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Helter Shelter
Do It Your Own Self
Fixer-uppers can be less downers
Walter Jowers
Published: March 27, 2008
In recent weeks and months, I’ve made it pretty plain that I’m disappointed with new and newish houses, the people who design them, the unskilled workers who build...
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Woods
Walking Wounded
Lamar on embattled judicial nominee Gus Puryear; plus, legislative Rambos are shot down on gun bills
Jeff Woods
Published: March 27, 2008
Even his chief patron, Sen. Lamar Alexander, no longer sounds all that upbeat about Gus Puryear IV’s chances to land a lifetime appointment as a federal district judge in...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: March 27, 2008
Xenu, take the wheel Dammit Jesus, you have the worst timing. You couldn’t have rolled away your stone on a weekend without 80 gajillion good shows, could you? Seriously,...
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Features
A Jailhouse Mystery
Hoping to win a federal judgeship, Gus Puryear offers a sanitized version of how a CCA inmate died
Matt Pulle
Published: March 27, 2008
As Nashville attorney Gus Puryear wages the fight of his life for a federal judgeship, he’s struggled to explain how his company, Corrections Corporation of America...
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Features
Sex, Document Style
A new bill in the state legislature would entitle sex-change recipients to revised Tennessee birth certificates
P.J. Tobia
Published: March 27, 2008
There’s nothing easy about being transgendered. Gender identification is a blindfolded march through a politically correct minefield of terms such as “pre-op...
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Cover Story
The Good Life From Now On
Steve Earle's son Justin struggled with addiction in the shadows of giants—and came out swinging
Michael McCall
Published: March 27, 2008
All addicts know the bottom exists, and they know someday they’ll slam against it. They just can’t predict when, where and how—or with how much force....
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The Fabricator
WKRN to Douse Lights
Channel 2 will debut dark-screen newscasts
Published: March 27, 2008
Everybody who pays an electric bill knows it: One of the easiest ways to cut power consumption is to turn off lights.But for a television station? Is that really the best way...
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Features
Hello, Goodbye
Patty LeMay and her Spiritual Family Reunion release a debut five years in the making—and it may be their last
Jewly Highty and Jewly Hight
Published: March 27, 2008
Goodbye Ceremony is the first Spiritual Family Reunion album to see the light of day, but—if the title’s prophetic—it may be the last. And that would be...
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Features
Killer Instincts
Shelby Lynne’s Dusty Springfield covers are freewheeling in the studio, but thoughtfully refined onstage
Jewly Hight
Published: March 27, 2008
Last anyone heard from Shelby Lynne, she’d harnessed a crisp R&B groove and was coaxing a lover, her listeners—even herself—“Go with it / You know it...
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Features
Honky-Tonk and Heartache
A new Hall of Fame exhibit looks at country music’s most iconic family
Edd Hurt
Published: March 27, 2008
Family gatherings can be occasions for reflection and levity, and they can also fracture along lines of divergent personalities. In country music, no single figure is more...
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Ask a Mexican
Adios Amigos
Special last column edition
Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 27, 2008
Dear Mexican: I’m a gay man in his mid-30s who has always loved Mexican men. And this question is not only from my experience, but also that of friends: Why is it that...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: March 27, 2008
“You are good. You have made the difference. I will miss you. But I’m just a phone call away. I’m available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I love you. I...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Published: March 27, 2008
Jesus, help usI just read your mocking article about the RFID tags that true Christians, who believe the Bible (which defines true Christians, hence the word believer as...
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Dining
Institutionalized
Once an edgy pioneer, The Mad Platter is now a comfortable landmark
Carrington Fox
Published: March 27, 2008
Over a decade ago, The Mad Platter restaurant served a lunchtime sandwich that could best be described as a duck PB&J: sliced duck breast with homemade chutney and cashew...
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Columns
Damian's Lair: Beerly Capable
How to keep your man pleasingly drunk while you're drunkenly pleased
Damian Winthrop
Published: March 27, 2008
Love advice from the Scene's resident literary lotharioDear Damian: My boyfriend gets a couple beers in him and suddenly he's the amorous, insatiable lover who first won my...
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Short Takes
Short Takes
This week in local theaters
Published: March 27, 2008
RUN FATBOY RUN Actor-screenwriter Simon Pegg’s follow-up to the surprise hits Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz isn’t as quirky or distinctive as those earlier films,...
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Reviews
Vlogged to Death
Romero and his zombies return to attack the Facebook generation
Nathan Lee
Published: March 27, 2008
by Nathan Lee Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. “If you run that fast, your ankles will snap off,” says Jason Creed...
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Reviews
My Funny Valentine
Legendary doc about jazzman Chet Baker is a gorgeous ghost story
Jim Ridley
Published: March 27, 2008
Call it The Death of the Cool. Shot as the vinyl LP was nearing the offramp to oblivion, as rap and MTV were shoving jazz even farther to the margins, Let’s Get...
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Books
Memory and Mourning
Nashville poet Bill Brown revisits old themes with new mastery
Maria Browning
Published: March 27, 2008
Bill Brown is not the sort of poet who feels the need to don a new set of literary clothes with every outing. Many contemporary poets, unsure of their audience and eager for...
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Art
Icons in Translation
East interprets West in a show by Daniel Lai
Maria Browning
Published: March 27, 2008
Icons—the secular kind, at least—have a paradoxical character. They are by definition symbols of shared culture and history, yet they can also embody profound...
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