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1. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: December 20, 2007

   More Fred bashingJeff Woods wrote a good article on Thompson (“What the Matter With Fred?” Dec. 13). There is a lot the matter with Fred, and just because his...

2. Ask a Mexican

   Ain’t No Latino!

   Tres questions edition

   Gustavo Arellano

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Dear Mexican: U.S. citizens are sick and tired that, for more than 40 years, Latin American elites have lived like monarchs because they pimp their poor to American businesses...

3. Features

   Culture of Sleaze

   Cooper shows lawmakers how to get caught stealing and still make a profit

   Jeff Woods

   Published: December 20, 2007

   In the culture of sleaze at the Capitol, it seems that no behavior is too audacious for some Democrats. They take bribes, drive blind-drunk, smash up their cars, fall off bar...

4. Woods

   Iowa or Bust

   Thompson launches do-or-die bus tour

   Jeff Woods

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign will probably make history as a squandered opportunity. Republicans were dissatisfied with their field of candidates and looking for...

5. The Fabricator

   Daily Grave

   Tennessean to bring shopaholic’s enthusiasm to funeral planning

   Published: December 20, 2007

   In its continuing effort to connect with aging daily newspaper demographics, The Tennessean is beginning a new column dedicated to, as a press release from the paper puts it,...

6. Helter Shelter

   Ghost of Christmas Past

   Family memories are most haunting during the holidays

   Walter Jowers

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Last week I figured out how to record old videotapes onto DVDs. The process goes something like this: Go to an electronics store, get ignored by blank-eyed, pimply-faced clerks...

7. Features

   2007 Revisited

   Our critics list local faves in rock, country, Americana and bluegrass

   Published: December 20, 2007

   TOP FIVE ALBUMS FROM SINGER-SONGWRITERSThere’s no shortage of local singer-songwriters who are capable of telling a believable story, but some of the most affecting...

8. Columns

   Public Art

   Published: December 20, 2007

   You want to support the “Under God” candidate. (Uh-oh, Fred, better keep working that “I’m like Reagan, who didn’t go to church because he saw God...

9. Dining

   Southern Sol

   Jason McConnell plants another flag in Franklin’s culinary map. This time, the flavor is Mexican.

   Carrington Fox

   Published: December 20, 2007

   When our server recommended the tableside guacamole at Sol as “the best guacamole in Franklin,” we could have mistaken her geographically stingy superlative for...

10. Dining

    Hill of Beans

    Crema brews in Rutledge Hill

    Carrington Fox

    Published: December 20, 2007

    If you think you smell an espresso-scented tipping point somewhere South of Broadway near the river, that’s Crema, the coffee shop brewing in the burgeoning Rutledge Hill...

11. Reviews

    With Relatives Like These…

    A blithely nasty Nicole Kidman takes the cake in Noah Baumbach’s acidic comedy

    Jim Ridley

    Published: December 20, 2007

    There are comedies of discomfort, and then there’s Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach’s scalding follow-up to The Squid and the Whale. An immersion in sibling...

12. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters

    Published: December 20, 2007

    SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET The ultimate in tonsorial terror, Stephen Sondheim’s grisly Grand Guignol operetta is the point on the graph where high art...

13. Reviews

    Talk Hard

    Walk Hard star and director discuss their Cox

    Brent Rolen

    Published: December 20, 2007

    With a who’s-who cast of modern comedy actors, the music-biopic parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is like an SNL movie, only funny. Sure, the jokes are obvious ones...

14. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: December 20, 2007

    THURSDAY 12/20First Star I See TonightSTARLITE DINE & DANCE CLUB’S 55TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY Music trends come and go, clubs open and close, recording media morph from vinyl...

15. Theater

    Build It and They Will Come

    With its latest production, Nashville Children’s Theatre unveils its fabulous $6.3 million renovation

    Martin Brady

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Though Nashville Children’s Theatre openings are often cause for celebration, the Dec. 1 debut of Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business was upstaged by a bigger...

16. Books

    Finding History by Tugging on the Family Heartstrings

    A Scene writer gives StoryCorps a shot

    Maria Browning

    Published: December 20, 2007

    My mother and I were nearing the end of our long drive from her home in Stewart County to the Nashville Public Library downtown. As I dodged the traffic on I-40, she was...

17. Boner Awards

    Boner Awards 2007

    Pacman makes it rain in our annual cloudburst of the year’s worst

    Published: December 20, 2007

    by the Committee of InbredsWhat do a trio of hapless state legislators, the reigning bad boy of the NFL, and some of the most lame-brained low-rent criminals to sully a cell...

18. SceneCast

    Episode 111

    Collin Monk

    Published: December 20, 2007

    The Scenecast is the "audio extension of the music section of the print edition of the Nashville Scene" and expands your reading pleasure with sonic illustrations to keep your...

19. Suspect Behavior

    Suspect Behavior

    Sarah Kelley

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Not your average meter maidA man returned to his illegally parked car and found an officer placing a ticket on his windshield. The suspect promptly moved his car to a...