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Noise Reduction Nashville singer-songwriters tastefully interpret holiday classics on their second collection

No Apologies Thrown from Legends of Rodeo, John Ralston lands on his feet

Future Perfect The stubborn optimism in Keith Urban’s music is hard-earned and hard to resist

 

 

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Car Scars First Hyundai childhood survivors’ group forms

Helter Shelter For the Jabo Jowers family, Christmas was all about the tree

Man in the Middle Albert Haynesworth is having the season of his life. With playoffs and a big contract on the line, has this Titan finally put a troubled past to rest?

As the Needle Spins Avoiding its anti-dogma roots, The Golden Compass veers off-course

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Love-Hate Mail

Rush to the Rescue Limbaugh praises Thompson, but can anything save his campaign?

 

 

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Hit Man From bookie to record mogul to big-screen gangster to Music Row exec, the strange but true life of Frank Dileo

Double Trouble Two instrumental giants play Nashville on the same night

Our Own Little Italy It’s Hillsboro Village, not the North End, but your taste buds won’t know it

Wilderness Refuge John Doe’s latest is a natural beauty

East Side Story Westies, get ready to rumble—East Nashville has arrived

Radio Daze Local music folks man the controls at Bonnaroo’s backstage recording studio

Nash-Up Don’t let something as trivial as lack of musical ability get in the way of making your own music

 

 

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Jack Silverman

Jack Silverman is editorial operations manager for the Nashville Scene.

 

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The ironies of our conflicting city and state beer and liquor laws aren’t lost on Family Wash owner Jamie Rubin, who lost his beer license in 2006 due to a confusing zoning issue. (He had the license for years, but it was revoked in a bizarre turn of clerical events.) The story’s more complicated than The Bourne Ultimatum, but, simply put, Rubin can serve wine and high-alcohol beer, yet he can’t serve low-alcohol beer, which of course would allow patrons to (gasp!) drink more responsibly.

“Not everyone in the world wants to drink a beer that’s 7 or 9 percent alcohol,” Rubin says. “On one level, we’ve been able to educate people about different kinds of beer and the nuances of beer licenses, but it has also put a big strain on our and our patrons’ pockets. Higher-alcohol-content beers are more expensive. We’ve also been unable to support our local breweries.”

So Rubin’s gonna, um, stand his ground. No, he won’t back down. To that end, several local music celebs—including Rubin, Reeves Gabrels, Audley Freed, Jen Gunderman and Fred Eltringham (who collectively have played with David Bowie, The Black Crowes, The Jayhawks and The Wallflowers), along with guest vocalists—are gathering for two nights, two shows a night, to pay tribute to the original Heartbreaker himself, and to help Rubin raise the several thousand dollars it’s going to take to jump through all of the legal hoops necessary to allow his patrons the option of drinking a couple beers without getting drunker than Foster Brooks at a Friars Club roast (or Ryan Adams at, well, anywhere). Perhaps if Rubin can get the cash together, the beer board will stop draggin’ his heart around once and for all. (Donations welcome; reservations encouraged.)