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With TVA's stewardship of its seven-state region blanketed by environmental and financial concerns, its electric rates up, its nuclear activities in question, and politicians clamoring to revise its management and expand its board of directors, the agency enters its eighth decade in turbid waters. Barry Henderson catches up with all the clamoring controversies, and reports on the ways the massive public utility is dealing with them.

Paige Travis tells how the Bijou Theatre gains a reprieve from its financial crisis, and Joe Tarr files a demographic report on the favorites' contributors in the city mayor's race.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan endorses Bill Haslam for mayor of Knoxville in Insights. Larry Franks, the county's new library director, examines the interconnectivity that governs us all in the Guest Column. Jack Neely wraps up a summer murder mystery that turns ugly in Secret History.

As Adrienne Martini's home gets a makeover, she has the chance to go behind the scenes of To the Rescue, cable's latest attempt to cash in on the decorating sub-genre of reality shows. She takes advantage of the opportunity to describe the experience.

In the Music Feature, John Sewell has a thoughtful conversation with former Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar, and Paige M. Travis resists the temptation to reveal her infatuation with Pernice Brothers' Joe Pernice to the songwriter himself. Meanwhile, Eye on The Scene unravels a work of Fiction and checks in on the nascent Knoxville Music Night. The soulful country songs of Always... Patsy Cline strike at the heart of Paige Travis in Backstage. The Lovely Bones leaves Jeanne McDonald a little less than satisfied in Pulp. Adrienne Martini turns the page to Mamahood, Chapter One in Shaken and Stirred. Survey says... downtown's in, according to Matt Edens in Urban Renewal. Tony Basilio says university administrations and athletic departments are "jumping the shark" in Sports. CALENDAR * MOVIES

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