When the robots come to haul you away, you can look back at Mike Gibson's assessment of the current and projected state of the art and science of creating virtual human life, with all its inborn frailties, from software, and you can curse him and the people of merit at UT, Oak Ridge and points in between whom he polled on the issue.

Barry Henderson scouts out the Sequoyah Hills vs. UT battle lines, Joe Tarr takes a gander at WUTK's real role, and Matthew T. Everett gets a scholastic lecture from a philosopher/theologian.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan's bill of fare in Insights is a voter referendum on the tax reform issue that has our Legislature in a stranglehold, Stephanie Piper examines the teeny photographic plates of the mind in Midpoint, and Jack Neely tallies up the walk-offs from the UT presidency in Secret History.

After the demise of the V-roys, Scott Miller broke a bottle of champagne on his bow and set off in search of a solo career. He found the beginnings of one with Sugar Hill. Shortly before the release of his first CD Thus Always To Tyrants, Adrienne Martini peppered him with questions about his life, his music and his future. Plus, Jesse Fox Mayshark gives Miller's big rock record a spin or three and weighs in on its staying power.

Mike Gibson makes good with the five lads from Surface in the Music Feature, while Eye on the Scene whips out the black eyeliner and listens to the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. Paige M. Travis asks Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at The Bijou Theatre and discovers that it is she, in Backstage. Our keen-eared staff takes on new discs by Lucinda Williams, Orlando "CachaÍto" Lopez, and The Dickies in Platters. Ally Carte sucks it up and goes down to Pigeon Forge where she has her tongue tingled at Tastebuds Café in Restaurant Rover.

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