Investigative reporter Scott McNutt has an explosive report in this week's Knoxville Voice exposing Knox County Government as an elaborate hoax -- "the longest-running piece of unannounced performance art ever executed."

"So that's why Paul Pinkston wasn't at the South Knox waterfront meetings -- it wasn't in the script," said Knoxvillian Rachel Craig, a veteran observer of local politics. "And they said you couldn't make up stuff like this!"

It's not online yet, but you can pick up this week's edition at any of several convenient locations around town.