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Ask a Mexican
After the great migration of Jews to this nation, a question was posed: “How long does it take a Jew to go from being a street sweeper to becoming a corporate attorney?” The answer given was, “One generation.”
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The Fabricator
There is a political story, possibly true, that in the early days of Lamar Alexander’s first term as governor, his cabinet members and aides proudly drove their BMWs and Mercedes into their new parking spaces at the Capitol—until they noticed that the governor’s parking slot was occupied by a rather long-in-the-tooth Plymouth.
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“I never doubt myself. Never. If I doubt myself, then I’m gonna be a bad quarterback.”
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Woods
Conventional wisdom holds that Sen. Lamar Alexander is almost unbeatable in 2008. He’s commonly viewed as one of the most popular politicians ever to hold office in the state, and the political newsletters are rating his seat as “safe Republican.”
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Features
Nashville’s Sexually Oriented Business Licensing Board—or SOB, as it’s known around town—is great at ensuring that strippers don’t dance too close to paying customers and that the “lighting level” in private booths is appropriate.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Steve Haruch
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jim Ridley
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Features
If you think of music as a kind of language, then you’d probably have to consider most classical musicians to be semi-literate.
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Features
It’s clear from the sight of the melting Confederate flag emblazoned with Abraham Lincoln’s pipe-smoking visage on the cover of Swampblood that the Legendary Shack Shakers aren’t out to preserve some pristine Southern essence.
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The Spin loves cute things—fuzzy bunnies, fluffy kitties, Haley Joel Osment back when he still saw dead people, all of it.
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Features
Knoxville alt-rock favorites Superdrag enjoyed an astonishing rise to success in the mid-’90s, then became yet another cautionary tale about how major labels can stifle promising young careers.
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Features
The best descriptors for Devendra Banhart’s latest album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, come in pairs—one at a time doesn’t do justice to its heady tensions or its creator’s labyrinthine mystique. The record is kinetic yet placid, pensive yet droll, erratic yet strangely cohesive.
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Dining
The first time I stepped into a California Pizza Kitchen, I was a college student on spring break, visiting my West Coast roommate.
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Reviews
Complete listings
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Reviews
Ever tried in vain to prove to your kids that old movies are cool? For the next three months, you have an ally in the Belcourt.
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Reviews
“Some days we wonder how we’re going to do this,” Hazel Joyner-Smith says. The program director of Fisk University’s Race Relations Institute, Joyner-Smith is no stranger to challenges.
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Books
When T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” was published in 1922, critic Charles Powell panned the poem’s disjointed, cryptic passages as “so much waste paper.”
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Dance
To paraphrase the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, you may not be able to define modern dance, but you sure as hell know it when you see it.
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Animator Brent Green’s stop-motion phantasmagoria may call to mind Tim Burton and the Brothers Quay, without the former’s studio slickness or the latter’s hermetic fussiness.
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Books
In the early pages of Apollo’s Fire, Michael Sims quotes Christopher Morley’s description of a day as “an artistic whole; it comes out of nothing and goes back to nothing, like a perfect story.”
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Best of Nashville
Our writers pick the Best of Nashville's arts and entertainment for 2007.
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Best of Nashville
Our writers pick the best of Nashville's food and drink for 2007.
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Best of Nashville
Our writers pick the best of Nashville's goods and services for 2007.
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Best of Nashville
Thanks for tuning in to WSCENE and our 19th broadcast of Best of Nashville, brought to you by Martha White Flour and Goo Goo clusters.
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Best of Nashville
Our writers pick the best of Nashville for kids.
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Best of Nashville
Our writers pick the best of Nashville's 2007 politics and media.
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Best of Nashville
Our writers pick the best of Nashville music for 2007.
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Best of Nashville
Our readers pick Nashville's best of... well... everything.
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Best of Nashville
Our writers pick the best of Nashville's people, places and events for 2007.
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SceneCast
To paraphrase Ann Coulter, if radio had any brains, it would be Scenecast Episode 100.
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Columns: Stories
Hey, I’m Benchley. Yeah, I know I’m adorable. Bet you can’t guess what I am. Try a collie-Doberman.
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Police received several calls about a woman exposing her breasts to customers at a Mapco on Gallatin Road.
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 100
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