Nashville Scene

A Face In The Crowd

• Tags: Features, Features, Bogota, Colombia, Vanderbilt University, Angela Wibking

Rule of the Road

Contemplating the significance of Ford’s 100th birthday and Corvette’s 50th

• Tags: Features, Features, Ford Motor Company, Chevrolet Corvette, Washington, DC, Mesopotamia

Florida Further Than You Thought

New study reveals time-space warp across rural South

• Tags: Features, Features, Valdosta, Atlanta, Columbia (South Carolina), Nashville

Shameless Self Promotion

• Tags: Features, Features, Thelonious Monk, East Nashville Center for the Creative Arts, Charles Dungey, Collin Raye

A List

• Tags: Features, Features, Vince Gill, Branson, Grand Ole Opry House, Island Def Jam Music Group

Jobs, Jobs and More Jobs

Communities rise and fall on a number of variables, but two of them stand far above the others.

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Bill Purcell, Pedro Garcia, Department of Economic and Community

The Thrill Is Gone

The Predators’ lawsuit against Gaylord is about the two parties going in different directions

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville Predators, National Hockey League, NHL Central Division, NHL Western Conference

A U-Turn at TDOT?

State Route 840 is the first test for an agency that says it’s on the road to recovery

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Ed Cole, Carol Forrest, Nashville

Long Shots

Instead of running for city commissioner, Grundy County residents run from their schools director

• by John Spragens and Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, Mike Byers, Jim Nunley, Memphis Grizzlies, National Basketball Association

Love/Hate Mail

No wonder acts are hard to find

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Emmett Turner, Bob Kirchner, Aubrey Harwell

Bill Frist's Bucks

The Scene examines what the U.S. Senate majority leader owns in the hospital company his family founded and how that wealth is managed

• by Willy Stern
• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Frist, HCA Inc., Kirk Scobey, Nashville

News Briefly

Execution delayed

• Tags: Features, Features, Emmett Turner, Country Music Association, Cincinnati, Phil Bredesen

Factory and Field

Novelist Tom Franklin captures the South in transition

• by Clay Risen
• Tags: Stories, Tom Franklin, William Gay, Cormac McCarthy, Oxford (Mississippi)

Life as a Circus

Atlanta artist Cecilia Kane uses carnival sideshow imagery to create vivid, expansive installation at ruby green

• by Angela Wibking
• Tags: Stories, Cecilia Kane, Atlanta, Iraq, Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center

Urban Outreach

jeff obafemi carr knows firsthand the challenges of being an African American actor in Nashville

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, August Wilson, Ryman Auditorium, Tyler Perry

Beginning of the End

Gaspar Noé’s savagely pessimistic Irréversible

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Gaspar Noe, Toronto, Albert Dupontel, Charles Bronson

Watching the Detectives

Writer-director Ron Shelton’s gifts come through in Hollywood Homicide, despite some concessions to convention

• Tags: Stories, Hollywood, Ron Shelton, Joe Gavilan, Josh Hartnett

On the Verge

Local rockers Green Rode Shotgun ready for something more

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Drummer Don Sergio, Jason Johnson, Jay Joyce, Tige Casey

A Fine Mess

A few reasons why so many new houses are so poorly built

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jill Homebuyer, Nashville

Sports Desk

From the Scene’s desk at McCabe Pub

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Albert Ballin, Nashville, New York City, Hamburg

A Mouthful

For fine Italian dining, there’s Manhattan; to feed a large, hungry family, there’s Buca di Beppo

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, BUCA Inc., Manhattan, David Pasternak, Nashville

Corkgate!

Cheating in baseball has a long tradition

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Sammy Sosa, Gaylord Perry, Vaseline Intensive Care Products, Bud Selig