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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.

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.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

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, 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 Midpoint.

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.

Mike Gibson talks to adventurous jazz group Triage, and learns, not unexpectedly, that they aren't in it for the money, in the Music Feature, while Eye on the Scene investigates Superdrag and Asheville's Orange Peel. 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 in Backstage. 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, in Platters. Unable to find things? You may have just found yourself. Angie Vicars explains in Yikes!. Matt Edens does a little horn-tootin' in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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