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The ongoing tribulations of herding ZACs and keeping the feds happy while trying to get the most out of Knoxville's Empowerment Zone grant money are captured by Mike Gibson. He offers up an account of the program's first four years, the difficulties encountered in its management, the disappointments of many of the zone's constituents, and the accomplishments of others.

Joe Sullivan catches state and municipal officials looking askance, but with wide eyes, at a possible federal fiscal bailout, and Joe Tarr gets the inside story on A.C. Entertainment's plans for this year's version of Sundown in the City.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan is impressed with Knox Mayor Mike Ragsdale's stated in-city intentionsis impressed with Knox Mayor Mike Ragsdale's stated in-city intentions in Insights, Jack Neely takes a ramble though the varied lives of the Lord Lindsey in Secret History, and Scott McNutt examines the natural laws governing home ownership and discovers the gravity of his situation in Snarls.

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With new band Superjoint Ritual, Philip Anselmo unleashes a somewhat different sound. Mike Gibson talks with Pantera's once (and future?) frontman, and learns, among other things, that Anselmo hates nu-metal in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene contemplates the (temporary) loss of the Tennessee Theatre. Hippies, real (as in Bill Ayers' Fugitive Days) or fictional (T.C. Boyle's Drop City) make for interesting reading, according to Julia Watts in Pulp. Orchestral Manouevers In The Dark's reissued albums shows where new electronic artists got some of their ideas, a reissue of musical curiosity Songs of Pogo couldn't be more timely, and Pete Yorn is good, by golly, as we find in Platters. Herb B. Free gets carried away with a couple of excellent take-out spots in Maryville: Stir-Fry-To-Go and the Metro Pizzeria in Restaurant Rover. Massimo Pigliucci looks back at a sour war in Rationally Speaking. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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