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“The Tennessee Republican Party today joins a growing chorus of Americans concerned about the future of the nation of Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle East, if Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is elected president of the United States.”
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The Fabricator
In an astounding show of support, more than 500 Tennessee Democrats have arranged to change their middle names to Hussein in protest of the state GOP’s efforts to stigmatize Barack Obama because of his middle name.
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Helter Shelter
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: About this time of year, just before spring house-shopping time, I feel an urge to share a little inside house-buying dope with eager would-be homebuyers.
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Letters
Letters from our readers
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Features
Fluorescent lights blazing overhead make the prisoner look like a ghost of a man, and after spending 22 years on death row for a crime he likely didn’t commit, perhaps that’s what he is.
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Cover Story
Though only 36 years old, with a preppy, scrubbed smile that made him look a decade younger, Gus Puryear had become a confidant to many prominent, influential men, particularly Republicans.
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Features
A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior
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Ask a Mexican
Why do Mexicans have padrinos for everything? I never understood why, so can you help me out?
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Woods
State Republican Party chair Robin Smith seems convinced America is fighting a holy war against Muslims.
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Features
Leslie Keffer, The Clutters, and Next Big Nashville Day Party
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Features
At first glance, Alan Jackson’s Good Time might resemble a successful businessman getting back to what he does best after taking a long sabbatical to study a new topic or try new endeavors. But Jackson rarely should be taken at first glance.
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Features
Working with time-honored elements of prog and folk-rock, the Vancouver, B.C., quintet demonstrates that collective spirit doesn’t have to dampen individuality.
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Features
by Danielle Dreilinger
Turns out that “SXSW can be a total blast even without a wristband.”
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Features
Between the bitter winds, freezing temperatures, rain, sleet and flurried snow, we had every reason to stay home last week, but none of these things matter when proto-punk living legend Jonathan Richman comes to town.
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Nashville Cream
- by Seth Graves
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Tags: Cream Calendar, discount vintage winter threads, Infinity Cat, JEFF, Local Honey, Meemaw, S.T.E.A.K., Sisters, The Magic Number, The Muggabears, Wizardz
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Dining
No one need go hungry at Fire-N-Ice Bar & Grill, the newest occupant of a building long known for an all-you-can-eat buffet of Indian food.
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Reviews
The Signal has the crazy all right, bless its cold and sick little heart.
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This week on local theaters
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Reviews
His latest full-length, Broken In, finds him on an independent label, but Willmon lives by the cowboy code, which means no cursing—at least in public.
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Books
You can’t keep the coal dust out of a Coalwood boy, and Hickam returns to his roots in his latest novel, The Red Helmet (Thomas Nelson, 342 pp., $24.99).
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Art
Arranged chronologically on walls of white or dove gray, Monet to Dali is an accessible and entertaining meander through almost a century of European art.
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Our Critics Picks
The Black Hollies, Nashville FemmeControl Room, The Donnas, and more
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Books
One of the girls is a promising photographer who finds that she does her best work when she turns her camera, sometimes ruthlessly, on her friend.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 122 brings together all the joys of the coming Spring with thrills and daffodills from The Black Hollies, Jesse Malin, Mark Newton Band, El Rick Haun, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Sisters, Muggabears, The Explorers Club, Bryan Scary and the
Shredding Tears, Matt Costa, Jonathan Rice, Black Horse, Lozen, The Donnas, Peachcake, Horrorpops, Pink Spiders, Toubab Krewe, including tales from the mic at Ladyspeak.
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Columns: Desperately Seeking the News
Listen, this is out of the blue, but I think we might have been a little mean to you when we were younger. I apologize.
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Columns: Sports
When Memphis, ranked No. 338 in the country, played host to UT, ranked No. 302, in a game people are still talking about almost two weeks later, expectations ran high, and for once, Thunder Road, not Tobacco Road, ran through the center of the college basketball world.
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Columns: Garrigan
More inspiration from the mailroom, but this time it’s not an invitation to apply to Leadership Nashville, which for some reason we haven’t gotten in a while: Easter Seals has announced its annual Nashvillian of the Year.
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 122
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