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There's no better time to talk about health than immediately after the pigging out of the holidays and the debauchery of New Year's. So here goes: Adrienne Martini tries out a new underwater massage program called watsu and goes all gushy before it's over; Gayla Owen checks out the unusual and controversial practice of treating allergies with acupuncture; and Joe Tarr finds out how he and everyone else in Knox County is likely to die, thanks to a new study by the Knox County Health Department.

Barry Henderson reports on Knox County's intention to build several new schools, while Ann Hinch finds out why a mile-stretch of Parkside Drive is getting a lot of attention—not to mention $5 million in tax dollars— from county officials.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Tennessee's outgoing Finance Commissioner Warren Neel ponders his grandson's future in Insights, Scott McNutt soliloquizes on death, life, and other imponderables in Snarls, and Jack Neely says that pride and planning are new to the Knoxville of 2003 in Secret History.

Drinking, drug abuse, sex, electronic music...Tamar Wilner goes in search of the Knoxville rave scene and finds that it's not quite the way you might imagine it.

The High Score is looking to make points with sounds reminiscent of some Knoxville bands of the '80s, as Joe Tarr discovers in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene mourns the loss of two Knoxville mainstays, Gran Torino and Left Foot Down. Angie Vicars didn't believe it when her neighbors first said her house was haunted. She does now, in Yikes!. Mary Karr shows the world how to write a powerful memoir... twice, writes Jeanne McDonald in Pulp. Connie Seuer gets the turkey taste out of her mouth with sweet corn cakes and green chile tamales from Hot Tamale in Restaurant Rover. Matt Edens presents the case for fixing up old houses, courtesy of It's a Wonderful Life, in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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