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Our Critics Picks
Footloose
By Martin Brady
Published: July 17, 2008
From the exuberantly cheesy 1984 film starring Kevin Bacon, to its more recent success on Broadway and in London’s West End, Footloose seems destined for perpetual revival...
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Our Critics Picks
A Small Gathering for a Little Conversation
By Joe Nolan
Published: July 17, 2008
The sunny, summer sidewalks of Hillsboro Village are always a great place to strike up a conversation. Nashville’s Smallest Art Gallery has raised the bar on the usual...
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Our Critics Picks
Old 97's: Wreck Your Life
Old 97’s bassist Murry Hammond talks long-distance relationships, charity work and his frontman’s pesky solo career
By Lee Stabert
Published: July 17, 2008
When the Old 97’s are on—when rambunctious frontman Rhett Miller is cooing and crooning over a ragged honky-tonk snarl and dropping lines so snarky and devastating...
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Our Critics Picks
Kyle Andrews: Cut and Paste
Local pop wizard Kyle Andrews' excellent new album turns up the volume
By Lee Stabert
Published: July 17, 2008
"If people saw the space I recorded in, they would laugh," admits local singer-songwriter Kyle Andrews. Crafted mostly at the house in Sylvan Park he shares with American Bang...
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Features
Accidents and Emergencies
Spiritualized stare down death, loss and Lenny Kravitz
By Andrew Clayman
Published: July 17, 2008
The first Spiritualized record since frontman Jason Pierce's nearly fatal bout with double pneumonia, Songs in A&E is what you might expect—a heavyhearted, acid-gospel...
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Features
Wreck Your Life
Old 97's bassist Murry Hammond talks long-distance relationships, charity work and his frontman's pesky solo career
By Lee Stabert
Published: July 17, 2008
When the Old 97's are on—when rambunctious frontman Rhett Miller is cooing and crooning over a ragged honky-tonk snarl and dropping lines so snarky and devastating that...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: July 17, 2008
The case of the missing BeDazzler We got to The Basement at 9:45 p.m. Friday night for SausageFest, a seemingly appropriate arrival time for a "festival," only to find that...
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Features
You Are So Nashville If...
Published: July 17, 2008
Every year, Nashville, we ask you to complete a sentence following the same five-word phrase: "You are so Nashville if...." And not once have you let us down. Well, there was...
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Features
And the Winner Is...
Published: July 17, 2008
Roy Moore was surprised to find out he won this year's "You Are So Nashville If..." competition, mainly because he thought a co-worker submitted a funnier entry. "His was about...
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Desperately Seeking the News
Advertising Age
The Tennessean writes ads, misses news
By Matt Pulle
Published: July 17, 2008
The Blooper Reel Last Thursday, on a scorching July day, our paper of record reported how the police department was planning to clear local roads in "advance of tonight's...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Published: July 17, 2008
Big green dollarAs I was reading the article concerning the Scottsboro-Bells Bend community plan ("Road Kill," July 10), I was struck by a couple of apparent contradictions...
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Features
Heads of the Class
Big issues get school board candidates yapping
By Katie Lewis
Published: July 17, 2008
Board Games James Lech has a Vanderbilt doctorate in education, and he's not afraid to talk about it. He isn't afraid to use it, either, which is exactly what the school board...
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Woods
Pedro's Smoking Gun
Garcia's memos may supply evidence to undo school resegregation
By Jeff Woods
Published: July 17, 2008
Bullying and secret backroom deals culminating in a ram-it-down-their-throats vote to resegregate schools—that's the way outraged black leaders are describing last week's...
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The Fabricator
Give Me (Twenty) Five!
Nashville boosters propose 25-fingered foam rubber hand
Published: July 17, 2008
Is "We're No. 25!" a message that is going to attract business and tourism to Nashville? Especially when printed on a giant foam rubber hand with—count 'em—25...
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Features
Words of the Week
Published: July 17, 2008
"... [M]y children have heard of childhood accounts of my being called an "n...-lover" for playing with African American pals on the playground."—State Republican Party...
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Features
Mother Knows Best?
Kelley Cannon's mother talks about her daughter's innocence in the murder of Jim Cannon
By Elizabeth Ulrich
Published: July 17, 2008
Mum's the Word When the Scene spoke with Diane Sanders last Thursday, on the morning police arrested her daughter, Kelley Cannon, for murder, officers had only left her Green...
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Dining
Posizione, Posizione, Posizione
T's Italian cuisine is worth a try, but its location should get the boot
By Carrington Fox
Published: July 17, 2008
Temptation has long been a hallmark of 2000 Belcourt Ave. Whether it was the temptation to drink one more martini at Faison's, to sing one more ABBA song in the Chicken Shack,...
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Reviews
Night of the Hunter
An absorbing new doc asks: Will the real Hunter Thompson please stand up?
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 17, 2008
"In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote Hunter S. Thompson of the...
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Reviews
Heart of Darkness
Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 17, 2008
What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City—if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so deeply and sometimes despairingly...
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Short Takes
Short Takes
Published: July 17, 2008
MAMMA MIA! Sure, it's nice that the actors sing their own numbers—Meryl Streep has a fab set of pipes, and the fact that Pierce Brosnan sings like a bullfrog in heat is...
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