- Painful Lessons We Learned in 2009
- Musicians Say Odd Things to Strangers on the Phone
- Metro Pulse's Finest Film Blurbage
- 10 Fascinating Knoxvillians of 2009
- 2009: Metro Pulse's Best Bits
- Party Spirit: Remembering Horace Pittman, aka Ali Akbar
- The Year in Music: Animal Collective to World Funk
- The Year in DVD: From Polanski to Deep Cuts From the Warner Archive
- The Year in Classical Music
- The Year in Movies: Blockbusters, Genre Flicks, Indie Dramas, and Foreign Titles
- The Avett Brothers' Gambles Pay Off on Major-Label Debut
- The Year in Video Games: It's Been a Post-Apocalyptic Superhero Slugfest
