Like most states in the U.S., Tennessee is fighting a losing battle against mounting obesity. We all know about fatty foods and couch potatoes, but Adrienne Martini discovers another culprit: the lack of opportunities for pedestrian exercise. Walking, in other words. In our annual Health Issue, she talks to a variety of Knoxville strollers, saunterers and striders about the difficulties of getting from here to there on your own two feet.

Barry Henderson assesses the odds of success for a state lottery, and Jesse Fox Mayshark tries to follow the evolving official line on the future of the downtown Holiday Inn.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan checks the foundation of proposals for Market Square redevelopment in Insights, Stephanie Piper revisits Emily Post in Midpoint, and Jack Neely sings about the Knoxville choo-choo in Secret History.

Continuing the health theme, we asked our invisible 10-foot-tall intern Fuzzles to compile for us a list of the greatest viral and bacterial threats to human happiness. It should have been an easy assignment. But we forgot how excitable (and, frankly, paranoid) Fuzzles is. We're not sure what happened, but we did find his diary...

Jesse Fox Mayshark says g'day to Australian alt-country sensation Kasey Chambers in the Music Feature, while Eye on the Scene checks out The Final Word on Old City preachin'. Heather Joyner finds colorful scraps that form an unusual vision of fellowship and suffering in KMA's Roots of Racism quilts exhibit in Artbeat. We spin new discs from rock girls The Donnas and BBE's Funk Spectrum series, plus an appreciation of the chart-topping "Ms. Jackson" in Platters.

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