AltWeeklies Wire
Smoldering Keyboardsnew
The student press in Chattanooga is alive and well, but it has cooled and struggles to connect with an audience awash in social media.
Tags: college papers, student press
Get Back, Honky Catnew
Beginning with Honky Château, Elton John, along with his writing partner, Bernie Taupin, served notice that he had no intention of remaining tethered to his piano, singing sensitive love songs.
When Chattanooga Rockednew
Former Sound Seventy staffer and music industry veteran Ben Jumper says the city’s venues need now what they had 30 years ago—real managers. Learn from Track 29, he says, and the Memorial Auditorium and UTC's McKenzie Arena could quickly rock again.
Tags: chattanooga music
Profitus Maxiumusnew
A private corporation by the name of Maximus is in charge of child support enforcement in Tennessee's Hamilton County, and its performance has some parents angry, confused and looking to their county and state government for answers.
The Pulse |
John Lasker |
03-14-2013 |
Children & Families
The Ballad of Cadillac Dave: A Saga of Journalism, Drugs & Redemptionnew
If you took all the histories and memoirs ever published about Chattanooga and brought them all together in one hypothetical and impossibly complete library, not only would the "Cadillac Dave" books include one of the only first-hand accounts of 1960's campus radicalism at the University of Chattanooga, they would surely be the only history or memoir to be cross-referenced in both the "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll" and "Religion" categories.
"We Shall Not Be Moved"new
The untold story of the brave high school students who led nonviolent protests and sparked the Civil Rights Movement in Chattanooga, Tenn.
World of Woodcraftnew
Chattanooga is quickly becoming a haven for artisan woodworking, with more young artisan craftspeople relocating to the city each year. The artists and craftspeople who work in wood are beginning to see their work recognized beyond city borders.
Buzzard Lucknew
When illustrator David Helton first sketched “The Buzzard,” the now-iconic cartoon mascot for Cleveland’s famed rock radio station WMMS-FM almost 40 years ago, he never thought the bird would still be hovering over his career. But the character’s marketing star-power continues unabated and has become so ingrained in Cleveland lore, it has become synonymous with the city’s claim as “The Rock ‘n’ Roll Capitol of the World.”
Proud and Unbowed: Chattanooga’s African American Historynew
African American history is American history. There is no excuse not to learn the history that paved the way for their existence.
