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Helter Shelter
Auto Despair
Car economics, then and now
Walter Jowers
Published: May 22, 2008
Back in the late ’60s, my daddy Jabo Jowers had an employee who we called Halfwit Bill. Well, truth be told, we called him Bill to his face and Halfwit Bill whenever he...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Letters from our readers
Published: May 22, 2008
Plum puzzledYour recent article on The City Paper has been vindicated (“The New Media Company,” April 17). Publishing on Monday and Friday are bad enough, but they...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: May 22, 2008
“Where is the law? In the Constitution? It’s not. The law is in the cosmos.” —State Sen. John Wilder, during one of his last space-cadet musings before...
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Features
Tales of Treachery
Alleged blackmail, real-estate tycoons and tax dodging at the Capitol
Jeff Woods
Published: May 22, 2008
This year’s legislative session is mercifully ending this week with a couple thousand state employees losing jobs, pre-kindergarten kids losing classrooms, the medically...
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Ask a Mexican
Dear Slugger
Screw Bud Selig—and other brilliant thoughts
Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 22, 2008
Dear Mexican: Why did the Mexican comedian Cantinflas never catch on in Hollywood? I thought he was supposed to usher in the Mexican wave of actors and movies that would...
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Features
Confederacy of Dunces
A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior
Published: May 22, 2008
First, the Tennessee GOP tried to smear Barack Obama as an Israel-hating Muslim in a news release that drew rebuke from John McCain, Lamar Alexander and other party leaders....
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Desperately Seeking the News
Blocking the Sunshine
State Rep. Mary Pruitt fails to exact vengeance on the press
Matt Pulle
Published: May 22, 2008
Let’s give Mary Pruitt some credit. The Nashville state representative learns from her mistakes. Just two years after a television station exposed how she misused her...
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The Fabricator
Two Rivers Baptist to Advise Zimbabwe Regime
‘They know a thing or two about reversing an election that didn’t go their way’
Published: May 22, 2008
A delegation from Nashville’s Two Rivers Baptist Church will leave next week for the Southern African country of Zimbabwe to advise the government of President Robert...
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Cover Story
Band of Jypsies
Is conservative country ready for a band of flamboyantly eclectic siblings?
Rob Simbeck
Published: May 22, 2008
It’s 5 p.m. on a rainy weekday afternoon, and the four siblings known as Jypsi are roaring through “Minor Swing,” a rollicking jazz tune written in the 1930s...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: May 22, 2008
Planet SpaceFriday night, Elliston was crawling with stony-eyed rock ’n’ roll types and listless youngsters who seemed to have nothing better to do. While The End...
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Features
Rising Up
Roots’ drummer ?uestlove on their new album, touring with Erykah Badu and the present state of hip-hop
Kristy Wendt and By Kristy Wendt
Published: May 22, 2008
?uestlove’s omnipresence in hip-hop may be the genre’s longest-running example, and his band (and creation) The Roots established a reputation for an evolving sound...
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Features
Midnight Thrills
Garage-rock duo The Kills release their third and most fully realized album to date
Jonathan Garrett
Published: May 22, 2008
In case it wasn’t already obvious from the name, The Kills don’t do subtle, sly or nuanced. Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince prefer to inflict trauma, letting their...
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Features
Thirteen Bar Blues
Thee Silver Mt. Zion’s latest venture in rockin’ out
Matt Sullivan
Published: May 22, 2008
As Godspeed You! Black Emperor continue to offer no signs of reanimation, A Silver Mt. Zion has developed from an unassuming side-project for completists to a fully autonomous...
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Features
Shake-Up
Brian Gordon out at Nashville Film Festival
Jim Ridley
Published: May 22, 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
Preaching to the Choir
Friendly café fills a hole for vegetarians but isn’t likely to win any converts
Carrington Fox
Published: May 22, 2008
Every time I bump into my vivacious vegan friend Yvonne Smith—often in the parking lot of Whole Foods or in the field where our CSA delivers its weekly crop—she...
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Reviews
Even Steven
The fourth Indiana Jones hits some bumps, but overall it’s a breezy ride
Jim Ridley
Published: May 22, 2008
A friend was watching the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in a movie theater, and in the darkness, to much laughter, someone yelled at the...
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Reviews
Blood Brothers
Son of Rambow celebrates moviemaking fever, middle-school style
Jim Ridley
Published: May 22, 2008
No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though—those favored by Son of Rambow, a chipper tribute to the cinema as...
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Reviews
Cannes Down
Film festival starts with a serious tone
J. Hoberman
Published: May 22, 2008
No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the dark. It's impossible to forget, let alone transcend,...
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Books
Love—and Murder—Austrian Style
Tasha Alexander’s Lady Emily Ashton is back on the case
Lacey Galbraith
Published: May 22, 2008
No one can accuse Tasha Alexander of resting on her past literary success. In fact, no one can accuse Alexander of resting at all. In the past three years she’s published...
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Books
Live Your Dash!
Belmont University president and his wife learn about living from the dying
Published: May 22, 2008
by Faye Jones As Samuel Johnson noted, “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Most people won’t ever...
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