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21. Books

    The Voice of Music City

    Music writer Craig Havighurst chronicles the birth and near-death of the Opry’s radio home

    Maria Browning

    Published: February 21, 2008

    When Alton Delmore, an aspiring musician, arrived in Nashville in the early 1930s, he was struck by the sight of the massive WSM transmission tower: “It gave off a...

22. Books

    Gilligans Island

    In her first novel, a pioneer of gender studies explores the isolation of love

    Published: February 21, 2008

    by Lacey Galbraith In 1996, Time magazine named Carol Gilligan one of the 25 most influential Americans. An academic who focuses on gender studies, Gilligan is best known...

23. Books

    Fear and Lobster on a Cruise Ship

    In his new novel, Tim Dorsey does Hunter S. Thompson one better

    Published: February 21, 2008

    by Michael Ray Taylor Take a character and a prose style strongly reminiscent—if not totally derivative—of Hunter S. Thompson at his wigged-out best, set both...

24. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: February 21, 2008

    THURSDAY 2/21 Spiritual MusicTRYIN’ TO GET HOME: AN EVENING OF SACRED BLUES FEAT. BUDDY MILLER, JIMMY HALL, ASHLEY CLEVELAND & KENNY GREENBERG These four roots-music...

25. Garrigan

    Exit Strategies

    Good reporters flee The Tennessean as the paper flounders for relevance in the free media age

    Matt Pulle

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Imagine you’re Tennessean editor Mark Silverman. The job is not what it once was. First of all, one of your titles is vice president for content and audience development,...

26. Garrigan

    A Really Bad Bill

    Rep. John Deberry and Sen. Paul Stanley might as well say “screw the kids”

    Liz Garrigan

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Tennessee’s cornpone legislature is at it again, but this time there’s a lot more on the block than just common sense, taxpayer dollars and the likelihood that the...

27. SceneCast

    Episode 120

    Collin Monk

    Published: February 21, 2008

    The Scenecast is the "audio extension of the music section of the print edition of the Nashville Scene" and expands your reading pleasure with sonic illustrations to keep your...

28. Suspect Behavior

    Death to Damages

    Nursing home industry looking to lawmakers to protect shareholders from residents’ lawsuits

    Jeff Woods

    Published: February 21, 2008

    The nursing home industry, lending new meaning to the term audacious, is pushing legislation to limit its liability in Tennessee courts at a time when violations for neglect...