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The 16th Annual You Are So Nashville If... Contest You wrote, and we read. ALSO IN THIS SECTION 2004 Winners The Weird Ones This Years Winner YASNI Hall of Fame You completed the now legendary sentence—"You Are So Nashville If..."—and sent in your submissions by the wagon-load. Anxious, we sat down to the assembled mess. After 16 years of holding this contest, we still never know what we're going to get from you people. It could be gibberish or it could be Shakespearean sonnets, or some combination of both. Our hats are off to this year's bumper crop of entries. Some of you thought long and hard, while some of you offered your witticisms after just a moment's consideration. You looked at our city and tried to sum up its essence in one sentence or less. When it came to subject material, plenty of folks stuck to the old standbys: you still hate the way people drive in this town, and the Watson's Pool Girl gets some readers all clammy, while others just can't stop harping on Ms. Cheap. Whatever, this year's prevailing list of civic concerns—the war, the no-show cicadas, Pedro Garcia, the foolishness of the Metro Council—found keen expression from some of this year's entrants. After judging the 16th annual "You Are So Nashville IfÉ" contest, we can say that it's as topical as ever—and not without some bite. We look forward, with great anticipation, to No. 17. No one knows what Nashville Scene publisher Albie Del Favero's announced resignation will mean for the city's alternative newsweekly—and that's as much a testament to the man as it is to the hazards of chain ownership. In 1999, Del Favero and Bruce Dobie entered into a complex deal in which they partnered with Weiss Peck and Greer, a private New York equity firm. That gave rise to a new holding company called City Communications that then bought Stern Publishing, owner of the Village Voice, LA Weekly and several other alt-weeklies. Together, they formed the new Village Voice Media, a chain of seven newspapers.
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