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Helter Shelter
Foreclose Call
Taking advantage of the situation could leave you taken advantage of
Walter Jowers
Published: May 15, 2008
Nashvillians aren’t feeling the foreclosure pain like folks in the Midwest, Southwest and Florida are feeling it, but it looks like we are going to have our share of...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: May 15, 2008
Triple-headerFriday night, The Cannery gave us all a little more bang for our buck than usual, offering up three of Nashville’s hardest-working rock bands on...
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Features
True Believer
Matthew Ryan vs. the Silver State is Ryan’s strongest collection in a consistently good catalog
Michael McCall
Published: May 15, 2008
Matthew Ryan’s songs almost always deal with conflict—often without resolution. In his incisively detailed lyrics, people struggle with themselves, lovers, family...
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Features
Tick Tick Tick
The Hives continue to paint rock in black and white
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 15, 2008
Hives guitarist Nicholaus Arson recently joked about the band’s new Black and White Album, saying there was only one band in the world who could make a record twice as...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Letters from our readers
Published: May 15, 2008
Here’s the beefWay to deal with the big issues. In the face of citywide hearings to possibly cut multiple bus routes and limit AccessRide (disability services with MTA),...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: May 15, 2008
“Glenn Close should have stayed in that tub, and Sen. Clinton has had a remarkable career and needs to move to the next step, which is helping elect the Democratic...
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Features
Dean’s Dilemma
Mayor ducks money issue in his first State of Metro speech
Jeff Woods
Published: May 15, 2008
Mayor Karl Dean gave his first State of Metro speech this week during a happy innocent season of his public life that he’ll remember nostalgically. Dean is ordering...
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Features
PAC Attack
The ï¬lm and TV industry gets political
Jim Ridley
Published: May 15, 2008
After watching Big Cable remote-control the Tennessee legislature this session, while Big Liquor put a cork in legislation that would have permitted wine sales in grocery...
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Ask a Mexican
Plaid as Hell
Maybe there is something to the Scottish-Mexican comparison after all
Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 15, 2008
Dear Readers: My recent column regarding the dissimilarities between Scots and Mexicans provoked a surprising amount of angry responses—by real Scotsmen furious that...
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Features
Global Citizens
From their lineup and sound to their diplomatic functions, there’s probably no other group on earth like the Sparrow Quartet
Jewly Hight
Published: May 15, 2008
If Béla Fleck says something hasn’t been done before, then it probably hasn’t. After all, this is a guy who’s done miraculous things with the banjo and...
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Desperately Seeking the News
This Is Personal
Bredesen administration now won’t turn over ‘certain’ emails
Matt Pulle
Published: May 15, 2008
Confronted with a series of uncomfortable questions about the infamous Bredesen Bunker, the governor’s office is claiming that emails with state addresses...
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The Fabricator
Realtors Urge Agents to Eat Cat Food
One of the tips for surviving in a tough market
Published: May 15, 2008
If your real estate agent’s car smells a little fishy, there may be a good reason for it. The Greater Nashville Association of Realtors, reacting to the tanking...
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Features
Shake-Up
Brian Gordon out at Nashville Film Festival
Jim Ridley
Published: May 15, 2008
The surprise resignation of Brian Gordon Tuesday as artistic director of the Nashville Film Festival has the city's film community—and even some festival...
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Dining
Setting a New Standard
Former Watermark chef Joe Shaw brings new culinary integrity to the old house
Carrington Fox
Published: May 15, 2008
Faithful to their 19th century origin, the dining rooms at The Standard restaurant have no plasma-screen TVs, no back-lit wine coolers or other contemporary restaurant...
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Reviews
Narnia Business
Facing Indy at the box office, Prince Caspian ups the action and loses some magic
Ella Taylor
Published: May 15, 2008
“Things never happen the same way twice.” Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, popping his computer-generated shaggy head briefly into...
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Reviews
Lonely Are the Brave
Harmony Korine’s third feature plunges and soars on the strength of its nerve
Jim Ridley
Published: May 15, 2008
A man in a Michael Jackson outfit—red shirt, black jeans, white face mask—rides hunched over the tiny frame of a clown bike. Jutting out to his side, attached by a...
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Reviews
Harmonic Convergence
Film fest and retro salute Korine’s influences
Jim Ridley
Published: May 15, 2008
In conjunction with the run of Mister Lonely, the Belcourt is showing a retrospective of Harmony Korine’s first two films, Gummo (May 22-23) and Julien Donkey-Boy (May 22...
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Books
Beyond Piss Christ
Bill Ivey explains why the arts matter, even when they make some people mad
Michael Sims
Published: May 15, 2008
Busy legislators tend to forget about the arts. During a Congressional debate on the importance of renaming French fries or the need to keep America pure by building a chastity...
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Books
Putterin About the Past
Tony Horwitz visits forgotten corners of American history—literally
Michael Ray Taylor
Published: May 15, 2008
After a chance visit to Plymouth Rock (which resembles a five-foot “fossilized potato”), Tony Horwitz realizes that, despite being a college history major—not...
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Comedy
Funny Faces
Kids in the Hall: They’re hip, they’re cool, they’re 45
Tracy Moore
Published: May 15, 2008
Beloved comedy troupe Kids in the Hall may not be in their 20s anymore, but their timeless sketches have aged remarkably well. In fact, change the haircuts and the jeans and...
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