Biography
Cari Wade Gervin is the Metro Pulse's newest staff member, having left the lucrative world of public radio for the equally lucrative world of alt-weeklies. She started her journalism career at WUGA, the University of Georgia's Public radio station, and has since worked for Georgia Public Broadcasting and Mississippi Public Broadcasting, along with the Chattanooga Times Free Press. While she may be a new Knoxville resident, she's no stranger to the area, having grown up in Chattanooga.
Position History
- Staff Writer
11/22/2010 - current
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HBO's 'Girls' Isn't the New 'Sex and the City' (Yet)
Published 05/23/2012 at 3:03 p.m. 1 Comment
Mumblecore Sex and the City—that’s an easy way to describe HBO’s new series Girls, but it’s also an accurate one. Critics can talk about the show’s creator, 25-year-old Lena Dunham, as being the new voice of her generation, but the ...
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Local Bassmaster Elite Competitors Go All Out to Win
Published 05/23/2012 at 1:34 p.m.
Welcome to Day 2 of the Bassmaster Elite Series Douglas Lake Challenge. For the uninitiated, competitive bass-fishing is a real sport, and a hugely popular one—see that ESPN2 truck over there? See those fantasy fishing stats? At that booth you ...
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Margaret Lazarus Dean and Christopher Hebert: The Hot Literary Couple Next Door
Published 05/16/2012 at 12:11 p.m.
Young, talented, and attractive, Margaret Lazarus Dean and Christopher Hebert just might be the next hot literary couple. The married authors have both published their first novels to wide acclaim and are working on their follow-ups. Cari Wade Gervins takes ...
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Death Cab for Cutie's Rise From Beloved Indie Rockers to Major-Label Success
Published 04/25/2012 at 1:12 p.m.
In a bleak decade for the recording industry, Death Cab for Cutie stands almost alone, making the jump from beloved indie rocker status to major record label success without losing its critical acclaim.
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Mulchpocalypse 2012: How Did a Pile of Bark Turn Into a Fire-Breathing Dragon?
Published 04/25/2012 at 10:39 a.m.
The mulch fire was pretty much all anyone talked about last week, other than Pat Summitt’s retirement. It was understandable, given the thick wood smoke that spread across town for days, making living rooms smell like fire pits and lungs ...
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Activist Larry Silverstein's Battle With TVA's Tree-Cutting
Published 04/18/2012 at 12:10 p.m. 1 Comment
TVA is in the process of cutting down hundreds of thousands of trees across seven states, any tree TVA deems unsuitable that happens to grow on a TVA transmission line easement. Easement brush clearing is nothing new, but for the ...
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Is There Any Hope for Beating Knoxville’s Notorious Pollen Problem?
Updated 04/16/2012 at 4:21 p.m.
You will probably sneeze before you finish reading this blurb. That’s because Knoxville is the reputed worst city in the U.S. for spring allergies. So what can you do about it? Cari Wade Gervin tries out several different treatments to ...
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Be Prepared: Girl Scouts, Trailer Parks, and Growing Up in 'girlchild'
Published 03/28/2012 at 10:59 a.m.
Tupelo Hassman’s girlchild is a tough read. It’s not because the book is dense and impenetrable, although Hassman does stray from a conventional narrative structure. No, girlchild is a tough read because the string of events that happen to the ...
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Young and Sick: Fighting Kidney Cancer
Published 03/21/2012 at 12:11 p.m.
According to the most recent statistics from the state, approximately 75 people in Knox County get kidney cancer every year. That’s the third-highest number in Tennessee, behind the more populous Shelby and Davidson counties. In 2010, 20 people died from ...
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Knoxville Takes Aim at Derelict Properties With New Ordinances
Published 03/21/2012 at 11:09 a.m.
After spending eight years in development, the city will soon have four new ordinances to deal with cases of extreme blight. City Council voted unanimously to approve the measures on first reading Tuesday night.
