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Stories
Ooo, That Smell
A Franklin neighborhood is held hostage by a dawdling polluter
By Caleb Hannan
Published: September 18, 2008
Scott Martin knows how people must feel when they look at Daniels Drive. It's the same way he felt 10 years ago when he first laid eyes upon the neighborhood. Squeezed between...
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Features
Number One With a Bullet
The wonderful, terrible life of Phil Gernhard, hit maker
By P.J. Tobia
Published: September 18, 2008
Legend has it that Phil Gernhard only needed to hear a song once to know if it had that elusive combination of melody and rhythm that would yield a gold record and heavy...
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Words of the Week
"That's not independence, it's prostitution."
Published: September 18, 2008
"That's not independence, it's prostitution."—Reader "Heidi Fleiss," in response to Democratic Sen. Rosalind Kurita's coziness with Republicans, on Pith in the Wind at...
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Woods
Marsha, Marsha!
In a campaign oddity, Blackburn emerges as a new feminist hero
By Jeff Woods
Published: September 18, 2008
When John McCain went looking for Republicans to defend his running mate against the "liberal media," Marsha Blackburn suddenly morphed into a well-coiffed Norma Rae. This,...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Published: September 18, 2008
Behavior starts at home My parents served a combined total of 42 years in the army, and I moved with them everywhere they went: 30 moves, 14 schools. Eighteen years of being a...
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Features
(A Few) New Kids on the Block
Americana Music Festival honors Jason and the Scorchers and takes steps toward courting younger audiences
By Jewly Hight
Published: September 18, 2008
Jason and the Scorchers may be nearing middle age, but they'll still be the wildest act yet to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association....
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The Spin
Next Big Nashville and more
Published: September 18, 2008
Bringin' Next-y back Call it opening night jitters, but we still couldn't get over this whole starting-shows-at-8 p.m. business, so we wound up at The Rutledge late Thursday...
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Features
Worthy of a Song
Langhorne Slim avoids jail
By Chris Parker
Published: September 18, 2008
"It was clear to me and anyone around me [as a youth] that I was going to either wind up in jail or be some kind of entertainer/performer," says Sean Scolnick, a.k.a. Langhorne...
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Dining
Germantown Uber Alles
North of the Capitol, a spunky dining district is emerging
By Carrington Fox
Published: September 18, 2008
Germantown did not become a dining destination over night. For 20 years, Mad Platter and Monell's have lured diners to the quaint streets north of the state capitol and the...
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Reviews
Your Friends and Neighbors
Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 18, 2008
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed...
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Short Takes
This week in local theaters
Published: September 18, 2008
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET In my day, you had to visit a dozen Blockbusters to find a ratty copy of The Decline of Western Civilization. Now, the story of Darby Crash and the Germs...
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Books
From Green Acres to Big Ag
A local historian describes the rise of industrial agriculture
By Maria Browning
Published: September 18, 2008
It may be popular to denounce factory farming or watch PETA torture porn on YouTube, but very few people actually bother to learn much about the arcane policies and practices...
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Theater
The Wonder Years
An unlikely friendship blooms in TWTP's delightful season opener
By Martin Brady
Published: September 18, 2008
Nashville's fall theater season opens auspiciously with the U.S. stage premiere of Susan Coyne's Kingfisher Days, a carefully crafted and warmly expressed memory play of recent...
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Our Critics Picks
Caravaggio
By Jim Ridley
Published: September 18, 2008
The late Derek Jarman's 1986 portrait of the artist as a gay punk aesthete hasn't been shown locally in at least two decades--certainly not since its co-stars Tilda Swinton and...
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Our Critics Picks
New on DVD: Nov. 4
Cannibal! The Musical and Futurama: Bender's Game
By Jason Shawhan
Published: September 18, 2008
Debuting its new Tromasterpiece Collection, the lovable freaks at Troma Entertainment revisit their biggest-selling disc of all time, presenting a double-disc set of South Park...
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Our Critics Picks
Alma Guillermoprieto
By Joel Rice
Published: September 18, 2008
Mexican-born journalist and memoirist Alma Guillermoprieto often--and deservedly--invites comparisons to masters of the non-fiction such as Joan Didion and Ryszard Kapuscinski....
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Our Critics Picks
Michael Gates Gill
By Claire Suddath
Published: September 18, 2008
There is a huge, gaping hole in Michael Gates Gill's memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns To Live Like Everyone Else: Gill never explains how a...
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Our Critics Picks
Folk Uke, Randall Bramblett & more as part of the Americana Music Festival
By Jewly Hight
Published: September 18, 2008
Folk Uke--a hilariously deadpan, three-chord-favoring folk duo comprised of Amy Nelson and Cathy Guthrie (daughters of Willie and Arlo, no less)--devote their sweet-sounding...
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Our Critics Picks
Henry Rollins Recountdown Tour at TPAC
By Dustin Allen
Published: September 18, 2008
These days, some folks may know Henry Rollins only from his Jackass "Off-Road Tattoo" sketch--barreling recklessly across the sand dunes and blurting nonsensical profanities...
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Our Critics Picks
Judy Sierra & Marc Brown: Born to Read
By Michael Ray Taylor
Published: September 18, 2008
Readers can do anything--that's the not-so-subtle but charmingly presented message of Born to Read, the latest collaboration between children's author Judy Sierra and artist...
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