An Editorial announces the creation of the Metro Pulse New Main Library Fund; Joe Sullivan recaps Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s year in Insights; Frank Cagle asks whether corporate incentives are a dwindling trend in Frank Talk; Stephanie Piper assesses her changed career in Midpoint; Matt Edens finds a possible silver lining in the destruction of the J. Allen Smith House in Commentary; and Jack Neely lays out 13 ways of looking at the Smith House debacle in Secret History.
Citybeat
The Beck Cultural Exchange Center has moved into the Gateway Building on Volunteer Landing; Molly Kincaid tells how the center will continue utilizing the original Dandridge Avenue location once its upgrading and expansion is complete.
Year in Review
Every December, Metro Pulse looks back at the year that was—what was spectacular and what we’ll be more than happy to forget. The year of 2004 found Knoxville with new leadership in the forms of Mayor Bill Haslam and new UT President John Petersen. Historic preservation issues catapulted to the forefront; residency and renovation projects took the downtown by storm; and lots and lots more....
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4 incoming mail 7 editorial 8 insights 9 frank talk 11 secret history
arts &entertainment
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39 movie guru—Kinsey movie blurbs.........40 movie times..........4142 calendar
final frontiers
51 restaurant guide56 sports57 new health —sponsored by Well by Nature59 click ‘n’ clack 59 crossword59 life in hell60 commentary61 free will astrology62 snarls63 news of the weird65 classifieds