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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Published: April 10, 2008
Apt pupilThank you so much for writing the piece about Maplewood High School (“Class Struggle,” April 3). To be honest, I am completely disgusted by how many people...
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Features
An Embittered Day in the NeighborhoodAn Embittered Day in the Neighborhood
The saga over events at a historic home continues, and this time it’s personal
Elizabeth Ulrich
Published: April 10, 2008
Along the tranquil, tree-lined streets in Woodland-in-Waverly, trouble is brewing. The neighborhood’s most infamous party planner and homeowner is back in town, and the...
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Features
Free at Last
Why a federal judge is ready to let Paul House go
Sarah Kelley
Published: April 10, 2008
Saying that the 22-year incarceration of Paul House was the result of an unfair trial, a federal judge this week ordered the state to release the man who DNA evidence and the...
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Woods
Linking MLK to GOP
State Republican Party plays politics—and revisionist history—with King legacy
Jeff Woods
Published: April 10, 2008
Those wacky Republicans at the state party’s headquarters are at it again. A month after they were derided around the country for insinuating that Barack Obama is an...
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The Fabricator
Frist Seeks to Install Nuclear Reactor
First a gate, now a HomeNuke 9000
Published: April 10, 2008
Former Sen. Bill Frist, who last week won a zoning variance to install a towering 8-foot gate outside his Bowling Avenue mansion, has now filed papers to begin installation of...
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Cover Story
Not Playing Here
Why so many bands skip Music City
Tracy Moore
Published: April 10, 2008
Good news, folks: Radiohead, one of the biggest bands in the history of the universe, have just announced tour dates. Hot off the success of last year’s In Rainbows,...
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Helter Shelter
Goodbye Sister Ann
Just don't tell her you've got the blues
Walter Jowers
Published: April 10, 2008
If I get there before you do, I’ll cut a hole and pull you through. —"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"Last Wednesday, my sister Ann, next-to-last of the Burnettown...
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Ask a Mexican
Lash of the Irish
Special dia de los impuestos edition
Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 10, 2008
Dear Mexican: Sitting on my desk is a levy from the Internal Revenue Service for over $12,000 in unpaid taxes. Turns out some dude used my Social Security number for two years...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: April 10, 2008
Cereal popAfter enduring wet, wild and miserable weather conditions from dawn till dusk, it’s no wonder more folks weren’t willing to sacrifice the sanctity...
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Features
Steady as They Go
The Raconteurs overcome side-project status with second album
Austin Powell
Published: April 10, 2008
“The one thing I hate is being labeled a side project,” Jack White bemoaned in August 2006, mere hours before The Raconteurs served as the house band for the MTV...
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Features
Some Depression
Son Volt soldier on while the alt-country bible they helped inspire, and whose first cover they graced, is lamentably laid to rest
Jewly Hight
Published: April 10, 2008
Jay Farrar doesn’t really sweat fickle musical tastes. He shrugs them off during “6 String Belief” on Okemah and the Melody of Riot with a dense,...
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Features
Passionate Pickin'
From their originals and subject matter to their ear for covers, the Gibson Brothers are an anomaly in the bluegrass world
Michael McCall
Published: April 10, 2008
Anyone who writes a song eventually confronts the notion that originality gets harder as music history gets older. The Gibson Brothers deal with that nagging perception by...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: April 10, 2008
"We can't hold our heads down. We beat ourselves." —Player Joey Dorsey, on Memphis' heartbreaking loss in the NCAA men's championship game Monday night
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Features
Chris Ferrell's New Company Buys The City Paper
Matt Pulle
Published: April 10, 2008
Nashville is back to being a one-daily town after start-up publishing company SouthComm Communications announced plans to purchase The City Paper and publish it only twice a...
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Dining
Prepared Remarks
Listening to its customers, Nashville’s online grocer expands mainstream offerings and ready-to-heat meals
Carrington Fox
Published: April 10, 2008
We interrupt this regularly scheduled restaurant column to bring you a review of your own kitchen: Located on the main floor of the residence, this unpretentious...
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Reviews
Cop Out
Boys will be boys in Street Kings’ shallow look at dirty police
Tim Grierson
Published: April 10, 2008
For a movie built around questions of failed ethics and duplicitous behavior, Street Kings is just as dishonest as its characters. Though conceived as yet another sobering...
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Short Takes
Short Takes
Published: April 10, 2008
SNOW ANGELS Writer-director David Gordon Green’s first three movies—George Washington, All the Real Girls and the underrated Night of the Hunter reworking...
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Our Critics Picks
Our Critics' Picks
Published: April 10, 2008
THURSDAY 4/10Sophocles SlamTHE ANTIGONE CYCLE The finale of People’s Branch Theatre’s ’07-’08 season is an original reworking of the classic Greek...
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Theater
Hardcore Troubadour
Nashville Opera’s season closer should pack a wallop
Martin Brady
Published: April 10, 2008
Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi’s 1853 opera concerning ill-fated love and violent encounters between a royal family and a band of gypsies, is just the kind of action-packed...
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Books
Two Languages, One Voice
Bilingual poet Francisco Aragón explores connected themes of language and place
Maria Browning
Published: April 10, 2008
Poet Francisco Aragón is the American-born son of a Nicaraguan mother and calls English his “principal language.” Though he grew up speaking Spanish at home,...
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