Nashville Scene

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• Tags: Features, Features, Billy Ray Cyrus, Chaka Khan, Demetria Kalodimos, Foppish Kyle

Romancing the Road

Part 2

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Audi AG, Audi TT, Honda S2000, Porsche Boxster

Tongues Untied

A Yankee disses our town, and Peaches dukes it out with Irby

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Irby Simpkins, Bryan Miller, The New York Times Company

Coming Into Focus

NIFF balances the frustrations and successes that come with growth

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Michael Catalano, Jeff Lipsky, Austin

Love/Hate Mail

He Gets It

• Tags: Features, Features, Bureau of TennCare, Nashville, The Tennessean Newspaper, Jerry Plaisance

State of Repairs

Highway 840 construction isn't getting any more popular

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Mike Chandler, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Luanne Grandinetti, Gene Cotton

Mob Rule

Gangster chic comes to the NIFF in 'Under Hellgate Bridge'

• by Beverly Keel
• Tags: Features, Features, Michael Sergio, The Sopranos, Frank Vincent, Jordan Bayne

Editorial

Welcome, Preacher

• Tags: Features, Features, Billy Graham, Vanderbilt University, Jesus Christ, Nashville

NIFF Picks

Recommended highlights from the film festival

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, New Mexico, Tony Joe White, Demetria Kalodimos

The Dating Game

Is there anything Al won't do for a vote?

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Al Gore, Bill Purcell, Nashville, George W. Bush

Exit Interview

Murray Philip tells why he's leaving the school board

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Murray Philip, Metropolitan Nashville Education Association, Harry McMackin, Patricia Crotwell

Photographic Memory

A new documentary examines Edward S. Curtis' photos of Native Americans

• by Angela Wibking
• Tags: Features, Features, Edward Curtis, Anne Makepeace, North American Indians, Seattle

The Fabricator

Southern Baptists prepare ordination pocket guide

• Tags: Features, Features, Southern Baptist Church, John Rocker

Police Boycott

Cops seek higher wages for moonlighting at Adelphia

• by Willy Stern
• Tags: Features, Features, Adelphia Communications Corporation, Emmett Turner, Tony Bouza, Bill Dickerson

The Opposite Sex

Oral examination

• by Danny Solomon and Ben Taylor
• Tags: Features, Features, Natchez Trace Parkway

Leviathan

A man and his (enormous) snake

• by Adam Ross
• Tags: Features, Features, Ernie Lanier, Lorianne Crook, Jack Hanna, Maury Povich

Reel Nashville 2K

Your guide to the Nashville Independent Film Festival

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Cannes Film Festival

The Week That Was

Secret agent man

• Tags: Features, Features, Tennessee, Memphis, Philip Workman, American Lung Association

A Semi-Charmed Life

After almost 18 months, the Belcourt is back in business

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Julia Sutherland, Nashville, Libby Fairhead, Dick Morris

Too Smart

Pop genuises are a dime a dozen these days, but a few are making good music

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Florence Pow, Brian Jacobs, David Browne, David Tobias

Dressed to Kill

Country songwriter emerges with distinctive orchestral pop disc

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Shelby Lynne, Jim Herrington, Steve Buckingham, Nancy Sinatra

Take a Hike

'Wanderlust' examines walking and why we do it

• by Michael Sims
• Tags: Stories, Rebecca Solnit, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Dickens, Colin Fletcher

Homer Coming

Exhibition cements Parthenon’s commitment as a serious art venue

• by Michael Sims
• Tags: Stories, Winslow Homer, The Parthenon, Susan Shockley, Nashville

Kick the Cannes

The East rises this year at Cannes, while the West slowly sinks

• by Rob Nelson and Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Cannes, Luc Besson, Neil LaBute, Tom Cruise

Watching the Kids

Keep your eyes wide open, all the time

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Costa Rica, Iceland, New Zealand, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Winning Isn't Everything

A competitor makes a sacrifice in this man-bites-dog story

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jin Won Kim, Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin McHale, Kay Poe

Rack-n-Roll

Newsrack ordinance debate revs up

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Bruce Dobie, Indianapolis, Billy Graham, Nashville

The Waiting Game

Taking—and making—dinner reservations is a tricky business in Nashville

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Craig Clift, Rick Bolsam, Tennessee