The gamut of home decor is run, well nigh amok, in a photo essay on Knox Rail Salvage by David Luttrell; the joys and annoyances of lawn and garden toil are extolled and toted up by Adrienne Martini; and Joe Tarr follows the steady advance of an environmental audit of the Great Smoky Mountains as we celebrate the rite of spring in grand indoor/outdoor fashion.

Joe Sullivan hears a lot promised for Market Square by Memphis developer John Elkington, but can he deliver? And Barry Henderson (and others) wonder if the school system audit will be extended county government-wide.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan contends the state income tax is not dead but awakening in Insights, Stephanie Piper has an inkling of why kids turn violent in Midpoint, and Jack Neely describes the bohemian bride of Market Square in Secret History.

Town & country boy Mike Gibson tolls a nostalgic knell for Sevierville's Temple Feed & Seed store, an institution that has moved noisily and happily from feed, flour and gossip mill to marriage mill and much more over the decades of its existence as a small-town store and magnetic countrified gathering place.

John Sewell is enraptured at Maryville's "Biker Church" in the Music Feature, while Eye on the Scene dials in the latest Johnny Pirkle FM thrust toward "active rock" and snoops out the latest Old City club bid. Heather Joyner makes certain that the chi is channeled and the yin and yang are in harmony in the collection of historic Chinese art objects on display at the McClung Museum. They are, as Heather reports in Artbeat. Jonathan B. Frey, Joe Tarr and Gary Ashe turn the, ah, tables on the incredible Ken Burns jazz collection, LiLiPUT's re-releases, and Spoon's comeback bid in Platters.

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