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1. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Take her out back and beat the shit out of herThe national attention focused on the Tennessee Republican Party for its dirty tricks this past week, using Barack Obama’s...

2. Features

   Homeward Bound?

   A death row inmate who is probably innocent reaches the brink of freedom, only to wait a little longer

   Sarah Kelley

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Heavy wooden doors swing open and a U.S. marshal pushes Paul House into the courtroom in a rickety gray wheelchair. Fluorescent lights blazing overhead make the prisoner look...

3. Features

   Confederacy of Dunces

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Weed be goneWarning: If you’re going to grow copious amounts of marijuana, don’t do it across the street from an elementary school. Also, try not to piss off anyone...

4. Ask a Mexican

   So Many Godfathers

   Leave the gun, take the burritos

   Gustavo Arellano

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans have padrinos for everything? I never understood why, so can you help me out?The Godfather FanDear Wab: Many gabachos have long wondered about the...

5. Woods

   Holy War

   State GOP leader signing up for Crusades

   Jeff Woods

   Published: March 6, 2008

   State Republican Party chair Robin Smith seems convinced America is fighting a holy war against Muslims. Talking about Iraq, she told the Johnson City Press last August:...

6. The Fabricator

   Democrats Change Middle Name to Hussein

   State Dems also push new slogan

   Published: March 6, 2008

   In an astounding show of support, more than 500 Tennessee Democrats have arranged to change their middle names to Hussein in protest of the state GOP’s efforts to...

7. Cover Story

   Elephant in the Room

   At only 39, GOP golden boy Gus Puryear is a Bush judicial appointee, but congressional Democrats are targeting his inexperience and deep Republican ties

   Matt Pulle

   Published: March 6, 2008

   In October 2004, a wealthy and ambitious Nashville attorney headed west to visit an old and powerful friend. Though only 36 years old, with a preppy, scrubbed smile that made...

8. Features

   Nashville Invasion

   Nashville represents at SXSW 2008

   Published: March 6, 2008

   If all you knew of Nashville’s music scene were the dozens of artists hauling it 13 hours west for this year’s SXSW in Austin, the picture would certainly be...

9. Features

   Family Man

   Alan Jackson’s latest is an ambitious return to form

   Michael McCall

   Published: March 6, 2008

   At first glance, Alan Jackson’s Good Time might resemble a successful businessman getting back to what he does best after taking a long sabbatical to study a new topic or...

10. Features

    Mountain Music

    Ability to write simple, effective songs sets Black Mountain apart from retro-fetishists

    Edd Hurt

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Communal frenzy rarely comes as tuneful and specific as Black Mountain’s new full-length In the Future. Working with time-honored elements of prog and folk-rock,...

11. Features

    On the Cheap

    How to attend SXSW unofficially

    Danielle Dreilinger

    Published: March 6, 2008

    SXSW—“a spring break custom-made for giant music nerds,” as local blogger/DJ Janet Timmons describes it—starts in less than a week. Problem is,...

12. Features

    The Spin

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Double doseBetween the bitter winds, freezing temperatures, rain, sleet and flurried snow, we had every reason to stay home last week, but none of these things matter when...

13. Words of the Week

    Words of the Week

    Published: March 6, 2008

    “The Tennessee Republican Party today joins a growing chorus of Americans concerned about the future of the nation of Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle...

14. Helter Shelter

    Buyer Bewitched

    Don’t you know, new houses are plagued by sloppy construction

    Walter Jowers

    Published: March 6, 2008

    About this time of year, just before spring house-shopping time, I feel an urge to share a little inside house-buying dope with eager would-be homebuyers.First of all, let me...

15. Dining

    Made in America

    Two new restaurants keep it simple—and homemade—with Italian- and Southern-flavored fare

    Carrington Fox

    Published: March 6, 2008

    With so many boutique tequilas, architectural tours de force and $42 truffle tastings arriving on the local dining scene in recent months, it’s easy to develop...

16. Reviews

    Dawn of the Georgia Dead

    Bringing zombie horror to the heartland, The Signal comes through loud and clear

    Jim Ridley

    Published: March 6, 2008

    “Do you have the crazy?” a wild-eyed zombie fighter demands of his duct-taped captive. The Signal has the crazy all right, bless its cold and sick little heart....

17. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week on local theaters

    Published: March 6, 2008

    MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy night-club singer, British...

18. Reviews

    The Cowboy Code

    Trent Willmon’s third record aims for the ropin’ pen

    Edd Hurt

    Published: March 6, 2008

    “If you can work cattle without cussing, you’re a bigger man than I am,” says country singer Trent Willmon from his Nashville home. He ought to know: Growing...

19. Art

    So Much Art, So Much Time

    Exhaustive survey of European art comes to the Frist Center

    Michelle Jones

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Many of the artists featured in Monet to Dalí—Modern Masters From the Cleveland Museum of Art, on display at the Frist Center through June 1, are familiar to most...

20. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: March 6, 2008

    THURSDAY 3/6MusicTHE BLACK HOLLIES The last 20 years of modern music might as well never have happened as far as The Black Hollies are concerned. What could be missing from...