Nashville Scene

Love/Hate Mail

Same time next year

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Kenny Chesney, Matt Pulle, Mimi Manzler

A List

• Tags: Features, Features, Bud Adams, Nashville

Prince Harold

The sky could be the limit for Harold Ford Jr., conventional wisdom be damned

• by Roger Abramson, photography by Eric England
• Tags: Features, Features, Harold Ford Jr., John Kerry, Memphis, Tennessee

Making Preservation Pay

The city should reward preservationists, not punish them, as Charlie Tygard imagines

• by Christine Kreyling
• Tags: Features, Features, Don Jones, Charles Tygard, Nashville, Bellevue

News Briefly

Lots of wheezing and hacking

• Tags: Features, Features, Tennessee, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville

“Depixelating” Device to be Offered by Comcast

Council member Tucker vows investigation

• Tags: The Fabricator, Comcast Corporation, Nashville, Virgil Caudill, Janet Jackson

One Big Flop

Why the Adams deal went nowhere

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Bud Adams, Nashville, Bill Purcell, Bill Phillips

Dying for Attention

A new Aileen Wuornos doc makes Monster irrelevant

• Tags: Stories, Aileen Wuornos, Nick Broomfield, Florida, Charlize Theron

Flying With Eagles

A new book celebrates the warriors, not the war

• Tags: Stories, Rick Atkinson, Iraq, U.S. Armed Forces, U.S. Department of Defense

A More Humane Kinky

In his new book, cult author reveals a deeper empathy

• Tags: Stories, Friedman’s, Kinky Friedman, George W. Bush, Molly Ivins

Getting Past Good Manners

Novel addresses serious issues beneath hidebound customs

• Tags: Stories, Meg Waite Clayton, Maryland, Nelly Grace, Vietnam

A Yankee in Milltown

Novelist Tim Gautreaux breaks out of the Southern boys’ club

• Tags: Stories, Tim Gautreaux, Vanderbilt University, Charles Frazier, Larry Brown (Basketball)

Survey Course

Faculty exhibit at Watkins College of Art & Design gives Nashvillians a look at work by members of the city’s visual arts community

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Watkins College of Art & Design, Barbara Yontz, Dan Brawner, Lesley Patterson

Class Struggle

Though not entirely successful, ACT I’s staging of Chekhov classic is worthwhile theater

• Tags: Stories, Marc Mazzone, Brian Cunningham, Doug Moore, Olivia Lovell

Head Trip

Stunning effects trump vivid truths in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, Kate Winslet, Jim Carrey

The Return of Pop

Two new piano trio records reclaim the Great American Songbook for jazz

• by Geoffrey Himes
• Tags: Stories, Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus, Dave King, Radiohead

Obit

In-demand bassist Kyle Tullis worked with Gram Parsons and Dolly Parton

• Tags: Stories, Kyle Tullis, Nashville, Dolly Parton, Connie Smith

Killin’ Time

New album by neo-trad pioneer Clint Black is more of the same old hat

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Clint Black, Alan Jackson (Musician), Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney

Life During Wartime

The Rep succeeds with The Diary of Anne Frank, despite a set that’s too comfortable for the story

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Anne Frank, Gary Hoff, Evelyn Blythe, Peter Bretz

Pick of the Week

The Holmes Brothers w/Joss Stone ♦ Sunday, March 21st

• Tags: Stories, Joss Stone, Jim Ridley, Betty Wright, Sandra Collins

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, M Ike King, Austin Powers

Plumbing Hell

It takes a seriously strong-willed person to fix a clogged-up, blown-out, 90-year-old sewer pipe

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

We Hear...

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Athan Gibbs, Bruce Dobie, James Polk, John Seigenthaler

Love at First Flight

Our Game Boy falls for Vince

• by Brent Rolen
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Voodoo Vince, Activision Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Atari Inc.

Web Site of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Eric Fensler

Queer Ayes Ban the Gay Guys

Rhea County outlaws homosexuals, then rescinds amid the backlash

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Dayton, Tennessee, William Jennings Bryan, Chattanooga

Weekend Updates

Singing barbers, Delta blues and ballet from Robert Altman

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Robert Altman, Malcolm McDowell, Howard Hawks, The Joffrey Ballet

Group Therapy

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Adam Dread, Nashville, Cable News Network LP LLLP, FOX News Network LLC

No Passing Lane

A rare, exotic collection chronicles the evolution of automotive style and engineering

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Susan Lane, Jeff Lane, Lane Motor Museum, Subaru Corporation

Court Jesters

This year’s March Madness is truly insane

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Mississippi State University, Stanford, University of Connecticut, Atlantic Coast Conference

Inside Bill Purcell’s Brain

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Bill Purcell, Phil Bredesen, David Manning, Pedro Garcia

Through Being Cool

Former Soul Coughing frontman opens up to crowd in stellar solo show

• by Marie Yarbrough
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Mike Doughty, Soul Coughing, Mary J. Blige, Wichita

Crush of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, The Topps Co. Inc.

Thug Life

Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office tries to bully a student newspaper

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Sidney McPhee, Patrick Chinnery, Edward Farmer, Truman Jones

Dining Notes

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Aubrey Bean, Nashville, Texas, Erin Edwards

Warm Weather = Frozen Treat

Bobbie’s Dairy Dip is back open for business; the approach of spring also heralds several new eateries in town

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Claire Mullally, Nashville, Jai Crawford, Randy Rayburn