Commentary
<P>Joe Sullivan takes a stroll down State Street with a critical but optimistic eye in Insights; an Editorial pushes for Spanish as a second language in these United States; and Jack Neely looks back at a chance encounter with Ronald Reagan in Secret History.

<P>Citybeat
<P><SPAN CLASS="author">Clint Casey</SPAN> talks with a local valedictorian of the <A HREF="dir_zine/dir_2004/1424/t_citybeat.html">Destination Imagination</A> brigade, and <SPAN CLASS="author">Joe Tarr</SPAN> gets to the bottom of the beer-barrel controversy over the resurrection of New Knoxville Brewing Co.

<P>By the Book
<P><SPAN CLASS="author">Jack Neely</SPAN> rummages around in the fascinating field of <A HREF="dir_zine/dir_2004/1424/t_cover.html">old books</A>; <SPAN CLASS="author">Paige M. Travis</SPAN> talks with author <A HREF="dir_zine/dir_2004/1424/t_cover2.html">Julia Lieber</A> about her new mystery; and the staff casts about to find what a sampling of Knoxvillians in high and low places see as good summer reading this year.

<P>Thank God for South Korea
<P>When local rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roller <A HREF="dir_zine/dir_2004/1424/t_gamut.html">Todd Steed</A> isn&rsquo;t warbling musical commentary about life in East Tennessee, he works with UT as a programs abroad coordinator. <SPAN CLASS="author">Mike Gibson</SPAN> catches up with Steed and talks about the separation of rock and state university.

<P>news &amp; views
<P>  4 incoming  6 insights   7 editorial  8 secret history  9 citybeat 11 midpoint
<P>arts &amp;entertainment
<P>28 gamut35 music-&mdash;David Lowery37 artbeat39 pulp41 movie guru
<P>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
<P>     movie blurbs.........42     movie times..........4344 calendar

<P>final frontiers
<P>52 sports 53 new health&ndash;sponsored by Well by Nature
<P>54 crossword
<P>54 life in hell 57 news of the weird58 classifieds61 free will astrology
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