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21. Books

    Consummate Love Unconsummated

    A debut novel that is literarily potent and hopelessly romantic

    Liz Garrigan

    Published: April 24, 2008

    We all know a Peter Russell—the solid, relatively successful guy with moderate good looks but no particular star quality. The pleasant but forgettable fellow at the...

22. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: April 24, 2008

    THURSDAY 4/24MusicBON JOVI W/DAUGHTRY There are only a handful of contemporary rock acts that have managed to have decades of success without the help of a younger act’s...

23. Theater

    Oedipus Complex

    People’s Branch combines ancient Greece and hip-hop with mixed results

    Published: April 24, 2008

    by Martin Brady People’s Branch Theatre’s The Antigone Cycle updates Sophocles’ three Theban plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone), often...

24. Suburban Turmoil

    Party Girl

    Lindsay Ferrier

    Published: April 24, 2008

    “Come on, Mommy, let’s go play!” My daughter is gazing up at me with the pleading eyes of Pacman Jones at an NFL commissioners’ meeting. I look around...

25. Sports

    High Performance

    The weird logic of baseball’s banned drug list

    Steve Haruch

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Last Tuesday at the Wildhorse Saloon, ESPN’s Buster Olney owned up: “I think I did a lousy job covering the steroid issue,” he told the audience at the...

26. Damian's Lair

    The Squid and the Wile

    Does a pricey dinner date entitle a man to any, uh, benefits?

    Damian Winthrop

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Love advice from the Scene's resident literary lotharioDear Damian: I had a dinner date last weekend with a super-hot blonde who's exactly my type: curvy, funny, bookish, looks...

27. SceneCast

    Episode 129

    Collin Monk

    Published: April 24, 2008

    The Scenecast is the "audio extension of the music section of the print edition of the Nashville Scene" and expands your reading pleasure with sonic illustrations to keep your...

28. Sweet Riffs

    Yeah Yeah Yeah

    Southern Girls Rock & Roll Camp founders open arts center and all-ages space for teens in Murfreesboro

    Tracy Moore

    Published: April 24, 2008

    This week, Girls Rock!, a documentary about the Rock & Roll Camp for Girls in Oregon, debuts at The Belcourt (see the review on p. 53), and this weekend, founders of the...