May 20, 2004 • Vol. 14, No. 21

Win a pair of tickets to see The Smokies home game Sunday night, June 13, as well as tickets to the post-game concert featuring the band TWO STEP, an officially recognized Dave Matthews tribute band! A four-decade look at the Knoxville music scene On sale now!

COVER STORY
Identity Crisis
When the Rhea County Commission questioned whether homosexuality should be allowed in its jurisdiction, activists swiftly united to organize a Gay Day there as a fierce response. Joe Tarr went to observe the Dayton event. There, he discusses the controversy with those on both sides of the issue.

FEATURE
Hide and Seek
With GPS in hand, Joe Tarr becomes an active participant in “geocaching,” the stealthy sport taking techno-junkies by storm.

Citybeat
The long-awaited animal shelter, a joint city/county institution on Sutherland Avenue, is open, and Paige M. Travis takes you on a walkthrough; and Barry Henderson bids goodbye to Kenny Siao, the dynamic Knoxville restaurateur who drowned in the Atlantic this past weekend.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.
• EAR TO THE GROUND • LETTERS •

Opinion
Joe Sullivan flunks the state on its higher education funding level in Insights, Barry Henderson runs through the responses, zany and serious, to the CBID downtown branding survey in Editor’s Corner, Jack Neely peers beneath the scruff in Secret History, and an Editorial traces the development and redevelopment efforts on the county’s Farmers’ Market property.

A&E
Leslie Wylie checks in with Jag Star, Paige M. Travis looks at the Bijou's production of Mame in Backstage, and we listen to Joel Frahm, Charlie Haden, and Michael Mayer in Platters.
• EYE ON THE SCENE • CALENDAR • SPOTLIGHTS •

Movie Guru
Jack Neely reviews Kitchen Stories.
• NOW PLAYING • PAST & FUTURE •

Columns
Urban Renewal by Matt Edens
Sports by Tony Basilio
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd

Odds & Ends
Classifieds
Personals
MetroBlab
Search
Contact us!
About the site

©1996-2004 Ian Blackburn. Portions ©1991-2004 Metro Pulse LLC. No part of Metro Pulse Online may be reproduced without written permission, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. Metro Pulse Online is best viewed with some sort of web browser, although there is some anecdotal evidence that a toaster oven works okay.

trees have been saved by this website.

Coffee is good.