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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: June 5, 2008
“…As committed as we are to covering American foreign policy, we’re comparably—well, not comparably—we’re also deeply committed to covering...
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Features
Developers Gone Wild
City planner may lose job for standing up for neighborhoods
Jeff Woods
Published: June 5, 2008
It was one of the slickest marketing themes of Mayor Karl Dean’s election campaign: He promised not to play the “old-style politics” of Nashville’s...
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Features
Predatory Lending
Feds are investigating a key Preds investor
Elizabeth Ulrich
Published: June 5, 2008
William “Boots” Del Biaggio seemed like a godsend for a local investment group when he contributed nearly 30 percent of the funds needed to buy the Nashville...
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Ask a Mexican
Race Bait
Special negrito edition
Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 5, 2008
Dear Mexican: First, it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: June 5, 2008
Lost and found Thursday night’s two-hour season finale of LOST ended just a tad too late for us to catch Old Bear at Mercy Lounge. But we did have the pleasure of...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Letters from our readers.
Published: June 5, 2008
Quick shotJack Daniel’s has the marketing. George Dickel has the whiskey (“Gettin’ Jacked Big Time,” May 29).BOB HOLLADAYsenor100@earthlink.net...
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The Fabricator
Bible Park to Add Adult Section?
Giving ‘burning bush’ a whole new meaning
Published: June 5, 2008
Bible Park USA hopes to wow visitors with interactive Bible stories, including the parting of the Red Sea, the destruction of Jericho, and Noah’s Ark, complete with...
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Features
Nashville State of Mind
This year’s CMA lineup exemplifies the myriad strains of modern country—with Dwight Yoakam on top
Edd Hurt
Published: June 5, 2008
In its quest to be all things to a carefully dissected slice of the American listening demographic, country music appeals to some of the people all of the time without losing...
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Cover Story
A Woman Apart
How a Nashville academic, born poor and black, has become a conservative mouthpiece ‘speaking truth to a world that doesn’t want to hear it’
P.J. Tobia
Published: June 5, 2008
In western Virginia, tucked in a clearing amid dense woods, are the decaying ruins of a house where nightmares were made. The place was never much to begin with, more of a...
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Features
Democratic Conventions
The Infamous Stringdusters welcome a new member and let everyone have their say on their second album
Jewly Hight
Published: June 5, 2008
Here’s an easy rhetorical question: What Nashville sidemen would pass up the chance to do their own thing once in a while? Probably not many. Hell, aptly named Station...
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Features
Back to the Future
Glasgow’s Frightened Rabbit release their sophomore record
Ryan Foley
Published: June 5, 2008
by Ryan Foley Basic human behavior dictates you walk backward for one of two reasons: You’re either arguing with someone or acting like a dunderhead. In...
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Helter Shelter
Inspecting the Inspector
Careful who you hire to approve your volatile-market home
Walter Jowers
Published: June 5, 2008
If you’re thinking about buying a house, it’s a good idea to do it now, or soon. Right now, your dream house will probably cost you less than it would have a year...
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Dining
A More Perfect Union
Koto spiffs up its popular sushi with a new downtown address
Carrington Fox
Published: June 5, 2008
In 1985, when Hajime "Haji" and Songmi Keruma opened Koto in a hole in the wall on Fourth Avenue South, theirs was only the second local enterprise to serve sushi, and...
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Reviews
Goin’ Back to Indiana
Now-legendary Raiders adaptation is the best kind of child’s play
Jim Ridley
Published: June 5, 2008
At the Belcourt this Thursday night, you have a choice between two adolescent odes to the magic of making movies. You can see two British kids mount a no-budget tribute to the...
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Reviews
Floating Life
Hou Hsiao-hsien and his red balloon sail over Paris in this soaring Flight
J. Hoberman
Published: June 5, 2008
About a thousand movies ago, I made the truculent, unprovable assertion that if Chinese grandmaster Hou Hsiao-hsien were French, he’d be a household name. Now the moment...
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Short Takes
Short Takes
This week in local theaters
Published: June 5, 2008
YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN In a passable Israeli accent, outsize codpiece and a new and improved bod, Adam Sandler’s Zohan, a Mossad super-heavy, is every Jewish...
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Our Critics Picks
Our Critics' Picks
Nada Surf, Top Dog and Cat Coronation Pawty, First Art Saturday, Nosferatu: The Vampyre, Mike Zito, Shannon Whitworth and more
Published: June 5, 2008
THURSDAY 6/5Dog Days of SummerLAPPY HOUR The great ideas are the simple ones: an Internet search engine, a pop music reality show, an all-sports cable channel, and now, a happy...
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Books
Writers All Around
Local bookstores host a bounty of author appearances
Published: June 5, 2008
MARY SAUMSJane Thistle expected a quiet life when she retired to Tullulah, Ala., after traveling the world with her military husband. But fans of Mary Saums know that life for...
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Theater
No Angels Here
Actors Bridge production of early Kushner suffers from static staging
Martin Brady
Published: June 5, 2008
In the early 1990s, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America was hailed as a breakthrough theater piece, which certainly ups the curiosity factor regarding A Bright Room Called...
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Our Critics Picks
Lappy Hour
By Matt Pulle
Published: June 5, 2008
The great ideas are the simple ones: an Internet search engine, a pop music reality show, an all-sports cable channel, and now, a happy hour where you can bring your dog. On...
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