Metro Pulse

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: It’s an exciting language. All languages are opening up people’s horizons, this is just one option. My colleagues and I promote German because we are college educators of the German language, culture, and literature and would like to open up possibilities for the parts of the population we would usually not reach. Full story »

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: Incredibly. You wouldn’t believe it. I went to get an obscure Bette Davis movie, All This and Heaven, Too, for myself the other day. It wasn’t there. That’s not happened before. People are taking chances. They’re watching videos they never would have picked before when they had to pay. Full story »

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: Our bike for rent service has been terrible. We wish we could get more people off the couch and onto our bikes. But people love the chainless technology—I’ve sold nine chainless and eight battery-assisted or battery-powered bikes since we opened, and that’s blowing me away Full story »

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: We’ve got the Four Leaf Peat Band, Knoxville’s foremost and only Irish traditional band, believe it or believe it not, and two Irish ballad bands. Then our headliner, Lahinch Mob, they’ll be playing Irish rock and Irish party songs, like the “Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Full story »

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: This is a three-week summer camp for 15-year-olds, and we’ll have nine different countries represented. Each will have one leader along with four kids, two girls and two boys. We really can’t give out the names of the countries until they leave, for security reasons, but they’re coming from South America, Europe, Asia—pretty much all over Full story »

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: Basically, we’re giving people the opportunity to get on the water, interact with nature and to see the city of Knoxville—the four miles from Holston River Park and downtown—from a different point of view. Full story »

Street Talk by Lily Seabolt: What are you reading? Full story »

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: My words come from my soul. All the artist does is never show you the cool stuff in my life, like all the cool dates I go on, or the neat hangouts I go to. I actually live in a huge mansion, but he’s not gonna show any of that to you. Full story »

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: It’s more hands on—you have to cut the hair and style it, not just answer questions. But we do take the written test, too, so it really covers both angles. Full story »

Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: We are the official disposal site for American flags in Knox County and part of our charter is veterans affairs and patriotism. Full story »

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Street Talk by Rose Kennedy: It’s financed by the First Tee program; which is a nationwide non-profit aimed towards teaching kids how to play golf and life lessons through golf. A 7-8 year old out on a longer hole, it’s just going to be too much for them. Full story »

Street Talk: They took me and informed me of all sorts of things, ranging from anatomy to contraception to sexual abuse, and then I informed my peers that I had information and they could ask me questions and if I didn’t have the answers I would find them. Full story »

Street Talk: After my father and my wife’s father died several years ago, we wanted to remember them by honoring the Greatest Generation. Plus, we had always wanted an old Jeep. We found this one, from 1944, in Roswell, N.M. I’ve been restoring it for four years now. It is marked the same as my father’s 172d Combat Engineer Battalion of WWII. Full story »

Street Talk: Kelly Longmire, owner with husband Steve of Tennessee Homegrown Tomatoes in Rutledge, talks tomatoes. Full story »