August 26, 2004 • Vol. 14, No. 35








MetroFest 2004
Saturday, Sept. 11


A free festival honoring Knoxville’s local music history and the book Cumberland Avenue Revisited – and beginning a new tradition for the future!

COVER STORY
Scientific Springboard
The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratories are collaborating in a series of Joint Institutes. Joe Sullivan reports on the goals and aspirations of this intriguing combo.

FEATURE
Will Rock for Food
Second Harvest Food Bank reaps the bounty of generous rockers contributing their talents to the second annual Jam for Cans. Paige M. Travis pops the lid off this fundraiser and its loyal organizers.

Citybeat
This week: Journal Broadcasting Group seeks to make Star 102.1 Boomsday a more profitable venture, with or without beer sales, and Jack Neely performs a preliminary autopsy on the main-library project.
Plus: Seven Days, Meet your City, and Knoxville Found.
EAR TO THE GROUNDLETTERS

Opinion
Joe Sullivan revisits Mayor Bill Haslam’s plan for a downtown movie theater in Insights, Jack Neely finds connections between New York and Knoxville in Secret History, an Editorial praises the foresight of choosing Athens, Greece, as the location for this year’s Olympic Games, and Matt Edens probes the issue of developing our downtown neighborhoods and improving inner-city schools in a Guest Column.

A&E
Leslie Wylie interviews 10 Years, and we investigate some new (and old) tuneage in Platters.
EYE ON THE SCENECALENDARSPOTLIGHTS

Movie Guru
Clint Casey reviews Garden State.
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Columns
Urban Renewal by Matt Edens
Frank Talk by Frank Cagle
Sports by Tony Basilio
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd

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