http://metropulse.com/news/stories/scene-and-heard/?partner=RSSMetroPulse Stories: Scene and Hearden-usstories/scene-and-heardhttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/nov/12/caged-spectacle/?partner=RSSmconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13993-733358stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNCaged SpectacleMetroPulsecaged-spectacleurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13993-733358Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/nov/05/hard-workin-man/?partner=RSSeverettm@metropulse.com (Matthew Everett)Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13947-733351stories/scene-and-heardMatthew EverettKnoxville, TNHard Workin’ ManMetroPulsehard-workin-manurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13947-733351Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/oct/29/nothing-didnt/?partner=RSS ]]>maldonadoc@metropulse.com (Charles Maldonado)Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13876-733344stories/scene-and-heardCharles MaldonadoKnoxville, TNThe Nothing That Didn'tMetroPulsenothing-didnturn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13876-733344Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/oct/15/descent-ripperology/?partner=RSSmconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13837-733330stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNDescent Into RipperologyMetroPulsedescent-ripperologyurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13837-733330Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/oct/08/war-aint-no-picnic/?partner=RSSkennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13814-733323stories/scene-and-heardRose KennedyKnoxville, TNWar Ain’t No PicnicMetroPulsewar-aint-no-picnicurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13814-733323Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/oct/01/crypt-keepers/?partner=RSSmconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13784-733316stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNCrypt KeepersMetroPulsecrypt-keepersurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13784-733316Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/sep/17/arms-race/?partner=RSSmconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13743-733302stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNArms RaceMetroPulsearms-raceurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13743-733302Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/sep/10/farmers-almanac/?partner=RSSneely@metropulse.com (Jack Neely)Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13717-733295stories/scene-and-heardJack NeelyKnoxville, TNFarmers’ Almanac MetroPulsefarmers-almanacurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13717-733295Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/aug/27/pretty-camo-and-pink/?partner=RSSkennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13666-733281stories/scene-and-heardRose KennedyKnoxville, TNPretty in Camo (and Pink)MetroPulsepretty-camo-and-pinkurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13666-733281Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/aug/20/call-me-clairvoyant/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Rose Kennedy: When just such an event came to Knoxville last weekend, though, I resisted the obvious cliche. I decided that instead of testing the Expo representatives’ psychic ability (“I expected you to know I’d be redeeming my admission coupon”), I would try out my powers of prognostication on them. So before arriving at the Holiday Inn Select in Cedar Bluff, I took five minutes to focus on what I thought might happen at this gathering of psychics, mediums, astrologers, numerologists, and holistic and natural healers, assembled to speak, sell, and—if you bought separate tickets—give individual readings. Predictably—well, this is what happened, and it was anything but predictable: ]]>kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13646-733274stories/scene-and-heardRose KennedyKnoxville, TNCall Me Clairvoyant?MetroPulsecall-me-clairvoyanturn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13646-733274Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/aug/13/sofa-survivor/?partner=RSSScene and Heard by Charles Erickson: Only five passengers are visible in silhouette as a westbound KAT bus moves along the 3900 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. The bus rumbles past Burlington Printing, Barnes Barber Shop, and Unchained Bail Bond, three going concerns whose front doors remained locked because it’s too early for handbills, haircuts, and jailhouse sureties. ]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13626-733267stories/scene-and-heardCharles EricksonCoury TurczynKnoxville, TNSofa SurvivorMetroPulsesofa-survivorurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13626-733267Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/aug/06/i-will-remember-you/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Rose Kennedy: A massive oak tree shades two grave markers, high on a hill along a narrow gravel road that rises up to a grassy knoll. The oak’s branches dip, down low, catching the last strains of R.B. Morris strumming his guitar and the low voices of those gathered together today ]]>kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13586-733260stories/scene-and-heardRose KennedyKnoxville, TNI Will Remember YouMetroPulsei-will-remember-youurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13586-733260Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jul/30/stand-me/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Rose Kennedy:They’ve braved a thunderstorm that started stirring about half an hour ago to be here at a candlelight vigil for the next-door neighbors—the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church—where a gunman opened fire during a children’s performance of Annie at 10:18 Sunday morning. He killed two, Greg McKendry of TVUUC and Linda Kraeger, visiting from Westside Unitarian Universalist Church in Farragut that morning, and severely wounded six others.. ]]>kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13567-733253stories/scene-and-heardRose KennedyKnoxville, TNStand by MeMetroPulsestand-meurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13567-733253Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jul/16/childhood-calling/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Rose Kennedy: It’s about 1:30 p.m. and the sun is still high this Friday afternoon, but the fun is winding down. A few hours earlier, the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, our city’s repository for and promoter of African American achievements and culture, was thronged for its first-ever family-friendly Friday Fun in the Sun event. ]]>kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13515-733239stories/scene-and-heardRose KennedyKnoxville, TNChildhood CallingMetroPulsechildhood-callingurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13515-733239Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jul/09/diverse-dive/?partner=RSSScene and Heard by Mike Gibson: It’s easy to miss Martha’s Place, an unassuming little crimson-painted hovel with a red tin roof—about the size of a double-wide trailer—settled only a few feet off Rutledge Pike on a grim stretch reserved mostly for industrial buildings and trucking outfits. It’s not all that inviting, from the outside, having few windows and naught but the obligatory “Must be 21” sign to greet new patrons. ]]>mconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13488-733232stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNDiverse DiveMetroPulsediverse-diveurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13488-733232Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jun/25/bingo/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Rose Kennedy: No senior citizens’ center, this, nor a kiddie birthday party. This is summertime Sunday night bingo on the Cumberland Strip at the Mellow Mushroom. Each player gets one 4-inch-by-4-inch disposable punch-out card. Most perch on ladder-backed tall chairs or snug in overcrowded booths in the urban-loft magenta and deep turquoises of the bar. One guy sits at a little round table alone, dourly studying his flimsy card, a can of lager before him, looking like a bearded version of Edgar Degas’ The Absinthe Drinker for our times. ]]>kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13442-733218stories/scene-and-heardRose KennedyKnoxville, TNBINGOMetroPulsebingourn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13442-733218Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jun/18/energy-crisis/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Mike Gibson: ]]>mconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13421-733211stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNEnergy CrisisMetroPulseenergy-crisisurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13421-733211Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jun/11/rare-creatures/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Jack Neely: Talahi Park is a rarity, a long, rectangular park lined with gingko trees and framed in a fence of concrete and ironwork that is, in style, a combination of Cherokee and Egyptian, fused in art-deco whimsy. This 1926 remnant of a short-lived planned community—it may have been a century before its time—would seem designed to attract rare beasts, and the duckbilled platypus of Knoxville politics has to be the Sequoyah Hills Democrat. ]]>neely@metropulse.com (Jack Neely)Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13395-733204stories/scene-and-heardJack NeelyKnoxville, TNRare CreaturesMetroPulserare-creaturesurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13395-733204Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/jun/04/best-show/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Mike Gibson: The nearly wall-sized baby-blue screen standing in the center of the room is shaking and bumping as if it were being manhandled by some club-footed poltergeist; likewise the fold-out chair I had stationed in what I thought was an unobtrusive corner of this smallish kennel in the biggish PetSafe Village complex, a store/grooming center/day-care/playground for four-legged friends, just off Lovell Road. ]]>mconnergibson@gmail.com (Mike Gibson)Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13366-733197stories/scene-and-heardMike GibsonKnoxville, TNBest in ShowMetroPulsebest-showurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13366-733197Change0Usablehttp://metropulse.com/news/2008/may/28/pinning-hopes/?partner=RSSScene & Heard by Rose Kennedy A woman in sensible slacks and T-shirt crows triumphantly to her little daughter at the marbled washstand in the cavernous restroom at the Knoxville Convention Center. ]]>kennedyr@metropulse.com (Rose Kennedy)Wed, 28 May 2008 22:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13345-733190stories/scene-and-heardRose KennedyKnoxville, TNPinning HopesMetroPulsepinning-hopesurn:publicid:metropulse.com:news-Story-13345-733190Change0Usable