Wieuca’s Experiments Gone Right
Originally, Wieuca was a Native American ceremony that involved dancing around a fire in attempts to connect with one’s spirit animal. Since its genesis in 2012, it’s also an Athens-based rock band...
View ArticleTruckin’ Along at the Street Food Festival
The flaming-red California Smothered Burritos food truck has become a familiar St. Elmo sight, offering burritos, nachos and taco salads to hungry passers-by. Alternatively, there’s the converted...
View ArticleSalsa, Swing and Latin Fun
Last year, Chattanooga Latin Nights Summer Bash enjoyed an incredibly successful, incredibly popular inaugural event with more than 300 participants. This year they’re coming back for more, offering...
View ArticleStep Inside the Color Spectrum
Many moons ago, when I was in elementary school, my mother taught me about the color spectrum by holding a glass prism up to our kitchen window to let the sunlight shine through, pointing out the...
View ArticleCreative Crafting Featured at Chattabrewga
This year, Chattabrewga is doing something different. The festival is focusing on limited release and hard-to-find artisan craft beers, beers that showcase the creativity, and mastery of the brewers...
View ArticleIt Really Is As Easy As Riding A Bike
It’s no secret that Chattanooga is a friend to cyclists. From hosting Iron Man triathlons to the rent-a-bike kiosks available downtown, Chattanooga’s made a noticeable effort to become a greener,...
View ArticleWherever They May ROAM
From their pop-meets-country Americana sound to their music videos filmed on an iPhone; from the heartfelt lyrics to the Frisbees available on their website; from their experimentation with unusual...
View ArticleSipping The Nectar Of The Gods
Here at The Pulse we’ve previously covered honey liqueur, highlighting Wild Turkey Honey Sting and Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey in past mixology pieces. Sounds exciting and novel, doesn’t it? Well,...
View ArticleMixed Media Music Making
Visit Silversun Pickups’ website and you’ll be greeted with this photograph: the four-piece band, standing in an orange desert under a purple sky. Bassist Nikki Monninger, in a dress made of...
View ArticleCamelot in the Camelot Era
The Lerner and Lower musical Camelot first premiered on Broadway in 1960, the same year John F. Kennedy was sworn in as President. The play saw 873 performances, four Tony awards, and a multitude of...
View ArticleVictoria Behm Tells the Raw Truth About Food
Victoria Behm is a Certified Nutrition Specialist practitioner with a Master’s degree in Nutrition and Integrative Health, and she teaches graduate level nutrition and cooking courses online. Suffice...
View ArticleLittle But Fierce: Pamela K. Ward
Pamela K. Ward stands four feet, eleven inches tall—barely bigger than the saxophone she carries with her onstage. But armed with her soul-filled powerhouse vocals, an engaging, energetic stage...
View ArticleSampling Small Batch Bourbons
One of the most popular distilled spirits in the world is bourbon, a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn. And while the name bourbon is derived from the French Bourbon dynasty, most...
View ArticleThe Artistry of Blackberry Wine
Previously at Chattanooga WorkSpace, Danielle Shelton taught us how to use plants to make natural clothing dyes. This week, the education continues. With the summer months producing an abundance of...
View ArticleHow to Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Planet
Explore, enjoy, and protect the planet: that’s the Sierra Club motto, and has been since their formation in 1892. It was created to protect communities, wild places and wildlife, and the planet as a...
View ArticleInside AVA’s Reinvigorated Space
If you’ve taken a stroll down Frazier Avenue, you’ve likely walked past the Association for Visual Arts. If that stroll was recent, you were probably greeted with boarded-up window frames, traffic...
View ArticleChattanooga Skydiving Offers The Best View
The best view of Chattanooga is from 18,000 feet. That’s the catchy tagline for family-owned and operated Chattanooga Skydiving Company. In 1960, Vin Silvia made his first sport parachute jump in...
View ArticleCourtney Holder's Market Music
Singer-songwriter Courtney Holder’s been writing songs since she was thirteen, a fact that becomes more impressive when you learn that this was less than a decade ago. To her credit she’s got immense...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Spirit of the Ultimate Game
The Chattanooga Flying Disc Club was founded by Shawn Adams, who started playing Ultimate Frisbee while he was still in high school in the early eighties. According to testimonies from his friends and...
View ArticleStory Time with Sara Beth Go
From growing up in New Orleans with her grandmother’s piano and a place in her church’s choir, it was inevitable Sara Beth Go would find a place in the music scene. If that wasn’t going to guaranteed...
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