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21. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    Published: June 12, 2008

    THE HAPPENING What a bunch of nonsense—effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. This is what happens when M....

22. Reviews

    Paradise Lost

    Parenting off the grid—and eventually off the reservation—in the alt–family portrait, Surfwise

    Ella Taylor

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch,...

23. Books

    The Hopeful Southerner

    Essays that turn an old-style liberal lens on the peculiarities of the South

    Maria Browning

    Published: June 12, 2008

    The last white Southern liberals to come of age in the pre-civil rights era are now in their 60s, so it won’t be many decades before they go the way of the dodo....

24. Books

    Secrets or Lies?

    New novel explores the hidden spaces in the human heart

    Faye Jones

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Even in the happiest, most intimate relationships, how much can people really know about each other? Is a person ever completely transparent to another? Should anyone be? In...

25. Theater

    The Fundamental Question

    Rhubarb Theatre explores the excesses of Southern Christianity

    Martin Brady

    Published: June 12, 2008

    White trash and religion are not strange bedfellows. In fact, they coexist quite comfortably at the Darkhorse Theater, where Rhubarb Theatre’s double bill of one-acts,...

26. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: June 12, 2008

    THURSDAY 6/12Just When You Thought It Was Safe…MOVIES @ MAIN: JAWS Is there a better time to dust off Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie version of the Peter Benchley...

27. SceneCast

    Episode 136

    Collin Monk

    Published: June 12, 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...