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Letters from readers.

To meet the man most folks consider the greatest literary editor of his generation, head south out of Nashville along Hillsboro Road until you’re well past the Williamson County line.

I was flipping through my television when I noticed the Spanish-language channel showed a man in a red suit with yellow pants, antennae on his head and a heart with the letters “CH” on his chest.

Be jealous of our Georgia neighbors, because they’re about to have something we don’t.

Sen. Bill Frist apologized last week for his caught-on-tape meltdown at a Washington think tank in which he responded to a heckler by appearing to assert that all Americans have a right to health care.

“I wrote 26 thank you notes for 24 votes.”

When the U.S. Supreme Court proclaimed that “no reasonable juror” would convict Tennessee death row inmate Paul House of murder given the evidence now available, the condemned man’s mother was certain he’d be home by Christmas.

Music

If big media has its way, the Federal Communications Commission will relax limitations on media ownership, effectively allowing a single company to dominate local media in any given market.

While The Spin could have done without the smarmy MC, Little Steven’s Underground Garage A-Go-Go deserves credit for efficiency Thursday night at City Hall.

“Sweet 16’s turned 31,” a not-coincidentally 31-year-old Bob Seger sang on 1976’s “Rock and Roll Never Forgets,” as if all the good times were behind him.

Sometime back in 1980, keyboardist Thomas Morgan Robertson—nicknamed Dolby due to his extensive audio expertise—was enjoying a good gig as a session and road synth-player.

Restaurants

Marché Artisan Foods, the newest jewel in the crown of East Nashville development, opened on Election Day and has enjoyed soaring approval ratings since.

Movies

Apocalypto has a faux Greek title and an opening quote from historian Will Durant that ruminates on the decline of imperial Rome.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Directed by Edward Zwick from a screenplay by Charles Leavitt, author of that legendary socio-political treatise K-PAX, Blood Diamond assembles three refugees from Central Casting around the quest for an egg-sized pink diamond.

What’s black and white, speaks Hungarian, and is 37,204 feet long? Don’t look now, Nashville, but it will soon be in your midst.

Arts and Culture

Claes Oldenburg’s “Giant BLT,” fashioned from stuffed vinyl, still unceremoniously plops itself down in a gallery.

If the local theater scene has been in need of something fresh in the way of a holiday show, then it’s found it in Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, which opened last weekend at Tennessee Repertory Theatre.

Charles Wright, one of the most illustrious poets to emerge from the South since James Dickey, confesses that he’s the only Southerner he knows who can’t tell a story.

As rock ’n’ roll nears its sixth decade, it’s just as staggering to think that there’s enough stylistic room under the umbrella for both Elvis Presley and Can as it is to imagine Nashville as a birthplace of any shakes, rattles or rolls.

Old Archives

Damn! The Titans can't lose, Frist ain't running and Scenecast Episode 58 is here to give you aural pleasure.

There’s nothing more sad than seeing the ravages of time make someone a laughingstock. In Lt. Gov. John Wilder’s case, he’s guilty of aiding and abetting his own buffoonery.

We love a can-do attitude, but stuck in a toaster is not a handicap. It’s a medical emergency.

A man shopping at the Monroe Street Kroger removed “six packs of meat” from the cooler and, instead of placing them in his cart, “concealed all six packs down his pants,” police say.

Among the Media Geniuses, this is the most wonderful time of the year, and not just because the free booze flows in abundance.

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