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Once Knoxville's premier movie theater, now home to the Knoxville Opera Company and a venue for a variety of shows and events, the Tennessee Theatre has been a mainstay in our entertainment scene for the last 75 years. In June, it will close down for a year-and-a-half for major renovations and restorations. Jack Neely gets inside the venerable place to learn from the experts—specialists in architecture, paint restoration, and acoustics—exactly what's going to be done. No Neely piece would be complete without some history, so there's plenty of background on the theater, too.

Barry Henderson recaps the struggle to get a low-cost airline into the Knoxville market, and Joe Sullivan reports that downtown parking problems are reaching critical mass.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan has doubts about the worthiness of trying to develop a new brand for UT in Insights, Stephanie Piper can't make sense of the senselessness of war in Midpoint, and Jack Neely catches up on odds and ends in Secret History.

For three tense weeks last month, Jag Star toured the Middle East countries of Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, and Bahrain, playing concerts for the military personnel stationed there. They returned home with new fans, new friends, and new-found respect for the men and women in our armed forces. Joe Tarr gets the straight dope from Sarah Lewis and the boys.

Seattle drone-rock instrumental band and Sub Pop recording artist Kinski brings deliberate waves of heavy noise to Pilot Light, and Matthew Everett surfs over for a preview in the Music Feature. Eye on the Scene hears the influences on the latest Rockwells CD, catches a birthday bash in the Old City, and lists some celebrity bartenders coming your way at a Market Square location. Paige M. Travis finds that, in theater, there's nothing new to say about love, but La Ronde speaks volumes anyway, in Backstage. When sci-fi and comedic genius, madman, and author Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left a half-finished novel and lots of tantalizing tidbits of writing, which have all been gathered up in The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time. Paul Lewis gives it a thumbs up and adds that American novelist Christopher Moore is doing his best to follow in Adams' footsteps, in Pulp. The French-inspired Little Star is a shining addition to the Knoxville eatery firmament, reports Connie Seuer in Restaurant Rover. Katie Allison Granju learn to fly solo again in Loco Parentis. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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