Nashville Scene

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Risers go up to keep cars away from the Capitol

• by Bill Carey
• Tags: Features, Features, Mike Fitts, Elizabeth Phillips, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Tennessee Building Commission

A Smart Start-up

A new private school examines what it is to be intelligent

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Rick Seay, East Academy, Dave Shearon, James Pellegrino

Gotcha!

Purists will rave over sporting credentials of Subaru's WRX

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Subaru Corporation, Subaru Impreza, Subaru WRX, Mitsubishi Lancer

Beat the Beetles

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, New Jersey, Japan, Bill Purcell

Kentucky Begins Hostile Takeover of Tennessee

Kentucky Begins Hostile Takeover of Tennessee

• Tags: Features, Features, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Dakota, Paul Patton

The Week That Was

Taxing blow

• Tags: Features, Features, National Collegiate Athletic Association

Boondoggle Breeds Boon

Restaurants, hotels profit from endless legislative gridlock

• by Bill Carey
• Tags: Features, Features, Charlene Walker, Bill Purcell, Terry Clements, Nashville

List

• Tags: Features, Features, Jonathan Harwell, Bubba Bungalow, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Drawl Hall

Unsettling Surveillance

Technology increasingly infringes on personal privacy

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Features, Features, Eli Lilly and Company, Tampa, The Gallup Organization, Ybor City

Love/Hate Mail

Remembering 1975

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Marcia Trimble, Cuba, Jim Ridley

Not So Special

By Ben Taylor

• Tags: Features, Features, Knoxville, Mercury Capri, Bedford Falls Productions, George Lucas

Fresh Air

French duo moves in new, inventive direction on latest release

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Astralwerks Records, Sofia Coppola, Kraftwerk

Requiem for a Guitar God

Chet Atkins will be remembered not just for his talent, but also for his warm, self-deprecating humanity

• by Beverly Keel
• Tags: Stories, Chet Atkins, Nashville, Elvis Presley, George Harrison

Gangster’s Paradise

Ben Kingsley galvanizes British crime flick, but the movie’s sympathies lie elsewhere

• Tags: Stories, Ben Kingsley, Jonathan Glazer, Ray Winstone, Jeff Goldblum

Small-Town Mystery

Clarksville native pens gripping, inventive, and disturbing first novel

• by Margaret Renkl
• Tags: Stories, Davis Banks, Neal Bowers, Clarksville, Random House Inc.

Taking It to the Stage

In a town saturated by music and pro sports, can Tennessee Repertory Theatre get Nashvillians to the theater?

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, David Grapes, Todd Olson, Tennessee Performing Arts Center

The Del McCoury Band/Ralph Stanley ♦ Thursday, 7/12

Music

• Tags: Stories, New Mexico, Bobby Moore, Nashville, Adrienne Outlaw

Bring in the Punk

Warped Tour continues to provide quality amidst quantity

• by Todd Anderson
• Tags: Stories, Warped Tour, Sum41, AmSouth Bancorporation, Lollapalooza

Cultural Resuscitation

Gallery brings new multicultural art—and hopefully some new life—to Music Row Roundabout area

• by Angela Wibking
• Tags: Stories, Carolyn Waller, Nashville, Ephraim Urevbu, Felix Maxwell

American Originals

Winning recipes from the annual July 4 Whitland Avenue celebration and competition

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Willie Thomas, Theresa Everritt, Richard Chambers

Home-Buying Basics

Before you dive in, make sure you get repairs done the right way

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Smartypants Buyer

Below the Belt

The Tennessean doesn’t see an off-color joke for what it is

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, James Lewis, Gary Condit, Laurie Holloway, Chandra Levy