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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Desperately Seeking the News
After weeks of rumors that layoffs were coming to 1100 Broadway, publisher Ellen Leifeld led a series of grim newsroom meetings Tuesday announcing that the company would be offering “voluntary separation” packages to 15 staffers.
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Election Coverage
Don't know any of these at-large and mayoral candidates competing in the Sept. 11 runoff? Have no idea who to vote for? Or you have an idea but want some ammo for mocking?
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Helter Shelter
In just a few weeks, daughter Jess will head off to college. She’ll be about three hours up the road—close enough to get home in a hurry, but distant enough so wife Brenda and I won’t be able to hear her footsteps.
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Features
For the average voter, making sense of the at-large Metro Council contest is like trying to recite the alphabet backwards while blind drunk.
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Features
For those who are trapped in violent or abusive relationships in Nashville, getting justice and healing their broken lives is about to get tougher.
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Ask a Mexican
Mere moments after publishing my July 12 column (in which Know Nothings had their say on the failed Senate amnesty bill), ustedes bombarded the Mexican with letters expressing your disgust toward those pendejos.
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Features
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a frenetic year for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, what with all the hoopla over the new Schermerhorn Symphony Center and excitement about celebrity music advisor Leonard Slatkin.
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“They represent substantial increases in most cases, and I’m sure there will be some hyperventilating over that subject.”
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The Fabricator
Pegram resident Sam Delacante is having a hard time convincing his family and neighbors that his strategy for cleaning out the septic tank behind his house is working, but he insists that by September everybody will see how right he is.
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Features
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Devine and Kevin Perry rumbled into Nashville in a rented minivan stuffed with all the trappings of a wedding.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jeff Woods
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Tags: Video
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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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Pith in the Wind
- by Jeff Woods
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Thursday night’s show at the Family Wash was shaping up to be the perfect East Nashville evening: live music, mind-blowing shepherd’s pie and high-alcohol-content beers knocking us on our ass without us even knowing it.
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Features
When the band formerly known as Jetpack first came to Nashville from Arkansas, they seemed to have their eyes fixed on Weezer, dutifully regurgitating that same nerdy strain of mid-’90s riff-rock.
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Features
As an underground music supergroup of sorts, Tomahawk’s Anonymous is perhaps the highest-profile release carrying a Lake Fever Productions credit to date.
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Features
Tony Joe White is one of those rare artists whose music isn’t enlarged, per se, by adding layers—different voices and instrumentation merely give his undiluted swamp soul a different tint.
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Dining
It’s hard to say if The Family Wash is technically a “gastropub,” or if it’s a just a bar with a hopped-up menu several steps above burgers and fries.
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Bites
- by Carrington Fox
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Bites
- by Jim Ridley
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Reviews
They’re here, they’re fluffy, and they’re pissed. Not since 1972’s Night of the Lepus, that clarion call to the clear and present danger of ill-tempered rabbits, has a monster movie palmed off a threat as counterintuitive as the woolly gut-munchers of Jonathan King’s Black Sheep.
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This week in local theaters
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Sixth Annual Music City Brewer’s Festival, Saturday. Nothing beats a cold mug o’ beer on a steamy summer day—unless, of course, said mug is interminably flooded with the best brews around.
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Books
Former Nashvillian Jeff Havens’s debut novel, Reality, opens with a protagonist who suddenly appears to develop an entirely justified case of self-loathing.
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Theater
Music City’s summer theatrical doldrums finally got energized last week with the opening of three new productions, all local premieres.
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You Are So Nashville If
A list of winners of every You Are So Nashville If... contest since 1989.
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You Are So Nashville If
The "weird" entries from this year’s You Are So Nashville If... contest.
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You Are So Nashville If
The downright morbid side of You Are So Nashville If...
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You Are So Nashville If
The You Are So Nashville If... entries that almost made it.
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You Are So Nashville If
Mike Williams has emerged this year with an encore. The 42-year-old exhibitor services representative for the Freeman trade show company has won the 2007 “You Are So Nashville If...” contest.
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You Are So Nashville If
We’ve culled and considered, sorted and guffawed, rolled our eyes and nearly choked on our cherry Cokes. And now, Nashville, the results are in.
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You Are So Nashville If
A couple of announcements from the cockroach-infested Scene editorial department:
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 90 has so many elements of a good time, it's like the periodic table for your ears—Tony Joe White, The Nobility, Tomahawk, Detroit Cobras, Johny Barbata, Unit Breed, Julie Lee, The Subjects, Marah, Tiger City, ZZ Top, Serenatta, Makaha Sons, music from Rear Window, and Tyler James (who will play at the Free Eric Volz Benefit).
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Columns: Stories
Want to make your Neighborhood Watch sign even more effective? Try hanging it a foot or two lower—say, around the eye level of the average teenager.
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Political Notes
Outspending his opponents on television by a 4-to-1 margin, Karl Dean is surging upward in the latest internal polls by the mayoral campaigns, and Bob Clement faces the unnerving prospect of fading into second in what looks like a wide-open contest.
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A passenger whose buddy was pulled over for drunken driving just couldn’t keep his mouth shut, despite numerous warnings to simmer down.
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Columns: Garrigan
This week, the Nashville Scene endorses Karl Dean for mayor of Nashville and Diane Neighbors for vice mayor.
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Columns: Sports
On April 26, 1978, Greer Stadium hosted its first professional baseball game, and among the 8,156 fans who walked into the brand new stadium that day was 3-year-old Robert Allen Dickey, holding tight to his father’s hand.
