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Diet and exercise, nutritious food and vigorous play, are seemingly lost on many members of our upcoming generation. Joe Tarr explores the realm of childhood obesity and its causes and complications, including increased rates of diabetes in kids who consume more fast food, sugary snacks, cybersittings and MTV than a young body can healthily hold.

Joe Tarr traces the trials of WNCW, the popular North Carolina public radio station that once enjoyed a large audience here, and Cassie Moore reports on the formation of KnoxBlvd, a group committed to the idea of scrapping the I-40 downtown leg altogether.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

The proposition that Franklin Haney might do a convention hotel cheaply deserves a gander, Joe Sullivan says in Insights, the unholy mess at I-40 and James White Parkway is stirred by Barry Henderson in Editor's Corner, and Jack Neely keeps everybody wondering how Burlington, Knoxville's premier locale loyalists' neighborhood out east, got its Brit-glam name, in Secret History.

Our intrepid intern Cassie Moore goes on a raw foods diet so that you don't have to. Read about her adventures in (not) cooking and meet some Knoxvillians who are raw food converts and nutritionists who are skeptical.

Triumphant heartbreaker Lizzie West brings her plaintive, lovely songs to town. Paige M. Travis finds out how West has won so many converts in the Music Feature. Jonathan Kelly checks in and checks out what's shaking with UTK art alumni at the Ewing Gallery in Artbeat. Sisters are doing it for themselves as Ellen Mallernee, Adrienne Martini, and Paige M. Travis give Liz Phair, Gillan Welch and Annie Lennox a spin in Platters. Massimo Pigliucci asks, "what makes a skeptic?" in Rationally Speaking. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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