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The Knox County Public Defender's Office conducts some extra social service and educational activities for clients and their families in a Community Law Office that's been garnering praise among local lawyers and national legal circles. The career of popular Public Defender Mark Stephens and some of the innovations he's engineered in his 16 years in office are chronicled by Joe Tarr.

For a good while, the big hole in the ground along State Street in downtown Knoxville was known, whimsically, as Red Square. Now it's being paved over for a parking lot, hopefully just temporarily, as Jack Neely reports, and the MP Staff takes a look at the East Tennessee Discovery Center's new and scintillating website.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.

Joe Sullivan gives Mayor-elect Bill Haslam's up-coming administration's organizational chart the once-over in Insights, Barry Henderson weighs the pros and potential cons of growing the TVA board in Editor's Corner, Jack Neely turns the pages of Secret History toward downtown retailing's traditional "off" hours, Matt Edens sounds off on the recent city council elections, and Glenn Reynolds offers a modest proposal for downtown redevelopment.

What everyone seems to think of as traditional Thanksgiving fare is hardly as old in tradition as some living grandparents. The holiday meal was once much more elaborate and varied, Jack Neely learns, and he instructs us on the gourmet menus that graced holiday tables a century ago. Oysters were everywhere—not just in the dressing. Yum.

John Sewell considers the "meat-and-potatoes" instrumental post-rock of Darediablo, while Clint Casey discovers why Yonder Mountain String Band's progressive brand of bluegrass is not in favor with traditionalists. Heather Joyner meanders through an exhibit featuring the works in glass of the other William Morris at KMA. Jonathan B. Frey ponders the art of the jazz remix on a handful of current releases. Loco Parentis by Katie Allison Granju Minority Report by Chiara Petro Sports by Tony Basilio CALENDAR * MOVIES

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