July 1, 2004 • Vol. 14, No. 27

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COVER STORY
The Independent Way
Jack Neely 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.

FEATURE
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. Joe Tarr travels to The Wee Course at Williams Creek to find out what they’re teaching.

Citybeat
This week: Ellen Mallernee 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 Joe Tarr sits down for a burrito with KCDC’s new president Dave Hutchins and gets an earful about the agency’s changing directions.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.
• EAR TO THE GROUND • LETTERS •

Opinion
Joe Sullivan compares Knox County teachers’ salaries, unfavorably, with other urban and neighboring systems in Insights, 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, an Editorial extols the state Legislature for revamping its landmark vehicular child restraint systems laws, and Ed White reports on Rep. Bill Dunn's stance on same-sex marriage in the Guest Column.

A&E
Paige M. Travis chats with John Cowan; we spin some new discs in Platters, and Leslie Wylie looks at A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Backstage.
• EYE ON THE SCENE • CALENDAR • SPOTLIGHTS •

Movie Guru
Jesse Fox Mayshark reviews Fahrenheit 9/11.
• NOW PLAYING • PAST & FUTURE •

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

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