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Woods
Just when the city’s religious wackos thought they were safe from Adam Dread, the flamboyant former Metro Council member has returned to the public arena as a lobbyist for titty bars.
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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Desperately Seeking the News
Aided by reams of boosterish coverage from The Tennessean, the Metro Council voted 30-8 last week to hand a multimillion-dollar subsidy to the wealthy new owners of the Nashville Predators.
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Cover Story
It’s been five years since their little girl vanished without a trace, and Bo and Debra Tuders still talk about her every day.
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Helter Shelter
About a year ago, I was giddy with the excitement of daughter Jess finishing up high school softball once and for all and heading off to a four-year career in college ball.
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Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican: Lately, I’ve been hearing how punks and metal heads in Mexico are trying to beat up emos because it’s been said emos make Mexican culture look bad.
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Features
Shayna Werley was only 14 when the Rev. Jeremy Benack came knocking on the door of her family’s Pennsylvania home, asking them to join the First Baptist Church of Lansford.
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“I love Bernie Sanders. Bernie is a socialist, and that’s not a description; that’s a noun. I love him. He is the only socialist in the Senate.”
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Suburban Turmoil
Forget the days of backyard cake and ice cream; we’ve entered the Competiparty Zone, and birthdays will never be the same.
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Features
Next time your kid takes the car without asking, you might want to reconsider before ratting her out to the cops.
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The Fabricator
The ads for the soon-to-open nightclub Fuse are slick and stylish, and are designed to make the viewer forget that the “Vegas-style” nightspot is located at the decidedly non-Vegas-style Gaylord Opryland Hotel.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Matt Pulle
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Features
As a singer and guitarist for America’s preeminent indie rock band, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has devoted the better part of three decades to engaging and electrifying the alternative underground scene.
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Just as we packed up a blanket and bought a 12-pack of Budweiser cans at 7 p.m. to head to Friday’s Rites of Spring, the rain began to drizzle. So we waited and waited, and then like magic, it stopped at 11:30 p.m. just in time to see Spoon.
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Features
Though Sun Records and Elvis are synonymous with Memphis, the city has also long garnered the distinction within the rock ’n’ roll underground as a garage rock hotbed.
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Features
Americans are used to hearing their music come back to them in interesting ways from far-off lands. But West Africa’s Habib Koité and Australia’s The Waifs—both making rare appearances in Nashville in the coming week—reveal how differently stateside influences can be incorporated into something distinctive and personal.
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Dining
The snake lady at the Discovery Center wasn’t the only person who recommended Tomato, Tomato. There was also that family at the Kids’ Castle playground who spoke highly of the place.
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Bites
- by Carrington Fox
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Reviews
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle with a novel idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead of writing garishly caricatured bit players with names like Long Duk Dong, you cast an Asian actor as the smart, handsome, upwardly mobile leading man?
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Reviews
With a few exceptions, you’d be hard-pressed to find films about teenage girls that don’t primarily involve promiscuity, sexual abuse, suicide or just plain cattiness—one cautionary tale after the next about what tragedy awaits the adventurous young female spirit.
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This week in local theaters.
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Reviews
If you haven’t made it out yet to the 2008 Nashville Film Festival, here’s what you’ve missed so far: surprise no-fuss appearances by Nicole Kidman at screenings of The Black List and American Teen; a furious confrontation between the family of the late Nashville fighter Irish Billy Collins and a maker of the documentary Cornered at the post-film Q&A; banjo master Bela Fleck turning his after-film discussion into a hoedown with an impromptu “Ballad of Jed Clampett”: and a virtual group hug for ’70s hitmaker Dennis Lambert, subject of his son Jody’s lovable doc Of All the Things.
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Theater
People’s Branch Theatre’s The Antigone Cycle,/em> updates Sophocles’ three Theban plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone), often known as the Oedipus Cycle, by presenting the story’s classic family conflicts and violent motivations in a hip-hop context.
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Books
Katie Crouch, a South Carolina native, apparently knows all about the archaic and vaguely ridiculous social mores of Charleston society.
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Books
We all know a Peter Russell—the solid, relatively successful guy with moderate good looks but no particular star quality. The pleasant but forgettable fellow at the wedding reception awkwardly wearing rented shoes.
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Our Critics Picks
Bon Jovi, Patti Austin, Baby With the Bathwater, Pelican, Nick Swardson, Susannah Felts, Clutch, Earth, Joey Belladonna and more
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 129 is your perfect Arbor Day companion, complete with carbon dioxide-sucking perennials like Bon Jovi along with The Nu-Sonics, Film School, Patti Austin with the Count Basie Orchestra, Cory Branan, Pelican, Teitur, Clutch, Earth, Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials, Destroyer and a few words from Pulp Fiction.
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Columns: Sports
t’s almost as if Major League Baseball only decided to ban substances they read about in Sports Illustrated.
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Columns: Damian's Lair
by Damian Winthrop
I'm not saying I was entitled to squid pro quo or anything, but I spent about $150 on dinner for two and went home to disappointment for one.
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Sweet Riffs
This week, Girls Rock!, a documentary about the Rock & Roll Camp for Girls in Oregon, debuts at The Belcourt (see the review on p. 53), and this weekend, founders of the Southern Girls Rock & Roll Camp (SGRRC) in Murfreesboro host an all-ages show to celebrate securing office space for their newest venture, the Youth Culture & Arts Center (YCAC).
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 129
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