You can name women in local politics—Carlene Malone, Wanda Moody, Mary Lou Horner—but you can't name too many of them. Mike Gibson sorts through the complicated history of Knoxville's female political representation and finds that some things have changed since the 1920s, and some things haven't.
Joe Tarr digs through the latest reports about Knoxville's appalling air quality, and Matthew T. Everett talks to some local planetarium experts about the prospects for Universe Knoxville.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.
Joe Sullivan worries about financing for Universe Knoxville in Insights, Attica Scott wonders about the effect of government funding on faith-based institutions in Color Conscious, and Jack Neely is charmed by the diary of a young Knoxville girl in Secret History.
What makes a bohemian? Joe Tarr wasn't sure, so he went and asked some local starving artists, musicians, and so forth. And then he tried hitchhiking. And it all went terribly wrong.
John Sewell finds Dave Alvin still blastin' away after all these years in the Music Feature, while Eye on the Scene spins Donna Lee Van Cott. Lend us your ears, and we'll use 'em to listen to Matmos, Jason and the Scorchers, Bis and Dave Matthews in Platters. Señorita Ally Carte says Pelancho's es muy bueno in Restaurant Rover, even if it's strictly north of the border.
