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Features
Head of the Class
Nashville’s earnest new mayor is willing to try something different to fix schools
Matt Pulle
Published: January 31, 2008
The students at LEAD Academy, a Metro charter school anchored in a bleak North Nashville neighborhood, have been in class for nearly four hours on this particular Saturday, but...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: January 31, 2008
“Some of us are alcoholics. Some of us are thieves. Some of us are adulterers. The truth of the matter is we reflect society.” —State Rep. Gary Moore, a...
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Cover Story
A Vote of No Confidence
Can the electoral process be scattered, smothered and hacked? Nashville filmmaker David Earnhardt says yes.
Jim Ridley
Published: January 31, 2008
As command centers go, the offices of Earnhardt Pirkle Inc.—a remodeled old home with narrow creaky stairs and a piano in the basement—are not exactly the lair of a...
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Features
Confederacy of Dunces
A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior
Published: January 31, 2008
Kings of the stone ageDon’t ask a Tennessee legislator that famous trick question, “When did you stop beating your wife?” You may get a serious answer. Last...
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Desperately Seeking the News
Brinton Quits—Again
Legendary newsman retires, but does he mean it this time?
Matt Pulle
Published: January 31, 2008
by Matt Pulle Veteran reporter and longtime TV personality Larry Brinton abruptly quit WSMV-Channel 4 last week with a year to go on his contract, after nearly 200 years in...
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The Fabricator
Kroger Tries to “Out Green†Whole Foods
Will ban SUVs next year, all cars by 2012
Published: January 31, 2008
Kroger, the dominant grocery chain in Nashville, has announced that by 2012 it will phase out service to customers who drive cars.The move was widely seen as an effort to...
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Helter Shelter
Can’t Keep a Bad Dog Down
Need security? Get a camera or dig a moat—just don’t get a pit bull
Walter Jowers
Published: January 31, 2008
A couple weeks ago, state Sen. Tommy Kilby, a Wartburg Democrat, introduced Senate Bill 2738, which would make it a crime for a person to own a “pit bull dog” in...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Letters from our readers.
Published: January 31, 2008
Sorry stateThank you Ms. Ulrich for beginning to expose the issue regarding seclusion and restraint of students with disabilities (“Physical Education,” Jan. 24)....
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Ask a Mexican
Musical Madness
Yes, Mexicans enjoy bands even when they don’t use tubas and accordians
Gustavo Arellano
Published: January 31, 2008
Dear Mexican: At a weekly Doors tribute band gig, I noticed that the majority of the crowd was Mexican. I swear, it seemed like the crowd missed the exit to the Lupillo Rivera...
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Features
Familial Flames
Fiery Furnaces’ songs skid toward the listener at oblique angles
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: January 31, 2008
When asked about the provocativeness bursting through the seams of one of the band’s lyrics—namely, “When two extra-blond, short-sleeve, button-down /...
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Features
Smooth Move
Local singer-songwriter Aaron Winters releases his alter ego’s debut full-length
Edd Hurt
Published: January 31, 2008
Space Capone is the alter ego of Aaron Winters, who recorded his mildly uncanny full-length debut, Vol. 1: Transformation, in around a week at a house in East Nashville, where...
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Features
One Nation Under a Groove
The Dap-Kings make funk music that’s so cool even lame white kids like it
Jack Silverman
Published: January 31, 2008
How did “funky” become such a dirty word in indie-rock circles? Maybe it was one too many thumb-popping Flea bass solos (certainly understandable), or maybe...
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Woods
Outlawing Poverty
Dean going along with crackdown on panhandling
Jeff Woods
Published: January 31, 2008
You could call it Mayor Karl Dean’s English-Only Moment when, like his predecessor, he could prove his progressive credentials by bucking popular sentiment and vetoing a...
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Features
Basement Party
The Eighth Avenue venue turns three
Lee Stabert
Published: January 31, 2008
It was May 2006. The Basement was abuzz with a more eclectic-than-usual crowd of weekend revelers. Plaid shorts rubbed rivets with skinny jeans as Athens, Ga., buzz band The...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: January 31, 2008
Shirtless dance-off!As our once removed cousin to the Southeast, Murfreesboro’s mark on Nashville shone Friday night when three former ’Boro residents and...
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Features
Homecoming for Book Fest
Premier cultural event will return to Nashville permanently
Christine Kreyling
Published: January 31, 2008
The Southern Festival of Books is coming home—permanently. After alternating between Nashville and Memphis since 2004, the Humanities Tennessee board, which produces the...
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Arts
Wordwork
Aaron Douglas’ art examines the role of language and labor in African American history
David Maddox
Published: January 31, 2008
If poet Langston Hughes created the most memorable literary voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Aaron Douglas provided its visual voice. As a member of the circle of writers,...
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Dining
Giving 'em the Finger Food
Seble Sebsebie shoots into Midtown with a fresh, bountiful--and cheap--buffet
Carrington Fox
Published: January 31, 2008
In the front room of an old house in Midtown, a lunchtime buffet holds a palette of brilliant colors--yellow cabbage, ruby beets, green salad and rust-hued beef. In this cozy...
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Reviews
Universal Soldier
Our one-man military machine’s still going
Jim Ridley
Published: January 31, 2008
A fourth Rambo? The question isn’t why; it’s what took him so long. Was America’s avenging angel of meat just planning to sit out Fallujah and what...
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Reviews
The Naked City
The Belcourt’s amazing film noir festival spells out the lure of certain doom
Jim Ridley
Published: January 31, 2008
The door you shouldn’t have opened. The loot you should’ve put back. The dangerous curves you should’ve stopped stroking, right about the time her husband...
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