Commentary

An Editorial offers Metro Pulse’s endorsements of several candidates for Knoxville-area legislative offices; Joe Sullivan recommends candidates for school board and one legislative seat in Insights; Frank Cagle picks on the campaign-financing foibles of the many in Frank Talk; and Jack Neely pays last respects to an old family friend in Secret History.

Citybeat

Melissa Elkins finds out why residents of Campus Pointe have just now moved into the overdue Fort Sanders complex; Jack Neely previews this weekend’s Cormac McCarthy conference; and Paige M. Travis tracks down the tardy Hounds on the Town.

Ambassador Ashe

Joe Sullivan recounts three days of observing and conversing with former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe about his new post as U.S. Ambassador to Poland.

Normalcy

Seeing red? Feeling blue? Jack Neely finds himself in a state of confusion when he considers the history of color-coding America’s political positions.

news & views

4 incoming mail 7 editorial 8 insights 9 frank talk10 secret history13 commentary

arts &entertainment

27 music-—Billy Joe Shaver29 pulp

31 backstage—Anna Karenina33 movie guru—GITS 2: Innocence

movie blurbs.........34 movie times..........3537 calendar

final frontiers

49 sports 51 new health

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