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Nashville's big bet on the dying convention business
By Caleb Hannan
Published: April 23, 2009
The Music City Center. Like LP Field and Sommet before it, it's the newest Big Project Nashville Can't Live Without. For more than a decade, business leaders have salivated at...
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Free Admission to Cheekwood
Cheek Date
By D. Patrick Rodgers
Published: April 23, 2009
As it finally, gradually begins to feel like spring, the folks at Cheekwood are also warming up a bit, opening their doors for free all day on April 29. Current exhibits at the...
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Still Life With Iris at Nashville Children's Theatre
Memory Play
By Martin Brady
Published: April 23, 2009
Steven Dietz' fantasy chronicles a young girl's quest to regain her memory, assisted by the beautiful young Anabel Lee and the 11-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Dietz offers...
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Dining Out for Life
Eat Well for a Good Cause
By Carrington Fox
Published: April 23, 2009
Make your money go farther on Dining Out for Life Day, when generous restaurants across town will put a portion of your food bill toward Nashville Cares' programs for people...
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Finding Her Voice: Kitty Wells Panel at the Country Music Hall of Fame
Sister Act
By Jewly Hight
Published: April 23, 2009
With Taylor Swift ruling the charts and taking a fairytale castle on tour, it's easy to forget that there was a time before country music had a woman's touch. The Kitty Wells...
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Paul Rishell & Annie Raines at Family Wash
Blues Clues
By Jewly Hight
Published: April 23, 2009
Nashville misses out on the choice rock, pop and hip-hop acts that make a beeline straight for Atlanta on tour, but there's another thing we get too little of: good, lean...
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Katharina Chapuis and Marc Civitarese at Gallery One
Shine a Light
By Joe Nolan
Published: April 23, 2009
Shelley Liles McBurney's Belle Meade outpost continues to mix the accessible and the eccentric with a new show of paintings by artists Katharina Chapuis and Marc Civitarese....
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Little Marrowbone Farm Herb Sale
Herb Goes Bananas
By Jim Ridley
Published: April 23, 2009
What'll it be, folks--stoic Greek Columnar Basil, or that sultry temptress from the Orient, Siam Queen Thai Basil? Straight-laced, by-the-book parsley, or its streetwise,...
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Watkins Graphic Design Senior Show
Designing Tomorrow
By Joe Nolan
Published: April 23, 2009
These last few weeks have offered Nashville art-abouts the opportunity to glimpse the future of Nashville's fine art scene in the form of a run of Watkins' exhibits for their...
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BFA Thesis Exhibitions at Watkins
Get Schooled
By Joe Nolan
Published: April 23, 2009
This year, Watkins has so many events for graduating seniors that they've taken on a kind of home-away athletic schedule to squeeze them all in. This week, the soon-to-be...
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Full Moon Tattoo & Horror Festival at the Airport Marriott
Monsters' Ball
By Jim Ridley
Published: April 23, 2009
William Forsythe is one of the best character actors in the business, with distinguished credits dating back to Raising Arizona, the convict drama Weeds and Paul Schrader's...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre w/Leatherface at The Belcourt
The Family That Slays Together...
By Jim Ridley
Published: April 23, 2009
Far less gory than its reputation, but just as likely to shred your nerves, Tobe Hooper's 1974 sicko masterpiece is the abandon-all-hope-ye-who-enter yardstick against which...
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New Works Reading Series at Writers Stage
Reading Is Fundamental
By Martin Brady
Published: April 23, 2009
Nashville playwright Jim Reyland is determined to make good use of the limited time he has access to his Writer's Stage performing space on Charlotte. He's already mounted two...
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Gender Bender at Darkhorse Theater
Youth Must Be Served
By Martin Brady
Published: April 23, 2009
The Real Life Players are a phenomenon: For 15 years this teen-owned and -operated theater group has provided its adolescent performers with a training ground for learning the...
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Jeffrey Ross at Zanies
Who's the Ross?
By Julie Seabaugh
Published: April 23, 2009
There's a reason they call him Roastmaster General, why he's consistently called upon by the likes of Comedy Central, MTV and the Friars Club to skewer a wide range of...
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Carmina Burana and The Golden Cage at TPAC's Jackson Hall
Sharing the Stage
By Martin Brady
Published: April 23, 2009
Nashville Ballet's spring fling is a multi-textured affair, where live musical performance promises to rival the dancing for center stage. The opening piece, The Golden Cage,...
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Art Through the Eyes of Autism at Vanderbilt's Kennedy Center
By Joe Nolan
Published: April 23, 2009
In 1944, Hans Asperger published his study of the syndrome that bears his name. The first scientist to link the word autism to the particular symptoms of his subjects, the good...
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Works in Black and White at The Belcourt
Cowboys and Indians
By Joe Nolan
Published: April 23, 2009
The Belcourt is the best place in town to catch a classic B&W on the big screen, and now its lobby-gallery is making a monochrome scene of its own. Local artists Ben Smythe and...
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David Vandervelde at Exit/In
The Velvet Vandervelde
By Dustin Allen
Published: April 23, 2009
However much David Vandervelde may be steeped in '70s rock "isms," this is one musician who is hardly stuck in the past when it comes to production. Utilizing modulated vocals,...
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Fourth Annual Jazz Writers Night at Blair School of Music
Swing into Spring
By Jack Silverman
Published: April 23, 2009
If you want to see four well-fed Music Row hitmakers have a musical circle jerk as they congratulate each other for writing songs generic and dumbed-down enough to garner...
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