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1. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: July 3, 2008

   Business of politicsIn light of your recent article (“Replacing Rob,” June 26) and Pith postings (pithinthewind.com) on Waller attorneys, I wanted to rise to their...

2. The Spin

   The Spin

   Published: July 3, 2008

   Sweaty men with hairy backsGiven the amount of buzz circulating around town before the Monotonix show Saturday night, we were a little miffed to find a mostly empty...

3. Features

   Don’t Laugh

   Ween’s still the stallion, mang

   Aaron Jentzen

   Published: July 3, 2008

   In the ’90s alternative-era high school, Ween fandom seemed like a sign and countersign—a way to distinguish the playful music freaks from the lumpen, gloomy...

4. Features

   Who Killed Jim Cannon?

   Police still have not named a suspect in the murder of a local attorney

   Elizabeth Ulrich

   Published: July 3, 2008

   Kelley Cannon, the wife of slain West Nashville attorney James “Jim” Cannon, used to hear voices in her family’s home. Sometimes they spoke to her over the...

5. Features

   Psychedelic Warriors

   Guitarist Christian Bland is fully aware of the label his band, Austin’s Black Angels, carries: psychedelic music.

   Ned Raggett

   Published: July 3, 2008

   Guitarist Christian Bland is fully aware of the label his band, Austin’s Black Angels, carries: psychedelic music, both in the fine Texas tradition and in...

6. Features

   Love of Rock

   Aided by recession, remembrance and reality TV, Poison packs ’em in once again

   Chris Neal

   Published: July 3, 2008

   In the mid-1990s, Poison appeared quite doomed. The quartet had sold millions of records over the previous decade with a sound that combined glam rock with bubblegum pop and a...

7. Features

   Meet Caldwell Hancock

   Local attorney calls other lawyers names and bills 23-hour days

   Matt Pulle

   Published: July 3, 2008

   If there is a day in law school when students learn not to refer to an opposing counsel as “asswipe,” well, local attorney Caldwell Hancock must have been sick....

8. Features

   Cesar Salud!

   Know your history before citing it

   Gustavo Arellano

   Published: July 3, 2008

   Dear Mexican: Whenever I have an immigration debate with my Chicano hermanos who support open borders and get angry at any type of immigration control, they don’t seem to...

9. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: July 3, 2008

   “I think that [Michelle Obama] video, which we put up on YouTube, struck a nerve. It struck a nerve with Democrats and they squealed and they squealed really loud, and...

10. Woods

    Sincerely, Karl Dean

    When the mayor says he wants to keep kids in school, he might really mean it

    Matt Pulle

    Published: July 3, 2008

    Here’s a man-bites-dog development: Nashville may have voted for a mayor who actually meant what he said during his election campaign. Karl Dean is making political...

11. The Fabricator

    New Planetarium to Create Surge in ‘Uranus’ Jokes

    Largest countywide increase in history

    Published: July 3, 2008

    The opening of the Sudekum Planetarium and Space Chase will lead to a massive surge in jokes based around the name of the planet Uranus, says a study by the Astronomical Humor...

12. Cover Story

    Nashville Starr

    When Ringo came to town

    Tim Ghianni

    Published: July 3, 2008

    Thirty-eight years ago, surrounded by gently weeping pedal steel and a host of Nashville cats, Ringo Starr hunkered down in a cramped Music Row studio for two days to sing of...

13. Cover Story

    With a Little Help

    Tuna & hospitality with Ringo Starr

    Tim Ghianni

    Published: July 3, 2008

    At the time of Starr’s quick layover in Nashville, singer Tracy Nelson had just settled outside Mt. Juliet with her band, Mother Earth, at the old Curd Farm on Curd Road....

14. Helter Shelter

    Pest Control

    Roaches and robots and zombies—oh my!

    Walter Jowers

    Published: July 3, 2008

    Some decades back when I was in the fifth grade, there was a kid, Jerry, who sat in the row of desks next to the big south-facing windows. Jerry, trapped there in the full-sun...

15. Features

    Pedro's Memo: Rezoning Plan Racially Motivated

    Jeff Woods

    Published: July 3, 2008

    Foes of rezoning Nashville’s schools are trying to torpedo the plan with the 11th-hour release of a scathing memo from former superintendent Pedro Garcia. In the memo,...

16. Columns

    Savage Love

    Published: July 3, 2008

    by Dan Savage My boyfriend and I both like porn and toys, and we're obviously open about everything and often play with them together. But recently he posed an interesting...

17. Dining

    In the Chambers of the Sea

    Go to Aquarium for the sea life—not the seafood—and you will be delighted

    Carrington Fox

    Published: July 3, 2008

    I used to wonder why anyone would dine in expensive themed chain restaurants like Aquarium, which teems with families shelling out for mediocre chicken fingers...

18. Reviews

    Chauvinism Is Forever

    In the year of Ian Fleming’s centennial, do feminists have any reason to celebrate 007? Maybe.

    Tracy Moore

    Published: July 3, 2008

    Here’s an obvious statement: James Bond films are some of the most patently offensive, profoundly anti-feminist vehicles around. When women aren’t...

19. Reviews

    Superzero

    Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero

    Robert Wilonsky

    Published: July 3, 2008

    The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis as the...

20. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    Published: July 3, 2008

    THE ANIMATION SHOW 4 Less hit-or-miss than the long-running Spike & Mike packages of drawn-to-the-darkside filth, this touring animation program curated by Mike Judge...