June 3, 2004 • Vol. 14, No. 23

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COVER STORY
Harold Ford Jr., Prince of Memphis
The congressman from West Tennessee’s most controversial political family is a renegade of a different kind, a moderate minority Democrat in Washington, and Roger Abramson, writing for the Nashville Scene, puts both the Capitol’s and Tennessee’s spin on Harold Ford Jr.’s anticipated candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 2006.

FEATURE
A Survivor’s Guide to Bonnaroo
Large music festivals can be intimidating and, sometimes, downright scary. Paige M. Travis and friends offer a few tips and tricks to successfully endure and fully enjoy the Bonnaroo experience.

Citybeat
Joe Tarr determines that homosexual partners can be just as abusive as their hetero-counterparts, but their victims have fewer resources, and Jack Neely marks the move of the city’s Visitors Center to Gay Street from Volunteer Landing.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.
• EAR TO THE GROUND • LETTERS •

Opinion
Joe Sullivan looks into the Knox County budget and sees the county’s mayor as shortchanging schools in Insights, Jack Neely gives us the shivers over a dismembered corpse cast upon the Tennessee River’s waters a century ago in Secret History, and an Editorial extols the careers and persons of the retiring police and fire chiefs and wishes the city mayor well in replacing them.

A&E
Joe Tarr rocks the mic – Mic Harrison, that is; we spin the female Eminem, a Brooklyn cultural stew, and a Jamaican hoochie mama in Platters, and Paige M. Travis Strikes Up the Band in Backstage.
• EYE ON THE SCENE • CALENDAR • SPOTLIGHTS •

Movie Guru
Scott McNutt reviews The Day After Tomorrow.
• NOW PLAYING • PAST & FUTURE •

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

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