Jack Neely probes "Knoxville's best-kept secret":
A thriving and still growing jazz scene. If you're hip,
read what the players have to say about one of the best places to be a jazz
performer (or fan) in the country. And if a homegrown Birdland sounds like
news to you, read about what you're missing.
Few fans of televised beauty pageants would expect to see
baby fat during the swimsuit competition, but that's just because they've
never attended one of the many training camp pageants for tots and toddlers.
Baby beauty pageants are growing in popularity nationally
and here in East Tennessee. Do they build confidence and self-esteem, or
foster narcissism and selfishness? Mike Gibson endeavors
to find out.
One of Tennessee's longtime favorite moderates, Senator Ben
Atchley, suddenly has wolves representing every conceivable pack
of extremes gnashing at his hide. It seens no one stands in the middle of
the road when it comes to the Senator's Ten Commandments
Resolution, and Betty Bean explains the past and
present that led to Atchley's uncharacteristic resolution.
Whatever happened to, oh, you know, they guy that used to run that place before it got leveled back in '86? We were just wondering the same thing! Of course we couldn't track them all down, but a few phone calls brought us up to date on several of Knoxville's formerly famous and infamous. From the magnates to the simply magnetic, here's where they were. A special Metro Pulse team effort.