County Commissioner Mark Cawood, recently labeled as a latter-day Cas Walker by News-Sentinel managing editor Frank Cagle, continues his harassment of Cagle by sending him an invitation to a Cawood fundraiser enclosed in a book of C&R green stamps. C&R stamps were handed out exclusively in Cas Walker stores (where you could stop, shop, and save at the sign of the shears). Cagle evidently meant the comparison as an insult. Cawood evidently did not take it as such.

Oliver South

Expect the grand opening of Kristopher Kendrick's tres elegante Hotel St. Oliver imminently. Located in the 125-year-old Peter Kern Building at Market Square and Union, the St. Ollie's been semi-officially open for several weeks. Allegedly named for the patron saint of hotels, its extravagantly renovated 28 guest rooms and suites—plus a plush library—have already drawn an international clientele, including Vassilis Nikolaides, the Greek director of the Knoxville Opera's production of Madama Butterfly, who stayed there for over three weeks and called his stay in the hotel "an honor."

Creative Marketing Dept.

Papa John's venerable Cafe on Wall Avenue may start a trend with its daring in-your-face approach to advertising their service. For the last several days, customers have been greeted with Papa's tough-guy motto: I CAN ONLY PLEASE ONE PERSON A DAY AND TODAY AIN'T YOUR DAY. No kin to Papa John's Pizza, the unpretentious diner has been purveying plates of country ham and Polish sausage for years.

Classic Kitty

A piano composition by Koetzel, a cat owned by Morris Moshe Kottel, chairman of the music department at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, has been awarded an honorable mention in a competition sponsored by The New Paris Music Review. aThe magazine, published from (of all places) Paris by Knoxville expatriates Guy and Hugh Livingston, is a bimonthly journal of contemporary music, particularly compositional music of the post-John Cage variety but also jazz and alternative rock. The brothers, who are touring, professional musicians as well as publishing magnates (Guy a pianist, Hugh a cellist), developed the competition as an invitation to composers (some, such as William Bolcom and Louis Andriessen, well-known in the music world) to each write a one-minute solo piano piece. Top prizes were awarded to Lansing D. McLoskey and Marek Zebrowski, both of Cambridge, Mass. The competition added 10 more pieces, including the cat's (a spare, abstract piece which Kottel maintains the cat "composed" in a traverse of the keys as he warmed up), to create a concert of 66-second piano pieces which Guy Livingston will perform throughout Europe and, he promises, in Knoxville when he is back in town next fall. The official world premiere, following sneak previews in Capetown and Amsterdam, will be on April 3 at The Hague in the Netherlands.