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A proposed medical marijuana bill considers both suffering patients and a sick economy
By Jim Ridley
Published: January 28, 2010
Tucked away near a winding road in rural Maury County, the Santa Fe Diner is the picture of homespun Americana. It's the kind of place where people get up to hold the front...
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Silent League at The Basement
Say What?
By Dustin Allen
Published: January 28, 2010
Hailed prematurely as the next great indie hope back when their debut hit in 2004, The Silent League opened for a handful of high-profile acts like Interpol, Bloc Party and...
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The Clipse at Phatkaps
We Got It For Cheap
By Sean L. Maloney
Published: January 28, 2010
For those unfamiliar, this Virginia Beach duo not only make hot-as-hell hip-hop records like the classic Hell Hath No Fury and their latest Til the Casket Drops, but they also...
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Zoogma at Exit/In
Zoobily-Zoobily-Zoo!!!
By Sean L. Maloney
Published: January 28, 2010
Well, it's time for our weekly installment of “hippies with electronic doohickeys.” At first, when this whole jamtronica thing started gaining steam, we thought it...
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Wax Fang at Exit/In
It's Your Fang, Do Wax You Wanna Do
By D. Patrick Rodgers
Published: January 28, 2010
Alongside contemporaries like My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses, a band like Wax Fang might sometimes get lost in the shuffle of ambitious Southeastern indie-rockers....
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Halo Stereo at Exit/In
Halo be Thy Name
By Seth Graves
Published: January 28, 2010
According to my research via the Nashville Scene search engine, you are reading what is believed to be not only the first Critic’s Pick, but also first purposeful mention...
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Winds of Plague at the Muse
Sticks and Stones
By Matt Sullivan
Published: January 28, 2010
Last year's The Great Stone War by Winds of Plague sports one of metal's great cheesy album covers — the kind that makes you doubt or fear the band's sincerity. Depicting...
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Dale Watson at Douglas Corner
You Bet Your Ass That's Country
By Chris Parker
Published: January 28, 2010
Nashville isn’t what it used to be. Sure, there are the cowboy hats and boots, but the people wearing them are airbrushed pop avatars with little real relation to the...
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Megan Light CD Release Party at The Rutledge
Afternoon De-Light
By Jack Silverman
Published: January 28, 2010
The press materials for Megan Light’s new five-song EP Black & White suggest comparisons to Sarah McLachlan and Norah Jones, and both touchstones are viable, particularly...
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Five Finger Death Punch at Cannery Ballroom
Heavy-Handed
By Seth Graves
Published: January 28, 2010
Check it, bro. We’ve all been pretty bummed since Slayer and Megadeth cancelled their show last month. First there was the Buzzfest debacle, then my favorite celebrity...
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Lost Season Premiere on ABC
Whatever Happened to the Tattooed Shark?
By Sean Maloney
Published: January 28, 2010
Pardon our French, but fucking Hey-Zeus-H-Cristobal-Colon we have been waiting way, way too long for the final season of Lost. For those of us stuck in the same old boring,...
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Neil Hamburger at The End
Burger Time
By Adam Gold
Published: January 28, 2010
As the only Drag City Records artist to have played Madison Square Garden, Neil Hamburger is a unique figure on the landscape of rock ’n’ roll comedians. Unlike...
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Upgrade! Sound Art Event at TSU
Sound Off
By Joe Nolan
Published: January 28, 2010
Upgrade! is an international network of loosely connected nodes, linking creative new-media communities around the globe. Tennessee is one of only a few American states...
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Middle of Nowhere at Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadour Theater
Gone Country
By Martin Brady
Published: January 28, 2010
Bill Bauer hails from the state of New York. A songwriter with a background in the indie scene and live theater, he is the sole creator — book, music and lyrics — of...
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Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece at the Frist
Old School
By Joe Nolan
Published: January 28, 2010
Including art and objects dating back as far as the 6th century BCE, this latest exhibit at the Frist Center examines our contemporary understanding of what it means to be a...
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Three Monkeys at Vanderbilt's Sarratt Cinema
International Lens
By Emily Bartlett Hines
Published: January 28, 2010
Of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Three Monkeys, the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw wrote, “The rigor and intensity … is invigorating” and that...
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For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
International Lens
By Jim Ridley
Published: January 28, 2010
This preview offers a 40-minute peek at what may well be an alternate history of America: a four-hour documentary tracing black American servicemen and freedom fighters all the...
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Should We Have Stayed Home and Thought of Here? at Marnie Sheridan Gallery
Go Here and Think of Home
By Jim Ridley
Published: January 28, 2010
A few years ago at a downtown art opening, my little girl saw a life-size painting of a bookcase by Kelly Williams and reached up without thinking to touch the books’...
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The Life and Work of Ernest A. Pickup at the LeQuire Gallery
Pickup Sticks
By Russell Johnston
Published: January 28, 2010
Ernest A. Pickup (1887-1970) numbered among Nashville's first commercial artists early last century, but it was during the professionally lean years of The Great Depression...
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The American Experience at Belmont's Leu Art Gallery
Living in America
By Joe Nolan
Published: January 28, 2010
The line between fine artist and master craftsperson can be a very fine one. Belmont University isn't helping matters by mixing up all manner of arts and crafts from a number...
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