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Features
Security Breaches
A Nashville rent-a-cop company causes more trouble than it prevents
P.J. Tobia
Published: March 20, 2008
When people think of rent-a-cops, what generally come to mind are images of bumbling, donut-besotted goons in police costume, harassing teenage mall rats. But in the case of...
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Cover Story
Mr. Big Shot
Vandy basketball star Shan Foster is having the kind of year even Disney couldn’t script
Sarah Kelley
Published: March 20, 2008
The black-and-gold sea of fans is unusually quiet, but certainly not calm. Some stand with arms crossed in anticipation, others clap along with the roar of the band as they...
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Features
Confederacy of Dunces
Published: March 20, 2008
Moveon.BethState Rep. Beth Harwell, who wants to run for governor, is shamelessly grandstanding against “Bredesen’s Bunker,” the...
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The Fabricator
Colonoscopy for Hire
Like a lawn or laundry service—only with laxatives
Published: March 20, 2008
Nobody rates having a colonoscopy as a favorite experience, however painless or potentially lifesaving the procedure may be.“People especially hate the prep part,”...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Letters from our readers.
Published: March 20, 2008
Holy crapNice article on Mr. Virus (a.k.a. Elmer Virula)—notario, attorney and CPA (Confederacy of Dunces, March 13). One other title this dunce uses is Reverend Virula....
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Features
Shout Out
De Novo Dahl’s major-label debut is carefully orchestrated chaos
D. Patrick Rodgers
Published: March 20, 2008
If you live within cultural earshot of Music City, chances are you’re familiar with the buzz surrounding local indie popsters De Novo Dahl. DND’s ambitious 2005...
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Features
Brighten the Corners
Stephen Malkmus on drummer Janet Weiss, his parents’ record collection and being “the Pavement dude”
Edd Hurt
Published: March 20, 2008
Like a lot of great pop music, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks’ new Real Emotional Trash sounds slightly uncomfortable in its skin. The record’s compact song-craft...
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Features
Our Critics' Picks
Published: March 20, 2008
THURSDAY 3/20Three-Ring VandyJUGGLEVILLE III Vanderbilt Juggling and Physical Arts is a 5-year-old student-run organization whose performers entertain on campus and in the...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: March 20, 2008
South by Uh-huhThere were over 1,700 bands playing official showcases at this year’s SXSW—that’s a whole lot of skinny jeans. And you can’t see...
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Woods
Under Their Skin
Evangelicals get worked up over human microchip implants
Jeff Woods
Published: March 20, 2008
After losing the usual fights against gays and abortion during the legislative session so far, Christian conservatives suddenly have decided to start standing up for privacy...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: March 20, 2008
“I think it’s probably a good thing. It just would not be up in my top 20 priority list to try to use time and energy to get it done.” —Gov. Phil...
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Helter Shelter
Lawn Boy
A mower that works is a good mower
Walter Jowers
Published: March 20, 2008
My oldest memory goes back to when I was nine months old and just learning to walk. When the memory comes, I can see my pudgy little baby feet and feel what it was like to be...
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Ask a Mexican
Mano a Mano
The resident Mexican tells a young wetback to go home
Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 20, 2008
Dear Mexican: Since moving to Aztlán from Boston, I've spent so much time with my next-door neighbor from Mexico City that I've taken to using the word manito as a term...
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Dining
Gardens of Eatin'
Could an oft-changing restaurant and an itinerant chef be a match made in heaven?
Carrington Fox
Published: March 20, 2008
Like a raven-haired Goldilocks traipsing from porridge to porridge and chair to chair, chef Yanni Panagiotakis is sampling yet another restaurant location, in search of a place...
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Reviews
Mission of Mercy
How two Vanderbilt med students, a Kenyan clinic and a Nashville filmmaker are healing the world, one patient at a time
Jonathan Harwell
Published: March 20, 2008
Most filmmakers measure their success by box office grosses. Former NewsChannel 5 reporter turned documentarian Barry Simmons counts patients treated. Simmons is the producer,...
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Reviews
Belcourt of Appeals
The city’s last historic theater solicits ideas for its (believe it or not, rosy) future
Jim Ridley
Published: March 20, 2008
“Not all the silver was on-screen last month, as the jewel of Hillsboro Village unveiled its ballyhooed 18-month renovation. Light shimmered off Frank Gehry’s...
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Reviews
Under the Knife
A shattering thriller captures one very bad day in Ceausescu’s Romania
Ella Taylor
Published: March 20, 2008
The extraordinary Palme d’Or-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days sheds its secrets slowly, a high-end realist drama quickening skillfully into a thriller. Though the...
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Books
Don’t Ask, Don’t Kill
Smart, moody thriller from Christopher Rice is his straightest—and most provocative—book yet
Michael Ray Taylor
Published: March 20, 2008
When his second novel, The Snow Garden, was published in 2002, Christopher Rice, son of famed vampire novelist Anne Rice, said he didn’t want to be slapped with the...
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Books
A Full Life Threatened
A Nashville philanthropist chronicles her struggle against cancer
Ralph Bowden
Published: March 20, 2008
Four flea bites that won’t go away begin Patient Siggy: Hope and Healing in Cyberspace (Providence House Publishers, 244 pp., $12.95), Sigourney Cheek’s harrowing...
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Theater
Suspicious Minds
The Rep takes on Pulitzer-winning play about clergy sexual abuse
Martin Brady
Published: March 20, 2008
Even without clergy sexual abuse scandals, Catholics in the U.S. face a challenging public image—their cultish ways are viewed with some suspicion, and their patriarchal...
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