a bin on the bargain aisle—the press of more urgent and lucrative business pulls me away. I admit that at times it has seemed to me that this column, like Seinfeld, was about nothing at all. Few places feel more empty of meaning than a grocery store at mid-afternoon with nothing going on. Full story »
More Grocery Check-Out by John Yates
Nature Meets Technology
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Bridgeview Grill went out of business, but right now it’s a fun place to visit. Along the water as it flows past the university, the building is home to a thriving colony of barn swallows. Walk the docks that pass under Neyland Drive along the mouth of Second Creek, and these handsome birds will zip past you, showing off the band of white spots atop their forked tails. Full story »
More That's Wild by Rikki Hall
- Bill Would Remove Some Tennessee Waterway Protections
- Warming or Not, Carbon Glut is Core Problem
- Full of Sap
- Let TVA Pay Damages
Three is the Magic Number
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Last weekend, at the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Metro Pulse picked up three 2010 AltWeekly Awards. These awards are especially important to us because they honor the best writing and reporting from alt weeklies across the U.S. and Canada—and the 2010 contest fielded over 1,000 entries from nearly 100 papers. Full story »
More From the Editor
- From the Editor: Comings and Goings
- We Knew Him When
- 2009 Knoxville City Council Endorsements
- Upward and Onward
A Healthy Debate
Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009
Last month, a little more than 100 miles northeast of Knoxville, President Obama stood before aisles of canned goods, deli meats, and strategically-placed advertisements, and in a loose accent converted a Kroger on the Virginia side of Bristol into a town-hall meeting. Full story »
More The Hill to the Hills by Frank N. Carlson
- Zach Wamp and the C Street Band
- The (Blue) Dog Days of Summer
- TVA Chairman Mike Duncan Threatens to Politicize Agency
- Tempest in a Teabag
We Are All We Have
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The first few minutes for a visitor at a Trappist monastery are pretty special. The member monks and priests subscribe fully to the line of teaching that when Christ returns, He will present Himself as a stranger in need. You briefly get the benefit of the doubt. Once they sniff out your humanity, you are left to your own devices. Full story »
More Off-Center City by Matt Edens
- Who Will Fill 6th District Vacancy?
- The Rep faces potential legal troubles
- Old Man Potter’s Revenge
- Soul Food
On the Edge
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Other Lives by Lucy Sieger: From the book’s spine, an enigmatic dark-haired woman engages me with her smoky gaze. She has stenciled brows, kohl-lined eyes and a beauty mark; she is dangling a cigarette, of course. She is my alter ego, the writer I always wanted to be, my creative soul embodied in the daughter of sculptors from the Left Bank of Paris or poets from Prague Full story »
More Other Lives
Letter From Ft. Myers, Fla.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Letters Home from Buddy Lucas It has been said that Tennessee is an old man stretched out under the sun and the moon and the stars, who dips his toes in the Mississippi River and rests his head on the Smoky Mountains with a thousand tales to tell and all the time to tell them. Being a part-time existentialist, full-time daydreamer, and occasional magic-bean buyer, I adhere to that description. This Tennessee will always be home to me. Knoxville has a special place in my heart, because it was there I feel I came to be who I am. Full story »