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The Metro Pulse staff canvassed the town for ideas on what this season's reading list should include. Somewhat surprisingly, the readers we talked with had eyes for the old as well as the new. We found recommendations for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and, of course, Potter. Intrepidly, our own Adrienne Martini faced the lines at Borders and Barnes & Noble last weekend for the newest Harry Potter phenom. For a truly eclectic set of suggestions, just peruse the reviews and commentary we collected.

Joe Tarr poses the question of how much more student housing the Fort Sanders neighborhood can stand, and Joe Sullivan picks up on the remaining candidates for City Council in this fall's elections.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan wonders how City Council will react to a budgetary "hostage situation" in Insights, Jack Neely sifts his mail and lends Secret History's approbation to the time-honored practice of street sitting, and Barry Henderson lays praise on the UT president's proposition to further internationalize the university in Editor's Corner.

Supremely bad judgment—driving while drunk—left Vic Chesnutt wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life, and with what he terms a more "adult" view of life. Over the past decade, to articulate that perspective, the singer-songwriter has spun perplexing, poetic lyrics around a stripped-down guitar-based sound. Joe Tarr profiles Chesnutt and anticipates his upcoming Pilot Light show.

Hot young New York city band A.R.E. Weapons won't tell you precisely what their name means. But in the Music Feature, Matthew Everett can tell you all you really need to know: Their shows are "manic," they involve lots of "positive energy," and the group's anger means "they care." In an alternate reality, Eye on the Scene looks on in sorrow as Superdrag drags off into the sunset. In Artbeat, Heather Joyner braves the misery that is Gatlinburg traffic to bring back to Metro Pulse readers news of the Arrowmont school's annual "ARTrageous Summer Auctions." Her assessment: Fill the tank, practice your patience, and go see the show. In the short story collection, Goodnight, Nobody, local author Michael Knight proves himself one of America's finest young writers, declares Jeanne McDonald in Pulp. Angie Vicars explores the economic consequences of joining the library in Yikes!. Massimo Piggliucci warns, "don't go to extremists," in Rationally Speaking. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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