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- Roy Herron and the Gay Adoption Issue
- Morning Roundup: Fourth Down for 5th and Main
- 'Talk of the Nation' Eulogizes Nashville Newspaper Archivist
- Martin Brady, Scene Theater Critic...and Terrorist?
- Memories: A Look Back at 2009's Most Widely Read Pith Posts
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- MEEMAW Reuniting, Playing The End Jan. 22 w/JEFF the Brotherhood, Marj! & So Jazzy
- 2009: Grimey's Top Sellers and Staff Picks
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- A Slice of Knife
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News
Cover Story

From fallen idols to unsung heroes, remembering some of the bold, colorful and irreplaceable lives Nashville lost this year
By Teddy Bart, Daniel Cooper, Bruce Dobie, Adam Dread, Pat Embry, Randy Fox, Liz Garrigan, Tim Ghianni, Michael Gray, Randy Horick, Demetria Kalodimos, E. Heather Lose, Galyn Martin, Michael McCall, Lyda Phillips, Jim Ridley, Michelle Taylor Wilson, E. Thomas Wood and Nicki Pendleton Wood
Music
Restaurants
Latest Review
Louisiana chain brings a world of wines—but little local flavor—to the Gulch
By Carrington Fox
Movies
Latest Reviews
Hunger, The Hurt Locker, and Up in the Air: a last look at the highs of the movie year 2009
- Musical version of Fellini's 8½ is ½ too much
- High-tech whizbangery battles Stone Age storytelling in James Cameron's 3-D pixelpazoola Avatar
- Is it possible that the grim movie version of The Road isn't grim enough?
- George Clooney makes a smooth ride out of the slight but deft Up In The Air
- Zac Efron vehicle Me and Orson Welles offers a sweet, modest, minor take on the great man's mystique
- Prankster duo The Yes Men fight the powers that be in a rematch
- Clint Eastwoods Invictus tells a whopper of an inspirational saga with straightforward craft
- Agnès Varda takes an irresistible stroll through her life and movies
- Austrian suspense drama Revanche reps the underrated virtue of stunning craft
In Theaters
- 2012
- 3 Idiots
- Aliens in the Attic
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
- Armored
- Astro Boy
- Avatar
- Avatar 3D
- Avatar: An IMAX 3D Experience
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
- The Blind Side
- Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
- The Box
- Brothers
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Coco Before Chanel
- Did You Hear About the Morgans?
- Disney's A Christmas Carol
- Disney's A Christmas Carol in Disney Digital 3D
- An Education
- Everybody's Fine
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Funny People
- G-Force
- The Hangover
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- The Hurt Locker
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Invictus
- It's Complicated
- Law Abiding Citizen
- New York, I Love You
- Nine
- Ninja Assassin
- Old Dogs
- Orphan
- Paranormal Activity
- Pirate Radio
- Precious
- The Princess and the Frog
- The Proposal
- The Road
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Stepfather
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon
- The Ugly Truth
- Up in the Air
- Where the Wild Things Are
- The Young Victoria
Arts and Entertainment
Our Critics Picks

Nick Jonas and the Administration at the Ryman
A Subsidiary of Jonas Brothers Inc.
By Ashley Spurgeon
Nashville Flipside at 12th & Porter
Flip Off
By Sean L. Maloney
Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre at Exit/In
Unfettered and Unhinged
By Chris Parker
Leon Russell at Third & Lindsley
Stranger in a Strange Land
By Michael McCall
Bubonic Bear at Little Hamilton
Grin and Bear It
By Timothy C. Davis
The Contributor Benefit at Downtown Presbyterian Church
Where the Art Is
By Joe Nolan
Empire! Empire! w/Leach at the Rabbit Hole
Sadcore Showdown
By Lance Conzett
New York, I Love You at The Belcourt
Hey...Where's Woody Allen?
By Jim Ridley
Harlem Globetrotters at Sommet
Whistle While You Work
By Timothy C. Davis
Weekend Jimmy and the Easy Party
Can We Make a Request for Some Foghat?
By Sean L. Maloney
Music City Roots at the Loveless Barn
Living Roots
By Michael McCall
Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Sommet Center
Trans-Siberian Express
By Adam Gold
The Infamous Stringdusters at Station Inn
Take-Off
By Jewly Hight
Young Thee at Limelight
How Do I Love Thee?
By Sean L. Maloney
It's Not Hellfire at Twist Gallery
Do the Twist
By Joe Nolan
Dale Ann Bradley w/Kim Fox & Steve Gulley at Station Inn
Three-for-One
By Jon Weisberger
8 1/2 at The Belcourt
A Fine Confusion
By Lance Conzett
Coal Train Railroad CD Release at Ugly Mugs
Boppin' Tots
By Jack Silverman
Wrench Rupture Suture at Twist Gallery
Do the Twist
By Joe Nolan
Nashville Femme Vegan Cupcake Calendar Fundraiser
Calendar Grrrls
By Tracy Moore
My So-Called Band w/The Non-Commissioned Officers & Stevie Binge and the Fork Hunts at The 5 Spot
Party Like it's 1999
By D. Patrick Rodgers
The End of the Aughts
Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot
By D. Patrick Rodgers
Old Crow Medicine Show at the Ryman
Old Acquaintance
By Michael McCall
New Year's Party at Little Hamilton
D.I.Y. Aud Lang Syne
By Lance Conzett
420 Funk Mob
Party People
By Sean L. Maloney
Ballhog at The Basement
Don't Pass on This
By Chris Parker
18 South at Station Inn
18 and Up
By Jon Weisberger
Organized Disorder at Limelight
New York Rock-Rappin' Eve
By Sean L. Maloney
Guilty Pleasures at Cannery Ballroom
The Pleasure Principle
By Timothy C. Davis
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Slideshows >
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- Kings of Leon bassist buys $1.83 million home: this and other mega-dollar sales in our regular roundup of Nashvilles priciest homes
- The Boner Awards 2009: Our annual roundup of the years biggest blunders, boondoggles and oddities
- From fallen idols to unsung heroes, remembering some of the bold, colorful and irreplaceable lives Nashville lost this year
- Nashvillians of the Year: Because of Hal Cato and Rodger Dinwiddie— and the remarkable youth center they founded—Nashville's lost and forgotten teens will sleep safer
- Rock 'n' Roll Poll 2009 : The local rock scene on the local rock scene
National Features >
City Pages
The Last Viking
In a land of manly men, 40-year-old Brett Favre reigns as the alpha dog.
By Erin Carlyle
Phoenix New Times
Contempt of Courts
The inside story of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's perverse attack on the Arizona judiciary.
By Paul Rubin
Village Voice
Why This Decade Sucked
Reason #10: Social media ruined the Internet.
By Roy Edroso
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Daily Fork
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True Crime Report
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