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1. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Taking a vocationAs usual, I enjoyed your article “The Wrong Test” (Garrigan, May 22). Mr. Coverstone comes across as very erudite, self-possessed and...

2. Features

   Zoning for Jesus

   Metro Council fights faith-based ministries for control of neighborhoods

   Jeff Woods

   Published: May 29, 2008

   It was probably the lowest moment in the city’s fight to keep a Christian ministry’s halfway house for drug addicts and alcoholics out of a Goodlettsville...

3. Features

   Confederacy of Dunces

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Let’s hope this is the final Briley wordWe couldn’t let state Rep. Rob Briley’s final words on the House floor go without comment here, in the column named...

4. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: May 29, 2008

   “There’s something out there that poets write verse about, and something out there that kings wage war about. I’ve been lucky enough to experience that in my...

5. Ask a Mexican

   Soccer and NASCAR

   Gustavo Arellano

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Dear Mexican: I’m a Mexican American, but I always lie and tell people my ancestors were from Spain and immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. My whole family says...

6. Helter Shelter

   Skeeter-Killin' Time

   Dealing with summer's little suckers

   Walter Jowers

   Published: May 29, 2008

   When I was a little boy, my mother Susie Jowers would try to slip a little Sunday-school wisdom into my head every now and then, just to keep me on the right track. One summer...

7. The Fabricator

   Blackburn Sofa Yields $100,000 Haul

   ‘So that’s where that money went!’

   Published: May 29, 2008

   More than $100,000 has been found in the cushions of a sofa once belonging to U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn.Fairview resident E.C. Stubbs, who was amazed by his good fortune,...

8. Cover Story

   Gettin' Jacked

   How a local plumber became one of Tennessee’s most-wanted bootleggers

   Elizabeth Ulrich

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Randy Piper dips his head into a fermenter the size of an aboveground swimming pool and inhales deeply. The sour mash that bubbles like lava inside—a slushy mix of corn,...

9. The Spin

   The Spin

   Published: May 29, 2008

   Dawgy styleWe arrived at The 5 Spot around 10 p.m. Thursday night thinking we’d be late—the bill had a 9 p.m. start time and a lineup featuring Corndawg (solo)...

10. Features

    Hip-Hop Humorist

    MC Chris drops science and other nerdy pursuits

    Chris Parker

    Published: May 29, 2008

    He’s Peter Pan with a mic, a humorous, pint-sized, lithe-lipped prankster with unabashedly geeky tastes and a passion for pop culture. He rhymes about banging...

11. Features

    Accidental Music

    Singer-songwriter Samantha Crain’s literary-minded songs are vibrant expansions on folk music

    Jewly Hight

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Call it necessity or imagination, but folksinger Samantha Crain has ensconced herself in a thoroughly do-it-yourself approach to music ever since she dropped out of college to...

12. Features

    Back-Porch Music

    Tony Joe White’s new Deep Cuts finds his nostalgia sweet and earned

    Edd Hurt

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Down-home blues recast as soundscape, Tony Joe White’s new Deep Cuts initially sounds like an attempt to enliven old-time music with newfangled beats. But the great...

13. Features

    In2 the Future

    On Waves on Waves’ debut full-length, the intimate harmonies hold everything together

    Joey Hood

    Published: May 29, 2008

    With Waves on Waves’ self-titled proper debut, pansexual lead singer Kevin Thornton entombs the hayseed glam-pop of his 2004 release Had a Sword under layers of sublime...

14. Features

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters

    Published: May 29, 2008

    THE FALL Something like a pain-fueled, R-rated Princess Bride, The Fall straddles the intertwined worlds of storytelling and story. One half is a child’s-eye-view tour of...

15. Arts

    Scattered Glass

    This American Life host reflects on audio storytelling, Russert vs. Matthews and the evils of meat porn

    Jack Silverman

    Published: May 29, 2008

    One of the ironies of the Internet age is that audio storytelling, an art that 20 years ago seemed a doomed relic of the radio age, is stronger than ever. And there’s no...

16. Dining

    Get a Load of Dee's

    Heavy with smoked flavor, Dee's Q ribs fall off the bone and the wings will blow your head off

    Carrington Fox

    Published: May 29, 2008

    If you’re driving through East Nashville in the dead of night, and you happen to pass by the patch of grass at Riverside and Rosebank—across from the Piggly...

17. Reviews

    Cheap Sex

    Despite the labels and levity, big-screen SATC is a poor-man’s knockoff

    Ella Taylor

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Oh, please—spoiler alert? Fine, I won’t tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you’ve already seen that gown winging its way...

18. Reviews

    King of Queens

    The mean streets of Willets Point, through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy, in Chop Shop

    Nathan Lee

    Published: May 29, 2008

    You come away from Chop Shop with a mood, the voluptuous sum of its fine-tuned parts: the way a rundown patch of Queens is always flooded with mud, no matter how recently it...

19. Reviews

    Writers Strike!

    Chill—they’re just coming to the Nashville Screenwriters Conference

    Jim Ridley

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Hey there, young screenwriter. Want to maintain complete control over your work and be showered with lilies, wet kisses and Krugerrands if it emerges to great acclaim? Ted...

20. Reviews

    Not a Festive Occasion

    Resignation of NaFF artistic director Gordon an unwelcome surprise

    Jim Ridley

    Published: May 29, 2008

    The surprise resignation of Brian Gordon last week as artistic director of the Nashville Film Festival has the city’s film community—and even many of the...