Nashville Scene

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• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, The Tennessean Newspaper, C. John Wilder, Douglas Henry

Buck Stops Here

Another Metro official collapses under the weight of Purcell

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Purcell, Buck Dozier, Phil Bredesen, Lee Beaman

Love/Hate Mail

In Vandy's Defense

• Tags: Features, Features, David Williams, Nashville, Vanderbilt University, Lewis Grizzard

Soldiering on

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Isuzu Trooper, Oldsmobile Bravada, Isuzu Motors Ltd., Oldsmobile Motor Company

Court Of Last Resort

How one judge is reaching out to Nashville's drug addicts

• by Matt Pulle, photos by Eric England
• Tags: Features, Features, Seth Norman, Howard Patterson, Steven Batts, Valerie Handy

Taking Flight

Plane carrying banner mars MBA’s awards night

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Brad Gioia, Montgomery Bell Academy, Mike Drake, The Tennessean Newspaper

Making Peace With the Past

Choreographers grapple with the legacy of the Civil War

• Tags: Features, Features, Donna Rizzo, Andrew Krichels, Maureen Needham, Tennessee

The Fabricator

Legislature turns to The Money Store for budget solution

• Tags: Features, Features, Money Store, Jim Palmer, Thelma Harper, Doug Henry

Diamond Life

Perfume inventor Joseph Gregory wants you to take a whiff

• by Adam Ross
• Tags: Features, Features, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Nashvillian Joseph Gregory, Smithsonian Institution, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

The Opposite Sex

In praise of fathers

• by Danny Solomon and Ben Taylor
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Tuscaloosa, Hallmark Cards Inc., Helen Kellers

Don't Tax Me

Lawmakers still searching for fellow behind that tree

• by Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, Ned McWherter, C. John Wilder, Bob Rochelle, Leonard Dunavant

The Week That Was

All laid out

• Tags: Features, Features, Buck Dozier, Bob Rochelle, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Ford Motor Company

Editorial

What Fun, Taxes

• Tags: Features, Features, U.S. Department of Transportation, Jimmy Naifeh, Capitol Hill, Jaguar Cars Ltd.

An Affair to Remember

'Scene' writers survey the Nashville Independent Film Festival

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, New Mexico, South by Southwest Festival, Austin

Horseplay

Chesney and McGraw: What really happened, and what does it mean for their careers?

• by Beverly Keel
• Tags: Stories, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, NYP Holdings Inc., Angie Gore

Raw Materials

Boston singer-songwriter delivers unflinching rockers and ballads

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Dennis Brennan, Boston, Graham Parker, Barbara Allen

Basic Language

Seemingly disparate works reveal thematic unity, elemental concerns

• by Donna Dorian Wall
• Tags: Stories, Heath Seymour, Johan Hagaman, Jennifer Bartlett, Jackson Pollock

Return of the Rooster

Maverick blues label is back in business

• by Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Koko Taylor, Andria Lisle, Jack Johnson, Chicago

Obscure No More

Unheralded local quartet starts taking itself seriously

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Mike Gogola, Brian Wieck, Nashville, Detroit

Part of the Process

Forward-thinking local theater company takes on new stage scripts

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, David Alford, Nashville, Atlanta, David Compton

Mad for Brad?

Survey aims to get the poop on 'Tennessean' gossip columnist

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Mad Brad, The Tennessean Newspaper, Brad Schmitt, David Green

Crime and Punishment

Why we should demand more of pro athletes

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Ray Lewis, Charles Barkley, National Football League, John Rocker

Making a Stink

Why bother trying to cover up the smell of pee?

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Vicente Cantini, Lysol Disinfecting Products, Rio de Janeiro, Gardens Foundation

Thought for Food

A primer on the Parade of Casseroles, a uniquely Southern phenomenon

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Scott Alderson, Kevin Boehm, Tom Sheffer, Ziploc Bags