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The Fabricator
The border dispute between Georgia and Tennessee entered a new phase this week, as lawmakers from both states searched for a compromise that would fairly compensate Tennessee for the loss of its territory.
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Suburban Turmoil
Talk about hitting a nerve. After my last column about the sad plight of stay-at-home dads (or SAHDs), I was flooded with responses from these guys and the wives who support them. Readers either took the column as honest commentary on the lonely, resourceless world of SAHDs, or they decided that by writing about it, I was actually contributing to their problems.
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Features
A study aimed at ensuring that capital punishment in Tennessee is fair and error-free will abruptly end later this year after a handful of state legislators killed a bill that would have allowed the investigation to continue.
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Helter Shelter
A whole lot of people who ask me about fixing things say they need to find somebody who’ll do the work “for a good price” or something “reasonable.” Of course, these are code words for cheap.
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Features
Metro police and the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) are investigating claims of rape by several boys who live at Hermitage Hall, a youth treatment facility for sex offenders that’s tucked away off Eighth Avenue South. According to incident reports, the assaults happened Jan. 29 after a staffer left four residents alone for a half-hour.
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Letters
Letters from our readers
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“Politics makes for strange bedfellows.”
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Ask a Mexican
Mucho feedback from ustedes regarding recent questions about archetypical Mexican dogs and the propensity of wabs to DUI. Let’s empezar with the doggies.
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Cover Story
Debbie Vasquez was immobilized, pinned on her back in a car parked somewhere near a field in rural Sanger, a small North Texas town that sits atop a hill in the Blackland Prairie. A man nearly twice Vasquez’s age had driven the girl nearly half an hour away from her hometown to a secluded spot and parked the car.
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Woods
Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign will probably make history as a squandered opportunity. Now, he’s all but finished even before the voting starts, the victim of a combination of his own bungling and relentless media hit jobs.
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Features
When Gov. Phil Bredesen said that Tennessee’s tornado damage “looks like the Lord took a Brillo pad and scrubbed the ground,” it set Hobbs off. In a blog post, he lectured the governor.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Matt Pulle
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Tags: Media
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Totally Snake, Ampline, The Ocelots and more
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Features
Umbrella Tree’s sophomore album The Church & The Hospital opens with a scream—literally. A unison howl prefaces a crash of music. Never a band to allow their audience to get too comfortable, this local threesome mixes moments of alarming beauty with calculated, cacophonous noise. And here the palette has grown even richer—the louds are even louder and the pretty parts often transcendently beautiful.
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Features
Ever since The Kinks sailed to “Hawaii, in the U.S.A” on 1966’s “Holiday in Waikiki,” Ray Davies has enjoyed a relationship with America that has been fractious, loving and marked by mutual incomprehension. Like his British Invasion compatriots, the 63-year-old songwriter and singer cut his teeth on American rock ’n’ roll and jazz. As his new solo record Working Man’s Café demonstrates, Davies continues to work out his American obsession in fruitful ways.
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Dining
In the pantheon of bread-based handheld carbohydrates—think tortillas, pita pockets and Ethiopian injera—the crepe stands out for its elegant simplicity. At its best, the paper-thin pancake, whose bubbled pattern of browning is as defining as a fingerprint, evokes an amber-lit bistro or a seaside creperie spinning out fresh confections stuffed with ham and cheese, fruit and chantilly or chocolate.
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Reviews
by Robert Wilonsky
Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up Definitely, Maybe is a surprisingly rewarding romantic comedy—one worth the effort, because some effort’s actually been put into it.
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This week in local theaters
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Our Critics Picks
Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville, Belphegor, BEAT, The Mattoid, and more
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Books
Laura Willig began what eventually became her first book, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, while still a Harvard graduate student in history. (She later earned a Harvard law degree as well.) “It was my reward to myself for finishing two years of intensive graduate work,” she says.
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Books
In his book Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself (Oxford, 235 pp., $45), Vanderbilt philosophy professor Lenn E. Goodman examines the Golden Rule from the perspective of the Hebrew Bible.
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Theater
Whether zeitgeist or pure coincidence, three local theater companies opened plays last weekend that in varying degrees focus on elements of torture, totalitarianism or high-pressure interrogation. In each instance, the goal is the determination of truth, insofar as language and circumstances allow.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 119 is a big chocolate-covered heart full of Valentine ear candy with Davis Raines, Amy LaVere, Jared Micah & The Hats, The Mattoid, Webb Wilder, Jack Clement, Brian Ashley Jones, Evangelicals, Early Day Miners, Tim Finn, Down, The Belleville Outfit, Vast and sounds from the Beautiful Music That Surrounds You exhibit at Fisk.
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Columns: Desperately Seeking the News
by Matt Pulle and Liz Garrigan
In his Sunday column, Tennessean editor Mark Silverman rightly lauded his staff’s thorough reporting of last week’s tornadoes, giving “thanks to the dedicated journalists with whom I’m privileged to work.” If only he acted that graciously in the newsroom.
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 119
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