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Few Knoxvillians have thought more about the city's sometimes perplexing, often compelling symbols than Jack Neely. He winds up and pitches out a passel of those icons, a representative sample that you can argue over, laugh at or salute as tangible things that seem uniquely Knoxville.

Joe Tarr takes a sobering look at expansion proposals for Interstate-40 through town, and Joe Sullivan tells how Knoxville's Industrial Development Board has found new life as a proposed convention center hotel needs financing.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan sees more than moneybags behind Bill Haslam's run for mayor in Insights, Jack Neely hears echoes of an old-time newsroom and the laughter of a friend now gone in Secret History, and the courage and vision of a pair of immigrant grandpas are a marvel to Stephanie Piper in Midpoint.

Jack Mauro listens in on conversations before a meatloaf dinner to illustrate how Tennessee became known as the Volunteer State, despite the best devices of many of its women. The questioning mind of little Amber Trahern, whose ancestor Johnny Trahern left his Knoxville home in 1842 to serve with Sam Houston in Texas, picks up on the theme.

Swing dancing is alive and well in Knoxville, thanks to the music of local big band The Streamliners. Leslie Wylie previews the band's upcoming show at Fairbanks' Roasting Room July 17 in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene pays tribute to the irrepressible Mike Flannagan, flutters over the summer's first Sundown in the City concert, and checks in with Rus Harper to learn, alas, that Evil Twin is no more. In Backstage, Paige Travis reviews the The Foreigner, presented at the Bijou by the Cumberland County Playhouse. Paige says it's a comedy that's overlong but endurable just to catch its warnings against stereotypes. In Platters, Matthew Everett reviews Decoration Day by Drive-By Truckers, and catches a simpler, more personal record than Southern Rock Opera, while Jonathan B. Frey's tilt on World 2002 concludes that the two-disc set may indeed envelop some of the best music made lately around the world. George Dodds ravages ol' I-40 in the Guest Column. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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