Nashville Scene

A Taste of Success

Metro's 'Mini-Nutcracker' gives inspiration and hope to one Nashville youth

• Tags: Features, Features, Deondre Horner, Stephanie Moss, Nashville Ballet, Tennessee Association of Dance

All fall down

Raging ragtops from Chevrolet and BMW

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, BMW AG, BMW M Series, Chevrolet Corvette

Juggernaut

The pink trash tour of Nashville

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Features, Features, Brenda Kay, Sheri Lynn, Germantown, Nashville

Sitting Lame

The mayor ponders his next move

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Phil Bredesen, Nashville, Julia Green, NAACP

Last Cuts

Barbershop for city's business leaders to close

• by Bruce Dobie
• Tags: Features, Features, Dan Andrews, Mary Story, Nena Lee, First American Bank Group Ltd.

The Great Tobacco Gold Rush

Today's policymakers would rather litigate than legislate

• by Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, John Jay Hooker, New Orleans, Tennessee, Edward Rendell

Familiar Ways

Mother and daughter team up for art show ripe with meaning and metaphor

• by David Ribar
• Tags: Features, Features, Carol Mode, Emily Mode, T.S. Eliot, Walter Starkie

Ousted

Controversial Baptist Hospital chairman David Stringfield loses his job

• by Willy Stern
• Tags: Features, Features, Baptist Healthcare Group, Ken Ross, Nashville, Gerald Hemmer

"Legs" Bredesen Trains

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Phil Bredesen, San Diego, Nashville

Pictured Together

Exhibit pairs artists' portraits and artworks to great effect

• by Michael Sims
• Tags: Features, Features, Carl Van Vechten, Salvador Dali, Kevin Grogan, Joseph Mella

Frankly Speaking

Country comedy, like country music, tries to keep up with the times

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Jerry Clower, Rodney Carrington, Roy Mercer, Jeff Foxworthy

Postwar Drama

Two new videos tackle similar themes; office temps toil away; Russian doc surveys Moscow

• by Noel Murray, Rob Nelson, and Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Bertrand Tavernier, Dziga Vertov, Ross McElwee, Ivan Passer

Is It Live?

Or is it a carefully manipulated simulation, calculated to elicit maximum response from the listener?

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Garth Brooks, Camp Garth, Allen Reynolds, Mark Wills

Rockin' Role

Women musicians join to create support system

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Linda Regan, Moe Loughran, Performance Hall

Modern Menace

Horror-obsessed author takes a look at mad scientists

• by Michael Sims
• Tags: Stories, David Skal, Bela Lugosi Dracula, Hollywood, Tod Browning

Mr. Superlove

Afghan Whigs' latest taps into the carnal urge

• by Ben Taylor
• Tags: Stories, Greg Dulli, The Afghan Whigs, Big Star (Musical Group), Chuck Berry

White Man's Burden

As a repentant ex-Nazi, Edward Norton rings true in "American History X"

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Edward Norton, Tony Kaye, David McKenna, Derek Vinyard

For Mature Audiences

Costello, Bacharach collaboration offers swank ballads; Mysteries of Life offers solid, catchy rock

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Jonathan Richman, Toledo

For the Record

Local labels offer a home for jazz musicians

• by Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Beegie Adair, Victor Wooten, Denis Solee

A Guy's Holiday

Thanksgiving offers a chance to kick back—and sticker shock on value-added ham

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Wife Brenda, South Carolina, Nashville, Piggly Wiggly Company

Charity Drive

A door never closes but another opens

• by John Bridges
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Ardis Elpy, Oldsmobile Motor Company, Lina Elpy, Ed Sullivan

Stick a Fork in It

"The Tennessean" defends itself but doesn't get too far

• by Henry Walker
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Frank Sutherland, Michael Fumento, Nashville Electric Service, Sandra Roberts

Culinary Odysseys

Finding the right moussaka recipe on Charlotte Pike

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Renee Bischoff, Angelia Duncan, Nashville, Martha Phelps Stamps