All the elements that make up the Universe Knoxville proposal look good on paper. How they may play out is an open question. Joe Sullivan talks with some of the principal players and backers, who make a case for the idea that the stunning planetarium-cum-museums would constitute the "destination attraction" that downtown Knoxville needs. Plus, Jesse Fox Mayshark takes a peek at the Rose Center for Earth and Space that inspired the Knoxville plans.

Matt Edens homes in on the implications of Town Center zoning, and Eric Winford presents a perspective on UT's environmental policy, or lack thereof.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Jesse Fox Mayshark sets out to audit the school system's audit in Insights, Attica Scott takes up for Missy Mayfield in in Color Conscious, and Jack Neely cleans up his act in Secret History.

The homely joys and the trials and tribulations of growing up in Knoxville's since-urban renewed ghetto, known in days of yore as The Bottom, are revisited fondly by author Robert J. "Bob" Booker in an excerpted series of reminiscences published a dozen years ago as a series in the late daily, The Knoxville Journal. Booker's newest book on the race riots of 1919 is due out next month.

Jesse Fox Mayshark comes right out and admits his interview with Bob Weir of RatDog is a hoax in the Music Feature, while Eye on the Scene lends an ear to the latest version of Eagle100 radio, now dubbed The River. Heather Joyner gets a buzz from the art and utterances of Jean Hess, the Arts Council's Artist of the Month, in Artbeat. The newest from Old 97's wrecks an adoring Adrienne Martini, John Sewell rides Rocket from the Crypt and Lee Gardner is rendered reverential over Circle in Platters.

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