Celebrity Sitings: Brushes With Fame at Knoxville Restaurants
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Knoxville's brushes with fame! Now you can enjoy the vicarious thrill of knowing that you may have at one time sat in the very same chair that a celebrity’s bottom used in a local restaurant. Yes, we have tales of big-time stars dining in Knoxville eateries. Find out what they ordered and what they said to their servers! Were they nice, or were they jerks? Jack Neely and Rose Kennedy get the dirt. Full story »
Photographer Danny Lyon’s Images of a Lost Time and Place: Knoxville's Summer, 1967
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Over 40 years ago, a young vagabond photographer named Danny Lyon dropped into Knoxville with his camera. A couple years later, he’d be awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for photography, no doubt because of his arresting photo books that effortlessly combined journalism and art: Bikeriders (outlaw motorcycle gangs) and The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (portraits of neighborhoods lost to urban renewal). But in 1967, curious about James Agee’s hometown, he squeezed in a short visit to an unlikely city, and documented some of the bohemian denizens of Fort Sanders. Jack Neely talks with the photographer about his long-ago sojourn. Full story »
‘These Are Serious Times’ — a Conversation With Bill Haslam
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
What does Bill Haslam think? Find out in our in-depth interview, conducted by Jesse Fox Mayshark on June 7 in the mayor’s office on the sixth floor of the City-County Building, and used in our July 15, 2010 cover story "What Does Bill Haslam Want?" This is the full Q&A. Full story »
Q&A: Bill Haslam on the Issues
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Bill Haslam gives his opinions on higher education, wealth in politics, school vouchers, and the environment. Full story »
The Haslam Family: Knoxville's Co-Pilots
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
To understand the scope of Haslam influence on Knoxville over the years, you have only to take a short bike ride along Neyland Drive. Of the three largest structures you will see along the city’s north waterfront—the squat, dark City County Building, the beige, boxy Thompson-Boling Arena, and of course the hulking mass of Neyland Stadium—all bear the fingerprints of Big Jim Haslam to varying degrees. So does the Knoxville Convention Center on Henley Street, and of course the new Haslam Business Building on the University of Tennessee campus. Haslam was prominent in pushing for the construction or expansion of all of those big-footed facilities. Less concretely but just as surely, he was a powerful force in the administrative and athletic direction of UT for decades, and a leader in the business and political life of the city. Full story »
What Does Bill Haslam Want?
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Everybody in Knoxville knows Bill Haslam, right? He’s one of those nice Republicans, and he belongs to that famous family who owns all the gas stations. In his years as mayor here, he’s made some good hiring decisions, helped along downtown’s revival (sometimes with his own checkbook), and actively invited public participation into big planning projects like the (sputtering) South Knoxville waterfront. But what’s on his agenda for becoming governor? That’s still a little unclear, even at this stage of the election. Jesse Fox Mayshark gathers all the resources he can for an in-depth profile of Bill Haslam and his powerful family, charting the Haslams’ impact on Knoxville and what that might reveal about Bill’s potential as governor Full story »
Knoxville Negocios: Profiles of Local Latino Businesses
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Take a ride along any of Knoxville’s main retail corridors—Kingston Pike, Chapman Highway, Broadway—and you’ll notice a growing number of colorful signs sprouting amid the usual chain venues. Taquerias, markets, bakeries, auto shops, and clothes stores representative of different Latino cultures have taken root in Knoxville, reflecting our city’s changing demographics. Frank Carlson gives us a peek inside Knoxville’s Hispanic community through some of its small businesses and their owners. Full story »
Constructing and Deconstructing Knoxville's Latino Community
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
In the work Loida and Luis Velazquez have done, the two major components of the local Hispanic community are represented: on the one end, the professional, educated class and entrepreneurs; and on the other, migrant laborers and unskilled workers who have decided to make East Tennessee their home. Full story »
Driving Tennessee's 'White Lightnin’ Trail'—is it the Real Thunder Road?
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
We’ve all heard the Robert Mitchum song, or at least heard of it—the one about moonshiners “Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike...” Legend has it that this bootleggers’ route through East Tennessee spawned NASCAR itself. But what’s the road itself really like? At the invitation of our state tourism office—which is actively promoting it as the “White Lightning Trail”—Jack Neely slides into a ’39 Oldsmobile and takes a ride on Thunder Road. Full story »
The Mighty Metro Pulse Collection of Awesome Knoxville Lists
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Knoxville is chock full of facts. This we know. But where you aware of all the nearly useless facts that exist about Knoxville? We do. And in our special Lists Issue, we share just a sampling of all the pointless knowledge compressed in our overtaxed brains. Full story »
Bonus: More Lists About Knoxville That Aren't Quite as Awesome But Still Pretty Interesting
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Here are the lists that we could quite fit into our special Knoxville lists issue. Full story »
5 Chicken-Finger Emporiums as Rated by a College Student
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Metro Pulse intern Robby O'Daniel investigates Knoxville's burgeoning chicken-finger restaurant scene, rating his top five. (Well, the only five, actually.) Full story »
8 Notable Knoxville Facebook Whores
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Rose Kennedy roots out some of Knoxville's most popular Facebookers (or at least the ones she's friends with). Full story »
11 Dashed Development Hopes for Knoxville
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Jack Neely enumerates the unfulfilled promises made by various development projects over the years in Knoxville. Full story »
Top 4 Competitive Activities for Those Still Suffering PTSS From Grade School Gym Class
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Rose Kennedy lists some locally available "sports" for those who are not considered athletically inclined. Full story »