Nashville Scene

A Flattering Portrait

American chronicler Norman Rockwell gets deserved second look

• by Angela Wibking
• Tags: Features, Features, Norman Rockwell, Anne Knutson, High Museum of Art, Santa Claus

List

• Tags: Features, Features, Me Reno, Pokemon USA Inc., eBay Inc., Jesse Ventura

Divorcing Under the Influence

New Council member says he was "impaired"

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Sara Brown, Earl Campbell, Annette Wheeler, Helen Wilsford

Taxing Times

How talk radio hijacked state government

• Tags: Features, Features, Bureau of TennCare, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Republican Party

A Rock 'n' Roll Christmas

The best gift on the worst Noel

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Features, Features, Sarasota, Venice Beach, Daytona Beach, Sears Holding Corporation

Editorial

A Modest Proposal

• Tags: Features, Features, Office of Secondary Employment, Emmett Turner, Nashville, Carol Majors

Making Your List

How to shop the Gift Guide

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Janie Taylor

The Fabricator

Little Bob Cries Wolf

• Tags: Features, Features, Naomi Wolf, Al Gore, Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins

The Opposite Sex

Meet the family—and resist the urge to run far away

• by Danny Solomon and Ben Taylor
• Tags: Features, Features, Patty Solomon, Belmont, Nashville

Fiscal Forgiveness

Labor expected to be patient over pay hikes

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Purcell, Phil Bredesen, Don Driscoll, Al Gore

Price Gouging

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Barry Sulkin, Tennessee, PIP Printing Center, Charlottesville

The Week That Was

Rage against the band

• Tags: Features, Features, Republican National Committee, Memphis, Nashville, Harold Ford Jr.

Cardinal points

A new automotive age debuts with Dodge's new Quad cab

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Dodge Dakota, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Lear Industries, Dodge Magnum

Cause for Celebration

Kwanzaa

• by Michael Sims
• Tags: Features, Features, Plymouth (Massachusetts), United Kingdom, James Baldwin, George Washington

Season's Eatings

Recipes for low-key entertaining or for gifts to friends

• Tags: Features, Features, Charles Grey

Circus at the Capitol

• by Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, Rush Limbaugh, Tennessee General Assembly, Bob Rochelle, C. John Wilder

Holiday Events

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Ticketmaster Corporation, APPALACHIAN CENTER FOR CRAFTS, Tennessee Technological Univ.

Songs of Experience

Christian singer looks at life's troubles and offers inspired work

• Tags: Stories, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, Littleton, Cassie Bernall

A Long, Strange Trip

British singer may well be Music Row's most unconventional signing

• by Beverly Keel
• Tags: Stories, William Topley, Nashville, Mercury Records Inc., Jamaica

Best of the Best Of

One top 100 list that deserves a mention

• by Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Jen Cohen, Lee Ballinger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Nashville

Mental Vacations

Two Hillsboro Village exhibits offer alluring aesthetic journeys

• by Angela Wibking
• Tags: Stories, Glenn Goldberg, Will Berry, Jay Korff, Nashville

Bigger Than Texas

Doug Sahm embodied rock 'n' roll music at its best

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers, Bob Dylan, Sir Douglas Quintet

Global Concerns

Bluesmen make connections between African music, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and American blues

• by Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Charlie Musselwhite, Taj Mahal, Toumani Diabate, Chicago

Remembrance of Things Past

Memories and moviemaking are a heavenly mix in "After Life," one of the year's best movies

• by Jim Ridley and Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Tim Burton, Washington Irving, Ichabod Crane, Andrew Kevin Walker

True to Life

Three women tell their stories unconventionally—and compellingly

• by Diann Blakely
• Tags: Stories, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Alice Sebold, Ann Marlowe, Mary Karr

God's Favorite Creatures

Expatriate Nashvillian writes the book on the lowly cockroach

• by Michael Sims
• Tags: Stories, Richard Schweid, Barcelona, Bernie Schweid, Brownsville

Cups Runneth Over

Coaches count their blessings

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, AFC South Division, American Football Conference, National Football League, Tennessee Titans

Local Attraction

Nashville landmark offers excellent food along with historic exhibit

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, Starbucks Corporation, Bongo Java Roasting Co.

Empty Handed

Gannett slights "The Tennessean"

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Dwight Lewis, The Tennessean Newspaper, Jeff Woods, Bruce Dobie

Small Wonders

Giving thanks for one less poopy diaper

• by Margaret Renkl
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Guatemala