Archive Search Results

1. Stories

   Nashville Confidential

   Attention, presidential pundits: Here's all you need to know about your home for the next few days

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: October 2, 2008

   Within days, perhaps starting even as we speak, Nashville will become occupied territory. Thanks to the 2008 presidential debate Oct. 7 at Belmont, our city will receive the...

2. Features

   Jesus RX

   The untold tale behind Mercy Ministries' one-size-fits-all prescription for recovery

   By Caleb Hannan

   Published: October 2, 2008

   Jennifer Wynne didn't know what to make of the woman standing in front of her. For two weeks, she'd heard the other girls in the house talk about how the woman was...

3. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: October 2, 2008

   In tents and purposes My anger after reading Brantley Hargrove's article on Tent City ("Tent City, Tennessee," Sept. 25) stems from the fact that this bad piece of fiction was...

4. Features

   The Vinyl Countdown

   Local bands go on the record

   By Steve Haruch

   Published: October 2, 2008

   This week, Some Kind of Salvation, the new album by The Features, will be released on vinyl—and vinyl only. You won't be able to buy a download or a CD for another few...

5. The Spin

   Kintaro, Lovenoise SoundSystem and more

   Published: October 2, 2008

   Worth a Hamilton With a touring band on the bill and gas prices on the rise, it seemed that inflation had trickled down to the Rock Block, as we discovered an unanticipated...

6. Woods

   Capital Crimes

   No fix in sight for state's flawed death penalty system

   By Jeff Woods

   Published: October 2, 2008

   Michael Lee McCormick and Paul House were among the lucky sentenced to die. At least police saved the biological evidence from their decades-old murder cases—hair...

7. Words of the Week

   Words of the Week

   Published: October 2, 2008

   "Sadly in general, today's immigrants are not the same as those of our past and seem to want to reap America's bounty while not committing to our culture." —Chairman...

8. Dining

   Miro Images

   Simple elegance reflects in Miro District's food and setting

   By Carrington Fox

   Published: October 2, 2008

   Our very efficient and eloquent server at Miro District Food & Drink would do well to turn in his apron and pursue a career in politics. A glib presenter, he opened with a...

9. Reviews

   The Devil's Advocate

   Bill Maher makes an adolescent case against religion

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: October 2, 2008

   Redolent of Roman decadence and authority gone mad, the title Religulous rolls pleasingly off the tongue. But Bill Maher's one-man stand-up attack on religious fundamentalism...

10. Short Takes

    Short Takes

    Published: October 2, 2008

    BATTLE IN SEATTLE Written and directed by actor Stuart Townsend, Battle in Seattle reanimates the recent past—namely the late-1999 street actions that, as the largest...

11. Art

    A Man, a Plan, a Canoe

    Spur-of-the-moment trek down the Mississippi spawns a compelling photo study

    By Cody De Vos

    Published: October 2, 2008

    How do you prepare for a long, arduous and lonely canoe journey down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? "I didn't," says John Guider, a retired commercial photographer who...

12. Books

    Facing the Black-Winged Angel

    Diann Blakely's gorgeous new poetry collection confronts the cost of love and the nature of loss

    By Pablo Tanguay

    Published: October 2, 2008

    William Carlos Williams famously wrote, "It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack of what is found there." Cities of Flesh and...

13. Our Critics Picks

    Raphael Saadiq at Limelight

    By Sean Maloney

    Published: October 2, 2008

    Three words: Tony! Toni! Tone! But seriously, New Jack Swing might be long passed relevance, but well-crafted soul music is not bound by time or trends and Raphael Saadiq is...

14. Our Critics Picks

    Green Jelly at The Muse

    By Adam Gold

    Published: October 2, 2008

    Perhaps best known by their pre-lawsuit moniker, Green Jello, this mondo-absurdist institution has, over the course of 27 years and 213 members—including Tool drummer...

15. Our Critics Picks

    McCoy Tyner Quartet

    By Chris Parker

    Published: October 2, 2008

    Though he was John Coltrane’s foil in the Coltrane Quartet in the early ‘60s, recording such classics as A Love Supreme, Tyner hardly stopped there. He recorded a...

16. Our Critics Picks

    Obama, Where Art Thou?

    2008 Alternative Debate

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: October 2, 2008

    No one who saw the documentary An Inconvenient Man will forget watching 2000 third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader--the man whose clout supposedly swung the election...

17. Our Critics Picks

    Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Book Discussion

    By Ralph Bowden

    Published: October 2, 2008

    In Journals, 1952-2000, sons Andrew and Stephen Schlesinger select from the 6,000-plus journal pages their father left to provide an inside view of an amazingly full life....

18. Our Critics Picks

    The Showdown

    By Steve Haruch

    Published: October 2, 2008

    The Showdown have always been heavy, but not necessarily metal, per se. Not that the distinction matters much to them. "Honestly, man, we're just bound and determined to do...

19. Our Critics Picks

    Chiodos w/Motion City Soundtrack

    By Chris Parker

    Published: October 2, 2008

    Thursday night’s lineup at Rocketown offers a grab bag ranging from melody-drenched pop punk to cinematic metalcore and emo-prog. After quietly cultivating a grassroots...

20. Our Critics Picks

    Like McCain and Palin, Only Harrier

    Red State Update at the Belcourt

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: October 2, 2008

    This week in Nashville, the men who mold the wet clay of our country's future will meet the public face to face--unless there's a rerun of Ice Road Truckers, in which case...