Nashville Scene

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• Tags: Features, Features, John Petersen, Lamar Alexander, The Wall Street Journal, University of Tennessee

"Rocky Top" Has Close Call

New UT president almost bans rallying song

• Tags: The Fabricator, John Petersen, University of Tennessee, Boudleaux Bryant, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

A Lion Laid Low

Reggae singer Himons in critical care

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Daryl Sanders, Seattle, Central America

George Bush's War

Scene writers opine—again

• Tags: Features, Features, George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Middle East

Thoughts on Pedro

It could be tough sledding ahead

• by Bruce Dobie
• Tags: Features, Features, Pedro Garcia, Miami, Nashville, Nelson Andrews

Lights Out

They'll never get the Tennessee Tower past the censors

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, C. John Wilder, Nashville Predators, National Hockey League, NHL Central Division

Failing Tabitha Tuders

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Tabitha Tuders, Millard Earl Smith, Kingsport

Love/Hate Mail

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Tennessee, William Witney, David Berger

We Hear...

• Tags: Features, Features, Vanderbilt University, Annapolis (Maryland), Fallujah, Santa Barbara

Foreign Exchange

Diverse exhibition offers Nashvillians rare exposure to European minimalist sensibilities

• by Paul Deakin
• Tags: Stories, Joseph Mella, Vanderbilt University, Peter Foolen, Hans Waanders

Forget-Me-Nots

Two films from last year's indie circuit merit an audience as much as this week's festival showings do

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Neil Young, The Taliban, Afghanistan

Pick of the Week

Kenny Garrett Quartet ♦ Saturday, May 1

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, George Clinton, Marvin Posey, Less Than Jake

Ray Condo, 1950 - 2004

The Quiet Death of a Half-Nuts Rockabilly

• Tags: Stories, Ray Condo, Janet Jackson, Swing Swing, Harlem

Back in Fair Verona

Nashville Ballet aims to breathe new life into Shakespeare's classic tragedy

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Paul Vasterling, Sergei Prokofiev, Nashville Ballet, Andrew Jackson

Turning Literature (and History, and Music, and Racism, and Motherhood) Upside Down

Local novelist explores a variety of social issues through the lens of an outsider

• by Paul V. Griffith
• Tags: Stories, Alice Randall, Windsor, Margaret Mitchell, Tupac Shakur

Victims of Circumstance

Two local theater groups present thought-provoking plays that explore the suffering of the innocent

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Euripides, Steve Earle, Jeremy Childs

Strange But True

Music Row gets its freak on with rash of new signings

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Big & Rich, Josh Turner, Dierks Bentley, Jimmy Wayne

Flame Retardant

Part vengeance bash, part Christian Allegory and completely overwrought, Man on Fire fizzles

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Tony Scott, John Creasy, Mexico City, Dakota Fanning

Love Lost

Circle Players' latest production provides mixed results

• Tags: Stories, Brian Hill, Michael Brady, Melissa Williams, Emily Landham

Summer Reading for Grown-Ups

Elinor Lipman is back with a breezy new novel for the beach bag

• Tags: Stories, Elinor Lipman, Alice Thrift, Harvard University School of Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A Boy Beauty Queen

Challenging the norm

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Myrtle Beach, Rita Pittman, Regional Campus, University of South Carolina-Aiken

The Disc Jockey

A potent take on fringe celebrity tops current DVD releases

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Sam Green, Rollen Stewart, Stephen Sondheim, Abel Ferrara

Web Site of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, 434

A Face in the Crowd

TYM WILLIAMS, runner, Country Music Marathon

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Chicago, Columbia, Nashville, Jimmy Dickens

On Hedgehogs

Our Game Boy explores the Xbox's Sonic Heroes

• by Brent Rolen
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, SEGA Corporation, Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Sonic the Hedgehog

The New Tupperware

When we weren't looking, sex toy parties surpassed Pampered Chef gatherings as the new home-based business, and now we can never look at hand-held frothers the same

• by Mary D.
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Tupperware Brands Corporation, Duracell Batteries, Beyonce Knowles, Betty Cocker

Weekend Updates

The Reputation lives up to its name

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, Elizabeth Elmore, Ellis Hooks, Jim Rooney

A List

The fifth annual Country Music Marathon and Half Marathon were held on Saturday. Here are some signs you didn't have a good race:

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Howard Dean, Kenny Chesney, Rosie Ruiz, Bill Purcell

Haute and wet

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Los Angeles, Nashville, Milan, Paris

Toying With Us

Chrysler and Chevrolet get playful with a pair of unusual new convertibles

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Chevrolet SSR, Chrysler PT Cruiser, Chrysler LLC, Chevrolet Corvette

Imagining Baseball Utopia

Steroid-pumped superstars would be dumped, AAA players would be promoted and tickets would be affordable

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers, National League (Baseball)

Spring Into the Season

The Acorn, with its delectable dishes and secluded patio seating, sets the table for an ideal spring evening

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, John Leonard, Shon Hudspeth, Ed Carter

Crush of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Lisa Battaglia, Bea Arthur, Condoleezza Rice, Courteney Cox

Stage Dive

IBL wins the pennant, Aireline crashes and burns

• by Elizabeth Orr and Marie Yarbrough
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, IBL, Aaron Robinson, Coca-Cola Classic, David Cross

We're the Corporate Media

And we don't bite

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Village Voice Media Inc., Manhattan, Nashville, Bruce Dobie