Nashville Scene

Land Fix

Saving some green space for the grandchildren

• by Christine Kreyling
• Tags: Features, Features, Ed Owens, Jim Fyke, Gresham, Smith & Partners Inc., Phil Bredesen

Shakedown Cruise, part 2

More about buying a used car

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Scott Kilmer, Houston (Texas), CBS Corporation

Slash and Burn

• Tags: Features, Features, Liz Murray Garrigan, Phil Bredesen, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

Casting the Council

August races full of circumstantial oddities

• by Liz Murray Garrigan and Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Lawrence Hart, David Kleinfelter, Inglewood, Green Hills Council

Newark to Nashville

The short drop from thriving to the pits

• by Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, Lowell (Massachusetts), Newark (New Jersey), Nashville, Brentwood

Daddy's Boy

Jay West wants his father's old office, but is he mayoral material?

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Ben West, Jay West, Diane West, Nashville

State-of-the-Art Politics

Fulton imports his campaign workers

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Dick Fulton, Nashville, Bill Boner, Bill Fletcher

Same Old Song

Mishaps, conflicts, again plague benefit board

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Helen Fischer, Jim Luther, Aon Corporation, Metro Employee Benefit Board

A Survivor's Tale

After his March accident, George Jones is ready to jump-start his career

• by Beverly Keel
• Tags: Stories, George Jones, Evelyn Shriver, Nashville, Tammy Wynette

Homespun

A sampling of recent local and regional releases

• by Bill Friskics-Warren
• Tags: Stories, Stacey Earle, Steve Earle, Athens, Vic Varney

Seeing Clearly

Radney Foster pulls through adversity with the best work of his career

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Radney Foster, Arista Austin, Nashville, Arista Records Inc.

Battle Beyond the Stars

A three-way lightsaber duel over "Episode I—The Phantom Menace"

• by Jim Ridley, Noel Murray, and Donna Bowman
• Tags: Stories, George Lucas, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader, Qui-Gon Jinn

Open House

Zeitgeist gallery settles into its airy, spacious Hillsboro Village digs

• by Donna Dorian Wall
• Tags: Stories, Janice Zeitlin, Greg Pond, Heath Seymour, Jeff Hand

Declarations of Independence

After four decades, free jazz maintains a presence

• by Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie

Personal Space

Cheekwood's latest installation series brings out provocative social commentary

• by Angela Wibking
• Tags: Stories, Patrick DeGuira, Eric Johnston, Richard Painter, Paul McLean

Royal Flush

The Duke Ellington centennial celebration yields a tide of great reissues

• by Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Duke Ellington, Columbia, Billy Strayhorn, John Coltrane

Anchor Away

News Channel 5 ought to know better

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Dan MacDonald, Lem Lewis, Kirk Loggins, Mike Cutler

Manic Milestones

Coping with baby's obsessions

• by Margaret Renkl
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Cheerios, George Jones, Baby Hyde, Junior Jekyll

Sports Talk

From Maddux to Vandy, with a side trip to L.A.

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Lakers, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association

The Sho-ney State

Bars of salad, breakfast, and the promise of pie

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Shoney’s, Nashville, Debra Paquette, Jody Faison

Empire Strikes Back

Band of Linux rebels irks Lord Microsoft

• by James Hanback Jr.
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows NT, MSNBC Interactive News LLC, Mindcraft Inc.

GI Joe Too Buff?

Little boys lusty for big biceps?

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Harvard University, Martin Zelin, Harrison Pope, Mark McGwire