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Richard Florida's book The Rise of the Creative Class and How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Lifehas been all the talk among city planners and officials across the country. In the book, Florida argues that cities should spend effort trying to appeal to young people who work in creative occupations, since those people make up the bulk of the so-called New Economy. Scott McNutt takes a look at Florida's book and asks several prominent and not-so-prominent Knoxville residents how their town stacks up as a creative city.

Joe Tarr reports that there's more than one opinion about why TVA is raising its power rates. Barry Henderson, meanwhile, takes a good look at who's coming to the American Bowling Congress annual tournament.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan asks in Insights what will happen to UT President John Shumaker's initiatives now that Gov. Phil Bredesen has called for budget cuts. Bill Carey reflects on how the world has changed since his idealistic college years in Editor's Corner. Jack Neely reviews complaints and compliments from his cover story on Knoxville structures that should be torn down in Secret History.

As the Gay Street Bridge nears its 105th birthday, it's undergoing a $16 million renovation that just passed the halfway point. Herewith, a series of photos and tidbits about the bridge, which, if it could talk, would...well, have a lot to say.

Cody ChestnuTT has been described as the leader of a "black rock movement." Joe Tarr writes about the many things that have influenced the man performing at the Tennessee Theatre this week, in the Music Feature. Paige Travis checks out the All Campus Theatre's version of Corpus Christi and find that there's a pretty good play beneath the controversy about its portrayal of Jesus and his disciples as contemporary gay men, in Backstage. The Last Time They Met, Anita Shreve's new novel about lovers who met only three times, leaves Jeanne McDonald feeling as if she never met either of them once, in Pulp. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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