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Last year, everyone in Tennessee was worked up about the possibility of being bitten by a West-Nile-virus-carrying mosquito. But in reality, other dastardly insects, whose effects are subtler than death-dealing bloodsuckers, may ultimately prove more profoundly devastating to us. First, Joe Tarr examines the havoc the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid is already wreaking in Southern Appalachian forests. Then he discovers that fire ants and gypsy moths are ready to declare war on East Tennessee, too.

Bill Carey learns a thing or two from studying the near-demise of Knoxville's high school newspapers, and Jack Neely reports on a house for sale whose former owner would have driven a hard bargain for it.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan asks whether the multiple branding efforts underway in Knoxville are really needed in Insights, Barry Henderson lets us see Knoxville through Chinese visitor Wang Hao's eyes in Editor's Corner, and Jack Neely revisits a familiar corner of Knoxville at the Corner Lounge in Secret History.

Yes, organizations devoted to it have come and gone. Teams have given up, gone bankrupt, or fled the city. But hope is hard to shake among the Knoxville ice hockey faithful, Scott McNutt learns. With the new minor league pro team the Ice Bears drawing record crowds at the Coliseum, the Ice Vols making the Nationals for the second year in a row, youth leagues taking advantage of the newly opened Icearium, and 60 or so self-described "old farts" still taking to the ice in the Dirty Dog men's amateur league, Knoxville hockey is still skating along.

King Missile's narrative poems set to music are replete with intentionally obscure satire, much to Liz Tapp's delight, in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene roves to unfamiliar territory, following local faves Jag Star and Robinella and the CCstringband to far-away places. We told you before, we're telling you again: The African art in the McClung Museum's show "The World Moves, We Follow" presents a complexity, diversity, and spirituality so potent that it can't be contained in one column. Part two of two, by Heather Joyner, in Artbeat. 50 Cents' rap isn't worth it, Cat Power keeps her listeners at arm's length, and Dirty Vegas says, "DANCE!" in Platters. Matt Edens explains the economics of rehabbing in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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