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1. News

   Nanny Knows Best

   The Cannons' hired hand had a close-up view of a home in chaos

   By Caleb Hannan

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Jim Cannon's death is the kind of tragedy that invites speculation. The buzz words surrounding the case—tony neighborhood, former prom queen, wealthy attorney—are...

2. Cover Story

   How to Be a Hollaback Girl

   To be a Titans cheerleader you don't have to be thin, tan and busty. Well, actually, you do.

   By Elizabeth Ulrich

   Published: August 14, 2008

   It's 10:30 on a cool Saturday morning, and a girl tears through the parking lot at the Baptist Sports Park toward the same bubble where the Tennessee Titans practice. She's got...

3. The Fabricator

   Shopping Maul

   Hickory Hollow Dillard's to become Gangworld

   The Fabricator

   Published: August 14, 2008

   The former Dillard's location at Hickory Hollow Mall will soon be transformed into an urban gang-themed playland, where scary characters lurk in the shadows and every sense...

4. Features

   Angel in the Shadows

   New Kitty Wells exhibit gives props to a female pioneer and inimitable country singer

   By Edd Hurt

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Kitty Wells is an inimitable, bedrock American singer, and she dwelled in this country's post-World War II shadows like any other product of that fractured era. As The Country...

5. The Spin

   Conor Oberst, Festival, Bon Iver and more

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Oberst-ing with mediocrityParking on Cannery Row Friday night was unbelievably heinous. By the time we'd walked the three blocks from our parking spot on Gleaves (which smelled...

6. Words of the Week

   "The decision to pass the amendment..."

   Published: August 14, 2008

   "The decision to pass the amendment may ultimately rest with the voters. But I wanted to take this time, this opportunity to make sure my voice, as mayor of this city, is heard...

7. Letters

   Letters from our readers

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Does not computeAs a good liberal or progressive, Jeff Woods has plenty of reason to be disappointed in Phil Bredesen's performance as governor ("Meet the Amazing Philbot...

8. Dining

   Secret Ingredients to My Success

   Good Eats host Alton Brown dishes about broccoli, tofu and his time in Nashville

   By Carrington Fox

   Published: August 14, 2008

   When Iron Chef America host Alton Brown shows up at the Gaylord Opryland Resort this week, it won't be his first time in Nashville. The frenetically nerdy host of Good Eats and...

9. Reviews

   The Looming Tower

   A daredevil's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: August 14, 2008

   Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center—that twin-pronged erection jutting from the loins of Western...

10. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    This week in local theaters

    Published: August 14, 2008

    TROPIC THUNDER Scratch the surface of Ben Stiller's satire of Hollywood cynicism and narcissism, and among some big laughs you'll find mostly deeper, more cozily embedded...

11. Books

    Killer Convention

    Local mystery conference enters its third year—and the beginning of a serial run

    By Chris Scott

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Almost every mystery author dreams of creating a winning series—a string of stories featuring an unforgettable detective who never fails to catch the killer. Local...

12. Theater

    Happy Accident

    Born by fortuitous circumstances, local black theater festival enters its third year

    By Martin Brady

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Nashville's African-American theater community has been surging. Startup organizations, however modest their resources, continue to produce shows, homegrown acting talent...

13. Our Critics Picks

    Live and Let Die

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: August 14, 2008

    In 1973, while Fred Williamson as Black Caesar was raising hell up in Harlem, a new playa showed up on the scene: James Bond. And the playa was played by a different player:...

14. Our Critics Picks

    BBQ Championship Cooking Class

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: August 14, 2008

    If you want to beat the big boys for big bucks in the brisket-basting boxing ring of BBQ battle, we could hip you to a few surefire methods from the Dirty Tricks playbook: pee...

15. Our Critics Picks

    tayst Benefits Food Security Partners

    By Carrington Fox

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Nothing assuages the guilt of snorting foie gras and huffing créme brulée better than doing it for a cause. So on Wednesday, when you tuck into chef Jeremy...

16. Our Critics Picks

    Graceland & Asleep on the Wind

    By Martin Brady

    Published: August 14, 2008

    One-acts about Elvis? What a good idea. And, for those looking for extra spiritual significance, Aug. 16 happens to be the 31st anniversary of the King's passing. Actually,...

17. Our Critics Picks

    Hillbilly Haiku House Concert feat. Nathan Bell & Angaleena Presley

    By Michael McCall

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Denise and Rick Williams tend to open their Lebanon home to musicians who don't make polite dinner conversation. Their Hillbilly Haiku House Concerts lean toward hardcore...

18. Our Critics Picks

    Dazed and Confused

    By Cody De Vos

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Richard Linklater's gently ambling bong chronicle documents a scattered group of teenagers' day-long journey into partying in 1976. Sound like a recipe for wacky, bell-bottomed...

19. Our Critics Picks

    Grimey's Staffers Cover The Walkmen

    By D. Patrick Rodgers

    Published: August 14, 2008

    The wandering indie rock soundscapes created by The Walkmen over the last decade have captured the attention of rock 'n' roll aficionados with even the most discriminating...

20. Our Critics Picks

    The Kati Penn Band

    By Jon Weisberger

    Published: August 14, 2008

    With sweet tone and supple phrasing on the fiddle and a winsome, melancholy singing voice to match, Lexington, KY's Kati Penn ought to be better known. That should change with...