Census reports of rapid growth in East Tennessee's Latino population only hint at the real numbers of immigrants working and living here. Most are Mexican, and most are undocumented. And, as Joe Tarr reports, their status leaves them vulnerable to all manner of exploitation, even as they help drive the region's economy.

Nate Arthur reports on UT employee fears of privatization, and Barry Henderson visits the site of a would-be arboretum in East Knoxville.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan says it's time to get together on Market Square in Insights, Stephanie Piper reflects on mothers and Mother's Day in Midpoint, and Jack Neely finds that some mysteries are best left that way in Secret History.

Oh sure, we've all made jokes about Knoxville's profusion of spheres on the city skyline. But now Matthew T. Everett reports on new evidence that this may be no laughing matter. Secret government documents reveal that something very strange is happening in the city's urban geometry. Based on an extensive interview with a single anonymous source, this story could break the whole thing wide open. You won't read it anywhere else.

Joe Tarr gets with the flow of Knoxville's Fluid Engineerz in the Music Feature, while Eye on the Scene reports on a benefit for local bluegrass legend Glenn Laney, and Platters brings you some snappy and snappish judgments of new recordings from Elvis Costello, Red House Painters, Monster Magnet and the late jazz pianist John Lewis. Heather Joyner assesses the visions of painters William Holton, Kathy Holland and Emily Taylor in two new exhibits in Artbeat, a nostalgic Ally Carte has her memories, if not her taste buds, stirred at Pizza Kitchen in Restaurant Rover, and Angie Vicars faces up to her own lack of handiness in Yikes!.

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