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Back in 1988, wife Brenda and I weren’t sure we wanted to have a child. Truth is, we had carefully avoided any baby-making from the time we met.

“Our primary purpose is to stay free from lip balm and to help others achieve the same freedom.”

“Did you hear that?” my husband whispered. “Yes,” I said, clutching my blanket tightly around my neck.

Few in the entertainment biz have built the kind of empire that Nashville’s own Buddy Lee created. In 1964, Lee started managing Hank Williams Jr., beginning a legacy that would come to include the likes of Willie Nelson and George Strait.

Letters from readers.

Note to readers: the following is a serious, stat-saturated Mexican. I promise more dwarf- and sex-related questions next week.

Following a job fair at the closing Tower Records location on West End, more than a dozen former employees of the bankrupt music store have been hired to work as security screeners at Nashville International Airport.

Kit Brewer doesn’t like immigrants. “While America was harnessing electricity, while America was winning World War I, winning World War II, inventing the computer, inventing nuclear weapons [and] breaking the DNA code, what were the Mexicans doing?” he asks.

Music

It’s been more than 50 years since the death of American composer Charles Ives, yet he remains a controversial figure. For many, Ives is a musical messiah, a prophet who experimented with such earsplitting modern techniques as atonality,

When covering Tom Waits, the eternal question burns—do you do your best to imitate his idiosyncratic, gravel-voiced, eccentric-genius charisma, or just do your own thing?

“Life takes a lot of finesse,” David Johansen states wryly on “Maimed Happiness,” one of several laconic, worldly-wise tunes from the New York Dolls newest.

For the record, Pete Yorn doesn’t quite agree that his new studio album is any darker than the previous two.

Restaurants

In less than a month, Gayle O’Hanlon will dramatically throw herself on the closest place to recline and announce to friends and employees, “I quit!”

After more than a year of rehab and construction behind red-painted plywood panels, Vinea—Latin for City of Wine—opened last Tuesday, in the nick of time for spirited holiday celebrations.

Movies

No, the Virgin Mary doesn’t get high on aerosol fumes, and Joseph doesn’t ride in on a skateboard. But in most other respects, The Nativity Story is less of a departure for Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke than one would have imagined.

In keeping with its parade of medical horrors, Turistas is a leaky colostomy bag of a movie—the kind of by-the-numbers gut-spelunking that gives torture porn a bad name.

Last week, when word of Robert Altman’s death had just begun to circulate, a co-worker sent the wire clipping along with a single comment: “His death took three hours, and his last words couldn’t be heard because of the 40 characters speaking over them.”

Arts and Culture

At its best, Ray LaMontagne’s 2004 debut Trouble manages to channel glimmers of Van Morrison’s masterpiece Astral Weeks—that late afternoon spell of escapism and wonder.

People invariably relate to coming-of-age stories: everybody has to grow up sometime. Stories about the search for a parent’s love are sure reader pleasers, too.

Over the years, Amun Ra Theatre has tended to stage its productions on a somewhat irregular schedule. One recent constant, though, has been the presentation of a big-time holiday show.

Old Archives

You will have an easier time finding Seinfeld reruns on BET than a lame tune in Scenecast Episode 57.

Back in May, we reported that traffic lights in downtown Nashville were being set in such a way that violated state law and increased the number of tickets that Metro cops got to write (“Yellow Light Blues,” May 11).

A door-to-door magazine salesman became irate when a woman rudely rejected his sales pitch, and he allegedly “threatened to come back to her residence later to kill her,” police say.

Do you wake up in the morning feeling exhausted after another restless night? Guess what? It’s not your Sealy Posturepedic.

It’s gonna be a good year in Nashville for those festive interfaith couples. Bring out the cranberry sauce (canned and complete with rings) and the latkes, the fritters and pumpkin pie, the soofganiot and the candy canes.

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