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1. Features

   Dispatches From a War Zone

   Governor films America’s funniest videos—hissy fits and talking cats on Curtiswood Lane

   Jeff Woods

   Published: February 28, 2008

   A video camera outside the governor’s mansion has captured one neighbor going berserk and screaming at workers digging “Bredesen’s Bunker.”...

2. Features

   Ready to Roll

   Upcoming Nashville Film Festival offers a peek

   Jim Ridley

   Published: February 28, 2008

   There’s no such thing as 39 and holding for the Nashville Film Festival. From screen legend Patricia Neal to upstart cult filmmakers, from international festival gems to...

3. Features

   Runaway Train

   Smells Like Team Spirit

   Elizabeth Ulrich

   Published: February 28, 2008

   In late January, surveillance footage at Hermitage Hall, a treatment facility for nearly 100 male youth sex offenders ages 9 to 17, revealed that a staffer neglected his...

4. Ask a Mexican

   Barack the Vote

   Special election edicion

   Published: February 28, 2008

   THE MEXICAN INVADES YOUTUBE! The Mexican will begin offering ustedes an online-only question every week through the powers of a pirated camcorder. Submit your video preguntas...

5. The Fabricator

   Lineweaver to Be Featured on TV Show

   Court clerk is ‘a man who knows how to wear a bathrobe,’ producer says

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Vic Lineweaver has finally caught a break.The embattled juvenile court clerk has been selected to compete in the RFD-TV reality show America’s Top Bathrobe Models, which...

6. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Letters from our readers

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Don't buy itThanks to Jeff Woods for his inspiring piece about the homeless (“Outlawing the Poor,” Feb. 21). Everyone has money problems this year. Welfare for...

7. Cover Story

   Death Row Lotto

   In Tennessee, who gets the death penalty is a grim game of chance

   Sarah Kelley

   Published: February 28, 2008

   In Tennessee, not just any cold-blooded murderer is supposed to face the death penalty—only “the worst of the worst.” Like Brett Patterson, who raped and...

8. Features

   New Tricks

   Doug Hoekstra’s latest adopts a more elliptical narrative style

   Chris Parker

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Opening Doug Hoekstra’s sixth studio album, Blooming Roses, “Acquired Taste,” with its rolling lap and pedal steel, is a gentle gibe at the particulars of...

9. Features

   The Spin

   Down, Caitlin Rose, Kids Are Goats, Umbrella Tree and more

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Get downThe line to get into the Cannery last Tuesday wrapped around the lot. The $3 dollar parking area was full by 9:30 p.m., so we had to park at Cummins Station and walk to...

10. Words of the Week

    Words of the Week

    Published: February 28, 2008

    “It’s time to set the record straight about Barack Obama and where he really stands on vital issues such as national security and the security of Israel.”...

11. Features

    The Gospel According to the Mattoid

    The Mattoid’s latest is a tale of death, honky-tonks and Eskimos

    Matt Sullivan

    Published: February 28, 2008

    After a few years entertaining the city’s barflies, The Mattoid’s outsider pop has become less and less outside. As the alter-ego of Helsinki-born Ville Kiviniemi,...

12. Dining

    Nobody's Fus

    Under new ownership, it's not the same old Parco, for better and for worse

    Carrington Fox

    Published: February 28, 2008

    There's an old country conundrum that goes something like this: If you replace the blade and you replace the handle, do you still have the same old ax? Greek philosophers asked...

13. Reviews

    Sister Act

    Sibling rivalry is a royal pain for The Other Boleyn Girl

    Chuck Wilson

    Published: February 28, 2008

    “When you sleep with the King, it ceases to be a private matter.” And so it comes to pass that young Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) must stand before her father,...

14. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters

    Published: February 28, 2008

    CONTROL Covering the final years of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’ brief life, music photographer Anton Corbijn’s directorial debut traces its subject from his...

15. Reviews

    Hot Rock

    Hotpipes have a knack for off-kilter arrangements

    Edd Hurt

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Mock rock ’n’ roll classicism that’s catchy and completely haywire, Hotpipes’ new Future Bolt sounds like the Nashville quartet wrote the record during...

16. Theater

    Beginning Stages

    New theater company offers a forum for local playwrights

    Martin Brady

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Veteran Music Row commercial producer Jim Reyland has been nurturing alternate dreams as a playwright for about 10 years. The author of locally produced stage works such as...

17. Art

    Something Amiss

    Video artist Lauren Kalman examines women’s troubled relationship with their bodies

    Maria Browning

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Walking into Lauren Kalman’s Corpus, Figure, Skate is like entering a world in which everything has shrunk a size. Videos are displayed on screens no bigger than airplane...

18. Books

    Of Hustlers and Heroes

    Biography of pool legends Willie Mosconi and Minnesota Fats defines the rise and fall of a sport—and a century

    Michael Ray Taylor

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Earlier this month, Super Bowl XLII became the second-most-watched TV show of all time, according to Nielsen Media Research. In fact, apart from the 1983 series finale of...

19. Books

    Speak, Memory

    Chris Bohjalian’s 10th novel heads down the rabbit hole of remembrance

    Chris Clancy

    Published: February 28, 2008

    In Chris Bohjalian’s new novel, The Double Bind (Vintage, 416 pp., $14.95), college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is nearly raped by a pair of ski mask-wearing thugs while...

20. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: February 28, 2008

    THURSDAY 2/28MusicTOMMY AND THE WHALE Guys, hide your girlfriends: East Nashville’s finest new pop group Tommy and the Whale will undoubtedly leave you impressed,...