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   A power shift within Nashville's musicians union signals changing times on Music Row

   By Brantley Hargrove

   Published: March 19, 2009

   If Harold Bradley was nervous about the ballots piling up in the conference room of the American Federation of Musicians Local 257 Hall, he didn't show it. But he would have...

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   Live Jazz

   By Jack Silverman

   Published: March 19, 2009

   Nashvillians Don Aliquo (saxophone) and Tom Giampietro (drums) teamed up with Memphis pianist Michael Jefry Stevens and Oxford, Miss., bassist Jonathan Wires to form this...

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   Indian Classical Music

   By Jack Silverman

   Published: March 19, 2009

   Best I can tell—by roaming the vaguely definitive ether known as cyberspace—the term “jugalbandhi” means “entwined twins” and refers to a musical...

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   La Môme Nouveau

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: March 19, 2009

   Marion Cotillard owes at least the base of her Best Actress Oscar to Aigrot, who provided the singing voice of Cotillard’s Edith Piaf for the biopic La Vie en Rose. On...

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   Peter Kareiva at Belmont

   Nature and Nurture

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: March 19, 2009

   The chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, Kareiva (pronounced "kuh-REEV-uh") defies the stereotype of the impractical environmental do-gooder. Sorry, li'l owl...

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   Pillow Fight at Centennial Park

   Jagged Little Pillow

   By D. Patrick Rodgers

   Published: March 19, 2009

   Any hot-blooded young American man who's seen Animal House knows just how promising the prospect of a pillow fight truly is. True, the participants in March 22's clash of...

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   I Thought Our Worlds Were the Same at Zeitgeist

   Worlds Collide

   By Joe Nolan

   Published: March 19, 2009

   Organized by Caroline Allison and Nick Dryden, the latest show at Zeitgeist explores the borderline where the ideal meets the real. Taking its name from a Hank Williams lyric,...

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   Whole Foods Chili Cookoff

   Bean Counters

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: March 19, 2009

   This event combines two of our primary objectives in life: helping the planet, and eating like a pig. The contest pits members of the Green Hills Whole Foods' many culinary...

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   It’s a Wonderful Life

   By Jon Weisberger

   Published: March 19, 2009

   There are endless possibilities for surprising yet thoughtful combinations of musicians here in Music City, and Station Inn’s been coming up with some great ones lately,...

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    X-Citing X-Change

    By Jon Weisberger

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Celebrating the end-of-the-month release of Bluegrass & Beyond—their third project for Rounder Records—Opry member, IBMA Hall-of-Famer and gold-plated legend Bobby...

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    Surely You’re Joshing

    By Jon Weisberger

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Given his youth, you’d expect Josh Williams to have charged out of the chute with his own thing after leaving Rhonda Vincent & the Rage almost a year and a half ago....

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    Der Golem w/U2's Achtung Baby

    He Moves in Mysterious Ways

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: March 19, 2009

    The movie: a silent 1920 German-expressionist horror yarn culled from the pages of Yiddish folklore. The soundtrack: four Irish guys and a shitload of sequencers. The result:...

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    Gene Weenie Lives on His Back

    By Seth Graves

    Published: March 19, 2009

    For the past 25 years, singer-songwriter Aaron Freeman has been more often called “Gene”—the singing half of genre-hopping, jam-friendly, psychedelic drug...

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    Smaak, Kraakle & Pop

    By Sean L. Maloney

    Published: March 19, 2009

    We were going to use this Dutch DJ/production trio’s song “Bobby & Whitney” to wax rhapsodic about our love for the oft-maligned R&B singer Bobby Brown, but that...

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    Macky’s Back in Town

    By Sean L. Maloney

    Published: March 19, 2009

    We don't know if it's a conscious thing, but Murfreesboro rapper Mac Tha Knife--a.k.a. Mickey Blades--likes to mention that he was born in 1988. Besides making us feel, well,...

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    Lorraine Lopez Reading and Signing at Martha's at the Plantation

    Sibling Revelry

    By Faye Jones

    Published: March 19, 2009

    One of the great things about being an English teacher is reading a good novel and realizing how well it would fit into one of your classes. It wouldn't be hard to imagine...

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    Rabbit Hole at TPAC

    Holed Up

    By Martin Brady

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Buoyed by the good news that the company recently raised enough emergency funds from donors to meet a sustaining challenge grant--thus stoking its coffers with...

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    Dave Attell at Zanies

    Insomniac

    By Ted Drozdowski

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Dave Attell knows the sting of Prince's Hot Chicken--he dined there in a 2002 episode of his defunct TV show Insomniac--and the sugar that comes with being a fixture in the...

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    Like it Was the Last Day at Ammun Ra Theatre Playhouse

    By Martin Brady

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Amun Ra Theatre artistic director Jeff Obafemi Carr first workshopped his original drama in 2001, and it now receives its formal premiere. In 1967 Alabama, a death in the...

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    Jersey Boys at Jackson Hall

    Walk Like a Man...to TPAC

    By Martin Brady

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Packaging the rise of the '60s pop group The Four Seasons as a splashy musical certainly smacks of Baby Boomer-baiting. The fact is, though, despite their incredible success,...