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The state Department of Children's Services is struggling to comply with a court-ordered settlement in the so-called 'Brian A.' class-action settlement. Mike Gibson discusses the options for placing more at-risk children in the sort of nurturing environment that a stable foster home has to offer. The outlook is improving, but the task of satisfying the court order is a difficult one for the state to tackle, especially in caring for children with special needs.

Scott McNutt ambles up to the bus stop and puts his bike in the rack as he explores Bike-Walk-Bus Week, which is the launching pad for Smart Trips, a new program of incentives for employees who carpool, bike, walk, or take the bus to work.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan takes a look at the fiscal trials and budgetary tribulations that TennCare presents the state in Insights, Attica Scott wonders why to bother with raising race questions at all in Color Conscious, and Jack Neely shows how an address by any other number is a problem in Secret History.

When Jay Hardwig was still a mere slip of a classics-trained piano-pumping boy, he up and took to the blues like a claw hammer takes to a tenpenny nailhead. Years went by before, one night in a long-gone Fort Sanders suds (and suds) institution, he arrived at the point when he knew that the blues not only had a stranglehold on him, he had done got hold of the blues. In his inimitable style, Jay tells the whole tale in the key of C.

That holy roller the Reverend Horton Heat and his rockin' disciples don't limit their music to any one denomination. Everybody can regain their faith at this travelin' salvation show, reports Leslie Wylie in the Music Feature. Eye on the Scene was in the audience this weekend at Valleyfest and gives the lowdown on up-an-comers there. You haven't much time left to go see it, but go you should, says Heather Joyner in Artbeat. It's A Century of Progress, which celebrates 100 years' of work by Tennessee artists. 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 Ministry returns, Saturday Looks Good To Me beats bleakness, and former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus gives formal recognition to his new back-up band, The Jicks, on his latest in Platters. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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