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Holiday Guide 2009
Published: November 19, 2009
Good Citizen Soldiers, On the eve of this holiday season, we must prepare for war. Women and men! Citizens and comrades! Together we look the Great Holiday Consumer Challenge...
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Holiday Guide 2009: Find the perfect books—both new and old—for your hipster niece (and your Yankee neighbor, and your brother the foodie...)
By Paul V. Griffith
Published: November 19, 2009
OK, troops. Shut off those Kindles, and get your lily-livered asses down to Davis-Kidd for some one-stop get'r done holiday book shopping. Yours is not to reason why, yours is...
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Guy Fieri at TPAC
Guy Time
By Dana Kopp Franklin
Published: November 19, 2009
Bleach-blond, bespiked and vandyked, Guy Fieri is the “bad boy” of the Food Network. He drives hot rods! He has tattoos! He eats greasy food at Diners, Drive-ins and...
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Ned Van Go CD Release at the 5 Spot
Bright Lights, Big City
By Jewly Hight
Published: November 19, 2009
Don’t assume that, because nedvango.com currently looks like a corporate Japanese website, that indicates some drastic change in ethnic direction for Ned Van Go the band....
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God on Trial Screening at Congregation Micah
Judge Not...
By Paul V. Griffith
Published: November 19, 2009
Arguing with God is a central motif in the Jewish tradition. The theme provides the framework for God on Trial, a 2008 television play produced by the BBC and WGBH in Boston....
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Small Packages at Cumberland Gallery
Size Matters
By Joe Nolan
Published: November 19, 2009
There are many signs that the Holiday Season is already about to reach a fever pitch: Christmas jingles on TV, rising airline prices, that unique mix of nostalgia and nausea...
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Terrazzo Condo Auction at Renaissance Hotel
Real Estate
By Carrington Fox
Published: November 19, 2009
TERRAZZO CONDO AUCTION If T.J. Maxx ever gets into real estate, it might look like this. Thirty pristine units in the sleek Terrazzo condo in the Gulch (700 12th Ave. S.) will...
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Artsy Chicks Art Sale at Station Inn
Station Agents
By Jon Weisberger
Published: November 19, 2009
The bluegrass scene is notorious for its communal nature, and it’s one that extends beyond the music; every one of these “chicks” has a connection to the...
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John Fogerty at The Ryman
Down on the Corner...of 4th and Commerce
By Adam Gold
Published: November 19, 2009
For those of you who weren’t fortunate enough to catch John Fogerty’s no-holds-barred surprise AMA show at the Mercy Lounge in September, here is your chance to...
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Southern Culture Lowbrow Extravaganza at Charlie Bob's
Country Reasons
By Joe Nolan
Published: November 19, 2009
The South can be proud of being one of the few places in the country that maintains a spectrum of truly unique cultural flavor despite the ubiquity of mass-media consumer...
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Mandy Stoller's Now in 3D! at Watkins
Rock 'n' Stoller
By Joe Nolan
Published: November 19, 2009
If you've attended a recent Nashville art event and been taken aback by a print of a cat zooming through the galaxy in a spaceship or a video of a Cristy Lane impersonator...
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Dan Auerbach at Cannery
Bach in Action
By D. Patrick Rodgers
Published: November 19, 2009
As the pentatonic-riffing, lovelorn-howling half of The Black Keys, Akron, Ohio’s Dan Auerbach has played a substantial role in this decade’s colossal resurgence of...
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Belcourt Midnight Movie: Roadhouse
Crazy for Swayze
By Emily Bartlett Hines
Published: November 19, 2009
“Pain don’t hurt,” declares tough guy Dalton (Patrick Swayze) in a typically memorable—and forehead-slappingly dumb—line from director Rowdy...
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Music City Improv at Writer's Stage
Makin' Stuff Up
By Martin Brady
Published: November 19, 2009
After taming the wilds of East Nashville, MCI’s intrepid improvisers return to the west side of the Cumberland and the familiar surroundings of Writer’s Stage for...
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The Running CD Release at Exit/In
Another One Rides the Bus
By Sean L. Maloney
Published: November 19, 2009
While their bus-bench ad on the Music Row roundabout has been a running joke (ba-dump-cha!) around the office for a while, it's tough to argue with the work ethic and diligence...
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Imogen Heap at Exit/In
Trance-Genred
By Paul V. Griffith
Published: November 19, 2009
Most people know Imogen Heap for “Let Go,” her contribution (as one-half of the defunct duo Frou Frou) to 2004’s Garden State soundtrack. Heap’s solo work...
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Kaethe Wenzel Lecture at Scarritt-Bennett's gallery F
I Robot
By Joe Nolan
Published: November 19, 2009
At a recent show in a gallery in Brooklyn, audience members excitedly took the controls of robots armed with paintbrushes. The mechanical Matisses rendered an awkward musical...
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Renaissance Jack at the Tennessee State Museum
Fertile Ground
By Paul V. Griffith
Published: November 19, 2009
When Jack Stoddart and his wife Lynne left the city for the Cumberland Plateau in the early ’70s, they didn’t take up farming or join a commune. Instead, Stoddart set...
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Return to the Land of Oz at the Gordon Jewish Community Center's Janet Levine March Gallery
Casualties of War
By Jack Silverman
Published: November 19, 2009
Michael Moryc had a 26th birthday he'd just as soon forget. It was 1968, and he had been in Vietnam just a few days when his base was overrun by the Viet Cong. Making matters...
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In Our Yard at Rymer Gallery
From Dusk Til Dawn
By Joe Nolan
Published: November 19, 2009
Emily Leonard's evocative landscape paintings are known for their solemnity and scale. The painter has favored large canvases in the past and her poignant, moody renderings...
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