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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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Features
There’s a sketch of me on our blog that’s pretty unflattering, though unfortunately it’s a dead-on likeness. Still, the problem has to be solved one way or another, and while this may seem drastic, here’s the fix: I’m retiring from the Scene.
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Features
In the fall of 2004, a well-to-do lawyer living in a luxury downtown condominium called 911 and reported that a homeless man had assaulted him in the park.
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“This is such an innovative design and a long time coming—what a shame partisan political hacks have targeted the project out of meanness of spirit and selfishness. Keep a song in your heart and a smile on your face. We will prevail.”
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Cover Story
“I used to break into hospitals sometimes, and we would dress up the patients,” Harmony Korine says. “We would crawl through the windows of these hospitals, and I would give them baseball bats and plastic gloves.”
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Features
A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior.
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Desperately Seeking the News
While Andrea Conte kept a smiling, tolerant public face as critics lambasted her for digging a gigantic hole in the front yard of the governor’s mansion, from behind her computer our demure first lady was quietly denouncing “partisan political hacks” acting out of “meanness of spirit and selfishness.”
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Ask a Mexican
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dear Mexican: On COPS, why is it that every time a cop tries to pull over a Mexican for a bad tail light or some other minor infraction, it turns into a high-speed chase.
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The Fabricator
Street View, the Google application that allows web surfers to virtually walk down almost any street in Nashville, has caused thousands of hours of lost productivity since it became available several weeks ago.
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Helter Shelter
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: On January 5, 1988, at 4 a.m., I was minding my own business, sleeping on my side of the bed, not bothering anybody, when I felt the bed shake.
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Features
Steve Poulton’s songs play like prematurely abandoned picaresques of the urban, down-at-heel variety, and he sings his lyrics in a damaged croon that’s actually soulful.
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The Spin couldn’t pass up a chance to see local favorites The Privates come out of hiding at Mercy Lounge last Thursday.
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Features
by Jewly Hight
Talking about Robby Hecht’s musical experiences in Nashville is like playing six degrees of Lex Price.
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Features
by Jewly Hight
Hayes Carll pines for lost youth differently than Tom Waits or The Ramones. (“Pine” isn’t really a verb you’d apply to the latter two.)
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Features
John Hiatt’s upcoming album, Same Old Man, focuses largely on the comforts and struggles of the things that endure, especially love and the memorable experiences, large and small, that make up one’s life.
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Dining
With a voluptuous front awning and swaggering patio, Mad Donna’s restaurant in East Nashville has the bearing of a flamboyant trophy wife filling the shoes of a long-suffering and mousy ex.
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Reviews
by J. Hoberman
Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series into a prospective franchise, Matrix masters Larry and Andy Wachowski have taken another step toward the total cyborganization of the cinema.
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Body of War, Boarding Gate, Redbelt
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Our Critics Picks
Rooney, De Novo Dahl, Tiffany by Design, Nashville Zombie Walk, The Bravery, DeVotchKa, John Prine, and more
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Books
by Faye Jones
Former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Sandford knows his way around a memorable description. But it’s his characters that stay with the reader.
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Comedy
When you ask Jon Stewart about The Daily Show, he goes to great lengths to emphasize that it's a comedy program, and not intended to be taken seriously as a source of news commentary.
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Theater
Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s current mounting of The Underpants, Steve Martin’s adaptation of German playwright Carl Sternheim’s 1910 farce, shows just how far production values can go in goosing the entertainment factor.
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Books
These stories mostly stick to well-worn themes of family drama and love gone wrong, with occasional forays into white trash looniness and the trials of the music business.
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SceneCast
To celebrate the day dedicated to our birth-givers, Scenecast Episode 131 has a real mother for you, with Rooney, De Novo Dahl, The Moaners, Mr. Gnome, The Bravery, The Sword, DeVotchKa, Basia Bulat, Rachael Sage, John Prine, Sierra Hull and sounds from the Ice Cold hip-hop night at The Rutledge.
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Columns: Sports
For Weaver, Nashville is the latest stop on a whirlwind tour that has seen him go from ace to goat and from durable innings-eater back to goat.
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Columns: Damian's Lair
by Damian Winthrop
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dear Damian: This is really embarrassing, but oral sex just makes me want to gag.
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 131
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