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21. Theater

    Five Women Wearing Us Out

    Good acting can’t save a plotless script in Boiler Room’s latest

    Martin Brady

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Judging from his biggest commercial successes—American Beauty, Six Feet Under—playwright and Georgia native Alan Ball doesn’t typically dig into his...

22. Art

    Anything but Firm

    Sneeches, Kool-Aid and teddy bears make for a precarious world at TAG

    David Maddox

    Published: March 13, 2008

    One of the pieces in Terra Firma, Sam Dunson’s new show at TAG, consists of a bunch of small cartoons of a black man’s head adorned with symbols of various...

23. Books

    Icons of Roadside Culture

    New coffee-table book offers a retrospective of John Baeder’s dream diners

    Maria Browning

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Matisse once said, “I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.” Substitute “diner” for table, and you’ll begin...

24. Books

    Death and Taxes

    The Lone Star State stars in a sweeping and violent historical novel

    Chris Scott

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Allen Wier’s fourth novel, Tehano (Southern Methodist University Press, 716 pp., $27.50), is as large and complicated as the American landscape through which its...

25. Books

    Captain Lewrie Under Attack

    An iron man in his wooden ship, and in the docket

    Ralph Bowden

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Action, violence, blood, strong drink, lust, old grudges and camaraderie fill Troubled Waters (Thomas Dunne Books, 307 pp., $25.95), Nashvillian Dewey Lambdin’s...

26. Garrigan

    Call (731) 668-4800

    Want to buy wine with your cheese? Liquor lobbyist Tom ‘the Goose’ Hensley and his client object, feigning concern about teenage drinking

    Liz Garrigan

    Published: March 13, 2008

    On a high school campus near you, some version of the following conversation is not happening—and never will:Dude wearing Chuck Taylors and skinny jeans: “Man, I...

27. Suburban Turmoil

    Kid Rock

    Lindsay Ferrier

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Confession time. I used to be sort of… cool. I tell you this with some trepidation only because when I try to convince my teenage stepdaughters of this fact, they...

28. SceneCast

    Episode 123

    Collin Monk

    Published: March 13, 2008

    The Scenecast is the "audio extension of the music section of the print edition of the Nashville Scene" and expands your reading pleasure with sonic illustrations to keep your...