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Suburban Turmoil
There she is again, bringing the bagboys to their knees with her just-stepped-out-of-the-salon hair, her perfect figure and her rosy and well-behaved children. As she edges her health-food-filled shopping cart by you, you smell the faintest hint of expensive perfume in her wake.
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Features
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE:Mayoral candidate Karl Dean is still reeling from last week’s Metro Council action that saw the body effectively cut the Metro schools budget by more than $4 million.
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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“I’ll be very pleased when I’m carded, and in my mind I’ll just imagine it’s because I look so young.”
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The Fabricator
In what was described as an embarrassing error, a newly constructed Green Hills McMansion was razed last month to make way for a normally proportioned house with a generous yard.
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Features
This Saturday is 7/7/07, and given our collective penchant for numerology, a lot is happening. The wedding venues are booked solid and Al Gore has settled on this auspicious day for his Live Earth concerts to highlight the menace of global warming (or at least showcase some pretty good music) to the denizens of New York, Shanghai, London, Rio and a few other far-flung cities.
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Cover Story
So, stranger—what do you think of East Nashville? Is it an urban Valhalla? Dodge City? A progressive, free-thinking mecca for artists and musicians? Middle Tennessee’s Sodom and Gomorrah?
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Features
It would appear that Maria Calderon is still living the good life. Her MySpace page still showcases the 25-year-old swilling martinis at swanky bars, posing in a bra and panties while in the arms of friends, trotting the globe to visit pals in California and Rio.
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Helter Shelter
Telling 10 families a week that they’ve picked out a good house is a nice way to make a living. But telling any family that their dream house is a leaking, creaking pile of moldering crap takes a fair bit of the shine off a day’s work.
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Ask a Mexican
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dear Mexican: I welcome the inclusion of a nice big scoop of chopped habañeros in the bland casserole that is America.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Liz Garrigan
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Pith in the Wind
- by Liz Garrigan
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jeff Woods
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jeff Woods
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Features
When singer-songwriter Steve Forbert bluntly titles a new song “Middle Age,” there’s none of Loudon Wainwright III’s irony, Bob Dylan’s bitterness or Bruce Springsteen’s romanticizing.
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Features
After settling into the city and into her new role as a solo singer-songwriter—she’d previously fronted the regionally successful Baton Rouge, La., band Blessed Yes—Nashville newcomer Brooke Waggoner emerged on the scene late last year, provoking a quick and impressive response from normally passive Nashville audiences.
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Features
Every Tuesday night from January through May, people all around the country—just over 30 million a week—sat down in front of their TVs to watch American Idol.
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Features
A singer’s voice and presence largely define a band, so his or her absence or departure is no small matter. Reunions further complicate the math. My father was still into Al Stewart, Steely Dan and Jackson Browne when new wave happened, so he didn’t discover The Cars’ music until I passed along a copy of the New Cars’ It’s Alive last year.
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We knew the JOE JACK TALCUM show at The End—you know, the guy from The Dead Milkmen—wasn’t going to be packed or anything, but we were still kinda surprised and saddened that there were probably less than 30 people there for the troubadour of whiny, silly punk.
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Dining
In the walk-in cooler at Tayst restaurant, fat-soaked bundles of homemade foie gras dangle like bells in a greasy carillon.
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This week in local theaters.
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Reviews
Transformers twiddles its big, fat, stupid robotic thumbs for the better part of two hours before jabbing them into your eye socket and finger-fucking your brain in the last 20 minutes.
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Books
There is a memorable scene in Charles Frazier’s Civil War novel, , where the city-educated preacher, Monroe, gets his leg pulled by a North Carolina farmer named Esco.
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Our Critics Picks
One of country music’s greatest figures, Charlie Louvin turns 80 on Saturday. Along with his brother Ira, who died in 1965, Charlie has influenced an untold number of musicians.
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Books
Traditionally, short stories are concise and to-the-point, so it makes sense that Hollywood occasionally turns them into taut screenplays.
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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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Columns: Stories
Do you wish you had better vision? Are you frequently bothered by searing eye pain?
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Political Notes
Karl Dean is promising “ethical, pragmatic and progressive” leadership if he’s elected mayor, “not a return to the old-style politics” in the person of the mayoral campaign’s leader, candidate-for-life Bob Clement.
