June 24, 2004 • Vol. 14, No. 26







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Metro Pulse & The Tennessee Smokies want to send you to "Country & Western Night" at Smokies Stadium!

Cumberland Avenue Revisited
A four-decade look at the Knoxville music scene
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COVER STORY
The Business of Preaching
A farm-raised Pentecostal minister converts to a Knoxville interdenominational pastor, founds a church here, takes the town by storm as an entrepreneur, and creates a world-class resort nearby as a retreat for Christian clergy and missionaries. Barry Henderson traces Paul Cowell’s wildly varied career and describes its recently realized goal.

FEATURE
What They Say
Is parking downtown really a problem or merely a scapegoat? Jack Neely investigates parking options and makes a molehill out of a mountain in Gamut.

Citybeat
This week: Paige M. Travis learns that reports of a South Knoxville land sale concern inhabitants and neighbors, and Clint Casey describes the move of WDVX radio from Andersonville to Gay Street.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.
EAR TO THE GROUNDLETTERS

Opinion
Joe Sullivan goes back into the city-county consolidation issue looking for the problem areas in Insights, Jack Neely laments what he hopes is just the temporary closing of the Bijou in Secret History, and an Editorial confronts the Bijou Theatre’s deepening dilemma with a dose of tough love.

A&E
Clint Casey welcomes Jay Clark back to Knoxville; Jeanne McDonald says Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller in Pulp, and Heather Joyner Spica brings us the latest exhibit at Bennett Galleries in Artbeat.
EYE ON THE SCENECALENDARSPOTLIGHTS

Movie Guru
Clint Casey reviews The Stepford Wives.
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