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Everyone needs a place to call home. But thousands of Knoxville residents who live under the poverty line have a hard time finding a good place to rent, let alone buy. Joe Tarr takes a look at the concept of affordable housing in Knoxville, including the many organizations such as the Knox Housing Partnership and Habitat for Humanity that are set up to help people who wouldn't otherwise qualify to buy. He finds that even among affordable housing advocates, there are sharp differences of opinion about what the community needs to do next.

Despite the fact that the media regards Carl "Two Feathers" Whitaker as a leader in the Native American community, quite a few Native Americans doubt that he's one of them, Joe Tarr writes.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

U.S. Senator Bill Frist was elected majority leader just in time to help TennCare, Joe Sullivan writes in Insights, Attica Scott says that the last thing Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted is for us to be silent about our differences in Color Conscious, and Jack Neely wonders whether Knoxville measures up to the term "a city this size" in Secret History.

In spite of all that has been said about the upcoming American Bowling Congress's national tournament at the convention center, most people have forgotten that the event was here before. Jack Neely looks back at the last time the bowlers came to town and finds out that, in the spirit of the times, the 1970 event had its share of controversy.

The 90 Day Men have changed a lot since their 1996 show at Gryphon's. But the band still loves Knoxville, and can't wait to come back, Mike Gibson finds in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, we take Ibrahim's latest disc for a spin in Eye on the Scene. Heather Joyner checks out the TVA Weekend Academy exhibit on display at Tomato Head restaurant and concludes that you haven't seen a place until you've done so through the eyes of a child, in Artbeat. If you want to escape into a world alien to Knoxville, try reading a book about the dangerous world of bicyclists who deliver messages in big cities. Jeanne McDonald reviews the latest work by Travis Hugh Culley in Pulp. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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