Nashville Scene

A Fair Fight

• Tags: Features, Features, Phil Bredesen, Jon Corzine, Charles Smith, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Gore Reincarnated

He’s back for more policy debates and another election cycle

• by Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Don Sundquist

Off The Charts

Republican activist Tommy Hopper issues a stinging and perhaps final—castigation

• by Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, Tommy Hopper, Lamar Alexander, Tennessee, Fred Thompson (Politician)

Here and Gone

Olds' last new model may be one of its best

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Oldsmobile Bravada, Oldsmobile Motor Company, Acura MDX, Mercury Mountaineer

Outside the (Ballot) Box

A Nashville accountant invents a revolutionary new voting machine

• by Adam Ross
• Tags: Features, Features, Athan Gibbs, Bob Clement, Bob Boram, Florida

State To Seek Burger Settlement Money

State To Seek Burger Settlement Money

• Tags: Features, Features, Burger King Corporation, McDonald's Corporation, Capitol Hill, Wendy’s

An Exit Interview

Nashville’s top business recruiter puts decades of economic development in perspective

• by Bill Carey
• Tags: Features, Features, Fred Harris, Nashville, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Tennessee

List

• Tags: Features, Features, The New York Times Company, Don Sundquist, Bob Rochelle, Brentwood

Been There, Done That

By Ben Taylor

• Tags: Features, Features, David Hasselhoff, Vivica A. Fox, Baywatch (TV Show), Pamela Anderson

Love/Hate Mail

Waxing nostalgic

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Knoxville, Bruce Barry, Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts

News Briefly

Unnatural departure

• Tags: Features, Features, Radnor Township, Mike Carlton, Bill Purcell, Milton Hamilton

No More Excuses

New schools director Pedro Garcia believes all kids can learn, and he has no patience for anyone who disagrees

• by Matt Pulle, photos by Susan Adcock
• Tags: Features, Features, Pedro Garcia, Nashville, Carol Johnson, Bill Wise

A Fruitful Relationship

Nashville Symphony and the Rep unite to tell timeless tale of love

• Tags: Stories, Leonard Bernstein, David Grapes, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Nashville Symphony

The Misfits

The outsider characters of cartoonist Dan Clowes’ Ghost World pass from page to screen

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Terry Zwigoff, Daniel Clowes, John Cameron Mitchell, Enid

Look Inside

Visceral, thoughtful Olympia, Wash., band make a stop in Nashville this week

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Ron Hall, Sonic Youth, Victor Wooten

Bill Wyman ♦ Saturday, 9/1 at Davis-Kidd

Music

• Tags: Stories, Bill Wyman, New Mexico, Bill Brown, Willy Wonka

Crossing Over

Singer-songwriters struggle with prose in two new books

• by Bill Friskics-Warren
• Tags: Stories, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, Tony Earley, Rodney Crowell

Demolition Man

Originality and authenticity mark compelling, violent Southern tale

• by Lacey Galbraith
• Tags: Stories, Barry Hannah, The Atlantic Monthly Group, Nashville, Vicksburg

A Good Match

Jody Faison and Tom Morales’ Hall of Fame eatery offers fine lunch options to locals, tourists

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jody Faison, Kyle Young, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville

In the Main

There may be a liberal press, but it’s not in Nashville

• by Leonard Assante
• Tags: Columns: Stories, The Tennessean Newspaper, Leonard Assante, Volunteer State Community College, Bill Clinton

Troublemakers

Those TV weather warnings are nothing more than a distraction

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Little League Baseball Inc., Knob Hill, Sumter (South Carolina)