Joe Sullivan wonders where all the candidates for City Council are hiding in Insights, Jack Neely makes a pilgrimage to the Cosby Ramp Festival in Secret History, new Metro Pulse owner and publisher Brian Conley gives his reasons for purchasing the paper in A Note from the Publisher, and Stephanie Piper offers a wish list for new mothers in Midpoints.Citybeat
UT's "minority scholarships" are for African-Americans only, Alexia Campbell determines, and the air in Knoxville is as polluted as it was last testing season, Joe Tarr reports.
Cover * THEY SHOW US THE MONEY...AND MORE
Retirees from all over are making their homes in the Knoxville area, spurring the economy and making their presence known in a variety of helpful ways as they come to love the hills and vales we call home. Barry Henderson talks with them and the people who are working to get the word out to more of their contemporaries that this is the place they want for a healthy, happy retirement.
Gamut * POWER PLAYTHINGS
A waifish girl in black with a whip who dominates a hulking yet articulate fellow: A Fellini flick, right? Well, maybe you could run into them at the Fellini Kroger, but Morella the dominatrix and her submissive Daisy "Chain" McGraw otherwise seem fairly normal, says Adrienne Martini.
Music
Mike Gibson talks to adventurous jazz group Triage, and learns, not unexpectedly, that they aren't in it for the money.
Backstage
In the Black Box Theatre's production of the Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Paige M. Travis tastes a potent and poetic concoction of power, love, and death.
Platters
Lucinda Williams trods familiar territory on World Without Tears, Gravy Train!!! makes pleasing pop rap on Hello Doctor, and Miss Kittin's Radio Caroline, Volume 1 reveals France's hot new product (well, old, really): electronica.
Movie Guru
X2: X-Men United is pretty good summer cinema fare, and it might have been even better if it didn't try to accomplish so much, sez Scott McNutt. Movie Blurbs, p. 32: The Metro Pulse Movie Blurbsª "The Blurbers remember when the summer movie season didn't actually start until summer."ª
Spotlights
Five bucks gets you eight bands and a band of dancers at the Knoxville at Night Benefit; for the same wee fee you can hear the haunting songs of Cynthia Dall at the Pilot Light; and you name your own price to get classics vocalized in the benefit performances at Opera Singers Unite for Hunger
Yikes! by Angie Vicars. Unable to find things? You may have just found yourself.
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd
44 Crossword by Montford Manassas
Urban Renewal by Matt Edens. We do a little horn-tootin'.
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