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Features
Kissing Karl Dean
The Metro Council loves the new mayor, or maybe it’s just a rebound after their last rocky relationship
P.J. Tobia
Published: April 3, 2008
Karl Dean’s first budget proposal as mayor of Nashville is a ledger of penny-pinching and pink slips. The $1.576 billion budget, while a slight increase over last year,...
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Features
Spank the Honkey
The victim of a racial slur exacts a special kind of retribution
P.J. Tobia
Published: April 3, 2008
Last year, a lifetime of racial animosity boiled over in the parking lot of a Flying J truck stop in Fairview.It was May 8, 2007, and Bradley Armoster, a 38-year-old black...
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Cover Story
Class Struggle
Maplewood has all the trappings of any all-American high school. If it weren’t for its test scores and a ghastly graduation rate, it probably wouldn’t be on anyone’s radar.
Elizabeth Ulrich
Published: April 3, 2008
It’s 7:15 a.m. on a cold, rainy Friday morning and the first bell has sounded at Maplewood Comprehensive High School. Tyra Washington, an 18-year-old senior, walks the...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: April 3, 2008
Starstruck If only all relationships went as smoothly as Stars’ performance Tuesday night at The Belcourt. The band appropriately started the night with “The Night...
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The Fabricator
Campaign Update
Clinton recalls terrifying BNA landing; McCain makes major address on race; Obama discusses ‘crazy’ preacher
Published: April 3, 2008
Sen. Hillary Clinton has been regaling audiences at campaign stops with a story about a scary landing at the Nashville airport when she was first lady.“They used to say...
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Features
Brain-Teasing
Caribou twists your melon with intelligent psych-pop
Tony Ware
Published: April 3, 2008
It’s rare to find musicians who don’t claim to put blood, sweat and tears into their craft. Dan Snaith, however, is offering to bring something a bit more extreme...
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Features
Gang of Four
Tokyo Police Club release a full-length—finally
Tracy Moore
Published: April 3, 2008
Less is more, and such is the case with Tokyo Police Club, whose first EP, 2006’s A Lesson in Crime, was really a lesson in economy. In just over 16 minutes, the EP...
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Features
Quarterly Report
Taking stock of 2008's most buzzed albums...so far
Michael Gallucci
Published: April 3, 2008
Hard to believe that 2008 is already four months old. Seems like only yesterday we were counting down the days till our New Year’s Eve hangover would subside. As we take...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Published: April 3, 2008
Response triggeredIt’s refreshing to hear someone in the Tennessee press consistently point out the state’s recklessness concerning mental health records and...
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Helter Shelter
Angels Big and Small
Not all of 'em have wings
Walter Jowers
Published: April 3, 2008
Daughter Jess, about 6 years old at the time, shook her head, all confused. “Daddy,” she said, rolling her eyes, “there's a woman on the phone who talks...
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Ask a Mexican
Taking the Bronze
The history of Mexicans’ color identity
Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 3, 2008
Dear Readers: Belated April Fools, amigos! So many of you fell for my hoax of a farewell column last week (don’t any of you know that the feast day of St. Melito...
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Dining
A New Pair of Sushis
Anchored by Japanese cuisine, two new Asian restaurants bring unusual flavor and value
Carrington Fox
Published: April 3, 2008
What is the distance between Tokyo and Bangkok? A lot further than the distance between Japanese tempura and Thai tom ka gai on the menu at Lemongrass, where Charun and Rattana...
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Columns
Damian’s Lair: Clintoral Stimulation
Take a lesson from Hillary-gate ’08—don't exaggerate your prowess
Damian Winthrop
Published: April 3, 2008
Love advice from the Scene's resident literary lotharioDear Damian: With the Hillary Clinton Bosnia trip saga flooding the airwaves, I was wondering if you've ever lied,...
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Short Takes
Short Takes
This week in local theaters
Published: April 3, 2008
LEATHERHEADS On-screen and off, George Clooney is like a holdover from a time—which may only have existed in the movies—when men were witty gadabouts who knew how...
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Reviews
Sk8ter Boi
Coming full circle, Gus Van Sant does a stunning 360 in Paranoid Park
J. Hoberman
Published: April 3, 2008
The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant’s masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film’s narrative structure but reflects the arc of its...
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Art
Medium Well
In the first of a series of shows exploring different art media, Zeitgeist tackles painting
David Maddox
Published: April 3, 2008
Zeitgeist has the ambition of a museum lurking inside a commercial gallery, as will be evident for the next several months. The gallery is assembling a series of group shows...
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Books
The Brother’s Tale
John Larry Ray offers his account of the King assassination
Maria Browning
Published: April 3, 2008
Truth at Last: The Untold Story Behind James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. contains at least one absolutely undeniable assertion: “One of...
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Books
Lingam, Yoni and all that
Memphis native Eric Jerome Dickey churns out another hot novel
Maria Browning
Published: April 3, 2008
There’s no such thing as good smut or bad smut. There’s only smut that works for you and smut that doesn’t. Tastes vary, as a quick cruise around the vast...
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Theater
Lady Saves the Day
Ashley Bishop’s strong performance as Billie Holiday overcomes a static script
Martin Brady
Published: April 3, 2008
“Singing is living to me,” says Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, and the new production at Tennessee State...
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Our Critics Picks
Our Critics' Picks
Published: April 3, 2008
THURSDAY 4/3MusicTHE NOBILITY W/ KYLE ANDREWS Thursday night’s bill at Exit/In features two local acts that know a thing or two about the basics of a good pop song....
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