Joe Sullivan compares Knox County teachers’ salaries, unfavorably, with other urban and neighboring systems in Insights; an Editorial extols the state Legislature for revamping its landmark vehicular child restraint systems laws; and Jack Neely pores over a new biography of the late Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett for evidence of her Knoxville upbringing in Secret History.
Citybeat
learns that Sundown in the City is expected to resume after Labor Day, but the proposed Market Square Live! concert series will have to find another night than Thursday; and sits down for a burrito with KCDC’s new president Dave Hutchins and gets an earful about the agency’s changing directions.
The Independent Way
rolls the native East Tennesseans’ penchant for personal independence into a neat Fourth of July recipe, and the Metro Pulse staff interviews some of Knoxville’s better known independent thinkers and actors to set the tone for this year’s most American of holidays.
For the Rest of Their Lives?
Golf lovers say their sport teaches players life lessons, and that’s why they’re trying to get minority kids hooked on the game. travels to The Wee Course at Williams Creek to find out what they’re teaching.
news & views
4 incoming 6 insights 7 editorial 8 secret history 9 citybeat 11 guest column
arts &entertainment
21 gamut24 music-—John Cowan26 platters27 backstage—A Midsummer Night’s Dream
31 movie guru—Fahrenheit 9/11 movie blurbs.........32 movie times..........3335 calendar
final frontiers
44 sports
45 click ‘n’ clack46 urban renewal48 crossword
48 life in hell 49 news of the weird50 classifieds53 free will astrology