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1. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: May 1, 2008

   A Pullman acolyteSniff. I dearly love Bill Pullman (“Consummate Love Unconsummated,” April 24). Those with a penchant for obscure comedies remember him as...

2. Features

   Not Who He Says He Is

   A prominent advertising executive is accused of fraud and extortion

   P.J. Tobia

   Published: May 1, 2008

   On March 28, 2008, the Nashville Business Journal featured a glowing profile of someone who calls himself Anthony Lucas. The story, titled “A Conversation with Anthony...

3. Features

   Self-Restraint

   State legislators take a something-is-better-than-nothing approach to protecting special education students from seclusion and restraint

   Elizabeth Ulrich

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Disability advocates who have spent more than a year trying to convince Tennessee legislators about the troubling fact that special education students are being physically...

4. Features

   Confederacy of Dunces

   Published: May 1, 2008

   A killer reporterHere’s some old news that just recently came across our desk: Faced with spending the next 56 years of his life behind bars, Perry March decided to...

5. Woods

   Rocky Topless

   Legislature refuses to stop coal companies from blowing up our mountains

   Jeff Woods

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Give state legislators credit. They’re about to go home for the year without rolling back ethics laws, legalizing handguns in saloons or giving nursing homes virtual...

6. The Fabricator

   Dozens Treated for Marathon Guilt

   ‘I’d like to be a runner—I just hate running’

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Last Saturday thousands of runners participated in the Music City Marathon, with thousands more lining the streets cheering them on and soaking up the atmosphere.But mental...

7. Cover Story

   The Meat of the Matter

   The Committee of Insiders stacks up Nashville’s burgers.

   Carrington Fox

   Published: May 1, 2008

   When we set out to find the best burger in Nashville, we knew it would be a physical undertaking, if only because digesting all that cow would tax even the most athletic colon....

8. The Spin

   The Spin

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Worse than Tallahassee? When we pulled onto Cannery Row last Thursday night, the lot was swarming with cars—turns out there was a big Nashville Film Festival to-do...

9. Features

   True Tales From San Francisco

   American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel on inspiration, L.A. musicians and lightweight entertainment

   Jason Bennett

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Ask any songwriter—and this is Nashville, so you can probably turn to the person next to you—to rattle of a list of the greatest, most...

10. Features

    The Original Wrapper

    Lou Reed’s musical mind games

    Aaron Jentzen

    Published: May 1, 2008

    "Without question, the most Advanced figure of all time is Lou Reed,” wrote pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman in a 2004 Esquire column. “When a legitimate...

11. Features

    Stick to Your Guns

    Today Is the Day leader Steve Austin returns to Nashville as an ambitious label head

    Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: May 1, 2008

    by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni Twenty years into the extreme-metal era, it takes a hell of a lot for a band that relies on the now-familiar arsenal of blast beats, frantic...

12. Features

    Music for Rebels and Revels

    M.I.A.’s cheeky radical-chic rhythms move the (m)asses

    Tony Ware

    Published: May 1, 2008

    It’s always frustrating when an artist to be interviewed goes missing in action, but at least in this instance it’s unintentionally apropos. The interviewee in...

13. Ask a Mexican

    Scotch and Tequila

    Not quite the same thing

    Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 1, 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...

14. Helter Shelter

    Skunk Funk

    Sometimes living with a bad smell is better

    Walter Jowers

    Published: May 1, 2008

    A while back, my friend Susan asked me to come by her office and help her with an urgent problem. “I woke up this morning,” she said, “and smelled what I...

15. Words of the Week

    Words of the Week

    Published: May 1, 2008

    "Regrets that we moved on? None whatsoever." —Titans coach Jeff Fisher on trading Pacman Jones to the Dallas Cowboys

16. Reviews

    Wedding Bell Blahs

    McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend’s Made of Honor Wedding

    Robert Wilonsky

    Published: May 1, 2008

    In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love...

17. Reviews

    Mighty Avenger

    Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man is a thing to marvel

    Scott Foundas

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean the ones, like...

18. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters

    Published: May 1, 2008

    SHOTGUN STORIES Anyone who watched Michael Shannon pump Bug full of basket-case conviction, or steal Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead just by side-mouthing Philip...

19. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: May 1, 2008

    THURSDAY 5/1Pops at the PopsA TRIBUTE TO LOUIS ARMSTRONG In Ken Burns’ documentary Jazz, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis comes off as a cranky purist whose regressive view of...

20. Theater

    Character Assassination

    Boiler Room kills with offbeat Sondheim musical

    Martin Brady

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Stephen Sondheim transformed the American musical in many ways, some more unexpected than others. First he was hailed for using music and lyrics to deliver the story in...