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The Spin
The Spin
Published: April 17, 2008
Brits and CanucksWhile Tokyo Police Club played simultaneously across town, Mercy Lounge offered its own bill of buzz-worthy indie darlings last Tuesday. Opening were...
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Features
Petals and Thorns
Kathleen Edwards and her new album, Asking for Flowers, have room for tough talk and soft spots
Jewly Hight
Published: April 17, 2008
A quick scan of the track listing for Kathleen Edward’s new album Asking for Flowers won’t offer many clues about where the album’s most romantic moments are...
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Features
Call of the Weill
German cabaret singer Ute Lemper indulges “The Seven Deadly Sinsâ€
Michael McCall
Published: April 17, 2008
Classical music artists, no matter how impassioned the music they create, tend to emphasize personal restraint in their performances. Their self-possessed appearance puts the...
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Cover Story
Reel Nashville 2008
Hits! Misses! Stars! Guitars! Your companion to the 39th annual Nashville Film Festival
Published: April 17, 2008
The Nashville Film Festival isn’t huge, like Sundance or Toronto. Nor is it tiny, like the many regional festivals that have sprouted in the past 10 years like mushrooms...
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Features
Tapes ’n Tapes
A new local cassette label resurrects the spirit of tape-trading culture—but it’s not all nostalgic romanticism
Seth Graves
Published: April 17, 2008
In a city rife with commercial recording studios famous for electronic trickery and slick, glossy production values, it’s probably difficult for most Nashvillians to...
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Features
Polymer Plaudits
Saturday is Record Store Day—got vinyl?
Sean Maloney
Published: April 17, 2008
In the interest of full disclosure, this writer is a former staff member for Grand Palace Records in Murfreesboro. He has also promoted events at Grimey’s, he goes to...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Letters from our readers
Published: April 17, 2008
No problem hereWhile I found Tracy Moore’s article (“Not Playing Here,” April 10) on why many bands choose not to play Nashville informative in a broad...
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Features
Searching for a Savior
The Metro school board feuds with the mayor and protects its turf, but what about filling that superintendent job? ‘There’s no big rush,’ the board chair says.
Jeff Woods
Published: April 17, 2008
Almost four months after Pedro Garcia’s departure, it’s fair to say the Metro Board of Education is taking its time looking for his successor. It has only just...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: April 17, 2008
“This is a clear-cut bill. You’re either on the side of Jeffrey Dahmer and the animal abusers or you’re on the side of decent human beings.”—State...
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Features
Confederacy of Dunces
A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior
Published: April 17, 2008
Intellectual dishonestyLast Sunday, former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist showed his knack for creative writing in a Tennessean op-ed supporting his former legislative director and...
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Ask a Mexican
Phone Tree Love
Press 1 for a good explanation for why you should press 1
Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 17, 2008
Dear Mexican: I work at a Seattle-based company, and our customer service department uses a phone tree system that asks all callers to press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, and a...
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Desperately Seeking the News
The New Media Company
A collection of The City Paper and other local publications are central to an ambitious publishing strategy
Matt Pulle
Published: April 17, 2008
He may have just bought a daily newspaper, but Chris Ferrell isn’t coming to praise print. He’s coming to bury it...or at least kick some dirt on its wheezing body....
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The Fabricator
New Sounds Promotions
Way beyond cap day
Published: April 17, 2008
The Nashville Sounds failed in getting funding for a new downtown ballpark, so they’re stuck trying to attract fans to long-in-the-tooth Greer Stadium. Give the front...
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Helter Shelter
The Godfather of Sold
It's a man's man's man's worldly possessions
Walter Jowers
Published: April 17, 2008
Well, it’s been about a year-and-a-third since James Brown—Soul Brother Number One, the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business—rose up...
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Dining
More Than a Sandwich
East Nashville deli piles friendly neighborhood atmosphere on top of great bread and creative fillings
Carrington Fox
Published: April 17, 2008
Sandwiches must lack self-esteem. There’s just no other explanation for why they so seldom reach their potential. There they are, packed with so much raw talent....
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Reviews
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1
J. Hoberman
Published: April 17, 2008
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in “body art” into the 2004 hit Super Size Me,...
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Short Takes
Short Takes
Published: April 17, 2008
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL Jason Segel puts it all out there—and, like, it’s all out there—in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It takes all of five minutes for...
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Books
Hoping to Find a Friend and a Lover?
Why looking for love in all the wrong places is better than not looking at all
Lacey Galbraith
Published: April 17, 2008
J.M. Kearns has a Ph.D. in philosophy, but his approach to romance is simple: To find Mr. Right, you first have to look for Mr. Right. Last year Kearns’ book, Why Mr....
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Books
Like Crack, Only Not Bad For Your Teeth
Novelist Harlan Coben’s newest is delightfully addictive
Liz Garrigan
Published: April 17, 2008
If you like crack fiction, put Hold Tight in your pipe and smoke it.Cormac McCarthy he’s not, but Harlan Coben won’t make you cry yourself to sleep, either....
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Art
Colliding Planes
Aaron Morgan Brown’s paintings mix clarity and precision with impossible perspective
David Maddox
Published: April 17, 2008
One of the key choices an artist faces involves clarity—how clean should the art be, technically and symbolically? Well-defined figures and images are easier to...
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