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After the dust has settled in the four upcoming City Council races, Knoxville's term limits may have produced a Council whose members have combined total of 10 years' experience in public service. Joe Sullivan profiles each of the candidates for the three at-large seats and the District 5 seat and bemoans the surprising dearth of candidates. Term limits weren't supposed to work that way.

By all accounts, Bonnaroo II was a huge success. Leslie Wylie attended the three-day festival to get the straight dope (so to speak) from the organizers. On the corner of James Agee Street and Laurel Avenue in Fort Sanders, where once was an asphalt parking lot, now there is a grassy lawn. Scott McNutt reports on the progress of the long-envisioned James Agee Park.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

reflects on John Shumaker's rough-edged first year as president of the University of Tennessee in Insights, Jack Neely catches up on this and that and reports on the closure of downtown Knoxville's Papa John's Cafe in Secret History, and guest columnist Earl Tilford encounters some surprising remnants of segregation in Color Conscious.

Now a fixture on Knoxville's FM 91.9-WUOT radio station, the jazz program Improvisations had its origins in the '70s, when student DJs Ashley Capps and Cy Anders pursued a desire to expand the station's programming beyond standard rock. Thirty-odd years later, Mike Gibson catches up with Capps, Anders, and fellow Improvisations DJs John Habel, Paul Parris, Randy Fishman, to chat about the show's enduring success and their individual tastes in jazz.

Back in the mid-'90s, St. Louis-based alt.country artist Mary Alice Wood got worn down trying to hold down a full-time job and play music on the side. So she took a break from the music business. With a new CD to promote at a couple of gigs in Knoxville. Wood's back and focusing solely on her music. Matthew Everett reports on Wood's re-invigorated muse in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene gives a very personal account of attending Bonnaroo. Adrienne Martini knows some things are better left in the closet. Despite the Black Box cast's best efforts, such is the case, she says in Backstage, with acclaimed playwright Alan Ball's early effort, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. On the plate in Platters: a collection of selected experimental works from minimalist rocker Rhys Chatham and new, "deeper" Radiohead. Matt Edens asks, "Who's afraid of the big bad center city?" in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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A well-known nursery rhyme exhorts the listener to sing a song of sixpence. Has anyone ever actually written one? The rhyme itself is about birds entombed in pastry, not "sixpence."