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Stories
Mr. Sphincter Goes to the Nudie Bar
A Nashville strip club has its license yanked after a stripper offers to 'yank' an undercover cop
By P.J. Tobia
Published: September 25, 2008
Say you're the type of guy who likes to have your lap grinded by a young woman wearing little more than a bikini and hair extensions. Say you like it enough to pay a modest fee...
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Features
The Simple Life
The New Face of Nashville Celebrity
By Tracy Moore
Published: September 25, 2008
When it comes to celebrity spotting, today's Nashvillian is about as immune to Toby Keith as an Angeleno is to Tobey Maguire. Stop a local on the street and ask if they've ever...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Published: September 25, 2008
Sure he does—just ask him Thanks for exposing the libertarian bias of GQ Drew Johnson and his Tennessee Center for Policy Research ("The Great Gadfly," Sept. 11). At [his...
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Features
Driving a Hybrid
IBMA conference highlights the many permutations of bluegrass music
By Edd Hurt
Published: September 25, 2008
Bluegrass has changed mightily since 1970, when Bill Monroe—the music's inventor and a bandleader as immersed in his Southern cultural milieu as was jazz maestro Duke...
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Words of the Week
"We started wondering why were paying so much overhead in D.C...."
Published: September 25, 2008
"We started wondering why were paying so much overhead in D.C. when we could be anywhere and cut our costs. So we did an analysis and decided to move to Murfreesboro."...
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The Spin
Americana Music Festival and more
Published: September 25, 2008
The weight is a gift After things got rolling late for the Americana Music Festival's official opening night at the Ryman last Wednesday and some guy coaxed us through a brief...
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Dining
Exploring Indian Territory
Festival, new restaurants expand Nashville's Indian dining options
By Carrington Fox
Published: September 25, 2008
With more than a billion people in 28 states, speaking 21 official languages and more than 1,600 dialects, India boasts a vast dining landscape. To Nashvillians, though, it...
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Reviews
High Water Everywhere
Hurricane Katrina blows away the past century in a remarkable new documentary
By Jim Ridley
Published: September 25, 2008
Hurricane Katrina may have driven off a large segment of New Orleans' African-American population, the providers of much of the city's character. But in one sense the deadly...
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Short Takes
This week in local theaters
Published: September 25, 2008
MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA You've got to hand it to Spike Lee for managing to secure the financing for this big-budget, three-hour World War II epic, performed largely in Italian and...
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Art
Sweetness and Dark
Artists Field and Jaap probe the surface of femininity
By David Maddox
Published: September 25, 2008
Although Jerry Dale McFadden has closed TAG Gallery, he continues to represent top-flight artists. Part of his post-gallery strategy has been to team up with Cynthia Bullinger...
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Books
A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma—and Living in the White House
Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld imagines the interior life of Laura Bush
By Lacey Galbraith
Published: September 25, 2008
"You can't legislate human nature," says the spry, independent-minded grandmother in Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel, American Wife. The occasion for this observation is her...
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Theater
Good Nights, Good Shepard
Two local productions are worth a look
By Martin Brady
Published: September 25, 2008
Two current productions provide local theatergoers with vastly different but equally worthy fare. For sheer theatricality, you'd be hard-pressed to find a finer experience...
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Our Critics Picks
Nashville Jazz Workshop Fundraiser
By Jack Silverman
Published: September 25, 2008
It may be their eighth annual fall fundraiser, but it's a milestone anniversary--the organization began 10 years ago as Nashville Jazz Institute before incorporating as a...
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Our Critics Picks
Pacha Mamas make "Healing & Easy Listening" Music
By Martin Brady
Published: September 25, 2008
Is it music? Improvised storytelling? Performance art? Spiritual inspiration? Only the Pacha Mamas know for sure, but this trio of ladies has been appearing regularly at...
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Our Critics Picks
Paprika
By Jim Ridley
Published: September 25, 2008
Satoshi Kon's anime fantasy--a mind-blower on a Videodrome/2001 scale of sensory and intellectual bombardment--exemplifies more than any digital-animation feature in years the...
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Our Critics Picks
New on DVD: Sept. 30
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
By Jim Ridley
Published: September 25, 2008
Shot as punk was cresting in 1978, then mangled and dumped by its studio in 1981, this long-lost cult movie was embraced by high-schoolers in the early days of cable but...
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Our Critics Picks
City Lights
By Jim Ridley
Published: September 25, 2008
If we smile and snuffle at Charles Chaplin's indelible 1931 comedy, will that any make us more sympathetic to the residents of Nashville's real-life Tent City, now facing...
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Our Critics Picks
The Magpies & more at The 5 Spot
By Chris Parker
Published: September 25, 2008
The evolution from rockabilly and rollicking country into something richer began with a name change--from Roger Hoover and the Whiskeyhounds to The Magpies--acknowledging the...
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Our Critics Picks
Midnight Movie: The Warriors
By Jim Ridley
Published: September 25, 2008
The ne plus ultra of comic-book cinema isn't a comic-book adaptation: it's Walter Hill's exhilarating 1978 re-imagining of The Odyssey set in untamed pre-Giuliani New York,...
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Our Critics Picks
The Avett Brothers at TPAC's War Memorial Auditorium
By Dustin Allen
Published: September 25, 2008
For all their Appalachian traditionalism and no-fuss debt to old-guard country, the Avett Brothers have been expanding the boundaries of contemporary folk for the better part...
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