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The U.S. Senate majority leader's family involvement with one of the biggest private hospital groups in America makes his votes on health care issues suspect, even though the good doctor's assets in the hospital corporation are supposedly hidden from him in a blind trust. The Nashville Scene's Willy Stern turns over the pages of the record to find out how blind, or transparent, those trusts really are.

Joe Sullivan finds a neat new downtown grocery taking shape, and Mike Gibson explains the city's foray into free parking and updates the status of the venerable Beck Cultural Exchange Center.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan gets a load of the latest campaign rhetoric from Madeline Rogero and wonders where she's headed in Insights, Jack Neely eulogizes the burnt-out Pickle Mansion in Secret History, and Barry Henderson mounts the 21st annual push to put trucks out on I-640 where they belong in Editor's Corner.

Joe Tarr attempts to tame the proverbial dating beast by subjecting himself to the newest match-making craze, speed dating. Tag along with Joe on his quest for true love or, the next best thing, a good story and find out if this love connection is for you.

Brandy Robinson is a 23-year old folk/funk artist on a mission. Leslie Wylie tells you what it is and why you can't stop her, in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, in Eye on the Scene: Scott Miller and the Commonwealth top the charts even as Gran Torino, the Bitter Pills, and Left Foot Down call it quits. The Radiators play Sundown in the City Thursday and look for Jurassic 5 at Blue Cats on Tuesday. Bluegrass from Maine invades Barley's Wednesday as The Piners hit the scene. In Artbeat, Heather Joyner examines the paintings of Donna Johnson and the photography of J. William Rudd at The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery. Heather finds both Johnson and Rudd most evocative when they let their work speak for itself. Jonathan B. Frey gives us the rundown on Reading Lolita, a rare look inside the paradoxes that contemporary Iran presents to the world at-large, in Pulp. Katie Allison Granju says babies need more good touch in Loco Parentis. Matt Edens describes a garden of a house in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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