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Cover Story
Murfreesboro Road—especially the strip just south of I-24—is a rough place to spend Friday night. It’s what pimps and police call a trap, or stroll. It’s where junkies smoke crack and meth behind Dumpsters in darkened lots.
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Desperately Seeking the News
Just as it has since it launched more than six years ago, Nashville’s free, five-day-a-week daily newspaper continues to hemorrhage money—“We’re still losing money, but we’re losing less money,” says City Paper publisher Albie Del Favero.
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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“If Jim Cooper had run for mayor, I would have run for Congress.”
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Ask a Mexican
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dear Mexican: A friend asked me years ago to come up with a Spanish word or phrase that contains fewer syllables than its English counterpart.
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Features
What will it take for Gov. Phil Bredesen to pardon a death row inmate even the U.S. Supreme Court believes is innocent?
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Features
Ismael “Robert” Chavez and Dr. Richard Feldman may be Nashville’s least dynamic duo.
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The Fabricator
If there is one thing that is abundantly clear, it is that Pacman Jones and strip clubs do not mix.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jim Ridley
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Tags: Video
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Features
Sophistication defeating its own good intentions is a pop subject that’s been brilliantly examined by any number of neurotic revivalists and disco pioneers. On their debut, Radio Noise, Nashville duo Ode Hazelwood inhabit the world of scratchy ’20s and ’30s blues records without resorting to cheap camp theatrics.
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“A collage of white hipsters, ready to get their irony on”—that’s how comedian (and Alcohol Stuntband frontman) CHRIS CROFTON described the crowd at last Thursday’s NEIL HAMBURGER show at The End, and he pretty much nailed it.
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Features
“If I’d written my autobiography in 1976, I’d have called it Mein Comps,” Henry Gross wisecracks in one of the punch lines of One Hit Wanderer, his one-man theatrical play about his brush with musical fame featuring songs he developed for the stage.
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Features
There’s nothing particularly romantic about Rooney’s backstory. The Culver City, Calif., quintet features a male model and an actor, Robert Schwartzman (a.k.a. Robert Carmine), whose older brother Jason is also a noteworthy actor ()/musician (Phantom Planet).
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Dining
Three decades ago, Patti and Win Myint set out to introduce Nashvillians to Asian food at the International Market on Belmont Boulevard. Since that time, the couple have forged a neighborhood landmark and bred—literally—a new generation of ethnic dining in the city.
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Dining
Chef Joe Shaw, who helped build Watermark restaurant into a culinary landmark in the emerging Gulch, has left the kitchen as of this week. Citing an amicable departure with Watermark’s owner, health care executive Jerry Brown, Shaw is exploring other culinary opportunities but has no clear next step.
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Reviews
“Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.” So goes the personal mantra of the late celebrity chef Auguste Gusteau, whose disembodied spirit materializes to guide the rodent hero of Brad Bird’s Ratatouille toward his goal of gastronomic excellence.
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This week in local theaters.
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Reviews
In some green room of the afterlife, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Maria Callas are gnashing their lip base over the diva trip that’s been handed to French actress Marion Cotillard in the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose.
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Reviews
Still an all-American bloodhound after all these years, Bruce Willis’ Det. John McClane begins Live Free or Die Hard sniffing around a Rutgers-Camden parking lot and busting the fratboy who’s been trying to cop a feel off his daughter Lucy.
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Reviews
Sicko—Michael Moore’s blistering new broadside against the health-insurance industry, and his first film since the blockbuster success of Fahrenheit 9/11—may be the least amusing and artful of his agit-pop documentaries.
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Books
“From small matters I derive great pleasure,” says Nashville native Sam Pickering in his latest collection of meandering essays, Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do.
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Books
To lump F5 into that emerging subgenre, Nonfiction-Weather-Disaster-Page-Turner, is to do the book a disservice, as it is something more than the sum of its parts
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Art
Nashville artist Sylvia Hyman is the David Copperfield of clay. A grand illusionist, Hyman has spent the past decade creating ceramic facsimiles of everyday objects that look so real, so lifelike that they can make you doubt your own senses.
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Theater
For a theater company that has made its reputation primarily doing musicals, Boiler Room Theatre has recently been staging a lot of drama.
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Our Critics Picks
Former Dead Milkman Joe Jack Talcum is back on the road, winging his way through a boppy set that won’t disappoint faithful Deadheads, who still remember the goofy glory of some of the happiest punk rock ever.
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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 woman freaked out when her soon-to-be ex-husband walked away during an argument about their impending divorce because he “did not want to listen to her anymore,” police say. The female suspect, 26, chased the victim outside, where he quickly got into his pickup truck and locked the doors.
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Columns: Garrigan
The prospect of Bob Clement as mayor is becoming more real every day, and for scores of Nashvillians that’s not an appealing political forecast. It’s not that there’s no good alternative to the benign government insider with the cadence of a small-town Mississippi pol.
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Columns: Sports
The Haitians have a proverb: “Beyond the mountains, more mountains.” It’s perfect for that country’s history of false hopes and bloody disappointments. Maybe the Predators should find some way to work it onto their logo.
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Columns: Sports
Now that Pacman Jones has shorn his dreads (Way Insider Warren “GQ” Denney thinks he looks like Joe Morgan) and turned himself in to the authorities (poetically, around 2 a.m.), here’s a suggestion for what happens after Pac puts these legal annoyances behind him and wins reinstatement from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
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Columns: Stories
Fifty members of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America were in Nashville last week to see our city’s bounty of these remarkable musical instruments.
