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“It wasn’t something that he had a burning desire for.”
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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Woods
It turns out that Lee Beaman, the zillionaire businessman who’s leading neighbors fighting “Bredesen’s Bunker” partly to prevent blasting for the gigantic underground banquet hall at the governor’s mansion, isn’t opposed to dynamiting at his own house.
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Cover Story
By Cody De VosIt’s a breezy autumn afternoon at the unofficial Rat Patrol Nashville headquarters, a small rented house near Hillsboro Village where members of Nashville’s most active freak-bike gang congregate. Daniel, a lean 22-year-old with a handlebar mustache, is in the backyard, an elephant graveyard of bike parts and assorted debris.
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Features
As a Metro cop for more than 15 years, Ernest Cecil helped nab countless gang members, drug dealers and other violent criminals on Nashville’s streets. But last week, the longtime law enforcement officer stood before a federal judge as a convicted felon pleading for mercy.
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Suburban Turmoil
“Thank you for submitting your work to Crack’d,” I might read. “Unfortunately, we don’t have a need for a piece on ‘Bad ’80s Perms’ right now. Also, your writing stinks.”
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The Fabricator
The producers of Police Academy 8: The Name Game have agreed to pay Metro an undisclosed fee for the rights to use the details of the Christmas Eve computer theft from the Davidson County Election Commission office.
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Ask a Mexican
I want as many Mexicans in this country as possible, and then I want to tell them about Joseph Smith and get them baptized and enjoy the blessings of the temple. Come on down—you are welcome by me.
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Helter Shelter
I live in a warehouse. You wouldn’t know it if you just looked at my house from the street.
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Features
Chris Brown has been well known to the screaming underage masses for a minute now, but he broke out to a wider audience at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards show. There he perfectly parroted the Gloved One’s moonwalk dance, prompting Justin Timberlake to tell the world he felt old.
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Features
By Jonathan GarrettLouis XIV frontman Jason Hill knows what it’s like to be hated. In 2005, Pitchfork gave his major-label debut, The Best Little Secrets Are Kept, a pitiable 1.2.
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There are some nights we spend extra time primping in front of the mirror, putting on our sweetest threads to hit the town for an evening of extraneous schmoozing and maximum rock ’n’ roll action. But sometimes we just wanna get out of the house and hear some good bands.
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Dining
The next time your fork gets snared in a tangle of pea vine or stumbles across a brick-sized crouton, you might look around for chef John David Crow. Unusual ingredients and creative presentations such as those are earning Crow rave reviews from local restaurant connoisseurs, particularly the ones who travel the Highway 100 corridor.
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This week in local theaters.
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Reviews
Almost 15 years ago, Mike Nawrocki remembers, when he and creative partner Phil Vischer were shopping around an animated series of Bible stories retold with produce—starring a cartoon tomato and his cucumber chum—“it was hard to get anybody to take us seriously, even Christians.” But their VeggieTales struck a chord with parents unsure how to acclimate their kids to either religion or vegetables.
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Reviews
Having a child destroys your immune system to horror, real or imagined. Before the blessed event, you could laugh off The Exorcist, The Omen, or any of a thousand gory shockers with some wide-eyed tyke as either the prey or the spawn of Beelzebub.
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Reviews
By Jewly HightAt the heart of Old Black Kettle are three harmonizing female voices that do justice to the band’s name.
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Art
You have to wonder if emails between Lisa Solomon and Aurora Robson, the two artists collaborating in SQFT Gallery’s current Couplets show, were discussed in any of Dick Cheney’s daily terror briefings.
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Books
We haven’t yet reached the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, and a number of important players in the civil rights movement are still active in public life, yet the struggle against segregation has condensed in the national imagination to a handful of iconic moments.
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Books
What’s a girl to do but return to Alabama to discover the dark secrets of her family?
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Our Critics Picks
What to do this week.
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Two sisters were traveling along Interstate 65 near downtown when a black Jeep Wrangler pulled up alongside their car and the driver honked to get their attention. When the women looked over, the male motorist lifted his pelvis with his genitals exposed.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 114 satisfies all your New Year's resolutions in 59:35
while you crank it to Souja Boy, The Jane Shermans, Black Diamond Heavies,
Paper Route, Butterfly Boucher, The Lonely Hearts, Suzy Bogguss, Gustafer
Yellowgold, Once & Future Kings, Editors, Codaphonic, Andy Hall, James
McMurtry, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Turbo Fruits.
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 114
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