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1. Features

   Faust Be Damned

   James Jackson Toth breaks pact with freak folk

   By Dustin Allen

   Published: July 24, 2008

   Pegged with the freak-folk tag the better part of the decade for his work with neo-psychedelic outfit Wooden Wands, James Jackson Toth has been taking steady strides in the...

2. Letters

   Love-Hate Mail

   Published: July 24, 2008

   Oh, Rhio With all the really important socioeconomic issues challenging Tennessee residents this week, it's refreshing to find that the Scene keeps its sense of humor by...

3. The Spin

   The Spin

   By The Spin

   Published: July 24, 2008

   Double daring Nashville is not exactly a haven for daring instrumental music, so for fans of the avant-garde, last week was like manna from heaven. Back-to-back Belcourt...

4. Features

   Cut and Paste

   Local pop wizard Kyle Andrews' excellent new album turns up the volume

   By Lee Stabert

   Published: July 24, 2008

   "If people saw the space I recorded in, they would laugh," admits local singer-songwriter Kyle Andrews. Crafted mostly at the house in Sylvan Park he shares with American Bang...

5. Features

   All Drunk and Bored

   Apologies to All We Seabees: I missed your set because I couldn't stand up.

   By Wesley Lewis

   Published: July 24, 2008

   June and July are traditionally bad months for shows in Murfreesboro. As anyone who's lived here knows, we experience a huge drought in show attendance during the...

6. Features

   Temporarily Available

   Nashville experimentalists Big Nurse offer one last noisy hurrah with their first local show in two years

   By Matt Sullivan

   Published: July 24, 2008

   Live, Big Nurse's distinction between improv and composition is virtually indiscernible. Skeletal arrangements swell, twist and gnarl unnaturally, delivering masterful...

7. Cover Story

   Reckless Love

   Caitlin Miller died after a collision with her boyfriend's speeding truck. The teenager's friends and family say it was no accident.

   By P.J. Tobia

   Published: July 24, 2008

   When Chaz Green hit Caitlin Miller's car at almost 80 miles an hour on a wet summer night last year, residents of Claylick Road, a narrow, winding stretch of tarmac in rural...

8. News

   May Day

   Without knowing all the facts, the Metro Planning Commission could take the first step in building a second downtown in rural Nashville

   By Christine Kreyling

   Published: July 24, 2008

   For Bells Bend, part of Nashville's largest remaining agricultural and forested landscape, the bell may toll this week. In a pivotal meeting that will decide nothing less than...

9. Helter Shelter

   Jail Bird

   Lessons on cell life, from Sergeant Scrotum to Bob Barker

   By Walter Jowers

   Published: July 24, 2008

   Four years ago, my buddy Bird’s wife ran off with another man. She had her reasons, or so she says. Of course Bird’s relationship troubles are none of my business....

10. The Fabricator

    Bonnaroo Attendee 'Hopes to Be Clean Soon'

    Maybe another dozen showers will do it

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Horton Houston of Murfreesboro, who attended the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival almost two months ago, says that he may feel clean again with perhaps only another dozen daily...

11. Words of the Week

    Words of the Week

    Published: July 24, 2008

    "Sadly in general, today's immigrants are not the same as those of our past and seem to want to reap America's bounty while not committing to our culture." —Chairman...

12. Desperately Seeking the News

    Phil Williams 101

    Channel 5 ace again shows that TV news doesn't need to suck

    By Matt Pulle

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Phil Williams, the WTVF-Channel 5 investigative reporter with the nasal voice and regular-Joe mustache, has made a career ending careers, authoring televised executions of...

13. Ask a Mexican

    Special Tortilla Contest Edition

    Corn or flour, you made the call

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Dear Readers: Gracias, merci, obrigado for the many submissions in our contest asking readers to argue in 25 words why corn tortillas are superior to flour, or vice versa....

14. Dining

    Run, Run as Fast as You Can

    Indie restaurant Wild Ginger beckons with creativity in Cool Springs' chain-heavy landscape

    By Carrington Fox

    Published: July 24, 2008

    When Andrew Siao and John Chen dreamed up a concept they hoped would break through the corporate-chain clutter of Cool Spring's restaurant landscape, they did more than just...

15. Reviews

    Men II Boyz

    With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up—and thank God for that

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: July 24, 2008

    I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the win-at-any-cost NASCAR driver...

16. Reviews

    The Big Chill

    Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Werner Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Some say the world will end in fire, some—like Werner Herzog—say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly idiosyncratic filmmaker leads an...

17. Books

    Boinking: A (Very) Natural History

    Robert Olen Butler imagines what goes through the minds of famous people—long dead and still living—while they're in the throes

    By Margaret Renkl

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Robert Olen Butler knows his way around a sex scene. His 1994 novel, They Whisper, is basically nothing but detailed, rhapsodic descriptions of lovemaking. So fans of literary...

18. Books

    Beowulf Through the Eyes of Women

    In her powerful first novel, a local writer takes a fresh look at the oldest tale in Brit Lit

    By Faye Jones

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Let's face it: A retelling of Beowulf will never appeal to the masses the way that Nicole and Keith's new baby or a new Will Smith movie will. But make no mistake, Vanderbilt...