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Sad Riddance to Good Neighbors
Even beer and brats couldn't keep Oktoberfest together
By Tracy Moore
Published: August 28, 2008
Robert Frost once opined that good fences make good neighbors. He wasn't just musing about stone walls, but the clearly drawn lines often needed to mend disparate human...
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Features
Separate. Equal?
Nashville school resegregation threatens a new generation
By Jeff Woods
Published: August 28, 2008
Neighborhood schools are great unless your neighborhood is the ghetto, in which case the sensible parent is putting her child on the first big yellow bus to the safer, happier...
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Features
Dorm Room by Numbers
A user-friendly guide to decorating cliches, from Marxist poster boys to pop-top paraphernalia
By Cody De Vos
Published: August 28, 2008
All right, college student. If you have ever considered dreadlocks, now is the time. If you've long nurtured a dream of fomenting campus rebellion or breaking through the doors...
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Confederacy of Dunces
A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior
Published: August 28, 2008
Capitol sizzling over troopergateFor embarrassing behavior, the state's troopergate scandal is a target-rich environment. Let's begin with Tennessee Highway Patrol Lt. Ronnie...
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Letters
Love/Hate Mail
Published: August 28, 2008
Not seducedI was shocked at last week's cover story (read: lube job), regarding the downtown condo scene ("The Seduction," Aug. 21). A lengthy story, filled with photos of...
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Features
Utterly Destructive
Guess what, All We Seabees? I was sober.
By Wesley Lewis
Published: August 28, 2008
So it finally happened. Some dumbass kid had to come in and mess it up for everyone by putting another hole in the door at House House, effectively ending what was a wonderful...
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The Spin
Bruce Springsteen, Nashville Cream two-year anniversary and more
Published: August 28, 2008
You are the Boss of meWe've seen the undying spirit of rock 'n' roll and his name is Bruce Springsteen. Many people forget that the legend of Springsteen was originally built...
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Words of the Week
"I return to Tennessee even more convinced that we need to drill here and drill now..."
Published: August 28, 2008
"I return to Tennessee even more convinced that we need to drill here and drill now."—"Congressman" Marsha Blackburn, after visiting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
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Ask a Mexican
Zuit Soot Roots
Fear not, they’re just average American kids
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: August 28, 2008
Dear Mexican: I grew up in the 1950s in Montebello, Calif. There was an enclave within the Mexican community known as pachucos. As a little white kid, I found their mannerisms,...
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Dining
Table of Contents
Cheery meat-and-three brings home-cooked bounty to the neighborhood soon to be known as 'North 12 South'
By Carrington Fox
Published: August 28, 2008
It's not The Gulch and it's not 12 South—it's somewhere in the middle. But something makes us think the gritty stretch of 12th Avenue South between the two emerging...
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Reviews
The Heart Is Deceitful
Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento put their (tramp) stamp on 19th century France
By J. Hoberman
Published: August 28, 2008
Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy Jules-Amédée Barbey...
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Books
When Love Is Lost at the Jim Dandy
Southern Gothic meets metafiction in a new novel by Minton Sparks
By Pablo Tanguay
Published: August 28, 2008
In a flashback scene near the beginning of Minton Sparks' White Lightning, 26-year-old Penny Sue Pritchett remarks that she's "homesick for somewhere I've never been." She's...
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Our Critics Picks
New on DVD: Sept. 2
By Lee Stabert
Published: August 28, 2008
BEFORE I FORGET: Jacques Nolot's harrowing feature about an aging roué (played by the writer-director) contending with HIV and the slow fade of worldly pleasures may be...
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Our Critics Picks
Nashville Broncs Season Ticket Sale
By Lee Stabert
Published: August 28, 2008
With the economy in the doldrums, downgrading has become a useful skill. Goodbye organic Thai Chilli Barbecue Kettle Chips, hello cheese balls! Goodbye The Dark Knight in IMAX,...
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Our Critics Picks
The Spy Who Loved Me
Published: August 28, 2008
James Bond fanatics tend to treat Roger Moore like the other Darren on Bewitched, but Sean Connery never made a better 007 movie than this tip-top 1977 adventure--the escapist...
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Our Critics Picks
Wet Hot American Summer
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 28, 2008
Meatballs gets Spaghetti-O'd in this fitfully funny 2001 parody of '80s summer-camp flicks--an idea that merits maybe a third of the film's 97-minute running time. But since...
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Our Critics Picks
Heathern Haints Album Release
By Steve Haruch
Published: August 28, 2008
The fact that the new Heathern Haints album is a 12-inch, 45-RPM record is not an accident. Spacemen 3 liked that format (Big City, for example), and their influence on the...
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Our Critics Picks
Franklin Jazz Festival
Otay!
By Jack Silverman
Published: August 28, 2008
We're not sure if the festival organizers planned it this way, but how better to remember the third anniversary of the day the levees broke than with the unmistakably Louisiana...
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Our Critics Picks
The Chapmans
By Jon Weisberger
Published: August 28, 2008
In a field where artists rarely let more than two years go by without a release, the Chapmans are the exception, having issued just two alums in the last eight years. Despite...
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Our Critics Picks
Mattthew Ryan w/David Mead at 3rd & Lindsley
By Dustin Allen
Published: August 28, 2008
Two acts toughing it out under the radar now for close to a decade, Nashville-bred singer-songwriters Matthew Ryan and David Mead always seem to flirt with elusive mainstream...
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