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1. Desperately Seeking the News

   A Rust Belt Import

   The Scene gets a new editor July 1, and he ain’t from around here

   Liz Garrigan

   Published: June 26, 2008

   At about 10 a.m. last Friday, Nashville Scene staffers got word from associate publisher Mike Smith that Cleveland Scene—our sister paper in the Village Voice Media...

2. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: June 26, 2008

   “This is an election year and conservative women are prime targets for Democratic attack.” —Darcy Anderson to The Tennessean, defending her boss, Rep. Marsha...

3. Features

   Stand and Deliver

   Able-bodied man competes in and wins wheelchair races

   Matt Pulle

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Rick Thigpen is not disabled. He just plays that way on TV. In April, Thigpen, a 50-year-old engineer from Murfreesboro, won the wheelchair division of the Country Music...

4. Features

   Saying No to MLK

   Metro Council member Rip Ryman casts the only MLK-naming dissenting vote

   Jeff Woods

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Metro Council member Rip Ryman, who has been accused of racial insensitivity in the past, cast the only vote against naming an East Nashville street after Martin Luther King...

5. Ask a Mexican

   Land Hola!

   Your very own real estate (100 km) south of the border

   Gustavo Arellano

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Dear Mexican: What do you think would happen if U.S. citizens could buy land and set up businesses as easily in Mexico as Mexicans can in the U.S.? Might that be a big boost to...

6. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Letters from our readers

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Prison detailRegarding the Scene’s cover story on CCA, “Locked and Loaded” (June 19), when it comes to prisons—particularly private prisons—the...

7. Woods

   Replacing Rob

   Law firm tries to put one of its own in Briley’s old seat

   Jeff Woods

   Published: June 26, 2008

   As if Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis—the octopus-like Nashville law/lobbying firm whose tentacles stretch throughout local and state government—doesn’t...

8. The Fabricator

   Stunts Ahoy!

   Success of ‘swim the Cumberland’ stunt has other groups working up their own

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Last Thursday, about 20 swimmers—governmental officials and activists—paddled across the Cumberland River under the watchful eye of rescue boats and a few...

9. The Spin

   The Spin

   Published: June 26, 2008

   MVP nightWhen The Spin arrived at The Basement Wednesday evening, we immediately recognized the skillful, fluid spinning of DJ Kidsmeal. Turns out Kidsmeal would be scratching...

10. Cover Story

    Dead Wrong

    A backwoods prosecutor is retrying Paul House for a murder that DNA evidence says he didn’t commit

    Sarah Kelley

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Paul House sat shackled in a windowless room tucked inside the concrete Union County Courthouse in rural East Tennessee. The prisoner’s mother waited with him and grasped...

11. Features

    How We Spend Our Midnights

    Noise bands, Wiffleball and ‘trust pits’—just another month in Murfreesboro

    Wesley Lewis

    Published: June 26, 2008

    I’ve been in Murfreesboro for quite some time now—more than the requisite six years that it takes to get through college. Bucket City is my baby, my mistress, the...

12. Features

    Untuned and Decompressed

    Paper Rival’s slow track to success

    Dustin Allen

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Paper Rival ride the fence between user-friendly radio rock and ’90s underground throwbacks when the two camps seem to be at a philosophical impasse. Opting for a...

13. Features

    A Writer Under the Influence

    The strange and wonderful powers of Alejandro Escovedo

    Lee Stabert

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Over the course of a varied and accomplished career, Texas singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo has been written about in every conceivable manner, in myriad publications, by...

14. Helter Shelter

    Rufus '08

    America's best choice for the next 28 (dog) years

    Walter Jowers

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Last week I wrote about how Rufus, the Jowers basset hound, made friends and influenced people at the beach where our family vacationed, at the ice cream store where the family...

15. Dining

    Village Elders

    Before brie and espresso hit Inglewood, there was the Baileys’ fried chicken—and it still rules the roost

    Carrington Fox

    Published: June 26, 2008

    If you're worried about upwardly mobile sprawl endangering the gritty intersection of Riverside and McGavock, fret not. Take just one step inside Bailey & Cato Family...

16. Reviews

    Violence Is Golden

    With its secret boys club and blood-soaked jollies, Wanted dishes Fight Club’s mayhem with none of the guilt

    Jim Ridley

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Of the summer’s many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies—from The Incredible Hulk all the way down the megaplex food chain to The Foot Fist Way—Wanted...

17. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters.

    Published: June 26, 2008

    WALL-E Planet Earth is a smoky shade of decay, its cities a wonderland of trash and rubble tended to by a compact compactor who, 700 years after humans ruined and abandoned the...

18. Reviews

    The Empire Strikes Back

    Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone’s fave emperor, Genghis Khan

    Jim Ridley

    Published: June 26, 2008

    You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here’s a brawny old-school epic to make the...

19. Reviews

    Bar None

    Locally made documentary offers hope of new beginnings to prison inmates

    Jim Ridley

    Published: June 26, 2008

    While it’s neither a wallow in sensational cellblock horrors nor a Scared Straight-style sock in the gut, A Bend in the River—a documentary shot in 2006 at...

20. Reviews

    Warrior King

    Mongol director Sergei Bodrov on retracing the footsteps of Genghis Khan and navigating the even more perilous Hollywood battlefield

    Ella Taylor

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Just over a decade ago, Russian director Sergei Bodrov made his mark on the West with his Academy Award-nominated movie, Prisoner of the Mountains, which transplanted a Tolstoy...