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1. The Spin

   The Spin

   Published: July 10, 2008

   Psych jamsWhile those three-day holiday weekends are a godsend for almost any working stiff, they often blow their wad as early as Friday, leaving the rest of the weekend in a...

2. Features

   Guitar Hero

   Mark Knopfler matures with grace

   Aaron Jentzen

   Published: July 10, 2008

   At a recent Peter Murphy concert, I fought back a sense of cringing embarrassment while watching the former Bauhaus vocalist and goth forefather stalk the stage, occasionally...

3. Helter Shelter

   Condition for a Bearable Summer

   Summertime, and the livin' is freezy

   Walter Jowers

   Published: July 10, 2008

   I don’t like to complain, but I’ve got a problem with summer. I hate summer. I hate it like I hate mosquitoes, sweat dripping in my eyes and the greasy feel of...

4. Features

   Home Delivery

   Locals Paper Route land in the catbird seat

   Chris Parker

   Published: July 10, 2008

   by Chris Parker Chad Howat’s ship has come in, and he sounds like a sailor on shore leave. The keyboardist for local electro-atmospheric pop group Paper Route is...

5. Features

   Kids Incorporated

   Today’s children’s music aims for the sophisticated tykes

   Ryan Foley

   Published: July 10, 2008

   The stigma that children’s music is pure sonic piffle is going the way of Barney the purple dinosaur. The industry that once proffered artists like Raffi...

6. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Letters from our readers

   Published: July 10, 2008

   It do come easyTim Ghianni’s piece on Ringo Starr’s 1970 Nashville recording visit was as fine a piece of music journalism as I have ever read...

7. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: July 10, 2008

   “Marsha Warden was facing significant pressure from the Hillwood cluster parents to get rid of the African American students.” —Former Schools Director Pedro...

8. Features

   The Widow Speaks

   Kelley Cannon, the wife of slain attorney Jim Cannon, talks about the night of her husband's murder

   Elizabeth Ulrich

   Published: July 10, 2008

   Sounding remarkably measured, Kelley Cannon says that she’s so distraught that she simply cannot function since a housekeeper found the limp body of her husband, attorney...

9. Features

   Pedro Strikes Back

   In tell-all memo, Garcia casts aspersions at school board

   Jeff Woods

   Published: July 10, 2008

   Six months after his ouster as Metro schools director, Pedro Garcia is lashing out at the education board members who sent him packing. In a scathing memo that he agreed to...

10. Ask a Mexican

    Long Live El Rey

    Mexicans love them some Elvis

    Gustavo Arellano

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Dear Mexican: What’s the fascination Mexicans have with Elvis?Good Roceando TonightDear Gabacho: Your question is spot-on, but it’s taken a while for Elvis...

11. The Fabricator

    Virtual Gojo

    Beloved TDOT chimp to have interactive game, blog

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Gojo, the chimp that the Tennessee Department of Transportation has used for years to throw darts and select the locations of new road projects, will soon have an even higher...

12. Cover Story

    Road Kill

    Billions of dollars are at stake as developers and residents square off on a plan to build a second downtown in rural Davidson County

    Christine Kreyling

    Published: July 10, 2008

    “God made the country,” writes the poet William Cowper, “and man made the town.” One can only guess who made the suburb, but the devil is in the...

13. Features

    Home Delivery

    Locals Paper Route land in the catbird seat

    By Chris Parker

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Chad Howat's ship has come in, and he sounds like a sailor on shore leave. The keyboardist for local electro-atmospheric pop group Paper Route is preparing for their "first...

14. Dining

    Under a Neon Moon

    With equatorial flavors and flair, Rumba is still an oasis on West End

    Carrington Fox

    Published: July 10, 2008

    When Rumba Satay Bar & Grill brought its metal palm trees, Uruguayan cheeseburgers and crisp rum drinks to West End Avenue in 2003, it was like a breath of mint-infused air...

15. Reviews

    Devil May Care

    Big Red returns in a mindless, revved-up Hellboy sequel

    Chuck Wilson

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Hollywood’s Endless Superhero Summer rolls on with the arrival of Hellboy II: The Golden Army from Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro, but before this...

16. Reviews

    Going Down

    Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth

    Robert Wilonsky

    Published: July 10, 2008

    by Robert Wilonsky At the top, let’s be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative feature. It’s a decent, if...

17. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters.

    Published: July 10, 2008

    CONSTANTINE’S SWORD X marks the spot, literally, where Christianity and the Catholic Church ensured the centuries of religious hatred and anti-Semitism that culminated in...

18. Books

    Games Nations Play

    Historian finds seeds of politicized, commercialized Olympics in Cold War rivalries of 1960

    Michael Ray Taylor

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Fifty years ago, on the 1958 Fourth of July weekend, a Nashville coach named Edward Stanley Temple boarded a chartered bus with the women’s track team from the Tennessee...

19. Books

    The Girls, They Are A'Changing

    Five women find themselves during the turbulent ’60s

    Faye Jones

    Published: July 10, 2008

    As Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign recently revealed, women of a certain age are still plenty mad about a glass ceiling that younger women don’t even know...

20. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: July 10, 2008

    THURSDAY 7/10FilmMOVIES@MAIN: WAIT UNTIL DARK Talky, contrived and stagily acted, Terence Young’s 1967 film version of the Broadway thriller is cinematically...