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Presidential cattle call

• Tags: Features, Features, John Ford, Michael Combs, Tennessee Democratic Party, Phil Bredesen

Campaign Blog

A continuing look at the Democratic primary

• by Bruce Dobie
• Tags: Features, Features, John Edwards (Politician), Judy Dean, Wesley Clark, John Kerry

One City, Two Peoples

The upcoming dedication of the Nashville Public Library’s Civil Rights Room focuses on Nashville’s first sit-ins

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Vic Cooley, James Lawson, Ben West

The Man Behind the Curtain

Sounds owner Al Gordon is like the Wizard of Oz, only a lot richer

• by Liz Murray Garrigan and Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Al Gordon, Glenn Yaeger, Bud Adams, Chicago

Love/Hate Mail

Jon Stewart would be proud

• Tags: Features, Features, Howard Dean, Nashville, Victor Wooten, Bruce Dobie

Mr. Bad Example

Larry Lawson, key figure in Hispanic abuse scandal, resurfaces in Metro as a probation officer

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Larry Lawson, Detection Services Inc., Nashville, Ivy Wood

Nashville Calling

Low-power FM station Radio Free Nashville comes a little bit closer to being an on-air reality

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Justice Center, Bellevue

Seaworthy Vessel

NCT deftly handles Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterwork, reminding us there were pirates before Disney

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ross Brooks, John Silver

From This Day Forward

The personal is the political in Anne Tyler’s new tale of an embattled marriage

• by Margaret Renkl
• Tags: Stories, Anne Tyler, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pauline Anton

Alternate Path

Highly touted Nashville singer Mindy Smith chooses independent route

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Mindy Smith, Nashville, Steve Buckingham, Alison Krauss

On the Aisle

Recent news from the local theater scene

• Tags: Stories, David Alford, Jaz Dorsey, David Lindsay-Abaire, Little Rock

Healing Art

Adrienne Outlaw’s installation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center offers calmness and community while also raising some complex questions

• Tags: Stories, Adrienne Outlaw, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University Hospital, David Maddox

Our Town, Our Country

Documentary about inner-city school staging Thornton Wilder play has much to tell us about a drastically changed America

• Tags: Stories, Thornton Wilder, Compton, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Donna Bowman

The Next Wave

Local band The Features build momentum with recent signing to Universal, which plans to issue an EP and an LP this year

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Matt Pelham, United Kingdom, Murfreesboro, Sparta

Pick of the Week

“The Wrong Question Asker: New Works by Wayne White” Opening Friday, Jan. 30

• Tags: Stories, Joy Lynn White, Billy Joe Shaver, Rickie Lee Jones, Dave Coleman

Quiet Company

Robert Altman’s latest may seem slight, but it serves as a perfect metaphor for the director’s philosophy of artistic endeavor

• Tags: Stories, Robert Altman, Neve Campbell, The Joffrey Ballet, Malcolm McDowell

A Face In The Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, David Meador, Chicago, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

Fair Weather Conservatives

Limited government is great-until it doesn’t suit their lifestyle

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Germantown, Brentwood, Memphis, Steve Cohen

Weekend Updates

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Michael Stalcup

Nashville Sounds

Southern rap celebrated at inaugural local hip-hop awards

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, Atlanta, Memphis, DJ Jelly

Small Ambitions

Volvo reinvents compact S40 as sophisticated, affordable, ultra-safe performer

• by Marc K. Stengal
• Tags: Columns: Stories, AB Volvo, Volvo S40, Acura TSX, Nashville

The Disc Jockey

A politically incendiary film comes in from the cold after 30 years

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Ivan Dixon, Dan Freeman, Hollywood, Sam Greenlee

Blog This

Dean’s freaks and geeks are all over his campaign’s “Blog for America.”

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Howard Dean, Bruce Dobie, Boston, Christian Coalition

Group Therapy

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Steve Ford, Bettie Page, Lula Licious

The Great Leveler

Under the NFL’s share-the-wealth system, you almost have to be serially incompetent not to rise to the top every now and then

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, AFC East Division, American Football Conference, Carolina Panthers, National Football Conference

Crush of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, London, Montgomery Bell Academy, School of Audio Engineering

Kindling on the Shelf

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Bill Frist, The Tennessean Newspaper, Martin Luther, Queen Elizabeth II

Dinner and a Show

If you’re looking for Japanese food and a noisy, action-packed circus, look no farther than Ru San’s

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Ru Nagata, Atlanta, Nashville, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

We Hear...

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Charlie Ray, Burger King Corporation, Bob Tuke, John Kerry

Don’t Flaunt It

AP choice of words infuriates gay activists

• by Matt Pulle and Jim Ridley
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Kent Bailey, Glen Weiss, Terry Bulger

Web Site of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, 1718