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1. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Letters from our readers

   Published: June 19, 2008

   Regarding retarding respectUntil recently, it seemed the Scene really got it, demonstrating a compassionate alliance with the disability community, especially those in public...

2. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: June 19, 2008

   “I don’t want a relationship with him, or anyone else who says these things. His comments offend me as an American and embarrass me as a Tennessean.”...

3. Features

   Save Yourselves

   Instead of protecting its followers from sexual predators, Nashville's Southern Baptist Convention leaves churches to fend for themselves

   Elizabeth Ulrich

   Published: June 19, 2008

   Last week, Southern Baptist officials stood before a sea of church members and representatives more than 7,000 strong and announced a plan to confront the recurring...

4. Features

   Honesty Second

   Eric Crafton won’t say who is funding his English-only measure

   P.J. Tobia

   Published: June 19, 2008

   Some might describe Metro Council member Eric Crafton’s latest initiative to make English the official language of Metro as an attempt to codify the obvious. Almost...

5. The Fabricator

   ‘Proper English Only’ Song Ordinance Proposed

   So long, ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart’

   Published: June 19, 2008

   Eric Crafton, the Metro Council member who has made a cottage industry out of attempting to make English the “official” language of Nashville, upped the...

6. Cover Story

   Locked and Loaded

   CCA, the private jailer and one of Nashville’s richest companies, is facing heightened scrutiny after a year of particularly heinous controversies

   Matt Pulle

   Published: June 19, 2008

   Located in a bland, almost anonymous Green Hills office park of fake lakes and fountains is the headquarters of the nation’s largest private jailer, which, at the...

7. Features

   Nashville Rebel

   Chuck Prophet covers outlaw Waylon Jennings, and it works beautifully

   Edd Hurt

   Published: June 19, 2008

   Chuck Prophet is a Californian born and bred, so it’s only natural he takes a few liberties with the lyrics to “Waymore’s Blues,” one of the songs...

8. Features

   Out of Time

   Cheap Time’s debut full-length turns the clock back nearly three decades

   Vince Amoroso

   Published: June 19, 2008

   In a town full of band connections ripe for a game of six degrees of musical separation, add another point on the increasingly convoluted web that begins with local...

9. Features

   Archival Quality

   Everyone in Grand Archives is special and has something to contribute

   Steve Haruch

   Published: June 19, 2008

   With their four- and five-part harmonies, dense layers of instrumentation—everything from effect-heavy ukulele to pedal steel to flugelhorn—and...

10. The Spin

    The Spin

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Full metal BasementIn case you haven’t heard by now, Metallica put on an intimate surprise performance last Thursday at The Basement for a crowd of fan club members,...

11. Helter Shelter

    What I Did on My Summer Vacation

    When blue laws and basset hounds collide

    Walter Jowers

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Every summer—or better yet, every late spring—the Jowers women and I like to go back home to South Carolina for a little vacation. We rent a house on one of the...

12. Dining

    Summer House

    Having worked the bugs out, Firefly Grille now shines -- especially in the growing season

    Carrington Fox

    Published: June 19, 2008

    After a mercurial past as a chicken salad-mongering tearoom, a butter-soaked meat-and-three and a hyper-refined French restaurant—among other...

13. Columns

    A Symphony of Silliness

    America finally falls for the boundless comic imagination of Eddie Izzard

    Chris Neal

    Published: June 19, 2008

    For his acolytes, it’s a heartwarmingly familiar sight: Eddie Izzard rocks back onto one heel, bouncing nervously in place onstage. His whole body is arched slightly...

14. Reviews

    Doc Days

    Summer series surveys standouts of nonfiction film

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Distraught that you missed the one sold-out showing of Up the Yangtze at the Nashville Film Festival, or that you wouldn’t get a chance to see Errol Morris’...

15. Reviews

    Columbia Pictures

    Area college debuts new film crew program

    Jack Silverman

    Published: June 19, 2008

    It may be premature to change our hometown’s name from Music City to Movie City, but there’s little doubt that filmmaking has been on the rise here, aided by...

16. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters

    Published: June 19, 2008

    PRICELESS A concoction so bright and effervescent it makes Sex and the City seem like a stint in a Georgian gulag—it even has better...

17. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: June 19, 2008

    THURSDAY 6/19MusicMAJOR STARS For the past decade, Major Stars have been playing Jenga with guitars. Just when you think the Boston-based combo couldn’t possibly...

18. Theater

    The World on a String

    International Puppet Festival comes to the Downtown Public Library

    Joe Nolan

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Just a couple of weeks after hordes of country music zealots invaded Nashville for the CMA Fest, Music City will become a mecca of a different sort as an expected 3,000...

19. Theater

    CliffsNotes Theater

    Slapstick meets cerebral in Boiler Room’s fast-paced history lesson

    Martin Brady

    Published: June 19, 2008

    America is a melting pot, and so is The Complete History of America (Abridged), a zany stew of revue-style takeoffs and put-ons lampooning the politics, wars, society and...

20. Books

    High, but Not Lonesome

    Willie bio depicts a driven oddball whose success is part Dale Carnegie, part Cheech & Chong

    Paul Griffith

    Published: June 19, 2008

    During the late ’60s, a crack developed between long-haired country and the slicked-down variety. By a miracle of timing and talent, Willie Nelson slipped through it....