Nashville Scene

Memo to Chief Serpas

• Tags: Features, Features, Charles Smith, Steve Anderson, Deb Faulkner, Nashville

Steak Through the Heart?

Chicken restaurant plans mad-cow based marketing blitz

• Tags: The Fabricator, Talbott Ottinger, Atlanta, Maddy Cow, Chicken Marketing Council

A List

• Tags: Features, Features, Howard Dean, Nashville, Saturday Night Live, John Jay Hooker

News Briefly

Schools get their report card

• Tags: Features, Features, Matthew Lyle Koster, Rebecca Paul, Rebecca Jemison, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

Group Therapy

Velvet ropes and Bar Twenty3

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Brooklyn, Amy Waddell, Austin

Party’s Over

Three party boys made a business out of throwing fun, but now they’re growing up and calling it quits

• by Rebekah Gleaves Sanderlin
• Tags: Features, Features, Taylor Shults, Nashville, Performance Hall, Astroturf

Phil’s Hill

A New Year memo to the guy everyone seems to like—for now

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Bureau of TennCare, Federal Express Corporation, Airborne Express, The Associated Press

We Hear...

• Tags: Features, Features, Rick Clark, Atlanta, Pedro Garcia, Clear Channel Communications Inc.

Love/Hate Mail

We don’t get it

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Hugh Mundy, Jim Bryson, Duane Denison

Meet the Chief

Ronal Serpas—reformer, Cajun cook—comes to town

• by Bruce Dobie
• Tags: Features, Features, Ronal Serpas, New Orleans, Bill Purcell, Pedro Garcia

12 Months 24 Frames

From Master and Commander to Ben & Jen, the movie year 2003

• Tags: Stories, Donna Bowman, Jim Ridley, Joshua Rothkopf, Stephen King

Telling All Tangents

Obsessive love, mongrel dogs, the life cycle of guinea hens—and everything else—fill T.R. Pearson’s new novel to overflowing

• by Julie Hale
• Tags: Stories, T. R. Pearson, T.R. Pearson, Paul Tatum, Maud Hooper

Art

The city’s galleries bring acknowledged masters, modern-day innovators and first-rate contemporary artists to town

• Tags: Stories, Jacob Lawrence, Judy Chicago, Vanderbilt University, Frist Center

Theater

It’s a time of upheaval for theater in Nashville, but the coming year offers plenty of notable productions

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, David Alford, Kentucky

Classical Music

Upcoming concerts promise expected excellence from Nashville Opera, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Alias and other groups

• by Marcel Smith
• Tags: Stories, Nashville Symphony, Benjamin Britten, Ingram Center, Blair School of Music

Local Music Note

Nashville guitarist Owsley releases second album of sterling power pop

• Tags: Stories, Will Owsley, Ben Folds, Amy Grant, George Harrison

Pick of the Weeek

Graham Lindsey ♦ Sunday, Jan. 11

• Tags: Stories, Jim Lauderdale, Nashville, Robyn Hitchcock, Black Flag (Musical Group)

Dance

A few choreographic highlights of 2004

• Tags: Stories, Nashville Ballet, Paul Vasterling, Ingram Center, Nashville

Rank Smells

Questions surround a CMT poll ranking the “Top 100 Songs of Country Music”

• by Paul Griffith
• Tags: Stories, Country Music Television Inc., Country Music Association, Michael McCall, Brian Mansfield

Winter/Spring Arts Preview 2004

This Is What’s Happening

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Judy Chicago

Shared Ideas

Husband-and-wife artists create installation pieces that interconnect while maintaining their individual distinctiveness

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Donna Stack, Andrew Kaufman, Ruby Green, Matthew Ritchie

Demon Exorcised

The victory over the Ravens gives the Titans back their spirit

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, AFC North Division, AFC South Division, American Football Conference, Baltimore Ravens

A Face In The Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Cheryl Hutton, Ohio

Desperately Seeking the News

Ku Klutz Klan

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Michael King, Nashville, Ku Klux Klan, Tennessee

Moving On

Channel 2’s Zelkind signs off

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Matthew Zelkind, Ku Klux Klan, Nashville, The Tennessean Newspaper

Dining Notes

• Tags: Columns: Stories, George Tucker, Yazoo Brewing Company, Chris Rioux, Nashville

The Lo Down

A new store in Cool Springs caters to Atkins dieters with low-carb products...but who wants to eat facsimiles of food?

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Lo Carb Company, Brenda Jarrard, Baltimore, Eddie George

In Case of Snow, Break This Article

Entertainment options for a cold, cold weekend

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Pat McLaughlin, Joe Bob Briggs, Nashville, Asbury Park

Crush of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Jennifer Garner, Bill Purcell, Charlie Sheen, Ronnie Greer

Why I Can’t Stand Howard Dean

One Southerner tees off

• by Bruce Dobie
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, George W. Bush, Howard Dean, Bill Clinton, Yale University

Dear Santa:

It’s never too early to get your Christmas list into the right hands

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, General Motors Corporation, Nashville, BMW AG, Toyota Matrix