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Joe Sullivan gets close to the currently topical issue of preschooling. he talks with the experts and explains how the advantages inherent in those almost taken-for-granted opportunities are virtually essential to kids coming from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Jack Neely catches up on some fascinating architectural details of UT in the national trade press, and Mike Gibson gives the West Knoxville minority mayoral forum the once-over.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan sets out some parameters for the UT presidential search in Insights, Barry Henderson puts the kibbitzer's kibosh on the unrealistic notions of fad dieting in Editor's Corner, and Jack Neely lets these dog days of August off the leash in Secret History.

Jack Neely talks to Pink Girl, The Thin White Duke, Ms. Bat and others and finds that defining what it means to be Goth today is as difficult to describe as it was a millennium and a half ago. One thing Jack does determine, though, is that most modern Goths are a little too friendly to be spooky.

Jam for Cans 2003, a musical fundraiser for Second Harvest Food Bank features Chase Pattison, Beech Grove, Radio Cure, Blue Mother Tupelo and many others. Come find out why these bands beat out more than 300 others who applied for the gig, in the Music Feature. In Artbeat, Heather Joyner visits the McClung Museum and learns a thing or two about hautes chapeaux. Hats and Headdresses: Adornment of the Head from Around the World will only be around for a couple of more weeks, so catch it while you can. In Platters, Mark Eitzel revisits his days with American Music Club on The Ugly American, Essential Logic may finally get their due with Fanfare in the Garden: An Essential Logic Collection, And Caitlin Cary attempts to escape Ryan Adams' shadow with I'm Staying Out. Katie Allison Granju does her homework in Loco Parentis. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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