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The mayoral campaign of 2003 features an odd couple of leading candidates, Bill Haslam and Madeline Rogero, who come from vastly different backgrounds and perspectives. Joe Sullivan examines the contrasts and the political positions of both in a pair of profiles and a summary of their views.

Jack Neely takes a look at the trials and tribulations confronting the Knox County Public Library system, and Scott McNutt brings us up to speed on progress at Pellissippi State's Magnolia campus.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan tells the tale of UT's academic holding pattern in the face of budget uncertainties in Insights, Barry Henderson gives readers an outline of how news and commentary will be handled here in Editor's Corner, and Jack Neely puts an all-American face on this country's war in the Middle East in Secret History.

Valleyfest, Knoxville's own film festival, starts next Wednesday, and we've got previews. Scott McNutt takes a look at Trek Nation, a promotional short for a proposed Start Trek fan documentary by local film production company Atmosphere Pictures, and Adrienne Martini reviews Six, a documentary based on the Lillelid murders.

Lucero is clawing, crawling, and rocking its way to the top of the alt-country/Americana heap, according to Joe Tarr in the Music Feature, and Eye on the Scene takes a look at Sundown in the City's temporary move to World's Fair Park and comments on a silly, sad reaction to a current production of Annie. A1LabArt's annual spring exhibition is an eyes-wide-open experience, says Heather Joyner in Artbeat. Dave Douglas freaks out on Freak In, the John Taylor Trio's music on Rosslyn creates its own emotional space, and Scofield, Lovano, Holland, and Foster keep their cool on scolohofo in Platters. Tamar Wilner comments on loud Americans abroad in View from A Broad. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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