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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.

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.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

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 in Insights, our genteel advice columnist once again answers the tough etiquette questions these trying times demand—specifically, on Homeland Security Politesse— in Miss Behavior, and Jack Neely wonders what Victorian Knoxvillians would think of attitudes today toward Babylon in Secret History.

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.

There's more to Senryu's music than a fashion statement, says Leslie Wylie in the Music Feature, and Eye on the Scene sees reviews of local CDs by Glass Joe and Past Mistakes/RedWinterDying; plus: an award for someone we know. 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, in Pulp. 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 in Restaurant Rover. Matt Edens launches Operation Reclaim Jefferson Avenue in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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