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1. The Spin

   The Spin

   Published: April 24, 2008

   OK goJust as we packed up a blanket and bought a 12-pack of Budweiser cans at 7 p.m. to head to Friday’s Rites of Spring, the rain began to drizzle. So we waited and...

2. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: April 24, 2008

   Save ourselvesUpon reading “Searching for a Savior” (April 17), I was disappointed by the political gamesmanship and apparent lack of seriousness being applied to...

3. Features

   Southern Detour

   Two international acts with American influences make rare Nashville appearances

   Published: April 24, 2008

   by Michael McCall Americans are used to hearing their music come back to them in interesting ways from far-off lands. But West Africa’s Habib Koité and...

4. Features

   The Bad Shepherd

   An alleged victim of sex abuse turns to Nashville’s Southern Baptist Convention for help but finds herself facing Goliath instead

   Elizabeth Ulrich

   Published: April 24, 2008

   Shayna Werley was only 14 when the Rev. Jeremy Benack came knocking on the door of her family’s Pennsylvania home, asking them to join the First Baptist Church of...

5. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: April 24, 2008

   “I love Bernie Sanders. Bernie is a socialist, and that’s not a description; that’s a noun. I love him. He is the only socialist in the Senate.”...

6. Features

   Confederacy of Dunces

   A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior

   Published: April 24, 2008

   GOP kills pro-life billSpeaking of dunces in the legislature, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, after agitating all session for waiting periods and...

7. Features

   Folk Meets Noise Meets Whatever

   Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on Nashville’s noise scene

   Published: April 24, 2008

   by Jaime Lees As a singer and guitarist for America’s preeminent indie rock band, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has devoted the better part of three decades...

8. Woods

   Beer-lesque

   Preacher backs titty bars in man-bites-dog story from Metro Council

   Jeff Woods

   Published: April 24, 2008

   Just when the city’s religious wackos thought they were safe from Adam Dread, the flamboyant former Metro Council member has returned to the public arena as a lobbyist...

9. Desperately Seeking the News

   To Catch a Predator

   The Tennessean botches coverage of hockey deal

   Matt Pulle

   Published: April 24, 2008

   There should have at least been a controversy. Aided by reams of boosterish coverage from The Tennessean and its star columnist Gail Kerr, the Metro Council voted 30-8...

10. Features

    Gettin' Real Stupid

    Jay Reatard’s gradual overnight success

    Published: April 24, 2008

    by Matt Sullivan Though Sun Records and Elvis are synonymous with Memphis, the city has also long garnered the distinction within the rock ’n’ roll underground as...

11. Ask a Mexican

    On Emo and Metal

    Special paperback edition

    Gustavo Arellano

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. Buy, por favor! Now, on to the...

12. The Fabricator

    Fuse Feud

    The club wants to be hot and Vegas-y. So why is corporate sending in Baptists and Opry people?

    Published: April 24, 2008

    The ads for the soon-to-open nightclub Fuse are slick and stylish, and are designed to make the viewer forget that the “Vegas-style” nightspot is located at the...

13. Cover Story

    Tabitha Tuders

    Five years ago, 13-year-old Tabitha Tuders walked to the bus stop. Her family hasn’t heard from her since.

    Sarah Kelley

    Published: April 24, 2008

    The tiny clapboard house on Lillian Street is bustling with visitors on a balmy winter afternoon. Nearly a dozen rowdy children are playing tag in the backyard, their...

14. Helter Shelter

    Weather or Not

    Extreme temperatures can't keep a man from his daughter's ball games—but they sure can make him uncomfortable

    Walter Jowers

    Published: April 24, 2008

    About a year ago, I was giddy with the excitement of daughter Jess finishing up high school softball once and for all and heading off to a four-year career in college ball. For...

15. Dining

    Tomato Squared

    Murfreesboro’s newest pizza is so good, you’ll say the name twice

    Carrington Fox

    Published: April 24, 2008

    The snake lady at the Discovery Center wasn’t the only person who recommended Tomato, Tomato. There was also that family at the Kids’ Castle playground who spoke...

16. Reviews

    Rush Line

    With two days to go, Nashville Film Festival looks like a blockbuster

    Jim Ridley

    Published: April 24, 2008

    If you haven’t made it out yet to the 2008 Nashville Film Festival, here’s what you’ve missed so far: surprise no-fuss appearances by Nicole Kidman at...

17. Reviews

    Chronic Defenders

    Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced Act Two

    Published: April 24, 2008

    by Robert Wilonsky Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle with a novel idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead of writing...

18. Reviews

    All the Real Girls

    Girls Rock! is really a paean to the endangered culture of girlhood

    Tracy Moore

    Published: April 24, 2008

    With a few exceptions, you’d be hard-pressed to find films about teenage girls that don’t primarily involve promiscuity, sexual abuse, suicide or just plain...

19. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    Published: April 24, 2008

    LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Back in the day, literal-minded audiences had great fun pretending to be baffled by this artiest of European art films. Basically, Last Year at...

20. Books

    Ditching the Debs

    A new novel explains what happens when a bunch of cotillion girls head off to the big city

    Published: April 24, 2008

    by Fernanda Moore Katie Crouch, a South Carolina native, apparently knows all about the archaic and vaguely ridiculous social mores of Charleston society. In her debut novel,...