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Yes, it is football time in Tennessee, but, believe it or not, autumn is known for other things as well. Arts organizations begin their new season in the fall, craft fairs are being held, and old-timey stuff is remembered fondly. So in addition to our annual Arts & Entertainment Calendar, Paige M. Travis chats with the Bijou Theatre's new executive director, Jim Crabtree, about what's in store for the venerable show place, Adrienne Martini catches the glow from Teresa Brittain's glass bead work, and Bill Carey dissects one of the many fall activities commonplace a century ago—hog killin'.

Barry Henderson investigates charges that UT professors are being coerced into "monitoring" foreign students.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Despite the demise of Universe Knoxville,Joe Sullivan says a planetarium, especially linked with a children's discovery center, is still a good idea in Insights, whereas Scott McNutt just fumes about the three-year-old hole along State Street in Snarls. Think Knoxville ain't got culture? Jack Neely paints a picture of Knoxville's early impressionism exhibits in Secret History.

It was squalid, rank, and rife with riffraff. But it was also friendly, inviting, and open all hours. Jay Hardwig remembers Gryphon's (AKA Burt's Coin Laundry and Lounge), Fort Sanders' former dive of dives, where the barflies (were) always buzzed.

Call him Americana, call him roots rock, call him formerly Green on Red, but Chuck Prophet's music is all that and more, says Kurt Hernon in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene casts its baleful gaze on the Tennessee Valley Fair for not giving its Battle of the Bands winner, The Monsters of Japan, the prize they were due. Heather Joyner trips out on the freaky creatures fossilized in the Burgess Shale currently on exhibit at the McClung Museum in Artbeat. Jeanne McDonald finds the poignancy of lost love even more moving when seen through dying eyes in Susan Minot's Evening, in Pulp. Practically everything else's been knocked down, but Clarence Brown's house is still around. Matt Edens has the details in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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