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A couple weeks back, I knew the outside temperature was going to drop into the 30s sometime during the night. So I did my family-man duty and set the downstairs thermostat so it would wake up the dormant Jowers furnace as soon as the room temperature dropped to 65 degrees.

Letters from readers.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: What do you think will happen to the gringos if Mexicans become the biggest raza in America like a lot of people predict?

What one Metro Council member hopes the new school board will address

The Republican National Committee, which spent two weeks denying that the anti-Harold Ford Jr. “bimbo” ad had racist undertones, is again defending a controversial attack ad on behalf of GOP nominee Bob Corker.

“I don’t think race had anything to do with that…. I don’t think the party of family values should have run that in Tennessee.”

When Metro Police Detective Roy Dunaway testified during a high-profile murder trial last month, a statement he made about the defendant’s alleged confession was both shocking and, as it turns out, completely false.

After weeks of imprisonment, Claudia Nuñez is finally home. The time she spent in two federal lockups with rapists and thieves “was horrible,” the 26-year old mother says.

Let me say right up front that I’m as happy as anyone that the new Demonbreun viaduct is open for business—five months ahead of schedule. I’m just disappointed in the form the viaduct has taken.

Music

If you only know Ben Folds as the piano dude from Ben Folds Five who puts out solo albums and sings songs about his kids, that’s fine with him. But if you want to talk about his side projects,

“I’ve never been a fan of people who just stand up there and say, ‘Here’s my song and you should listen because I’m an artist,’ ” says Cory Branan.

Taylor Swift takes a moment to relax at the Music Row office of her record label, Big Machine.

Let’s set the scene: It’s Tuesday night at the Exit/In. The Cold War Kids, darlings of the music blogosphere, have just rolled into town, a mere five days after getting bitch-slapped by Pitchfork. How would the indie masses react?

Restaurants

The chicken wing. So commonplace, yet so diverse. So ubiquitous, yet so enticing. To think how many beers have been consumed, glances exchanged, fences mended, trysts ignited, over this most prevalent of poultry parts.

Paul Ent, who left his post as Sunset Grill’s chef de cuisine three years ago, has taken the scenic route back to Randy Rayburn’s restaurant group, taking over the kitchen at Midtown Café as it undergoes refurbishment of both the front and back of the house.

Movies

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is funnier than its malapropic title—the audience with whom I saw the movie wasn’t laughing so much as howling—and even more difficult to parse.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: 49 Up is a film in a continuum—riveting for its place in the series. By itself, it can sometimes feel like grilling your ordinary neighbors about their history when they’d rather be washing the car.

If you must have plot, motive and payoff, Kelly Reichardt’s exquisite new film about an ambiguous reunion between two old friends may not be up your alley. See it anyway: it contains the whole world.

“A game-legged old man and a drunk—that’s all you’ve got?” asks an incredulous trail boss, hearing that out-manned sheriff John Wayne is under siege by desperadoes.

Arts and Culture

In an era when more local bands are getting snatched by the MTV hype machine and given press in major music mags, it’s nice to see scene vets like Glossary plugging away in the face of student loan debt and banal day jobs.

Although he’s best known as a novelist, and as the creator of middle-American everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, John Updike has worn just about every literary hat there is: poet, essayist, short story writer, critic, even children’s author.

During the 19th century, Karl Marx announced, “All that is solid melts into air,” and science supported him. Previously static orders of species gave way to Darwin’s morphing animals and plants.

Old Archives

Now that Halloween is over and the season of Gluttony is in full swing, Scenecast Episode 53 gives your ears a reason to grab a spork and dig in with an overabundance of toe-tapping tunes.

My wife, who spent much of her childhood in Georgia (to lasting effect), remembers watching on TV some kind of nominating convention that involved Gov. Lester Maddox, the jowly segregationist immortalized in the Randy Newman song “Rednecks.”

We’ve decided not to formally endorse political candidates or issues this year. Which, as next Tuesday’s midterm election approaches, turns out to be a pretty handy device.

A customer who tried to buy some candy from a convenience store on Buchanan Street last week went ballistic when the cashier told her she didn’t have enough money to purchase the treat.

We at Public Art are in favor of marriage equality. It is right and fair. Now, that being said, we think standing on West End Avenue in front of a funeral parlor entreating passers-by to honk is a silly way to go about advocating it.

New figures from the independent Audit Bureau of Circulations for the last six months show continued bad news for Metro dailies across the country, where average weekday losses were 2.5 percent and Sunday circulation fell 3 percent.

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