June 24, 2004 • Vol. 14, No. 26
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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 GROUND 
• LETTERS •
 
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 SCENE 
• CALENDAR 
• SPOTLIGHTS •
 
Movie Guru
 Clint Casey reviews The Stepford Wives.
 
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Columns
 Snarls by Scott McNutt
 New Health by Wendy Smith
 Sports by Tony Basilio
 News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd
 
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