Nashville Scene

A Brown Christmas

Reflections of a UPS “Santa’s helper”

• by Loree Gold
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Berlin, Randy Garrett, Janis Joplin

News Briefly

Top cop

• Tags: Features, Features, Bureau of TennCare, Charles Fuget, Phil Bredesen, Carolynn Reid-Wallace

Politics on the Inside

There’s no end in sight to the nasty feud at the election commission

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Eddie Bryan, Michael McDonald, Sharon Wood, Joan Nixon

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Features, Features, Maria Montessori, Catherine McTamaney, Roger Abramson, Peabody

Gojo to Help Choose College Presidents?

TDOT chimp expands his influence in state government

• Tags: Features, Features, Gerald Nicely, Tennessee Department of Transportation, University of Tennessee, James Hefner

A List

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles

Howard & Al

• Tags: Features, Features, Al Gore, Howard Dean, Joseph Lieberman, Walter Mondale

Special FX

Infiniti snubs its nose at convention with a dramatically styled FX35

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Features, Features, Infiniti, Acura MDX, Acura Motors, Volkswagen Touareg

A Windfall

A little-known provision of the Medicare bill boosts HCA’s bottom line

• by Liz Murray Garrigan
• Tags: Features, Features, HCA Inc., Nashville, Medicare, Congress’ Medicare

Leaving Tennessee

Gore’s Dean endorsement is no reflection of state party roots

• by Phil Ashford
• Tags: Features, Features, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Phil Bredesen, J.W. Luna

Love/Hate Mail

More than a gesture

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Vanderbilt University, Johnny Cash, Mike Schoenfeld

Changes at the Rep

Artistic director David Grapes is on his way out, and David Alford is in...for the interim

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, David Alford, Steven Greil, David Grapes, Nashville

A Different Tune

August Wilson play offers chance to see non-holiday fare and some fine developing talent

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Barry Scott, Kenneth Dozier, Tennessee State University

Free and Clear

Line on Love reveals jazz musician Marty Ehrlich’s endlessly expressive powers on alto sax and bass clarinet

• by Bill Levine
• Tags: Stories, Marty Ehrlich, Craig Taborn, Phil Woods, Michael Formanek

Sounding Bored

Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s latest program was lackluster and ill-conceived

• by Marcel Smith
• Tags: Stories, James Ehnes, Nashville Symphony, Niccolo Paganini, Jackson Hall

Jack Emerson Memorial Concert

Friday, December 12th

• Tags: Stories, Andy McLenon, Steve Earle, Nashville, Caroline Herring

Taking Down Uncle Tom

New novel confronting generational tension in African American communities misses its mark

• by Julie Hale
• Tags: Stories, Tracy Daugherty, Southern Methodist University, New Orleans, Oregon State University

Bringing It All Back Home

Tolkien trilogy closes out in grand fashion with The Return of the King—with the promise that the DVD version will be even grander

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aragorn Strider, Andy Serkis

More to Say

Noteworthy new album heralds the return of celebrated pedal steel guitarist Lloyd Green

• Tags: Stories, Lloyd Green, Nashville, Madison, Baghdad

A Sparkling Gem

The splendid Capitol Grille is a jewel in the Hermitage Hotel’s Five Diamond crown, thanks to young chef Sean Brock

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, Sean Brock, Charleston (South Carolina)

That Time of Year

Another Thanksgiving with bad traffic, lots of food and all manner of relatives

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Al Qaeda

Al Censored

Channel 4 was probably right not to air Sharpton

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Al Sharpton, Saturday Night Live, Matthew Zelkind, Craig Havighurst

The Lying Truth

Southern Cal is No. 1 in the polls—but not by the arcane BCS formula

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Big 12 Conference, Bowl Championship Series, Oklahoma Sooners, Alabama Crimson Tide