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Difficult for some to discuss and agonizing to contemplate, suicide is a growing phenomenon in the Knoxville area. Adrienne Martini talks with surviving relatives, listens to the lessons related by mental health care professionals, and decides that there is help available to avert potential suicides, but much more attention should be directed to the problem.

Mike Gibson gives the latest maneuvering around Knoxville's Empowerment Zone the once over, and Ellen Mallernee pokes around at the notion that it takes more than four years to graduate at UT.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan worries over the implications of the UT president's tribulations in Insights, Barry Henderson cautions the TVA tinkerers to be careful what they wish for in Editor's Corner, and near the 100th anniversary of Estes Kefauver's birth, the legend of his star-crossed political career seems about to slip away, Jack Neely surmises in Secret History.

Mike Gibson pays a visit to the Beck Cultural Center on Dandridge Avenue and learns that Knoxville's impressive little African-American history museum is looking forward to even brighter days.

Multi-talented (and multi-tasking) Keller Williams brings his one-man show to town; Ellen Mallernee takes a good long look at this intriguing artist in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on the Scene checks into changes at The River, reclaims Dixie Dirt, and says hello to Revolution Letterpress. Paige Travis reviews Wilde West at the Laurel Theatre, and concludes that this "farcical fantasy" is a pretty good little number that grows on you through its three acts, in Backstage. Julia Watts enjoys Jill McCorkle's Creatures of Habit but wishes that Irene Zabytko's When Luba Leaves Home had a little more zip, in Pulp. Got a job? You lucky devils, says Scott McNutt in Snarls. Matt Edens finds a diamond in the rough on Gratz Street in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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This issue is volume 13, number 30, or "thirteen-thirty," as we refer to it. That's the name of the company that became Whittle Communications, whose former offices we currently occupy. Seems like there ought to be some pithy, profound comment to be made about that, but I can't for the life of me think of one.