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Given the state of the economy and all the other pressures on pocketbooks here, Knoxville's major art organizations are faring fairly well and are looking forward to even better straits. Mike Gibson trumpets the symphony's new directions, Jack Neely sings the praises of the opera company, and Adrienne Martini gets the new director of the art museum to paint a telling self-portrait.

Scott McNutt listens in on KCDC discussions of blight and how that designation affects the Jackson Ave./Depot St. Redevelopment plan.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan looks toward Tennessee's taxing of Internet and catalog sales in Insights, Scott McNutt turns 40 and finds life is good... as long as you don't mind being fat, bald, and still alive, in Snarls, and Jack Neely digs up a different sort of grave robbery in Secret History.

It's that time of year again, when local theater awards are given out. Every year, we at Metro Pulse are left a bit puzzled by some of the productions and people who go unnoticed. So this year, we decided we'd redress that shortcoming with our own theater award: The Jojo. Critic Paige M. Travis hands out the miniature monkey to deserving local theater types.

The Shazam's guys had some success in Europe, but they felt they were in a rut. What to do? Re-energize themselves with a new album, as it turns out. Matthew Everett lends an ear to the band's new sound in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene took a gander at the Grammys—and saw local-boy-done-good, record producer Nick Raskulinecz. Keeping up with all the great art associated with UT's African Semester can be exhausting. But Daniel Roop's one-man show is his way of making poetry meaningful in everyday ways, Adrienne Martini discovers, in Backstage. Connie Seuer decides that Sonny's Real Pit Barbecue is a perfect pit stop on her continuing search for a 'cue to call her own in Restaurant Rover. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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