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Features
Apparently “James Cooper” is a common terrorist alias. Jim Cooper, the congressman from Nashville, has been unable to print airline boarding passes online because his name is the same as one on the government’s terrorist watch list, his aides say.
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The Fabricator
With public radio station WPLN’s semiannual radio beg-a-thon under way, garage-sale goers all over Middle Tennessee are bracing for a tsunami of radio-station-themed “premiums.”
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Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican: Why should Mexican nationals have more of a right to stay in this country than Chinese, Somalis or others who can’t cross an open land border and must thus wait on the bureaucracy like everybody else?
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Helter Shelter
And don’t you know, standing right there in the hard drive department, looking for his very own new hard drive, was Leon Russell—the Master of Space and Time, the most powerful engine in 1970s rock ’n’ roll, Joe Cocker’s band leader and the owner of the best screams and whoops of any singer not named James Brown.
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Cover Story
Jamal Shakir is one of three defendants facing execution in the Middle District of Tennessee for their alleged roles in the Los Angeles-based gang the Rollin 90s Neighborhood Crips. The gang is accused of murdering multiple victims and distributing massive amounts of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana in U.S. cities, including Nashville.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Features
Council members Mike Jameson and Ludye Wallace have introduced a bill to tame the proliferation of metal or plastic boxes employed to distribute news and advertising papers. The publishers of the papers, predictably enough, are lobbying mightily to kill the bill and met this week to consider alternative solutions to government regulation.
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“The officials didn’t see anything, so there must not have been anything."
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jack Silverman
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The Spin
The Swedish invasion finally trickled down to Nashville Wednesday night when Loney, Dear brought their sweet-tempered pop to Mercy Lounge. By the time we got there, a crowd had already huddled up front, though we couldn’t tell if it was just early jockeying for Of Montreal visibility or genuine fandom.
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Features
Williams once detailed the stab wounds of love: on 2003’s World Without Tears, the visceral lyrics of “Minneapolis” depict snow, stained by her gushing blood.
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Features
The Black Angels are The Beach Boys’ evil nemesis—acolytes of The Velvets with their own sonic blueprint for good vibrations. Instead of bright bustling melodies and resplendent harmonies, they build a hypnotic thrum of slowly shuddering distortion buttressed by a primal beat.
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Features
Pianist Alexander Kobrin owes his fast-rising career to piano competitions, and yet he’s no fan of these highbrow sporting events.
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Features
The Avett Brothers are one of those bands you really have to see to get: their shows crackle with electricity and warmth more in keeping with a family get-together, and the trio’s traditional instrumentation—acoustic guitar, banjo and stand-up bass—belies their origins.
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Nashville Cream
- by Jack Silverman
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Nashville Cream
- by Chris Slack
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Nashville Cream
- by Tracy Moore
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Nashville Cream
- by Steve Haruch
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Nashville Cream
- by Steve Haruch
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Nashville Cream
- by Chris Slack
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Nashville Cream
- by Steve Haruch
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Nashville Cream
- by Tracy Moore
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Nashville Cream
- by Chris Slack
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Nashville Cream
- by Chris Slack
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Nashville Cream
- by Chris Slack
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Nashville Cream
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Dining
Even suburban sprawl, with its persistent creep of uniform cul-de-sacs and inflatable mega-churches, must have its good points. In the fertile, rapidly subdividing acreage between Old Hickory Boulevard and Concord Road, one of the highlights is Sofie’s Bistro, a cozy eatery that could inspire a drive into the vanishing countryside along Nolensville Pike.
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Dining
East Nashville resident Jenny Piper thought her neighborhood was missing two things: sushi and ice cream.
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THE NAMESAKE More than a chick flick, Mira Nair’s adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel combines the intimate pleasures of a family saga with a finely sustained inquiry into the difficult balance between separation and integration that shapes first-generation émigrés and their children in crucially different ways.
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Reviews
At various times over the last decade, David Fincher, Sam Mendes and Michael Mann were attached to direct Scott Frank’s screenplay for The Lookout, about a brain-damaged high school hockey stud who’s smooth-talked by distant acquaintances into robbing a small-town bank.
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Theater
Director Rene Copeland has assembled a strong cast to tell the story of North Carolina-born Esther Mills, a 35-year-old seamstress working in 1905’s Lower Manhattan. Esther’s clientele includes everyone from society ladies to hookers, for whom she crafts fine garments and underwear.
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Art
We go to gardens such as Cheekwood for an outdoor experience, but it’s not exactly nature. There could hardly be anything less natural than the mansion’s manicured lawns and carefully staged vistas. This horticultural artificiality makes it the perfect place to exhibit art that explores the tensions between natural and man-made environments.
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Black LipsThe Black Lips come on like your buddy’s thrill-seeking little brother: you expect to either discover him at the bottom of a ravine in a fiery, self-destructive crash or coming down the street leading a conga line culled from a nearby frat party.
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Books
“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success,” the vaudeville star Eddie Cantor once said. For songwriter Bobby Braddock it was a few years more than that—he didn’t move to Nashville until 1964 when he was nearly 25—but when success arrived, it proved big.
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Books
Given this bounty of faith-based material, it was only a matter of time before photographers turned their lenses on one of the most widespread of these phenomena—religious signs. Now two new books feature collections of photos that document America’s many roads to God.
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SceneCast
The Scenecast is the "audio extension of the music section of the print edition of the Nashville Scene" and expands your reading pleasure with sonic illustrations to keep your ear in gear with your eye.
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A 68-year-old woman went ballistic when her “ex-granddaughter” showed up at her house, and she began “striking the victim with her walking stick, which resembles a bat,” according to police.
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Columns: Stories
This beautiful chestnut oak is in Al Gore’s neighborhood. We figured it was about time Al was in a good news story about the environment.
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Political Notes
Ah, the good old days when Big Tobacco reigned supreme at the state Capitol. Almost every year, the lung association or some other good-government group would innocently propose some anti-tobacco measure.
