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1. Cover Story

   Outlawing the Poor

   Nashville’s new class war pits the down-and-out against up-and-comers and their powerful allies

   Jeff Woods

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Downtown Nashville is the Galapagos Islands of a Darwinian drama pitting the ambitious young professionals of luxury lofts and condos against the hard-luck denizens of heat...

2. Features

   Confederacy of Dunces

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Ready, aim, fireEven many Republicans think state Rep. Stacey Campfield is a goofball. Bills by the grandstanding homophobe almost always die quietly in subcommittees....

3. The Fabricator

   Beagles Go Nuts

   Hounds unleash inner hounds following Westminster win

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Beagles from all over Middle Tennessee joined their national colleagues in gathering around televisions last week to root for champion hound Uno in his quest to become the...

4. Helter Shelter

   Swamp Redux

   There are no doubt some mutant life forms downstream of Jabo’s spillway

   Walter Jowers

   Published: February 21, 2008

   A couple weeks back, a gentle reader chided me for polluting the former Jowers property down in Burnettown, S.C. It was fair and accurate criticism, considering that I admitted...

5. Ask a Mexican

   Whiteys Ask

   Special Spanish edicion

   Gustavo Arellano

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Dear Mexican: Why do you suppose Mexico has such a hard time getting its act together? It has vast natural resources, a good climate, natural ports, super-generous and...

6. Features

   Woot Woot

   3rd & Lindsley celebrates 17 years

   Published: February 21, 2008

   by Jewly Hight It doesn’t seem to matter much that 3rd & Lindsley Bar and Grill is a bit oddly shaped, like an elbow with a stage situated at its point. Or that the club...

7. Features

   Anarchy in the U.K.

   The Cherry Blossoms take their front-porchy thing to Scotland and beyond

   Jack Silverman

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Instead of administering nitrous oxide while filling cavities, dentists might want to consider playing The Cherry Blossoms’ “Clam Stand” or “Glow Jesus...

8. Features

   Going All In

   With life over as a Young Professional, Aaron Robinson pulls out the stops

   Published: February 21, 2008

   by Chris Parker Aaron Robinson felt it was time to plunge in. As the frontman of Imaginary Baseball League from 2001 until their breakup in ’05, and Young Professionals...

9. Features

   Less Talk, More Rock

   North Mississippi Allstars’ latest is an all-electric, self-proclaimed party record

   Jewly Hight

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Three tracks into the North Mississippi Allstars’ fifth studio album, Hernando, there’s a sludgy, swinging song called “Soldier” that reveals a...

10. Features

    Flower Girl

    Caitlin Rose offers a taste of what’s to come on her debut EP

    Lee Stabert

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Caitlin Rose might have a voice out of decades past, but it’s doubtful that Patsy or Loretta ever would have casually asserted that—in defense of a fresh pack of...

11. Features

    Time After Time

    The clock is not what we thought it was

    Steve Haruch

    Published: February 21, 2008

    If you missed last week’s Tennessee-Rutgers game, or have since “misremembered” it, the strange finish went something like this: With Tennessee trailing...

12. Letters

    Love-Hate Mail

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Ask, tellI am not sure who to thank for the excellent article about Debbie Vasquez and the clergy sexual abuse going on in the SBC (“What Would Jesus Say?” Feb....

13. Words of the Week

    Words of the Week

    Published: February 21, 2008

    “Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen and the JEWS HATE Jesus.” —A flier circulated by a black preacher against Cohen, who is Jewish and running in the Democratic...

14. The Spin

    The Spin

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Rockin’ through the decadesFeeling more like a variety hour than a rock show, Friday night’s lineup at The End may not have been the best we’ve seen this...

15. Features

    Baptism by Fire

    Elizabeth Ulrich

    Published: February 21, 2008

    When I settled into my seat at Tuesday's meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention work group—convened to discuss its study on the feasibility of a database to warn...

16. Dining

    A Very, Very, Very Fine House

    It’s all in the family at Tandy Wilson and Anne Kostroski’s restaurant—and on Sundays, it’s family style

    Carrington Fox

    Published: February 21, 2008

    The first few times I tried to make reservations at City House, I got shut out. The newest dining hot spot, nestled on a sleepy street in Germantown, needed more than a few...

17. Reviews

    Right Between the Eyes

    Exhibit A for Lee Marvin as the toughest of the tough guys

    Jim Ridley

    Published: February 21, 2008

    A betrayed hood’s feverish search-and-destroy mission through a purgatorial Los Angeles, John Boorman’s hallucinatory 1967 pulp thriller Point Blank is a gauntlet...

18. Reviews

    Point of No Return

    Multi-perspective, mega-annoying Vantage Point is a kaleidoscopic klunker

    Scott Foundas

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Remember the 1985 movie version of the whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of multiple endings? Vantage Point is like that—only instead of multiple...

19. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters

    Published: February 21, 2008

    BE KIND REWIND The pleasures of Michel Gondry’s latest as writer and director do not extend far beyond its premise: Jack Black, magnetized and manic (yawn), erases every...

20. Art

    The View From the Equator

    Vanderbilt organizes a landmark show of a leading Ecuadorian artist

    David Maddox

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Meeting at the Pentagon demands your attention—five brutally square canvases almost 6 feet tall and wide encase bulky, scheming figures who have more than a little...