Nashville Scene

Different Time, Same Place

Taylor’s work is still a compelling reflection of the Tennessee we live in today

• by Lacey F. Galbraith
• Tags: Features, Features, Peter Taylor, Nashville, Lacey Galbraith, Memphis

Of Humps and Chumps

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Brentwood, Madison, Ben Taylor

Strange Yet Familiar

Peter Taylor’s work knowingly captures a now vanished milieu

• by Madison Smartt Bell
• Tags: Features, Features, Peter Taylor, Henry James, Memphis, Nashville

A Face In The Crowd

• Tags: Features, Features, The Salvation Army, Jonathan Harwell, Hendersonville, Peggy Corbitt

Four Score

GMC Sierra Denali turns heads with high-tech mechanicals

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Honda Motor Co. Ltd.

The Fabricator

Taste of PR Firm Shocks Clients

• Tags: Features, Features, Simone Amorral, Nashville, John Philip Sousa, Santa Claus

A Place to Call Home

A Nashville nonprofit has changed the lives of hundreds of mentally disabled

• by Jonathan Harwell Jr.
• Tags: Features, Features, Tennessee, Kathy Barba, Charles McLeroy, Nashville

Peter Taylor, Professor

The writer was also a warm and generous instructor

• by Jay Clayton
• Tags: Features, Features, Gordon Lish, Memphis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

A Troubled Children’s Agency

Tennessee’s foster care director adopts overseas, renewing criticism of DCS

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Michael McSurdy, Bob Tuke, Tennessee, Tim Pirtle

Love/Hate Mail

Boner bashing

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Matt Pulle, Bernard Goldberg, CBS Corporation

Scoring Gains

Metro schools aren’t as bad as they seem

• by Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Joseph Stalin, U.S.S.R., Russia

Chronicler of the Lost Nashville

Native son Peter Taylor captured a nearly forgotten world in his stories

• by Michael Kreyling
• Tags: Features, Features, Hubert McAlexander, Matthew Hillsman Taylor, Peter Taylor, Nashville

Speed Humps:

Scene Writers Argue About Them

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Osama bin Laden, Matt Pulle, Adam Ross

News Briefly

A vote for roads

• Tags: Features, Features, Music City Bowl (Game), Mike Williams, Nashville, Glen Casada

Gonads and Heart

List-making be damned, here’s some cool stuff from the past year, all with style and substance

• by Todd Anderson
• Tags: Stories, Super Furry Animals, The Strokes, Daft Punk, Radiohead

The Healing Art

In the wake of tragedy, music may be more important than ever—and much of it was good this year

• by Ron Wynn
• Tags: Stories, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Cesaria Evora, Alicia Keys, David Murray

Half-Opened Eyes

Vanilla Sky doesn’t do justice to its source material or to director Cameron Crowe’s vision

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Cameron Crowe, David Aames, Tom Cruise, Alejandro Amenabar

Backward Glances

It was a great year for reissues

• by William Tyler
• Tags: Stories, Charley Patton, Sun Ra, Arthur Lee, Los Angeles

Jeff Coffin Holiday Blowout ♦ Friday, 21st

Music

• Tags: Stories, Tommy Womack, Nashville, John Sharp, Woody Allen

Rock Springs Eternal

As always, there was plenty interesting going on this year in music, if you bothered to look

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Superchunk, Mark Eitzel, Stephen Malkmus, Jay Farrar

Brend Names

Five amazing records you never heard this year

• by Chris Davis
• Tags: Stories, Henry Flynt, Dave Portner, Joe McPhee, Wolf Eyes (Musical Group)

Closing Out the Year

The Rep offers good nontraditional holiday fare, looks to big changes in 2002

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

Spirit in the Dark

Pathos and resistance in the year of the unthinkable

• by Bill Friskics-Warren
• Tags: Stories, Bob Dylan, Shea Seger, Angie Stone, Alejandro Escovedo

A Christmas Reminder

The aluminum tree has started to lose its shine, but the memories still glow

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Burnettown, Jowers Santa, South Carolina, Eckerd Corporation

Oven Fresh

Local bakery debuts brand-new baking facility, looks forward to more and better products

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Mexico, Steve Armistead, Irma Paz

Pop Quiz

Herewith, our year-end test for media junkies

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, The Tennessean Newspaper, Osama bin Laden, Dayna Curry, Michael Cass

Naughty or Nice?

Santa's year-end checklist for pro athletes

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, AFC South Division, American Football Conference, National Football League, Tennessee Titans