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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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