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“I accept the jury’s verdict and take full, total and complete responsibility for my actions.”
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Cover Story
Once the most promising political figure in Tennessee—the son of an enormously popular governor and the youngest candidate ever to win a statewide election—Clement finds himself running at age 63 in ghastly triple-digit heat for an office he would have thought beneath him in his halcyon days.
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Features
The savior of Fisk University’s Stieglitz Collection may be the folks who bring you super big boxes chock full of discount prices.
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Helter Shelter
Poor old Michael Vick. On top of the world one day, haunted by dead pit bulls the next. There goes the money—the lawyers are going to get it all.
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Cover Story
Bob Clement tries to fill that “empty feeling." Karl Dean is third in a string of nerdy underdogs from the Northeast.
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Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican: Do you agree with immigration rights activists calling Elvira Arellano, who is an illegal immigrant and a criminal I might add, the Mexican Rosa Parks?
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Cover Story
Will Nashville’s next mayor be Bob Clement, Karl Dean...or a write-in challenger? Here’s the only endorsement that matters—Dunlap and Jackie Broyles of Red State Update!
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Suburban Turmoil
I don’t do a whole lot of field producing anymore because having four kids really isn’t conducive to last-minute jobs, but there was a time when I’d fly all over the country, picking up interviews with everyone from Sheryl Crow to Ashley Judd.
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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The Fabricator
Here are 10 dress code regulations. Some of them are actual rules laid down by Metro Nashville Public Schools and some are fabricated.
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Cover Story
If Karl Dean prevails against longtime political figure Bob Clement in the runoff, now just under two weeks away, he will be the third mayor in a row to hail originally from the Northeast, settling here as a young man for love or work or both.
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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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Pith in the Wind
- by Jeff Woods
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jim Ridley
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Features
Unlike many hard rock acts, country music singers don’t usually see audience members holding their middle fingers up high as a joyous response to a song or lyric. But as Sarah Johns’ new “One in the Middle” began picking up radio play across the country, crowds at her shows started hoisting the bird while smiling and singing along.
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Features
Much has changed since local pop troupe De Novo Dahl’s 2005 double-album debut, Cats & Kittens. Locally, there’s been a flood of fresh contenders on the rock scene, transplants and young upstarts alike, to keep the scene thriving.
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Features
Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler, the married duo at the core of Over the Rhine, have long been in the business of commingling substance and pleasure.
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The crowd at last Wednesday’s Modest Mouse show at The Ryman was a mixed bag: young kids who have “Float On” on all their party mixes, indie rock hangers-on, people assuming that seeing Johnny Marr play with the Pacific Northwest’s finest was the closest they were ever going to get to seeing The Smiths, Band of Horses fans and probably one or two schlubs who caught the American Idols doing that MM cover during one of their Ford-sponsored music videos.
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Nashville Cream
- by Chris Slack
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Dining
Like proud parents bestowing a name on a newborn, the Union Station team has finally dubbed its nascent restaurant Prime 108. Slated to open in mid-October, Prime 108 takes its title from The Bully 108, the first train engine to come through Union Station.
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Dining
Over the last decade, Nashville’s dining options have increased exponentially as Vietnamese, Ethiopian, Salvadoran and Persian restaurants have planted flags along our city’s international food corridors.
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Reviews
Leonardo DiCaprio wants you to know that we are in serious trouble. No amount of artful chin stubble, it seems, will reverse the depletion of fossil fuels or help to slow population growth.
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Reviews
Masterfully edited and cumulatively walloping, Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight turns the well-known details of our monstrously bungled Iraq war into an enraging, apocalyptic litany of fuck-ups.
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Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: It is as you’ve always suspected: Rob Zombie’s house is way cooler than yours. For one thing, the punk/metal god turned filmmaker has a 12-foot stuffed polar bear in his living room.
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Reviews
BALLS OF FURY 1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: a) A former table tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona) enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground ping-pong tournament of a legendary Chinese criminal (Christopher Walken). b) Suppository jokes. c) Little worth discussing and even less worth seeing. d) All of the above.
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Books
It’s 1936, middle of the Great Depression, and 19-year-old Travis Henry is certainly depressed. As a typical young man, he’s obsessed with girls and his lack of success with them.
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Our Critics Picks
An acronym for “Jazz and More,” this weekend’s J.A.M. leans heavily toward the “and more”—not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Art
It’s been a great year so far for “down there.” From Oprah’s va-jay-jay to Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan going Kojak, the female nether regions have rarely had it so good. Continuing in that vein—albeit with a tad more, ahem, coverage—is Monica Cook’s Pee Girls, which opens this Saturday at TAG Art Gallery.
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Art
By all things holy in the world of spray paint and X-Acto knives, four of the most talented artists from Minneapolis are about to descend on Nashville. And they’re not coming quietly either.
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Books
Americans learn their history, when they learn it at all, in broad strokes. According to our common myth, the break from Britain was accomplished by George Washington on his white horse, leading colonies united in self-sacrifice.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 95 is all nouvelle cuisine this week: small portions/big flavor. The Go, Joe Pagetta, Pat Benatar, The Blasters, The Rentals, Whitey Johnson, Jucifer, and a tidbit from the Music City Jam.
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A woman waiting for her food in the parking lot of an Arby’s on Gallatin Pike went ballistic when she received someone else’s order by mistake.
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Columns: Stories
Just a teaspoon of water from the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant is all the DEA needs to drug-test the city.
