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Our city in ruins: A guide to some of Nashville’s most endangered historic properties
By Lyda Phillips
Published: December 3, 2009
Photos Eric England During this fall's heavy rains, Cave Spring in Shelby Park bubbled up from its drought-stricken oblivion. The spring waters created a shallow stream that...
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Represent at Mair
Bwomp-Womp-Wa
By Sean L. Maloney
Published: December 3, 2009
The city’s only weekly drum-n-bass night—really one of the city’s only weekly parties for underground dance music—is back to being, well, weekly after that...
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Darfur Benefit
If the Kids are United
By Sean L. Maloney
Published: December 3, 2009
Sheesh, kids these days with their rock music and their shows and their actually caring about people aside from just themselves…what gives? When we were their age all we...
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Ann Labounsky Organ Recital
Loud Pipes
By Paul V. Griffith
Published: December 3, 2009
Even for the unchurched, Nashville’s Downtown Presbyterian Church will feel like sacred space. It’s spectacular Egyptian Revival design, which favors hieroglyphs over...
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Nekromantix at the Muse
'Hainted Love
By Timothy C. Davis
Published: December 3, 2009
Danish psychobilly trio Nekromantix, led by bassist/boogieman Kim Nekroman, don't need Halloween to have a hauntingly good time. Besides the band's boogieman bling (Nekroman's...
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Music City Roots at Loveless Barn
I Can See Your Roots
By Jon Weisberger
Published: December 3, 2009
Offering both a fine experience in the house and a broadcast on history-heavy WSM-AM, the Music City Roots crew rolls along with another outstanding and diverse lineup. Radney...
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Nashville Bluegrass Band at Station Inn
Stars: They're Just Kids
By Timothy C. Davis
Published: December 3, 2009
For a band full of rather ordinary-looking session musicians with a humdrum name, Nashville Bluegrass Band are stars of a sort. They've won two Grammy awards, two Entertainer...
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The Travelin' McCourys at Station Inn
McCoury Story
By Jon Weisberger
Published: December 3, 2009
Take one of the world’s greatest bluegrass bands, replace its silver-haired patriarch with one of a rotating cast of top-notch singer/guitarists and here’s what you...
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Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky
Rach 'n' Rold
By Russell Johnston
Published: December 3, 2009
The Nashville Symphony's last classical series concert of 2009 spotlights the voice, featuring three guest singers and the marvelous Symphony Chorus in two masterpieces of the...
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Fiesta Mexicana at TPAC
Fun For the Whole Familia
By Ron Wynn
Published: December 3, 2009
Chicago’s known for such genres as the blues, jazz, R&B, soul and gospel. But it’s also home base for one of America’s premier Mexican folk bands, Sones de...
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Chelsea Crowell at Grimey's
Crowelling Back for More
By D. Patrick Rodgers
Published: December 3, 2009
We music writers typically agree that using a math equation as an analogy for a record is, well, it’s pretty damn lazy. That said, it also happens to occasionally be an...
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Extravaganza at the Ryman
Swingle all the Way
By Adam Gold
Published: December 3, 2009
Hey daddy-o! If you're not content to simply have a merry Christmas, how 'bout having a jump jivin' one? A jump jivin' Christmas is when you celebrate the birth Jesus Christ by...
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Rebel Without a Cause at The Belcourt
The Delicate Delinquent
By Jim Ridley
Published: December 3, 2009
Nicholas Ray's classic 1955 drama about teenage alienation catapulted James Dean posthumously to superstardom and boosted the careers of Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis...
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O Gallery Grand Opening
The Story of O
By Joe Nolan
Published: December 3, 2009
While this last year has seen big crowds and better shows at the First Saturday Gallery Crawl, it has also seen the ongoing turnover of art spaces on Fifth Avenue North. On one...
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Handmade in the Arcade
The Handmade Tale
By Steve Haruch
Published: December 3, 2009
Since so much of the junk lining store shelves was manufactured in some horrible, lead-belching plant where workers are routinely sickened by fumes, maimed by machinery or...
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The Room at The Belcourt
Oh, Hi
By Lance Conzett
Published: December 3, 2009
Let’s not mince words here: The Room is a bad movie. Plotlines are dropped as soon as they’ve begun, shots veer crazily out of focus, and describing what the stars do...
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Midnight Movie: Female Trouble at The Belcourt
Who Wants to Die for Art?
By Jim Ridley
Published: December 3, 2009
The Belcourt’s really made it tough on cult-movie maniacs this weekend with dueling midnight movies of Tommy Wiseau’s cinematic urinal cake The Room and this, a...
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Lamplighter's It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Smyrna Assembly
Hee Haw and Merry Christmas
By Martin Brady
Published: December 3, 2009
Just two Christmases ago, Tennessee Repertory Theatre mounted the first local production of this show, an adaptation by Joe Landry of Frank Capra’s cinema classic staged...
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A Survey of Works by Paul Harmon at Terrazzo
One-Part Harmony
By Joe Nolan
Published: December 3, 2009
Even before Zeitgeist Gallery moved to Hillsboro Village or the Frist Center opened its doors, while Untitled was little more than a few friends trying to start an art scene,...
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Ree Drummond at Davis-Kidd
The Pioneer Woman Cooks
By Anne Delana Reeves
Published: December 3, 2009
Ree Drummond’s life sounds like a modern day fairytale with Wild West flair: Big-city girl falls in love with a blue-eyed cowboy, marries and moves to a ranch in the...
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