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An Embittered Day in the Neighborhood The saga over events at a historic home continues, and this time it’s personal

Free at Last Why a federal judge is ready to let Paul House go

 

 

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The Nashville Scene presents Trivia Night at McFadden's!

Menu of Menus Coming Soon! Hitting stands April 24th.

Whole Foods Market presents the Nashville Scene's Iron Fork! April 30, 2008!

Episode 127

Love-Hate Mail

An Embittered Day in the Neighborhood The saga over events at a historic home continues, and this time it’s personal

Free at Last Why a federal judge is ready to let Paul House go

Phil, We Need to Talk A public breakup with Tennessee’s governor

 

 

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Courtroom Absence Tennessean ignores the prosecution of a deadly gang

A Jailhouse Mystery Hoping to win a federal judgeship, Gus Puryear offers a sanitized version of how a CCA inmate died

Adam and Me Channel 2 axes its political blogger

A White Man’s Dance With Ted Kennedy on his back, judicial candidate Gus Puryear is forced to defend his membership at the exclusive Belle Meade Country Club

Hey Frank, Call Me An open letter to the former Tennessean editor

Elephant in the Room At only 39, GOP golden boy Gus Puryear is a Bush judicial appointee, but congressional Democrats are targeting his inexperience and deep Republican ties

Smells Like Team Spirit Gannett deals with one of its troubled papers, and it’s not The Tennessean—yet

 

 

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Matt Pulle

Matt Pulle is the Nashville Scene's Managing Editor.

 

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Nashville is back to being a one-daily town after start-up publishing company SouthComm Communications announced plans to purchase The City Paper and publish it only twice a week. Former Scene publisher Albie Del Favero, who now has the same job at The City Paper, told his startled staff yesterday afternoon before the paper broke the sale on its website.

SouthComm Communications—which is manned by Chris Ferrell, another erstwhile Scene publisher—is the parent company of online news site NashvillePost.com and Music Row and just days ago purchased Business TN. The City Paper, though, will be SouthComm's highest profile purchase yet. Launched in the fall of 2000 by former insurance executive Brian Brown, the free daily quickly become a well-read, if not particularly influential, newspaper capitalizing on The Tennessean's occasional disinterest in local news. Under editor Clint Brewer, The City Paper amped up its political coverage and became more relevant, although (judging by its often anemic page count) the business model never took off.

Now the paper will publish twice weekly, with plans to come out Mondays and Fridays starting April 28. The City Paper will still deliver daily news on its website, nashvillecitypaper.com. It's not known yet how SouthComm will juggle both The City Paper's website and NashvillePost.com, since the two will be competing for the same stories and readers.

Check Pith in the Wind later this morning for more details.