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  • Oh, What a Mangled Web We Leave
    After flirting with fame and fortune, Nashville's most decadent local rockers The Pink Spiders lost a major-label deal and two of the three founding members—so now what?
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    Caitlin Miller died after a collision with her boyfriend's speeding truck. The teenager's friends and family say it was no accident.
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    To be a Titans cheerleader you don't have to be thin, tan and busty. Well, actually, you do.
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  • City Pages

    Being Tron Guy

    Meet the man inside the glowing Spandex unitard, who refuses to be a "geek pinata."

    By Ben Palosaari

  • Riverfront Times

    Evil Amongst Us

    The nation's best known--and perhaps only--demonologist keeps up the struggle against Satanic spirits.

    By Aimee Levitt

  • Miami New Times

    Taps

    Sensing the end of an era, bottled-water companies spend billions to keep an eco-unfriendly industry alive.

    By Lee Klein

  • Village Voice

    John Steinbeck's Ghosts

    A man fascinated by a violent 1930s strike solves a mystery with the help of a mobster's musician.

    By Tony Ortega

Words of the Week

Published on March 08, 2007

“I’m completely in favor of tightly controlling our border, but I have to tell you that watching this unfold while we circled dirt-poor human beings in several thousand horsepower of helicopters drinking our bottled water was unpleasant; the emotion is not the thrill of the chase, it’s just pity. I tried to tell myself that maybe they were drug dealers, but I don’t really believe that, they were just me in another version of the world.” —Gov. Phil Bredesen, blogging his trip to the Arizona border last week on The Tennessean’s website



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