From January through April of this year, more than 2,000 people filed for bankruptcy in our local federal court. Bankruptcies of all sorts are still rising across the United States, and Tennessee leads the pack. New legislation aims to tighten the screws on debtors. But, as Matthew T. Everett reports, there's a lot of controversy about who the law might help or hurt.

Joe Sullivan finds UT's Centers of Excellence on course, and Mike Gibson reports on the city's shifting tolerance for outdoor alcohol.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan cautions UT to think carefully in choosing its next president in Insights, Jesse Fox Mayshark looks for a plan on Market Square and finds coercion and confusion in Editor's Corner, and Jack Neely shoots for the moon in Secret History.

They were legends in their own living rooms, these four (or five, depending how you count) puckish, pluckish Tennessee lads. In the halcyon days of Planet Earth and Gryphons, they brought legions, maybe even dozens, or half-dozens anyway, to their feet as they danced wildly to nerd-rock classics like "Phallocratic Campfire Song." Now, The Swamis are back for a special one-time-only pay-per-view reunion show (you have to pay the Pilot Light to let you in to view it). Coury Turczyn, who saw it all, gets the exclusive inside story.

Adrienne Martini talks to the other Miller (Rhett) about the fabulous pop and twang of the Old 97's in the Music Feature, while Eye on the Scene listens in on The Estradas. Heather Joyner spends 15 minutes with Andy Warhol at the KMA in Artbeat. John Sewell finds new reasons to appreciate Russell Banks in the short-story collection The Angel on the Roof in Pulp.

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