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1. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: March 13, 2008

   “[Shan] Foster beat us. You can analyze it, break it down, cut it up. He just jumped up and made shots. He had a monster game.” —Mississippi State coach Rick...

2. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: March 13, 2008

   YepSo, handsome young GOP “golden boy” Gus Puryear helped Dick Cheney master debate and has been rewarded with a nomination for a federal judgeship (“Elephant...

3. Features

   A White Man’s Dance

   With Ted Kennedy on his back, judicial candidate Gus Puryear is forced to defend his membership at the exclusive Belle Meade Country Club

   Matt Pulle

   Published: March 13, 2008

   If you were to call the Belle Meade Country Club a relic of the 1950s, you’d be exaggerating its modernity. Only white men comprise the hallowed ranks of the...

4. Features

   Confederacy of Dunces

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Like mother, like daughterIn a harebrained scheme probably concocted over too many cocktails, a mother-and-daughter team agreed to help a male acquaintance rob a bank in...

5. Ask a Mexican

   Email Claptrap

   Has Lou Dobbs taken to sending in questions?

   Gustavo Arellano

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Dear Mexican: Mexicans are angry that the United States might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely. Let...

6. Woods

   Ethical Dilemma

   Lawmakers yearn to party with lobbyists again

   Jeff Woods

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Less than three years after five present and former state legislators were arrested for taking envelopes full of cash in the FBI’s “Tennessee Waltz” bribery...

7. The Fabricator

   County Down to Last 10 ‘W’ Stickers

   Eclipsed by ‘1-20-09’ three months ago

   Published: March 13, 2008

   For a while, it seemed they were on every third car—those little black rectangular stickers proclaiming “W The President.”But they are increasingly rare. In...

8. Cover Story

   Behind the Bars

   Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe is at the center of human rights abuses at his facility—but he doesn’t see it that way

   P.J. Tobia

   Published: March 13, 2008

   The Wilson County Jail is on the high ground at the edge of downtown Lebanon, four blocks from the town square. It faces south, sandwiched on a 5.1-acre lot between Route 70...

9. Features

   Good Times

   Be Your Own Pet soften up without slowing down

   Seth Graves

   Published: March 13, 2008

   If their self-titled major-label debut was a peek inside the angst-ridden psyches of bored teen punks, Be Your Own Pet’s follow-up is more like a progress report from...

10. Features

    Blind Faith

    Underappreciated Blind Melon return with a new frontman

    Lee Stabert

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Blind Melon somehow managed to be a mainstream band with a cult following. Whereas millions of people loved hit single “No Rain”—and perhaps millions more...

11. Features

    What's Wrong With This Picture

    Van Morrison’s first album of new material in two years is a record of soul music that flashes too little of it

    Michael McCall

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Soul is a word that is impossible to define, especially when describing music. Yet it’s always meant as a compliment, and, like many of life’s mysterious pleasures,...

12. Helter Shelter

    Hairdo Hang-Up

    In Cleveland, a stubborn mom turns her kid into an accessory and gets him kicked out of school

    Walter Jowers

    Published: March 13, 2008

    A couple weeks back, Bryan Ruda got kicked out of school because of his hair. Bryan goes to school at Parma Community School near Cleveland. He sports a Mohawk. Or you might...

13. The Spin

    The Spin

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Wizardz ’n’ blizzardzAgainst the better advice of weathermen and our moms, we braved the elements Friday night to catch the Infinity Cat party at Local Honey. Given...

14. Dining

    Arches of Triumph

    Nolensville Road gets a new dining landmark

    Carrington Fox

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Nolensville Road has long been the unofficial nexus of Hispanic dining in Nashville, thanks in no small part to Las Cazuelas and La Terraza, the casual Mexican restaurants...

15. Reviews

    Look Who’s Talking

    A surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation

    Ed Gonzalez

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Was Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, oblivious to his own genius? The allegory of his charming Horton Hears a Who! remains fluid; its meaning, like the book’s...

16. Reviews

    There Will Be Blood

    Torture for our amusement? Let the Games begin!

    Jim Ridley

    Published: March 13, 2008

    For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation—and above all, for the crime of sitting through any movie that resembles...

17. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    Published: March 13, 2008

    THE BAND’S VISIT Heavily accented English (don’t worry, there are subtitles throughout) is the only common tongue shared by the characters of Israeli...

18. Reviews

    He’ll Be Your Mirror

    Don’t blame Funny Games director Michael Haneke if you don’t like what you see

    Scott Foundas

    Published: March 13, 2008

    By Scott Foundas To the uninitiated viewer, Austrian director Michael Haneke might best be described as the modern cinema’s master of the unkind rewind. In the opening...

19. Reviews

    Band of Brothers

    Egyptians and Israelis forge an unlikely (and unsappy) bond in the desert in the delightful The Band’s Visit

    Scott Foundas

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Earlier this fall, The Band’s Visit made headlines after being disqualified as Israel’s foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy Awards—an ironic fate,...

20. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: March 13, 2008

    THURSDAY 3/13Space InvadersA CONVERSATION WITH THE KRONOS QUARTET This lecture/demonstration is a preview for the string quartet’s Friday concert at Ingram Hall. Sun...