July 29, 2004 • Vol. 14, No. 31









Grab your Docksider shoes, Ray Ban glasses, and Members Only jacket, and get ready to travel back to the 80's at Smokies Park!

Cumberland Avenue Revisited
A four-decade look at the Knoxville music scene
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COVER STORY
Library Dilemma
Jack Neely peers into the downtown library conundrum and tallies positive and negative feedback about its potential future.

FEATURE
Jupiter un-’Snapped’
Joe Tarr interrogates local production company Jupiter Entertainment’s functionaries and advisers about the success of its basic cable crime series, City Confidential, and its new venture called Snapped on violent crimes against men by women.

Citybeat
This week: Mike Gibson gauges the success/failure rating of Market Square and discovers both raves and rants over the square’s ongoing renovations.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.
EAR TO THE GROUNDLETTERS

Opinion
Joe Sullivan casts an optimistic eye toward new UT prez John Petersen in Insights, Jack Neely casts light on the origin of the central library’s name in Secret History, Barry Henderson casts around for new demographic hints in a downtown census analysis in Editor’s Corner, and an Editorial concludes the die is cast with Knoxville's economic progress.

A&E
Clint Casey checks in with Soul Tree, and we lend and ear to Rachael Yamagata, Roy Haynes, and The Polyphonic Spree in Platters.
EYE ON THE SCENECALENDARSPOTLIGHTS

Movie Guru
Paige M. Travis reviews De-Lovely.
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Columns
Urban Renewal by Matt Edens
Sports by Tony Basilio
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd

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