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Ever wonder what's up there, on that misty, leafy bluff overlooking the Tennessee River behind the Church Street United Methodist Church? Jack Neely went into the depths and breadths of the historic Maplehurst neighborhood to recapture what it's been and project what it's becoming as the Tennessee Gameday Center condos come Vol-ubly onto the scene to penetrate its perfect shroud of urban quietude.

Six million city bucks are quietly designated to help make Lakeshore Park the garden spot of Knoxville, literally, so Betty Bean watches how the proposition fares in the midst of a budget crunch, and Joe Tarr follows the plight of homeless veterans and their shelter, Steps House, which has recruited a hum-veeload of musical talent to its benefit show.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan sees pre-schoolers left out of the state lottery deal in its "scholarships" shuffle in Insights, Jack Neely reminisces about the time the Tennessee Theatre stopped showing first-run films in Secret History, and Barry Henderson turns Editor's Corner to crash into our cheap license-plate fees. in Editor's Corner.

They walk among us. You can't distinguish them by their style of dress, race, religious observances or anything else, really. What are they? They are Republicans! And Willie Stern, our GOP correspondent, says that they (and he) face forms of humiliating prejudice whose open display against any other group would draw howls of protest from the ACLU and other "politically correctly" feathered left-wingers.

As it turns out, the Tim Lee Band is Lee's best band. Rikki Hall catches up with the band as they prepare to play this weekend's Festival Americana in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene checks in on some street corner troubadors. Michiko Kon's sometimes ghastly and repulsive, sometimes ironic and playful images, using dead fish and other refuse, force viewers to reconsider the concept of perishable goods, among other things, says Heather Joyner in Artbeat. Julia Watts applauds the importance of plot in Atonement by Ian McEwan and Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex in Pulp. Matt Edens shows us how to live downtown without living downtown in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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