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“Before I start, I’d like to thank Congressman Clement for not coming tonight, because that means I’m clearly the shortest candidate here. There’ll be no debate about who the shortest candidate is tonight.”

There’s a new player in the court battle over the Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University: Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper.

Barring an 11th-hour stay, Philip Workman was about to become the third inmate put to death in Tennessee in 47 years despite evidence casting new doubt on his guilt and growing concerns that supposedly benign lethal injections may actually cause excruciating pain.

7 a.m.: Wakes up to the sound of his Daewoo clock radio tuned to WLAC-1510 AM.

Dear Readers: Gracias, gracias, gracias for ustedes who bought the Mexican’s book last week. (Deportation for those who haven’t.)

Back in December, one of my baseball caps went missing. It was one of the good ones, too. It matched daughter Jess’ school colors and it fit my giant 24-inch head just right.

Gary Smith hadn’t been asleep long when his mother came to tell him his father had been in a car wreck. Gary, who was nearly 15, shook himself awake as spring rain poured onto Nashville’s dark streets.

Music

Alasdair MacLean, singer and guitarist for the British band The Clientele, likes both kinds of music—country and Western—as much as the next bloke, but that’s not why he and his mates decided to record their latest album, God Save The Clientele, in Nashville.

Jackson Ellis is freaking out.

Last Saturday dawned gray and stormy—not promising for the myriad of outdoor events slated for Cinco de Mayo.

Restaurants

A wall of 36 teacups sets the tone for an adventure of many decisions at Savannah Tea House. First, you’ll need to select a cup and saucer from the dozens of unique styles and designs displayed on the shallow bookcase.

Movies

Four years after “Mission Accomplished,” 28 Weeks Later reminds us that the mission, whatever the hell it was to begin with, is now officially, apocalyptically fucked.

As a child I couldn’t stand Beatrix Potter, and not just because her cute, jacketed critters bored me senseless.

AFTER THE WEDDING A reformist disciple of Dogme 95, director Susanne Bier (Open Hearts, Brothers) here caps her post-9/11 trauma trilogy with a movie that has less to do with a terrorizing event—a bad breakup, in this case—than with that event’s collateral damage, namely trust.

Arts and Culture

Perhaps half a play is better than none. That seems to be the case with Paul Rudnick’s I Hate Hamlet, a comical paean to the world of theater.

Say you’re writing a thriller, and you need to throw a guy from a helicopter.

Old Archives

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.

And all this time you thought Bob Clement was dumb. Clement, working hard to dispel that widespread notion, is trying to remake himself as the deepest thinker in the mayoral campaign with a “30 Ideas in 30 Days” publicity blitz.

If misery loves company, Avery Johnson could be Barry Trotz’s valentine.

A male suspect sitting on a bench at Fifth Avenue North and Church Street downtown scared nearby pedestrians when he began throwing his arms up in the air and screaming “white power” as people walked by, according to police.

This row of heads along the rooftop ledge of a house in Cherokee Park makes us uncomfortable.

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