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1. Features

   Tracing Influences

   Grizzly Bear and David Vandervelde harken back while moving forward

   By Dustin Allen

   Published: July 31, 2008

   After everyone from record store clerks to The New York Times fawned over their 2006 orchestral folk masterpiece Yellow House, Brooklyn quartet Grizzly Bear—once little...

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   48 Hour Film Project Awards

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: July 31, 2008

   Picture the Oscars hijacked by soccer hooligans: That's a bit of the atmosphere you can expect as all 53 competing teams in the 48 Hour Film Project (and their associated...

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   Fresh Blends Juice Bar Opens

   East Nashville gets juiced

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: July 31, 2008

   By the time you read this, the citrus peels and carrot pulp may be flying at East Nashville's new fresh juice and smoothie bar. Co-owners Tony Reall and David Edwards, familiar...

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   Miro District Food & Drink Opening

   By Carrington Fox

   Published: July 31, 2008

   We don't usually recommend showing up at a restaurant on opening night, when servers and chefs are still working out kinks and getting timing down to a science, but if you've...

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   Better Off Dead

   Paperboy's revenge

   By Cody De Vos

   Published: July 31, 2008

   There are people who best remember John Cusack holding the boombox in Say Anything, and then there are those who prefer to remember him frantically fleeing a deranged paperboy...

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   Bluegrass Nights feat. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys w/The Grascals

   By Jon Weisberger

   Published: July 31, 2008

   Contrasts abound in the bill that closes this season’s Bluegrass At The Ryman series, though perhaps not as many as you’d expect....

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   Howlies

   By Matt Sullivan

   Published: July 31, 2008

   This Atlanta quartet are poised for big things. Their brand of retro-fused homage to early garage rockers certainly gives contemporaries like The Black Lips and The Coathangers...

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   Seawitch

   By Matt Sullivan

   Published: July 31, 2008

   The heaviest band in Nashville just so happens to be one of the loudest. A past show at the End, of all places, was able to attract noise complaints from neighbors. Seawitch...

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   King Crimson

   By Patrick Rodgers

   Published: July 31, 2008

   Some call them psychedelic. Others label them jazz-fusion or experimental. Most, however, know them as the founding fathers of prog rock. Whatever you choose to dub King...

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    Gladys Knight

    By Sean L. Maloney

    Published: July 31, 2008

    Not to keep picking on Hootie & The "Sure Do" Blowfish, but the best part of last week's show was that we had lots of time to hang out at the Wildhorse and think of acts we'd...

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    Tracing Influences

    Grizzly Bear and David Vandervelde harken back while moving forward

    By Dustin Allen

    Published: July 31, 2008

    After everyone from record store clerks to The New York Times fawned over their 2006 orchestral folk masterpiece Yellow House, Brooklyn quartet Grizzly...

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    Dialogue 4: Works on Paper

    By Joe Nolan

    Published: July 31, 2008

    All good things must come to an end, and the Dialogue series at Zeitgeist will go out with a bang this weekend, featuring an exhibit of works on paper by a who's who of gallery...

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    Relating to Strangers

    By Jow Nolan

    Published: July 31, 2008

    Local artists Caryn Cast and Sarah Moessner explore the point where the intimate and heartfelt meets the awkward and strange in their new exhibit, Relating to Strangers. Cast...

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    Acheron Midnight Book Release Party

    Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series continues

    By Paul Griffith

    Published: July 31, 2008

    It's unlikely that many of Sherrilyn Kenyon's legion of fans (Kenyon's Minions, as they're known) were familiar with Hammer Films before discovering the author's Dark-Hunter...

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    Cho Down

    Margaret Cho talks Hollywood, being cancelled and getting back on the air

    By Lee Stabert

    Published: July 31, 2008

    In college, I went through a phase where I listened to Margaret Cho's stand-up constantly (illegally downloaded on Napster—ah, those were the days). In lieu...

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    By Martin Brady

    Published: July 31, 2008

    This musicalization of the Mark Twain classic, featuring the songs by Don Schlitz, one of Nashville's truly legendary tunesmiths, endured a mostly lukewarm reception during its...

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    Just Playing: Catherine Thompson

    By Joe Nolan

    Published: July 31, 2008

    Leave it to Twist Gallery to throw a new twist into the traditional downtown art crawl: opening two different shows, in separate spaces, on the same night. Local artist...

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    Working: The Musical

    By Martin Brady

    Published: July 31, 2008

    Nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Book for a Musical and Best Original Score, this rarely produced, atypically constructed opus is based on Chicago journalist...

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    Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: July 31, 2008

    From Walk the Line, we know that the late Johnny Cash took a lot of drugs, then quit taking a lot of drugs. This must-see 1969 documentary by filmmaker Robert Elfstrom, a...

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    Sad Soul

    By Edd Hurt

    Published: July 31, 2008

    Steve Poulton's songs play like prematurely abandoned picaresques of the urban, down-at-heel variety, and he sings his lyrics in a damaged croon that's actually soulful. On...