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1. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: January 10, 2008

   “It wasn’t something that he had a burning desire for.” —Jeri Thompson, Fred Thompson’s wife, to a TV reporter on her husband’s initial...

2. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: January 10, 2008

   Well chosenI wanted to thank Sarah Kelley for her “Nashvillian of the Year” cover story on Clemmie Greenlee (Dec. 27). It was the most eloquent article I have read...

3. Woods

   Master Blaster

   Lee Beaman, the leading opponent of ‘Bredesen’s Bunker,’ dynamited at his own home

   Jeff Woods

   Published: January 10, 2008

   It turns out that Lee Beaman, the zillionaire businessman who’s leading neighbors fighting “Bredesen’s Bunker” partly to prevent blasting for the...

4. Ask a Mexican

   Mormon Love

   Their good book says immigrants ‘shall be brought by the hand of the Lord’

   Gustavo Arellano

   Published: January 10, 2008

   Dear Mexican: I feel that the more Mexicans who come to this country, the better. I am a Mormon, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. On page 54 in our...

5. Features

   Torchbearer

   Pop sensation Chris Brown’s sophomore release

   Published: January 10, 2008

   Chris Brown has been well known to the screaming underage masses for a minute now, but he broke out to a wider audience at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards show. There...

6. Features

   The King Is Dead, Long Live the King

   Louis XIV, no longer royally blue

   Jonathan Garrett

   Published: January 10, 2008

   By Jonathan Garrett Louis XIV frontman Jason Hill knows what it’s like to be hated. In 2005, Pitchfork gave his major-label debut, The Best Little Secrets Are Kept, a...

7. Cover Story

   The Chain Gang

   In one Nashville gang, you can be a punk, a vegan, a Christian—even all three— but you’d better be ready to chop a bike

   Cody De Vos

   Published: January 10, 2008

   By Cody De Vos It’s a breezy autumn afternoon at the unofficial Rat Patrol Nashville headquarters, a small rented house near Hillsboro Village where members of...

8. The Fabricator

   Keystone Kommission

   Police Academy 8 plot incorporates Metro laptop heist

   Published: January 10, 2008

   The producers of Police Academy 8: The Name Game have agreed to pay Metro an undisclosed fee for the rights to use the details of the Christmas Eve computer theft from the...

9. Helter Shelter

   Pack Rats

   What’s wrong with buying containers for unused jelly jars?

   Walter Jowers

   Published: January 10, 2008

   I live in a warehouse. You wouldn’t know it if you just looked at my house from the street. From the street, the Jowers house looks like most of the houses in the...

10. Features

    Cops and Robbers

    A former Metro officer is sentenced to 12 years for his role in a drug heist, but even the judge admits the punishment doesn’t fit the crime

    Sarah Kelley

    Published: January 10, 2008

    As a Metro cop for more than 15 years, Ernest Cecil helped nab countless gang members, drug dealers and other violent criminals on Nashville’s streets. But last week, the...

11. The Spin

    The Spin

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Kountry kitsch There are some nights we spend extra time primping in front of the mirror, putting on our sweetest threads to hit the town for an evening of extraneous...

12. Dining

    360 Degrees of Separation

    Revolution comes to the restaurant formerly known as The Grape

    Carrington Fox

    Published: January 10, 2008

    The next time your fork gets snared in a tangle of pea vine or stumbles across a brick-sized crouton, you might look around for chef John David Crow. Unusual ingredients and...

13. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters.

    Published: January 10, 2008

    JIMMY CARTER: MAN FROM PLAINS Jonathan Demme, who directed Tom Hanks to an Oscar as the AIDS-afflicted lawyer in Philadelphia, may be the most well-meaning filmmaker in...

14. Reviews

    Back Home

    Old Black Kettle’s live album has moments that hit the harmony sweet spot

    Jewly Hight

    Published: January 10, 2008

    By Jewly Hight At the heart of Old Black Kettle are three harmonizing female voices that do justice to the band’s name. That’s not to say their sound is rough and...

15. Reviews

    Salad Days

    A talk with VeggieTales’ Mike Nawrocki, the cinema’s coolest Christian cuke

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Almost 15 years ago, Mike Nawrocki remembers, when he and creative partner Phil Vischer were shopping around an animated series of Bible stories retold with...

16. Reviews

    The Kids Are All Wrong

    It’s a hard knock (and creepy) life in The Orphanage

    Jim Ridley

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Having a child destroys your immune system to horror, real or imagined. Before the blessed event, you could laugh off The Exorcist, The Omen, or any of a thousand gory shockers...

17. Art

    Domestic Terrorism

    Explosives, toxins and advertising provide fodder for art exhibits

    David Maddox

    Published: January 10, 2008

    You have to wonder if emails between Lisa Solomon and Aurora Robson, the two artists collaborating in SQFT Gallery’s current Couplets show, were discussed in any of Dick...

18. Books

    Civil Rights Road Trip

    A sightseer’s guide to the movement

    Maria Browning

    Published: January 10, 2008

    We haven’t yet reached the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, and a number of important players in the civil rights movement are still active...

19. Books

    Wedding Crasher

    Ruining a wedding party

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Renata DeChavannes is going through a rough patch. Just a few months after her adored mother and stepfather die in a plane crash, she has writer’s block (not good for a...

20. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: January 10, 2008

    SOULJA BOY In case you just emerged from a coma, Soulja Boy’s entry in the minstrel-rap sweepstakes is called Souljaboytellem.com—a savvy piece of viral marketing....