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Our Critics Picks
Crafts in the 'Boro
By Sean L. Maloney
Published: July 31, 2008
Murfreesboro's ongoing battle with summertime boredom has been well documented in these pages as of late. Usually the cure for the Bucket City Blues is a steady regiment of...
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Our Critics Picks
Lunchtime at the Library Concert Series
Published: July 31, 2008
Sponsored by the Nashville Public Library Foundation, this series of free mid-day concerts at the Downtown Library showcases a broad range of styles. After the July 30 kickoff...
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Our Critics Picks
Backyard at the Belcourt: The Zac Brown Band
By Edd Hurt
Published: July 31, 2008
Escapist country music might seem like an obvious oxymoron, but The Zac Brown Band's debut full-length The Foundation takes the concept to new levels. The Georgian Brown writes...
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Features
From Indie to Outie
What made What Made Milwaukee Famous famous
By Andrew Clayman
Published: July 31, 2008
It's not easy to sympathize with bands that saddle themselves with unreasonably long and silly names. But halfway through an interview with What Made Milwaukee Famous frontman...
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Features
Guitar Heroes
Def Leppard aren't ready to trade metal for Music Row just yet
By Chris Neal
Published: July 31, 2008
Bon Jovi, Jewel, Jessica Simpson, Darius Rucker—the list of rock and pop stars dipping their tootsies in the warm inviting country music waters gets a little longer every...
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Features
Hot Chips
William Sides Atari Party and Giveupnewyork hack old video games
By Seth Graves
Published: July 31, 2008
I was 7 years old when Nintendo unleashed a gadget that would hook me and every kid I knew with an addiction that would last some of us the rest of our lives. Video games were...
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The Spin
The Spin
Published: July 31, 2008
Mountainous Titts Thursday night was one of both pride and shame at The Mercy Lounge—pride in that we were treated to an exceptional lineup of local talent, and shame in...
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Cover Story
Oh, What a Mangled Web We Leave
After flirting with fame and fortune, Nashville's most decadent local rockers The Pink Spiders lost a major-label deal and two of the three founding members—so now what?
By Cody De Vos
Published: July 31, 2008
On Jon Decious' 22nd birthday, producer and pop icon Ric Ocasek took the Nashville bassist and his band, The Pink Spiders, out to dinner in New York with his wife, supermodel...
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News
Thou Shalt Not Build
Hispanics hope to build church in Antioch. Neighbors want to cast them out.
By P.J. Tobia
Published: July 31, 2008
At 2 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon, the Whitley Memorial Baptist Church on Peachtree Street is rocking. Half-a-dozen pretty little girls in pastel dresses bang on tambourines,...
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News
Getting Trashed
Anti-CCA activist Alex Friedmann goes Dumpster-diving to soil Gus Puryear
By Caleb Hannan
Published: July 31, 2008
No man should look this relaxed in a courtroom. No man who's been here before—and had a decade of his life determined by a judge—should be this composed. But Alex...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: July 31, 2008
"If you're going to build a strip mall in a forest, it doesn't help us that you're going to use compact fluorescent bulbs."—Metro Councilman Mike Jameson in a stirring...
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The Fabricator
From Inconvenient Truth to Convenient Excuse
Local mope reduces carbon footprint by letting lawn grow
By The Fabricator
Published: July 31, 2008
Local mope Doug Lane has a long history of finding reasons not to do yard work, his wife Sylvia Long-Lane says. "Sometimes it has something to do with his back or his...
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Helter Shelter
See You Down the Road
It's the third trimester, for cryin' out loud...
By Walter Jowers
Published: July 31, 2008
Tuesday before last, I was sitting in my upstairs office at the Jowers house, leaning back in my chair and resting my eyes, when the door swung open and smacked hard against...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Published: July 31, 2008
Fix it anyway A recent "You Are So Nashville If" contest entry stated that I am bankrupt (July 17). I am told this was meant to be a joke purposefully confusing myself with...
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Ask a Mexican
Special La Raza Edition
Shake that 'cosmic' thing
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 31, 2008
Dear Mexican: What's with calling yourselves "La Raza?" Being Mexicans, Chicanos or whatever isn't enough—now you're the race? Sounds pretty racist to me. The Race Is...
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Dining
Nothing but Blue Skies
East Nashville gets a cheery new hangout
By Carrington Fox
Published: July 31, 2008
If life really did imitate art, the southeast corner of Fatherland and South Seventh Street would exist in black and white, because the quaint sidewalk-cafe...
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Reviews
Party of One
Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 31, 2008
Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it was. The clever premise, which would have...
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Short Takes
Short Takes
Published: July 31, 2008
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED A movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's tale of England collapsing under the pressure of social change—even one that has passed through the pop filter...
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Books
Measuring Success With a Ruler
In her second Atlanta-based novel, Karin Slaughter weaves a rich, complex thriller—and perhaps a new franchise
By Michael Ray Taylor
Published: July 31, 2008
In 2006, Karin Slaughter departed from her popular series of crime novels set in fictional Grant County, Ga., with The New York Times best-selling Triptych, a gritty, realistic...
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Theater
Sweet Sorrow
TSU breathes new life into a Bard chestnut
By Martin Brady
Published: July 31, 2008
Director Barry Scott's new TSU production of Romeo & Juliet is a surprise success in this somewhat low-energy Nashville theatrical summer. While Bard adaptations are old hat,...
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