news & views
4 Commentary
Joe Sullivan opines that the day of involuntary annexations could be over in Insights; Brian Conley says his goodbyes to a gentleman who changed his life in A Note from the Publisher; and Jack Neely goes back over a few items, from cussing women to tamales to Ott's in Secret History.
7 Citybeat
An interview with new Vice Mayor Mark Brown touches on his roles and some of his views of the city, as Clint Casey recounts it.
13 Cover * A Safe Home or a Jail?
KCDC-run housing projects around town are "special cases," where police conduct spot checks of motorists and pedestrians to see if they "belong" there or are banned from the premises by their earlier behaviors. Joe Tarr talks with the residents, administrators and police officers, but the question of whether the checks are unduly intrusive or necessary for residents' safety and peace of mind is never fully answered.
arts & entertainment
18 Gamut * Dogwood Arts, Revisited
Jack Neely obtains assurances from its director that Knoxville's annual spring series of events, the Dogwood Arts Festival, will take on a new, more seriously artistic face this year to counteract the impression that it has been on the decline for years, decades really. We'll soon see, says Jack.
22 Music
24 Artbeat
Bryan Baker's snapshots and experiments in bureaucratic paperwork illuminate normal objects. Heather Joyner Spica investigates his exhibit at the Tomato Head.
25 Pulp
Jonathan B. Frey reveals The Business of Fiction niche clarified in Stanley Bing's You Look Nice Today.
26 Movie Guru
Naked, elderly, British women may sound like a fetish website, but they're also is the focus of a recent release. Scott McNutt exposes the wrinkles in Calendar Girls.
29 Wedding Guide
Paige M. Travis doles out obscure advice and matrimonial anecdotes about getting hitched Appalachian style in one of our favorite mountain destinations, Gatlinburg. Here's a toast to the Annual Wedding Guide!
calendar
45 SpotlightsUpdaters of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night performeth at UT's Clarence Brown Theatre. Dance Perspectives puts on a veritable vaudevillian variety show on the Pellissippi State floor. Singer-songwriter Lizza Connor strums eloquent ballads at New City Cafe.
final frontiers
57 Sports by Tony Basilio
58 Urban Renewal by Matt Edens
59 Grapevine by Dennis Perkins
61 Click and Clack Talk Cars by Tom and Ray Magliozzi
62 Midpoint by Stephanie Piper
63 News of the Weird
65 Classifieds
65 Crossword by Montford Manassas
68 Life in Hell by Matt Groening
68 Astrology by Rob Brezsny. The Free Will version