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Features
ess than a month to go before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, Fred Thompson is in real danger of becoming irrelevant.
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“Nashville area Exxon On the Run shops are offering free coffee today as part of a season-long promotion of the Tennessee Titans.”
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The Fabricator
The Korean automaker Hyundai began selling cars in the U.S. in 1986. The children whose parents bought those first-off-the-boat vehicles are now young adults, meaning that the effects of growing up in a Hyundai-owning household are just now becoming evident.
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Features
Neighbors opposed to the planned underground entertainment complex that first lady Andrea Conte envisions for the Executive Residence are raising their screeching protests an octave by creating a group called Tennesseans for Accountability in Government.
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Well, here it is December, when the “War on Christmas” rears its ugly head. Every day from now until Dec. 26, we’ll hear about people who get offended when they go shopping in a big-box store and a clerk wishes them “happy holidays” instead of “merry Christmas.”
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Cover Story
In a very short span of time, the Titans’ Albert Haynesworth has gone from one of the most vilified names in America to one of the most valuable players in the NFL.
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Ask a Mexican
Why doesn’t Mexico have the drive toward technology and math/science education that has virtually transformed India?
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Features
Starting Jan. 2, former Scene staff writer Matt Pulle will be returning to the paper as managing editor.
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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Prabir & the Substitutes, Bombadil, Umbrella Tree, The Protomen, MotherFather
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Features
by Jewly Hight
For an album with the title Holiday Noise, there’s little that’s loud or intense on this new collection of Christmas songs from quality local indie, acoustic and pop artists.
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Features
by Chris Parker
Four years removed from the demise of his alt-country outfit Legends of Rodeo, South Florida native John Ralston is building up a sturdy head of steam on his own with the release of his latest.
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Features
Keith Urban’s first-ever Greatest Hits album, released Nov. 20, is subtitled 18 Kids—a reference to that hoary cliché about artists considering songs their children.
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Features
The ironies of our conflicting city and state beer and liquor laws aren’t lost on Family Wash owner Jamie Rubin, who lost his beer license in 2006 due to a confusing zoning issue.
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Dining
There’s no doubt Joe Galante has eaten at some of the world’s most esteemed dining establishments—the Sony BMG Nashville chairman travels all across the country, has a West Coast getaway and vacations in Europe.
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Meet Me in St. Louis, What Would Jesus Buy?
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Reviews
By Michelle Orange
Casting Nicole Kidman as The Golden Compass’ glacial, intractably smooth megalomaniac Mrs. Coulter is no less inspired for being obvious.
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Our Critics Picks
What to do this week.
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Theater
Attempting a radio-drama stage version of It’s a Wonderful Life, devoid of the familiar black-and-white images of Frank Capra’s masterwork, would seem an insurmountable task.
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Books
by Michael Ray TaylorLong before the giving tree gave or the sidewalk ended, a discharged Army cartoonist named Shel Silverstein walked the streets of Chicago, hungry for work, entertainment and any possible means of avoiding the family bakery business. The year was 1955, and Silverstein carried a portfolio of cartoons that he had drawn for the Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes, depicting the lighter side of military life.
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Books
Serious bike riding offers a heady cocktail of two irresistible pleasures—euphoria and self-righteousness. The combination of physical exertion and mechanical assistance delivers a particularly salubrious release of endorphin.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 109 keeps the inside of your head warm with a hearty audio
stew of VHS or Beta, Over the Rhine, Ghostfinger, Glossary, Tina Adair,
Robert Bradley, Regina Spektor, Happy Birthday Amy, Garrison Starr,
Bubblegum Complex, Tim O'Brien, Slightly Stoopid, Fishbone and previews of
WRVU's Buzz & Click, Station Inn's Annual Homeless Benefit and Family Wash's
Charlie Brown X-Mas.
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Columns: Stories
How are you liking that new 60 cents-per-pack tax on cigarettes? Sure, you can avoid the tax by driving to Kentucky to buy two cartons of smokes every so often, but why not save your gas money and put a wad of dip behind your lip.
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Upon further questioning, however, the man admitted she was only wielding a spatula.
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 109
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