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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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“This team this year has always talked about going to a BCS game, not just a bowl game. It’s very important to us, that we feel we can go to a BCS game this year.”
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Suburban Turmoil
In the heart of suburban Nashville, a group of women meets each Tuesday night at a local Starbucks.
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Features
Nashville’s marquee cultural event, the Southern Festival of Books, suffered a blow in 2004 when the city saw the literary event move to Memphis because of downtown construction.
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Features
Nashville officials deny that Ronald Brooks’ civil rights were violated when he was detained, shackled and taken to Memphis on an arrest warrant intended for someone else.
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The Fabricator
Bellevue residents Brenda and Carl Hopper are worried about their son Evan’s behavior because the 12-year-old is increasingly showing many of the same disturbing characteristics as U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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Helter Shelter
Every other Sunday, I play with a jam band. With just a few notable exceptions, the folks at the jam are skilled and tasteful players and all-around fine human beings.
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Cover Story
It’s unusually cool for a June evening at the Cherokee Lodge, and the nudists have finally covered up. They sit at round plastic tables under the pavilion’s tin roof, drinking $3 cans of Miller High Life and watching a 60-something in a teal thong shake her deep-dimpled ass to some Top 40 song.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jim Ridley
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Tags: Video
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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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Tags: Video
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Features
Flip to the entry for Sweden in the encyclopedia and the description sounds almost Utopian: phenomenal public schools, impossibly low crime rates and a universal health care system that could silence Michael Moore.
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Features
Ted Leo is often compared to Joe Strummer, The Jam and Billy Bragg. He shares with The Jam a stripped-down power-trio lineup, occasionally augmented with keyboards and second guitar.
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Features
If we had a dime for every punker-turned-roots-rocker, we’d have…well, at least a couple of bucks. Too often, these makeovers feel forced—laced with irony or reeking of trend-hopping—but for John Doe, the evolution has been as natural as breathing.
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Saturday in Louisville dawned muggy, gray and threatening rain. Having arrived in town the previous night (too late for Nashville favorites How I Became the Bomb and De Novo Dahl) to a torrential (like Noah and shit) downpour, we feared a similar fate might befall the second day of the Forecastle Festival.
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Dining
As soon as my husband dressed for lunch in his Cantler’s T-shirt—a beloved souvenir from a rustic waterfront restaurant in Annapolis, Md.—I should have known our expectations for Blue Moon Lagoon were too high. Still, memories of the former Blue Moon Waterfront Café (which closed two years ago) coupled with the involvement of a marquee culinary name, led us to hope for food that could match the setting.
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Dining
A high-flying name in Nashville food circles is hovering below the radar to launch Wildwood Oak-Fired Kitchen, a new, casual fine-dining concept slated to open in August.
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Bites
- by Carrington Fox
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Tags: News
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This week in local theaters.
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Reviews
The Bourne Ultimatum opens in Russia as the amnesiac super-spy Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) does what he does best: elude capture, crack skulls, brood.
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Reviews
There’s nothing quite like ,em>Brand Upon the Brain!, but that shouldn’t recommend the film on its own.
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Reviews
In the early hours of July 21, when civilized society was settling down into bed to learn the fate of Harry, Hermione and Ron, Pete Wade led a different team of adventurers inside Centennial Medical Center.
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Art
What do you do after your lowdown professional gambler of a dad hauls off and kills somebody, embarrassing everyone in the family so much they have to change their last name? Why, you become a painter of genius, of course.
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Books
The Scooter Pie, the Wagon Wheel, the Whoopie Pie: who remembers these marshmallow snack pretenders? But ah, the MoonPie! The original marshmallow sandwich!
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Books
Clay Travis, a columnist for CBS Sportsline, spent the 2006 college football season traveling to each of the SEC’s 12 campuses, one a week. He tailgated with the home teams’ fans, attended the games and then wrote a book about his experiences.
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Our Critics Picks
LAPPY HOUR People in this town love their pets. They also love their cocktails.
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SceneCast
Savings galore will spill from you ears on the Scenecast's "Sales Tax Holiday" special. Episode 91 gets you pumped up to overspend on high-priced wares you don't really need while sticking it to the taxman
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Political Notes
It’s all over but the whimpering. Election 2007, or at least the first phase of it, is sadly ending, and a mudslinging September runoff lurks around the corner like Ronnie Steine in the Target toy section.
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Columns: Stories
What do you think about our new public art? Are you one of the people angry we didn’t spend the $330,000 on Predators tickets?
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A man was standing at the bus stop when he stepped into the street to look for the bus and instead saw his ex-girlfriend driving up Murfreesboro Pike.
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Political Notes
The Tennessee Department of Labor has shut down Ceja Enterprises on Nolensville Road for evading workers’ compensation laws.
