http://www.metropulse.com/news/stories/scene-and-heard/?partner=RSSMetroPulse Stories: Scene and Hearden-usstories/scene-and-heardhttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/nov/24/east-knoxvilles-austin-east-dance-company-choreogr/?partner=RSSMike Gibson partakes an evening of artful dance at a recital of the Austin-East Dance Company in East Knoxville. mconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:43:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22145-734100stories/featuresMike GibsonKnoxville, TNEast Knoxville's Austin-East Dance Company Choreographs Important LessonsMetroPulseeast-knoxvilles-austin-east-dance-company-choreogrurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22145-734100Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/nov/24/south-knoxvilles-copa-cabana-night-club-unleashes/?partner=RSSMatthew Everett ventures to the Copa Cabana night club in South Knoxville. everettm@metropulse.com (Matthew Everett)Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:37:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22144-734100stories/featuresMatthew EverettKnoxville, TNSouth Knoxville's Copa Cabana Night Club Unleashes Hip-Hop Dance NightsMetroPulsesouth-knoxvilles-copa-cabana-night-club-unleashesurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22144-734100Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/nov/24/north-knoxvilles-sacred-hoop-drum-and-dance-circle/?partner=RSSRose Kennedy joins the Sacred Hoop, Drum and Dance Circle at the Broadway Academy of Performing Arts in North Knoxville. kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:34:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22143-734105stories/featuresRose KennedyKnoxville, TNNorth Knoxville's Sacred Hoop, Drum and Dance Circle MetroPulsenorth-knoxvilles-sacred-hoop-drum-and-dance-circleurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22143-734100Change734105Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/nov/24/west-knoxvilles-cotton-eyed-joe-still-home-line-da/?partner=RSSRose Kennedy treks to the line-dancing destination of Cotton Eyed Joe in West Knoxville. kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:30:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22142-734100stories/featuresRose KennedyKnoxville, TNWest Knoxville's Cotton Eyed Joe Still the Home of Line DancingMetroPulsewest-knoxvilles-cotton-eyed-joe-still-home-line-daurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-22142-734100Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/jun/16/west-knoxvilles-duncan-boat-dock-fixture-life-lake/?partner=RSSFrank Carlson visits Duncan Boat Dock on Fort Loudoun Lake, where generations of waterfarers come to fill their tanks. Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21384-733939stories/featuresFrank N. CarlsonKnoxville, TNWest Knoxville's Duncan Boat Dock a Fixture of Life on the LakeMetroPulsewest-knoxvilles-duncan-boat-dock-fixture-life-lakeurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21384-733939Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/jun/16/north-knoxvilles-union-stockyards-offer-slice-agri/?partner=RSSIf you haven’t heard of Union Stockyards, where you can bid for any cow you want, Jack Neely says you shouldn’t worry. They haven’t heard of you, either. neely@metropulse.com (Jack Neely)Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21389-733939stories/featuresJack NeelyKnoxville, TNNorth Knoxville's Union Stockyards Offer a Slice of Agricultural Life in the 'BurbsMetroPulsenorth-knoxvilles-union-stockyards-offer-slice-agriurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21389-733939Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/jun/16/east-knoxvilles-cardins-drive--has-been-classic-50/?partner=RSSAt Cardin’s Drive-In on Asheville Highway, Betty Bean finds that some things never change: the peanut butter milkshakes, the carhop service, and the big crowds. Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21386-733939stories/featuresBetty BeanKnoxville, TNEast Knoxville's Cardin’s Drive-In Has Been a Classic For 50 YearsMetroPulseeast-knoxvilles-cardins-drive--has-been-classic-50urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21386-733939Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/jun/16/south-knoxvilles-spy-teck-supply-one-stop-shop-sne/?partner=RSSNeed a camera hidden inside a teddy bear? Gary Glarner won’t ask why. As Rose Kennedy discovers, Spy Teck Supply has everything you need for a bit of domestic espionage. kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21388-733939stories/featuresRose KennedyKnoxville, TNSouth Knoxville's Spy Teck Supply a One-Stop Shop for SneakinessMetroPulsesouth-knoxvilles-spy-teck-supply-one-stop-shop-sneurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-21388-733939Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/nov/25/north-knoxvilles-star-sales-wholesale-wonderland/?partner=RSSStar Sales is on North Central, about a holler and a half past Happy Holler. It’s a plain cinder-block building beneath a big red star, which in this case suggests no influence of Communism. Based on its operating particulars, you’d never suspect this is a place that’s ever particularly merry, or that it sports whimsical artificial Christmas trees, including an over-the-goalposts Go-Vols tree to assuage a mediocre season, as well as an almost life-size statue of Santa himself—or that it may be the best one-stop shop for Christmas shopping on a budget in Knoxville. neely@metropulse.com (Jack Neely)Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:24:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-20291-733736stories/featuresJack NeelyKnoxville, TNNorth Knoxville's Star Sales a Wholesale WonderlandMetroPulsenorth-knoxvilles-star-sales-wholesale-wonderlandurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-20291-733736Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/nov/25/west-knoxvilles-mennonite-church-aids-third-world-/?partner=RSSModest, a single story of clean white clapboard, a simple cross over the door, the Concord Mennonite Church stands out like a beacon. It’s way far west Knoxville, on Dutchtown off of 40W, just past billboards for the Katch One Lounge and Krystal. Take a right on exit 374, away from Turkey Creek and towards the Adult Superstore, and a hand-lettered sign points to “Craft Sale.” Held each November in association with the nonprofit Ten Thousand Villages, the sale helps bring handcrafted items made by third-world artisans to North American markets. kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:20:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-20290-733736stories/featuresRose KennedyKnoxville, TNWest Knoxville's Mennonite Church Helps Third-World Artisans MetroPulsewest-knoxvilles-mennonite-church-aids-third-world-urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-20290-733736Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/nov/25/south-knoxvilles-my-village-provides-day-care-unde/?partner=RSSFrom the outside, My Village looks like a public school, which is a nice way of saying it looks like a prison. Barbed wire sits atop a chain-linked fence that surrounds a red-brick building. White paint chips gather on windowsills under clear-ish glass. Today the cold, mono-grey sky dulls even the brightest colors of two playground sets trapped behind still another fence, and there’s something unsettling about seeing the playthings of children trapped behind so much twisted metal. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:15:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-20289-733736stories/featuresFrank N. CarlsonKnoxville, TNSouth Knoxville's My Village Provides Day Care for Underprivileged FamiliesMetroPulsesouth-knoxvilles-my-village-provides-day-care-undeurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-20289-733736Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/nov/25/east-knoxvilles-broken-wing-meat-processing-aids-s/?partner=RSSFollow the dimly lit, sinuous Riverside Drive east from downtown, and after a few miles you’ll come upon a bucolic, two-story home with a white picket fence framing the driveway. Behind the house sits a fairly typical garage, complete with a canoe fixed across its facade and fluorescent light emanating from its single window. Across the room, the rhythmic hum of a bandsaw tears through flesh under the surgical, latex-covered hands of Ed Blankenship, the owner and butcher of Broken Wing Meat Processing. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:08:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-20288-733736stories/featuresFrank N. CarlsonKnoxville, TNEast Knoxville's Broken Wing Meat Processing Aids Second Harvest MetroPulseeast-knoxvilles-broken-wing-meat-processing-aids-surn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-20288-733736Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/aug/05/burlingtons-spontaneous-trading-post/?partner=RSSAs online social networking permeates the culture, and archived blogs and tweets and YouTube clips come dangerously close to replacing actual interpersonal experience, let us celebrate anything that brings people together in real contact and conversation. If there is aromatic food on a grill and a truck full of sweet corn and maybe a pyramid of yard-grown tomatoes to share, all the better. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:02:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-19429-733624stories/featuresRansom SykesKnoxville, TNBurlington’s Spontaneous Trading PostMetroPulseburlingtons-spontaneous-trading-posturn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-19429-733624Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/aug/05/haven-imani-african-community-church/?partner=RSSThe singers at Imani African Community Church are enthusiastically transcending their space. It’s in the basement of the Middlebrook Ministries building near Sam’s Club on Middlebrook Pike, a lackluster concrete block-tan linoleum room with a stainless steel kitchen at one end. The chairs are folding metal, maybe 20 rows of 10 set up for the service, each with a white-covered book etched in gold letters: Baptist Hymnal. kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-19428-733624stories/featuresRose KennedyKnoxville, TNThe Haven of Imani African Community ChurchMetroPulsehaven-imani-african-community-churchurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-19428-733624Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/aug/05/strange-melting-pot-green-acres-flea-market/?partner=RSSA heavyset, gray-haired older woman—clad on this sunny Saturday in a grandmothery gray sundress and impressively circumferenced summer hat—peruses through knickknacks in the outer lot of the sprawling Green Acres Flea Market in Louisville. She’s here, it seems, just to browse, fussily picking up an item here or there, briefly inspecting it, then inevitably replacing it, a broad smile on her face the whole time. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:58:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-19427-733624stories/featuresCharles MaldonadoKnoxville, TNThe Strange Melting Pot of Green Acres Flea MarketMetroPulsestrange-melting-pot-green-acres-flea-marketurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-19427-733624Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2009/aug/05/summer-afternoon-fountain-city-park/?partner=RSSOn a bright Saturday, Fountain City Park can seem like a color rendering of Paradise from a Jehovah’s Witness brochure. Children romp and couples hold hands on this micro-topography of small stone foot bridges spanning a clean, shallow creek, with picnic tables and swingsets beneath towering oak trees. Maybe it’s the moist summer, maybe it’s the newer additions, the young willows and magnolias that give it more dimension, but the park seems lusher, greener this year. neely@metropulse.com (Jack Neely)Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:57:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-19426-733624stories/featuresJack NeelyKnoxville, TNA Summer Afternoon in Fountain City ParkMetroPulsesummer-afternoon-fountain-city-parkurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-19426-733624Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2008/nov/12/caged-spectacle/?partner=RSSThe great games of the ancient Romans were pageants of grandeur nonpareil. At least as re-imagined by modern-day sword-and-sandals movies, at any rate. These were glorious spectacles staged in cartographically huge, open-air coliseums, towering sandstone walls bathed in sunlight and staring venerably down at a handful of glistening, naked warriors, the mighty champions whose death throes and derring-do would sate the roiling bloodlust of madding Roman throngs. mconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-13993-733358stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNCaged SpectacleMetroPulsecaged-spectacleurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-13993-733358Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2008/nov/05/hard-workin-man/?partner=RSSWhen your name is etched on the front of a university building, as Atlanta attorney Joel A. Katz’s is at the University of Tennessee’s Joel A. Katz Law Library, you probably have some latitude about who you can invite to a lecture series at the school. When your name’s also part of the official title of that lecture series, as Katz’s is for the UT College of Law Joel A. Katz SunTrust Lecture Series, you can invite just about whoever you want. everettm@metropulse.com (Matthew Everett)Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-13947-733351stories/scene-and-heardMatthew EverettKnoxville, TNHard Workin’ ManMetroPulsehard-workin-manurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-13947-733351Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2008/oct/29/nothing-didnt/?partner=RSSAt least it was nice and sunny outside, 65 degrees, with just a touch of a cool fall breeze in the air. It was lunchtime, and Market Square was teeming by Knoxville standards—packs of people out for a midday break from work, eating complicated foodstuffs from sort-of-fancy restaurants on the patios, sitting on the park benches, or just taking a walk through the city’s renovated historic meeting place. Everyone was looking and feeling very young, urbane, and sophisticated. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-13876-733344stories/scene-and-heardCharles MaldonadoKnoxville, TNThe Nothing That Didn'tMetroPulsenothing-didnturn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-13876-733344Change0Usablehttp://www.metropulse.com/news/2008/oct/15/descent-ripperology/?partner=RSS“They’ve all got knives,” the kid working front desk at the Four Points Sheraton warns of the group convening upstairs on the mezzanine. And with that my mind is off, racing, conjuring all manner of bladed horrors: gleaming machetes, club-like butcher knives, twisted turn-of-the-20th-century surgical implements, seemingly less suited to saving lives than to snuffing them out, ensuring that the last terrible moments are spent in paroxysms of blinding white agony. And all of them—all of the blades, that is—are black from their work’s awful harvest, with the dark, crusted residuals of gutted human remains. mconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-13837-733330stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNDescent Into RipperologyMetroPulsedescent-ripperologyurn:publicid:www.metropulse.com:news-Story-13837-733330Change0Usable