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Features
Many of Nashville’s wine and spirit purveyors have a distaste for the Tennessee Alcohol and Beverage Commission matched only a by a pants-pissing fear of the agency’s power to put them out of business.
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Features
Those who frequent the Scene’s home page may have noticed that we opened up our choice for Nashvillian of the Year to reader balloting.
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The Fabricator
Have drugs influenced music the way they’ve influenced baseball?
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Cover Story
In an abandoned house on Eastland Avenure, Clemmie Greenlee withered to a frail, gaunt 85 pounds. Smoking crack cocaine incessantly, she sometimes went days without eating, sleeping or bathing. Consumed by addiction, Greenlee was living for the next high, as she had for years. When her supply dwindled, she would sell her brittle, worn-out body until she earned enough money turning tricks to replenish her stash.
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Suburban Turmoil
Well, here we are, the week after Christmas—fat, broke, and surrounded by a lot of tinned fruitcakes, hand vacuums and singing flowerpots we neither asked for nor wanted. So awful are some of the presents we received that thousands of us now are braving ridiculous crowds at malls and superstores to return everything from electronic nose hair tweezers to Love’s Baby Soft gift sets.
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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Helter Shelter
Some years back, before my eyebrows started getting bushy, I played rock ’n’ roll for a living. Every day, I woke up about noon, ate my breakfast when most people were getting done with lunch, then loafed around the motel swimming pool the rest of the day.
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Features
That the Del McCoury Band has been able to maintain its place at the forefront of bluegrass while achieving sainthood among the tie-dye set is a testament to the respect the McCoury family commands.
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Features
by Jaime Lees
Call him what you will: Charles Thompson, Black Francis or Frank Black, but as the front man of the Pixies, ol’ what’s-his-name deserves a little praise.
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Features
Compiled by Matt Sullivan
Last week, we at the Scene ranked highlights from the year in local rock, so this week, just as we did last year, we asked for the impressions of a few locals—musicians, bloggers and promoters with their fingers on the pulse—on 2007, a year that saw a local rock festival really take root, house party shows multiply and increasing national recognition for Nashville artists. Turns out Next Big Nashville was kind of a big deal, Character and Slack were sorely missed and Kyle Andrews should keep an eye peeled for a really tall, skinny dude.
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Dining
It’s not unusual for independent restaurants to showcase the work of local artists. In fact, it’s a clever plan to fill the empty wall space while adding an affordable brushstroke of personality to the décor. More often than not, though, the food leads the way, and the art is an aesthetic afterthought.
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Reviews
Scene film contributors Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Nathan Lee, Jim Ridley, Ella Taylor and Robert Wilonsky don’t always (or often) agree. But by combining their top 10 lists, allowing for ties, we can pretend like they do! Without further ado, the 10 (plus) best movies of the year:
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Reviews
How tough is it for a movie to find its audience, above the din of blockbuster marketing and beyond the clogged distribution pipeline? Tsai Ming-liang, the Taiwanese/Malaysian director regarded as one of the world’s greats, had two films in U.S. theaters this year, The Wayward Cloud and I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.
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Reviews
by Scott Foundas
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there—and as the late Shohei Imamura would have added, it’s usually a bird-eat-bird and a snake-eat-mouse one too. His movies are guttural epics bubbling over with rape and revenge, incest and adultery.
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Our Critics Picks
CHICAGO AFROBEAT The most obvious question with this Fela Kuti-inspired ensemble is: How are they different from fellow Afrobeat torchbearers Antibalas? Chicago Afrobeat proves Antibalas’ claim that Afrobeat is a genre unto itself that can be approached in myriad ways.
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Columns: Stories
Did you find the elf on your shelf during the Christmas season? He arrives this time of year (or whenever you give $30 to the store where Santa keeps him) to spy on your children and report their behavior—naughty or nice—to the North Pole.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 112 fills the holiday crack between Christmas and New Years with audio spackle.
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Shortly after 8 a.m., a woman knocked on the front door of a residence in the 12 South neighborhood and asked if she could use the bathroom. Despite the unusual request, the homeowners allowed the stranger to come inside and relieve herself. But after using the restroom, the woman didn’t leave, and instead made herself comfortable in the living room.
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 112
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