Nashville Scene

Biding Time

Lawmakers fiddle while state burns

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Features, Features, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut Inc., Taco Bell Corp.

List

• Tags: Features, Features, C. John Wilder, Jimmy Naifeh, John Ford, Gary Odom

Road Kill

The saga of Billy Joe Jeans

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Billy Joe Jeans, Bill Jeans, Bruce Saltsman, Tennessee Department of Transportation

Caving In

Sewage plant causes stink near Fall Creek Falls

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Tennessee, Spencer Mountain, Saya Qualls, Wendy Smith

Editorial

Fratricide

• Tags: Features, Features, John McCain, George W. Bush, Al Gore, Bob Jones

Love/Hate Mail

Hot Seat

• Tags: Features, Features, Kris Keyser, Nashville, Tennessee, Michael Sims

School Dazed

Parents fight to save Union Hill

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Murray Philip, Union Hill, Susan Smith, Kim White

Family Tradition

Hank Williams III emerges with his own musical career

• by Michael McCall, photos by Eric England
• Tags: Features, Features, Hank Williams, Hank Williams III, Nashville, Shelton Williams

The Fabricator

Drawn and quartered

• Tags: Features, Features, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Massachusetts

The Opposite Sex

Digging for fool's gold

• by Danny Solomon and Ben Taylor
• Tags: Features, Features, Danny Solomon, Mazda Motor Corporation

Percentage Bet

Range Rover stands tall-and lonely-atop the SUV pinnacle

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Land Rover Range Rover, Land Rover Group Ltd., BMW AG, Hewlett-Packard Company

The Week That Was

Sorry Fred

• Tags: Features, Features, Jimmy Naifeh, Josh Evans, Philip Workman, Robert Glen Coe

Primary Pitchmen

It's Thompson against Sundquist

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, George W. Bush, Tennessee, John Summers, Bill Purcell

Lonely Moans

Pernice side project ultimately a mixed bag

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Chappaquiddick, Joe Pernice, Pernice Brothers, Walter Becker

Safe at Home

New book offers suggestions for improving one's abode

• by Michael Sims and Diann Blakely
• Tags: Stories, Cheryl Mendelson, Ian Frazier, Crazy Horse, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Man With a Movie Camera

Reeling in the new American dream in 'American Movie'

• Tags: Stories, Mark Borchardt, Willie Morris, Jay Russell, Texan Gail Gilchrist

Full Circle

Exquisite local pop duo finally sees local release

• by Jim Ridley and Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Molly Felder, Nashville, Bill DeMain, Clive Davis

Learning to Adapt

Symphony concert offers promise of solid teamwork with guest performer

• by Marcel Smith
• Tags: Stories, Wendy Warner, Nashville Symphony, Richard Strauss, Ernest Bloch

Without Borders

Jimmie Dale Gilmore's music is as vast and as earthy as the Texas soil

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Julie Miller, Texas, Buddy Miller

Without Rival

Two local theater companies offer new productions, each vastly different from the other

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Alfred Uhry, Holly Allen Lala, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Eric Wagner

Money Madness

Cash is king in college basketball

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, John McCain, Jamal Crawford, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Basketball Association

Gaydar for Sale

Looking for love with an interactive key chain

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palm Pilot, Playgirl Inc.

Power Hungry

'Business Nashville' counts 'em down

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, John Seigenthaler, Phil Bredesen, Karlen Evins, Michael Gilstrap

Life Lessons

Academy kitchen teaches culinary skills to troubled teens

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Len Mitchell, Wallace Academy, Nashville, Dede Wallace Center