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Letters
Letters from our readers
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Features
A video camera outside the governor’s mansion has captured one neighbor going berserk and screaming at workers digging “Bredesen’s Bunker.” Another resident is sounding the alarm against potential terrorist attacks and recommending the establishment of a Baghdad-style Green Zone in South Nashville.
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Cover Story
The death penalty is supposed to be reserved for the state’s most unconscionable murderers, but such deplorable offenders often are spared, while perpetrators of far less cruel and callous crimes await the ultimate punishment on death row.
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Features
There’s no such thing as 39 and holding for the Nashville Film Festival. From screen legend Patricia Neal to upstart cult filmmakers, from international festival gems to subjects of hometown pride, the city’s annual film celebration—to be held April 17-24 at Green Hills—approaches its fourth decade with the vigor of youth.
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Features
In late January, surveillance footage at Hermitage Hall, a treatment facility for nearly 100 male youth sex offenders ages 9 to 17, revealed that a staffer neglected his supervisory duties and spent nearly half an hour in a bathroom as several boys under his care appeared to be anally and orally raped by another resident (“Bitter Pill,” Feb. 14).
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Ask a Mexican
Why won’t Mexicans vote for a black man?
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“It’s time to set the record straight about Barack Obama and where he really stands on vital issues such as national security and the security of Israel.”
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Suburban Turmoil
In the bowels of a dying beast known as the Bellevue Center Mall, a dozen or so moms have gathered to hold vigil. They chat wistfully, one eye trained always on their preschoolers, who run squealing through a maze of oversized dominoes, Candy Land-style paths, brightly colored tunnels and an oversized hound dog with stairs running up one end and a tiny slide dipping down the other.
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The Fabricator
“Even the grainy, surveillance-style video couldn’t hide the fact that this is a man who just instinctively knows how to wear a bathrobe,” says show producer Michelle Moran.
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Features
By Chris Parker
Opening Doug Hoekstra’s sixth studio album, Blooming Roses, “Acquired Taste,” with its rolling lap and pedal steel, is a gentle gibe at the particulars of preference. It’s emblematic of his music’s understated charms. Hoekstra’s whispered croon is close like a lover’s confidence, its willowy presence carried on the softly undulating sound of nylon strings pinging lightly over a loping, minimal snare/cymbal snap.
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Features
The line to get into the Cannery last Tuesday wrapped around the lot. The $3 dollar parking area was full by 9:30 p.m., so we had to park at Cummins Station and walk to the back of the line where we waited nearly an hour in the cold before walking inside. All of this to see one band, New Orleans supergroup Down.
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Features
by Matt Sullivan
After a few years entertaining the city’s barflies, The Mattoid’s outsider pop has become less and less outside. As the alter-ego of Helsinki-born Ville Kiviniemi, both the comedic and musical components of The Mattoid’s performances landed him opening slots for both comedian Doug Stanhope and singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston in the past year. This year, The Mattoid has joined the Infinity Cat roster (Be Your Own Pet, JEFF, Cake Bake Betty) to release his latest, The Glory Holy.
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Dining
There's an old country conundrum that goes something like this: If you replace the blade and you replace the handle, do you still have the same old ax? Greek philosophers asked a similar question about a ship that had been repaired plank by plank until every aspect of the boat was new. Was it still the same old ship? At Parco Style Cafe, where new owners have introduced a new menu, in a relatively new location, is it still the same restaurant?
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Bites
- by Jack Silverman
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This week in local theaters
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Reviews
Mock rock ’n’ roll classicism that’s catchy and completely haywire, Hotpipes’ new Future Bolt sounds like the Nashville quartet wrote the record during a hot week in a basement in Dayton, Ohio. Actually, they did. Drummer Dan Sommers and guitarist Dave Mengerink hail from the southwest Ohio city that has given the world The Ohio Players and Guided by Voices, while vocalist Jonathan Rogers and bassist Justin Hall grew up in Alexandria, Ky.
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Reviews
by Chuck Wilson
“When you sleep with the King, it ceases to be a private matter.” And so it comes to pass that young Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) must stand before her father, Sir Thomas (Mark Rylance), and her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk (David Morrissey), and report the nitty-gritty details of having just had sex with King Henry VIII (Eric Bana).
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Theater
Veteran Music Row commercial producer Jim Reyland has been nurturing alternate dreams as a playwright for about 10 years. The author of locally produced stage works such as Stuff (1999) and Shelter (2006) recently founded his own nonprofit theater company, Writer’s Stage, whose broader goal is to serve as a resource for committed Tennessee playwrights looking for an outlet for their as-yet-unproduced work.
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Art
This subtle skewing of the environment provides an emotional background for the show’s various elements, all of which focus on the distorted, alienated perceptions women have of their bodies. The viewer’s gnawing awareness of something amiss mirrors the persistent feeling among women that their physical selves are ugly, unhealthy or otherwise faulty.
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Books
by Michael Ray Taylor
Earlier this month, Super Bowl XLII became the second-most-watched TV show of all time, according to Nielsen Media Research. In fact, apart from the 1983 series finale of M*A*S*H, all the other top 10 slots are filled by various Super Bowls going back to 1978, the year of the first prime time Super Bowl broadcast. But one of the other highest rated televised events of 1978 was not the World Series or any other game played with a single ball. It was a pool match between two men: Willie Mosconi, one of the game’s greatest champions, and the legendary pool hustler known as Minnesota Fats.
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Our Critics Picks
Tommy and the Whale, Sigourney Cheek, Wycliffe Gordon, The Road to Guantanamo, First Saturday art openings and more
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Books
by Chris Clancy
In Chris Bohjalian’s new novel, The Double Bind (Vintage, 416 pp., $14.95), college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is nearly raped by a pair of ski mask-wearing thugs while biking the logging roads of northern Vermont. Even though her would-be rapists are caught and thrown behind bars, the experience leaves Laurel diminished and, in the words of her middle-aged, noncommittal boyfriend, “fragile.”
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SceneCast
Scenecast Epsiode 121 blows in like the proverbial March lion's pride with Tommy and the Whale, The Refugees, Wycliffe Gordon, David Dewese, We Were The States, Jason Isbell, Dharmakaya, Wilco, John Doe, Tommy Keenum, Robin Trower, Darla Farmer, Chieftans, and Kathy Mattea.
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Columns: Desperately Seeking the News
by Matt Pulle
If you think Gannett’s a shitty place to work, you’re more right than you think. The nation’s largest newspaper chain is investigating allegations of plunging morale at Cherry Hill, N.J.’s Courier-Post, run by former Tennessean editor E.J. Mitchell, after a well-circulated anonymous letter detailed how both the “men’s and women’s bathrooms have been deliberately soiled by feces in separate incidents.”
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 121
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