Nashville Scene

Grand Ole Opry—The next generation

Can the Grand Ole Opry cross the chasm into the 21st century?

• Tags: Features, Features, Ireland, Pete Fisher, Grand Ole Opry House, Charles Wolfe

Most Valuable Player

Like many sidemen, Bob Moore left his mark on the Opry—and vice versa

• by Randy Fox
• Tags: Features, Features, Bob Moore, Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, Jimmy Dickens

Signal Event

The tower of power that helped make WSM and the Grand Ole Opry household names

• by Craig Havighurst
• Tags: Features, Features, Jack DeWitt, Nashville, Grand Ole Opry House, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Next Stop

What if Al Gore loses?

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Fred Thompson (Politician), Richard Nixon, Nashville, Murray Philip

Warner Park Nature Center

2000 Summer Schedule

• Tags: Features, Features, Heather Perry, Warner Park Nature Center, Hill Nature Center, Vera Vollbrecht

Editorial

Memo to Don

• Tags: Features, Features, U.S. Department of Transportation, C. John Wilder, Don Sundquist, Bob Rochelle

Keeper Of The Flame

Four decades on, Bill Anderson remains dedicated to the Grand Ole Opry

• by Beverly Keel
• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Anderson, Grand Ole Opry House, Billboard.com, Mark Wills

Sticks and Stones

A zoning dispute brings out the worst in neighbors

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, John Summers, Archie Potts, Nashville, West End

Why They Went

One take on the Billy Graham crusade

• by Rob Simbeck
• Tags: Features, Features, Billy Graham, Christian Lord, Nashville, Western Union Financial Services Inc.

Feathers and Blood

The shadowy allure and complicated politics of cockfighting

• by Rob Simbeck, photos by Eric England
• Tags: Features, Features, Bobby Jones, Tennessee, Kentucky, Brian Muckey

List

• Tags: Features, Features, Santa Fe, Klondike

Opry Fest

Event schedule and Opry Plaza parties

• Tags: Features, Features, Grand Ole Opry House, Adventure Museum, Loretta Lynn, The Derailers

The Fabricator

Strip club strikes out with Graham promotion

• Tags: Features, Features, Billy Graham, Hubert Penrod

Listening In

A list of recommended discs by current Grand Ole Opry performers

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Features, Features, Porter Wagoner, Bill Anderson, Jimmy Dickens, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Free Summer Arts & Performance Programs

Parthenon Exhibition Schedule 2000

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Winslow Homer, Centennial Park, Wilson Hall

Metro Beautification & Environment Commission

Parthenon Restoration Continues

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Environment Commission, Winslow Homer, The Parthenon

Ridley Rules

Gunning Our Columnist

• Tags: Features, Features, Ben Taylor, Nashville, David Hooper, Columbine High School

The Opposite Sex

All in the game

• by Danny Solomon and Ben Taylor
• Tags: Features, Features, NASCAR

Goodbye, Columbus

Gee's aggressive pursuit of top minority official ruffles feathers

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, David Williams, Gordon Gee, Vanderbilt University, The Ohio State University

Metro Parks3

Swimming Pools

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Ball Fields, Cleveland, Nolensville

Romancing the Road

Part 3

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

Grand Ole Opry

Celebrating 75 years

• Tags: Features, Features, Grand Ole Opry House, Gaylord Entertainment Company, Nashville, George Hay

Metro Parks & Recreation Guide

• Tags: Features, Features, Metro Parks and Recreation

Second To None

Opry veteran Jean Shepard helped pave the way for women in country music

• by Bill Friskics-Warren
• Tags: Features, Features, Jean Shepard, Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline, Grand Ole Opry House

The Week That Was

Al, the slumlord

• Tags: Features, Features, Al Gore, Tracy Mayberry, Billy Graham, Nashville

Unsung

Nashville publicist/tunesmith notches title cut on blues legend's LP

• Tags: Stories, Bruce Springsteen, Harry McCarthy, Max Weinberg, Mark Joseph

Better Than Predicted

A midyear look at the state of country music

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Paul Williams, Lee Ann Womack, Willie Nelson, Nashville

Hearts of Darkness

Southern Gothic themes reemerge in recent nonfiction releases

• by Diann Blakely
• Tags: Stories, Flannery O’Connor, James Dickey, Henry Hart, Kevin Wilson

Silent Witness

Nashville actor/writer creates inspiring stage production from early film star's life story

• by Angela Wibking
• Tags: Stories, Brian Hull, Charlie Chaplin, France, Metro Public Library

No Fear

Lateef and Alexander bold enough to branch out

• by Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Yusef Lateef, Monty Alexander, William Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar

The Man Who Loved Women

Truffaut's 'Two English Girls' captures the urgency of true love

• Tags: Stories, Francois Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Hollywood, Antoine Doinel

Baseball Odysseys

Sounds players tell about life in the foreign leagues

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Dave Pavlas, Rob Mattson, Japan, Italy

Flying Fish

New Nashville sushi restaurant rates favorably with local sushi cognoscenti

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Wayne, Los Angeles, Nashville, Masa Takayama

Read All About It

'Tennessean' goes easy on Graham and Gore

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, John Rocker, The Tennessean Newspaper, Al Gore, Jeff Legwold

The Right to Suck

You can't keep a bad musician down

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jake Roseman, Augusta, Ho Chi Minh City, Kenny Rogers