In Insights, Joe Sullivan bids a fond farewell to Ken Badal, president of the Helen Ross McNabb center, who's retiring after 30 effective and fruitful years of leadership there, while Jack Neely wonders what Victorian Knoxvillians would think of attitudes today toward Babylon, and Miss Behavior once again answers the tough etiquette questions these trying times demand—specifically, on Homeland Security Politesse.Citybeat
Knoxville's Hispanic community is banding together for social and civic reasons, and that may eventually add up to political power, reports Alexia Campbell, while in Oak Ridge, Mike Gibson looks at questions about both the fate and the funding of the American Museum of Science and Energy.
Cover * WAR ZONE
Before they moved to the Knoxville area to take up work or study, some Knoxvillians lived in environments of fearsome violence and shot-and-shell battlegrounds. Joe Tarr relates survivors' tales of events that shook and violated their households once peaceful neighborhoods during wars in their homelands.
Gamut * SUTTREE COME HOME
Snotbefouled foolscap sheaves, passed cabalistically into wanton journalistic fingers. Hoarder of spicate tales on jackal-sniped sphinctertown Knoxville or basest falsehood, talisman of annual recrudescence of vulgate legerdemain common to the half-score days' anniversary after springsolstice? Suttree's homecoming. Maybe. By Carnac McSorley.
Music
There's more to Senryu's music than a fashion statement, says Leslie Wylie. And Eye on the Scene sees reviews of local CDs by Glass Joe and Past Mistakes/RedWinterDying; plus: an award for someone we know.
Pulp
Christian author Gil Bailie will soon be in Knoxville for a speaking engagement at the New City Cafe. So it's timely for Jesse Fox Mayshark to review his book, Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads, in which Bailie explores the concept of sacred violence.
Restaurant Rover
We're still awaiting that freshly brewed beer, but Connie Seuer just had to go ahead and find out what else the Downtown Grill & Brewery has to offer.
Movies
City of God is a hyperkinetic violence-fest and a statement on societal ills—and works perfectly as both, decides Lee Gardner. Movie Blurbs, p. 24: The Metro Pulse Movie Blurbs: "Uncle Sam Wants You! to tell him every single blurboriffic detail of your life for the last 7 years."ª
Spotlights
Larry Sparks will fire your imagination with his emotive guitar style, Annie'll hug ya tomorra but La Ronde will titillate you today, and the Used are so hungry, they'll bite your bum off.
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd
Crossword by Montford Manassas
Urban Renewal by Matt Edens. Operation Reclaim Jefferson Avenue.
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