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An auto leasing company's former owner, Jeffrey Lynn Coppinger, is accused in court papers of running a Ponzi scheme that hangs its financing firm and that firm's investors out to dry. Barry Henderson gives the scheme and the resulting LandOak Capital LLC bankruptcy case its first public airing here, and talks to some of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy's creditors, who are wondering aloud why the case against Coppinger—nearly four years under investigation—hasn't been prosecuted by the feds.

Paige Travis' take on the Shakespeare on the Square series is that it's good to go; Joe Tarr gets an explanation from Hiroshima Day protestors of their opposition to the Oak Ridge nuclear revival; and Jack Neely tells why it's hard to believe that Howard Armstrong is really dead and gone.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Can't those convention center promoters just get along? Joe Sullivan determines that they finally are in Insights. Brian Conley takes a conversational stroll down Bearden Bulldog Lane in A Note from the Publisher. Jack Neely revisits the hall of fame career of the late Sen. Estes Kefauver in Secret History.

They may have the Pirates and the Steelers, but Pittsburgh also has a lot in common with our very own river city. Jack Neely takes a tour of our neighbor to the north.

Joe Tarr can barely contain his adoration for the exuberant, Sesame Street-for-adults sound of Deerhoof in the Music Feature. Meanwhile, Eye on The Scene reports on The "new" River and wishes Mark Moffett a speedy recovery. A few bulldozers and some gravel haven't stopped the Tennessee Stage Company from turning its annual Shakespeare on the Park into Shakespeare on the Square; Paige M. Travis finds out in Backstage that As You Like It is turning out to be just like they wanted it. Dry, author Augusten Burroughs' memoir of getting sober, is poignant and hilarious, says Julia Watts in Pulp, but Sylvia Smith's own story, Appleby House, is less riveting. Having momentarily lost her mind, Connie Seuer takes her baby with her for dinner at a nice restaurant. Amazingly, it works out well at Sakura, where the service rivals the sushi, she reports in Restaurant Rover. Nekos Barnes goes from Memphis to Knoxville and back in Minority Report, and Matt Edens goes from Earth to Old City in Urban Renewal. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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