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“I’ll eat some bad shit, but I had heroin since the last time I had something from McDonald’s.”
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Helter Shelter
I woke up one morning last week, looked outside and found the sky full of flying pigs and monkeys, all shooting flames out of their anuses. There can be only one cause: Tennessee passed the Non-Smoker Protection Act.
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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Ask a Mexican
Dear Readers: Contrary to what some of ustedes think, racist gabachos or self-hating Mexicans aren’t my only fans. Many of our friendly neighbors to the Great White Norte also love the Mexican.
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Features
In the ongoing battle over Fisk University’s Alfred Stieglitz Collection, the university last week suffered a stunning, if not entirely unexpected, legal defeat. Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled that Fisk may not sell any of the artworks in the collection. Lyle did, however, suggest a path out of the legal morass, but whether the university heeds it remains to be seen.
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Suburban Turmoil
“I just don’t know if I’m ready to date again yet,” a recently divorced mommy friend of mine sighed not long ago. “I don’t even know where I’d find a man.”
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Features
New accusations from longtime Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton are the latest in a series of only-in-Memphis moments that leave residents shaking their heads at the Bluff City’s uncanny penchant for self-inflicted wounds.
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Cover Story
On a recent sun-drenched afternoon, the faded blue seats of Greer Stadium are one shade lighter than the sky. There’s a game tonight, and the Nashville Sounds are taking batting practice, socking balls into the far green reaches of the outfield. Frank Kremblas’ angular face is turned in their direction—you can even see the swings reflected in his mirrored shades. But it’s impossible to know exactly where he is looking, or what he is thinking.
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The Fabricator
In its continuing effort to avoid offending homophobes, Kroger has banned the playing of what an internal memo calls “gay music” over store loudspeakers.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Sarah Kelley
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jim Ridley
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jeff Woods
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jim Ridley
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When The Spin arrived at Bonnaroo, singer Lily Allen was directly in front of us in the media/artist check-in line. We took the diminutive, cheeky Brit as a good luck symbol for the weekend’s festivities.
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Features
The throaty melismata that sways and surges through the opening a cappella strains of Salvation in Lights could be mistaken for that of a formidable female African American gospel vocalist. But the voice belongs to Mike Farris—prodigal son of a sort—getting his second chance at living in the South, sobriety and making music.
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Features
Most rock ’n’ roll reunions are unfortunate affairs, fizzling out in a haze of cynicism and greed or collapsing amid the same ego clashes that led to the band’s breakup in the first place. So forgive us for not expecting too much when it was announced a couple of years ago that the original, seminal lineup of legendary alternative rock trio Dinosaur Jr. would be playing shows for the first time since W’s daddy was in office.
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Features
Yes, the members of Tesla are well aware that a lot of other veteran rockers have been recording albums of cover songs lately.
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Features
Friday in Manchester, Tenn., dawned steamy as a veggie corndog, and Bang Bang Bang’s Ben Brown, braving the heat and humidity in tight jeans and black boots, wasn’t happy about it. The shaggy-haired guitar player pined for shorts and flip-flops, but, as he put it, “I can’t let them see me in my hippie clothes.”
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Nashville Cream
- by Tracy Moore
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Nashville Cream
- by Tracy Moore
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Nashville Cream
- by Lee Stabert
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Nashville Cream
- by Chris Slack
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Dining
Penelope Pfuntner knows she has a funky name, and she’s hoping to brand a funky idea with it.
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Dining
It’s almost like an assignment on a reality TV competition, maybe Top Chef or The Apprentice: transform this former Shoney’s building into a Mediterranean restaurant with a menu that blends Greek and Turkish cuisine with classic American dishes.
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Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Day Watch dawns with a whiplash refresher course in the backstory before diving into an inspired set piece concerning the provenance of the Chalk of Fate.
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Reviews
A true-crime yarn told largely by the criminal, with supporting testimony from his curiously forgiving victim, Crazy Love comes billed as a documentary. But it can’t really be considered journalism—unless you count as journalism the sort of lurid tabloid exposé whose hundred-point headline blurts, “ACID ATTACKER MARRIES VICTIM!”
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Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Evan Almighty, the follow-up to Bruce Almighty, is the work of an angry God.
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Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE:You don’t need to watch the included preview of Live Free or Die Hard to know it’s going to blow; as this set proves, only odd-numbered Die Hards are any good.
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This week in local theaters.
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Reviews
As presence trumps character, the star personifies Brecht’s alienation effect, and whatever its ostensible subject, the movie becomes a vehicle. Angelina Jolie is the major alienation effect in A Mighty Heart.
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Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: There is an embedded thriller in A Mighty Heart, replete with obligatory pounding score and cutaways to the teeming chaos of seamy Karachi.
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Our Critics Picks
This Saturday at Riverfront Park, CBS Sportsline columnist Clay Travis, Radio Lightning’s Team Green, a USN physics teacher and 26 other groups—including a tribe of Nashville cavemen—will compete to plummet 30 feet into the Cumberland in front of God, YouTube and everybody.
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Books
In his new memoir, Anchored in Love, John Carter Cash reiterates again and again the depth and gracious nature of his mother’s love, not only for her family but for everyone around her.
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Books
Nashville writer Mary Saums has created two entertaining and engaging characters in her latest novel, Thistle & Twigg.
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Art
Talk about giving the authorities the finger. In 1989, shortly after the Tiananmen Square massacre, a young Chinese photographer named Sheng Qi took a blade and, in a ghastly and nauseating act of defiance, lopped off the little finger of his left hand.
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Theater
With its portrayal of Gestapo thuggery—and its rear-screen projection of Nazi documentary footage—Otto clearly qualifies as Holocaust drama.
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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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Political Notes
After nine weeks of television advertising at a cost of close to $500,000, Karl Dean is slowly gaining support but remains stuck in fourth place in the five-candidate race for mayor, and that’s causing high anxiety among the city’s “anybody-but-Bob Clement” crowd of political activists.
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Columns: Stories
Thanks, Phil. We feel so much safer knowing the asshole who is going to run us off the road because he’s too engrossed in his cell phone conversation will be buckled up.
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Police received several calls about an intoxicated man stumbling around near Five Points in East Nashville.
