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You know us. Cynical, jaded, too cool to fool with gettin' worked up 'bout most stuff. But then, the Best of Knoxville Readers' Poll comes along! And this time, wow, it's BOK's 10th anniversary! We're giddy as school children on the last day of classes! We're happier than any clam! We're so excited to tell you this year's winners, we're about to wet our pants! So before that happens, check out Knoxville's champ-eens. And if you made it to our Best of Knoxville party at the Foundry Thursday night, we were durn glad to seeya.

The sun may not have set on Sundown in the City, but Joe Tarr reports that its challenges are rising without city funding. Meantime, Joe Sullivan reports that an H-1 Overlay for all eligible downtown structures has been proposed by Mayor Ashe.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

recounts some seriously crossed signals, courtesy of a couple of phone companies, in Insights, Jack Neely puts forward an argument for locating the genesis of Francis Hodgson Burnett's secret garden in Secret History, Barry Henderson takes some suggestions for improving Metro Pulse seriously, others with several grains of salt, in Editor's Corner, and Massimo Pigliucci asks, "What's there to be proud of?" in Rationally Speaking.

Don't let their off-kilter moniker deceive you; John Sewell discovers that Drums & Tuba has electronica and guitars to boot 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. Theatre Central's The Real Inspector Hound is fun and funny, sure, but Paige M. Travis feels that something is lacking, in Backstage. It's A Century of Progress, which celebrates 100 years' of work by Tennessee artists. Jonathan Frey reviews Pattern Recognition, in which cyber-seer William Gibson sets his prognostic sights on a modern-day world where branding is everything, in Pulp. With Shonos in City, downtown eateries have new competition in the "make it fast keep it simple it'll be good" category, reports Connie Seuer in Restaurant Rover. Matt Edens looks at the high-stylin' urban life in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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Remember "Crank," the grumpy dude on The Electric Company? For years, I thought "Crank" was a normal, everyday name, and if I met someone named Frank, I assumed I heard incorrectly and his name was really "Crank." This made for some amusing "kids say the darndest things" moments.