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21. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: May 15, 2008

    THURSDAY 5/15MusicDAVID WILCOX You’d think that a musician cooped up in a small trailer with his wife and kid for a while would emerge with an album of fairly on-edge...

22. Damian's Lair

    Breaking Away

    When it's time to say goodbye

    Damian Winthrop

    Published: May 15, 2008

    by Damian WinthropLove advice from the Scene's resident literary lotharioDear Damian: I've been trying for months to drop subtle hints that my girlfriend and I just aren't...

23. Summer Guide

    Stimulus Summer Guide

    Stimulate your summer!

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Six hundred dollars. If you’re buying guitar picks, thumbtacks or ramen noodles, it’s a hell of a lot of money. If you’re talking shelter, transportation or...

24. Summer Guide

    Swimsuit Photos

    What's a Summer Guide without 'em?

    Published: May 15, 2008

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25. Summer Guide

    By the Numbers

    How to get the most bang for your (600) buck(s)

    Published: May 15, 2008

    If you’ve got a thing for quantity over quality, we’ve compiled a whole slew of ways—from the charitable to the gluttonous and pleasurably immoral—that...

26. Summer Guide

    Bronze Ambition

    For 600 bucks, a white girl can look Puerto Rican

    Tracy Moore

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Ah, beauty. If you’re like me, you’re probably kinda pale, flabby and/or gross in places. You’re hopelessly splotchy, blemish-ridden and, on most...

27. Summer Guide

    Blue (Blood) Plate Special

    Stimulate your palate with a $1,200 dinner for two

    Carrington Fox

    Published: May 15, 2008

    The CEOs and VIPs who dine regularly in the old house at 37 Rutledge Street probably won’t be getting many stimulus checks, since the $600 shot in the arm is intended for...

28. Summer Guide

    A Day at the Beach

    $600 on swimwear? Why not? It’s free money

    Lee Stabert

    Published: May 15, 2008

    I’m the kind of girl who buys swimsuits in October. I snatch up a couple choice numbers on super-duper sale and stash them in the back of a drawer, from which they are...

29. Summer Guide

    Fear and Loathing in Derbyville

    Blow your dough in Hunter S. Thompson’s birthblace

    Sarah Kelley

    Published: May 15, 2008

    So you’re flush with cash and in the market for fun? Chances are if you stick around Nashville all summer you’ll end up carelessly blowing through your $600...

30. Summer Guide

    No Recession

    For those about to rock, we economically stimulate you

    Steve Haruch

    Published: May 15, 2008

    There may be no such thing as an “album” in a few years, but in the meantime that term still means something: a bunch of songs leaked weeks before the release date...

31. Summer Guide

    How to Stimulate Your Package

    Go to strip clubs and ‘make it rain’

    P.J. Tobia

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Fitting $600 into a G-string is easier than you think. Catching that money as it cascades from the sky in a twirling, fluttering, cloudburst of singles is harder than you...

32. Summer Guide

    Convertible Cash

    Squander your cash on something cheap and topless

    Jim Ridley

    Published: May 15, 2008

    The clouds are fleecy and few, the temperature reads a balmy 68 degrees, and just 10 feet away in a Nolensville Road car lot sits a sleek merlot-red 2002 Spyder...

33. Summer Guide

    Party Arty, Dude!

    Wine, hors d’oeuvres and a blank canvas—what more could you want?

    Jack Silverman

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Sure it seems like a windfall, a bonus, manna from heaven, but what’s the real message being sent by these half-dozen C-notes? Well, duh—the economy sucks, the...

34. SceneCast

    Episode 132

    Collin Monk

    Published: May 15, 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...