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Holy War Could the anti-immigrant backlash really be an anti-Catholic backlash?

The Ferrier Family Circus

All Wet ‘Gore on Ice’ not nearly as good as ‘Kafka on Ice,’ critics say

Public Art

Running to Stand Still I went to the Major League Baseball winter meetings and all I got was this stupid binder

Grocery Story A landmark in Leipers Fork—and now Franklin—Puckett’s serves music and meals to the stars

Double Your Pleasure A couple of two-actor productions succeed to varying degrees

Oh ’Luminum, Oh ’Luminum How faithful are thy branches

 

 

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Editor's Note

Monied Protest Lee Beaman finances ‘Bredesen’s Bunker’ opposition

Have Water, Will Runoff Give the gifts of water retention and conservation this year

Ping-Pong Please The lottery’s computerized drawings have tampered with faith among players

Off the Record Amy Grant talks about her new book, her divorce and subsequent marriage to Vince Gill, ‘easy’ hair, teenage crushes and more

Afflict the Afflicted When a columnist returns from a cancer fight, what does The Tennessean do?

Thanks for the Living Wages

 

 

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Liz Garrigan

Liz Garrigan is editor of the Nashville Scene

 

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The bad news is that The Tennessean planned to discontinue longtime scribe George Zepp's Learn Nashville column, the destination where readers could learn about the city's history. The good news is that after a spate of reader complaints (and a call from the Scene to managing editor Meg Downey, which went unreturned), the paper is backpedaling, instead planning to resume the column in a different section starting Dec. 22, according to a blurb posted today....

A cryptic email sent Monday from the aforementioned Downey informed staff that cops reporter, Christian Bottorff, had unceremoniously left the building. "We will be posting the job of early morning police reporter later today," she wrote. "Christian Bottorff is no longer working for The Tennessean."

The city's various law and order institutions are probably making toasts right about now, as Bottorff, a UT grad, was widely regarded as needlessly combative and antagonizing.

"Unfortunately, I'm not able to discuss this right now for multiple reasons," says Bottorff, who is married to another Gannetteer, All the Rage editor Kristen Whittlesey. "Right now, I'm just going to have to opt out of talking about it...."

Finally, ask almost anyone in Nashville what the most important issue in the city is, and they'll say education. But it took our daily three days to offer anything substantial about controversial schools director Pedro Garcia's hunt for a new job in San Diego. Columnist Gail Kerr skirted the issue entirely yesterday after the Scene first reported the news here Monday, while a short item was buried in the daily's Local section. The City Paper, meanwhile, teased the story on its front page Tuesday.