AltWeeklies Wire
Drunken Mumbo Jumbonew

Tennessee's liquor laws are weird, confusing, and frustrating. Is it time for a rewrite?
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
09-17-2014 |
Policy Issues
'Shine Onnew

East Tennessee cashes in on legal moonshine.
Metro Pulse |
Mike Gibson |
09-18-2013 |
Food+Drink
"Fuck 'em early and fuck 'em often." — The Case Against Pilot Flying Jnew

The affidavit released in the wake of last week's FBI raid of Pilot Flying J headquarters reveals the ins and outs of a rebate scheme that allegedly defrauded trucking companies to the likely tune of millions of dollars.
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
04-25-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Reform Schoolnew

Tennessee is quickly becoming a laboratory for education reform. Are school vouchers the next big experiment?
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
02-25-2013 |
Education
Knoxville's Surprising Mushrooms Industrynew

With Everything Mushrooms and Monterey Mushrooms, the Knoxville area may just be the mushroom capital of the Southeast.
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
10-18-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Foraging
Leaving the Projects Behindnew

As Knoxville begins tearing down an infamous public housing complex, current residents wonder if they'll really be part of the renewal.
Metro Pulse |
Amien Essif and Daniel Snider |
08-17-2012 |
Housing & Development
How Gay Is Knoxville, Really?new

Knoxville's ranking as America's eighth "gayest" city may be more optimistic than realistic.
Metro Pulse |
Mike Gibson |
06-26-2012 |
LGBT
Tags: Gay in Knoxville, Gayest Cities
Young and Sick: The New Face of Kidney Cancer?new

I'm 34. I have cancer. The same kind of cancer that killed my dad.
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
03-22-2012 |
Health
17,000 Species — and Countingnew

A project to identify every living thing in the Great Smoky Mountains has a lot to show for its first decade of work. But where does it go from here?
Metro Pulse |
Jesse Fox Mayshark |
11-22-2011 |
Environment
Naked Winenew

Alice Feiring wants to convince you that "naked wine" is better.
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
09-28-2011 |
Nonfiction
Is the Apocalypse Coming? Is it Something We Did?new
We talk to religious leaders and find out if God is unleashing His wrath upon us.
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
07-06-2011 |
Religion
Beaten, Not Stirred: A Biscuit Storynew

Southern politics, Southern families, and beaten biscuits.
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
05-26-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Beaten Biscuit Recipe, Biscuits
Why Do East Tennesseans Love Their Guns?new

Few issues in America, aside from war and abortion, are as polarizing as guns. But why are we so obsessed by them in the first place?
Metro Pulse |
Jesse Fox Mayshark |
11-08-2010 |
Culture
Tags: Guns
'Nobody's Daughter': The Demos Really Were Betternew
Nobody's Daughter feels like misguided opportunism, an attempt by Courtney Love to recapture her mid-’90s rock-star heyday.
Metro Pulse |
Jesse Fox Mayshark |
05-10-2010 |
Reviews
'The Losers' Demonstrates the Good and Bad of Comic-Book Adaptationsnew
While the steady resurgence of the comics industry led to a decade’s worth of well-established superhero movies and iffy adaptations of high-profile graphic novels, The Losers is the rare exception that takes Hollywood a little deeper into comics.
Metro Pulse |
Nick Huinker |
05-03-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Losers, Sylvain White