Nashville Scene

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CMA Music Festival (a.k.a. Fan Fair), Bonnaroo and Ronald Reagan's funeral

• Tags: Features, Features, Dorothy Brown, Manny Martins, Bureau of TennCare, Tennessee

Weed Whacked

A proposed lawn control ordinance gets lost in high grass

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Ludye Wallace, Diane Neighbors, Karl Meyer, Nashville

Our Summer of Canine Discontent

• Tags: Features, Features, Ronnie Greer, Tricia Frantz, Belmont, Norman Rockwell

Sex, Mud and Rock 'n' Roll

Too bad Bonnaroo only comes once a year

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Features, Features, Daisy King, Nashville, Bob Dylan, Leonardo Da Vinci

A dog mute button?

Local vet performs controversial surgery

• Tags: The Fabricator, Horace Childs, Nashville, White Bridge Road Animal Hospital, Jennifer Spacey

Mayoral Manipulation

With a $100 million budget shortfall, Purcell's controversial style is, more than ever, his Achilles' heel

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Phillips, Bill Purcell, Chris Ferrell, Tom Sherrard

Big britches

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Karen Hoff, Ronald Reagan, Michael McCall

Day Careless

If something really doesn't do any good, what good does it really do?

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Gary Odom, Tom Cash, Tennessee Education Association, Tennessee

A Clockwork Lemon

The new Stepford Wives requires more assembly

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Paul Rudnick, Frank Oz, Ira Levin, Nicole Kidman

Deep, Dark Places

Nineteenth-century print cycle invites the viewer into engrossing, often disturbing, mythological and psychological terrain

• by Paul Deakin
• Tags: Stories, Max Klinger, Vanderbilt University, West End, Christian Krohg

Elemental Outpourings

Bonnaroo '04 defined by torrents of rain and music

• by Scott Manzler
• Tags: Stories, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Patti Smith, Calexico, Ira Kaplan

On a Darkling Plain

Vandy grad student publishes the first book of a grim fantasy trilogy

• by Thaddeus Wert
• Tags: Stories, J.R.R. Tolkien, R. Scott Bakker, Mel Gibson, U.S. Armed Forces

A Fourth of Beethoven

Berlioz trumps Beethoven in second of the NSO's celebrations of the master

• by Bill Levine
• Tags: Stories, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Nashville Symphony

A Look Inward

C.S. Lewis adaptation reaches for, and connects with, profound truths

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Holly Allen, C.S. Lewis, Mark Lynn

Heard It Through the Grapevine

Two new interconnected Web sites offer the dirt on the local rock scene

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Murfreesboro, Murfreesbored.com, De Novo Dahl

Never Mind the Gap

Nashvillian delivers the goods on London shopping

• Tags: Stories, Nicki Pendleton Wood, London, Nashville, University of Cambridge

The Disc Jockey

Recut Ali stings like a bee, and Reality (still) Bites

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Michael Mann, The Simpsons (TV Show), Ben Stiller, Hollywood

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, 819

Web Site of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, South Carolina, Texas

Gone Fishin'

These days in Chavez-land, critical-minded journalists need not apply

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Tim Chavez, Marsha Blackburn, Ronald Reagan, Dan Rather

One Dirty Trip

It won't be long before Bonnaroo goes to the dogs

• by Brent Rolen
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Boy Scouts of America, Burning Man, Chattanooga

A List

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Bill Frist, Pigeon Forge

Having

Dolce Punta handcrafted Italian tie

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Amy Waddell, Darek Bell, Dolce Puntas, Napoli

Weekend Updates

Taking back Nashville's airwaves, the White House, and other inconsequential causes

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, Steve Albini, Miz Katy, Jen Cohen

Who Said It?

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Ray Charles, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan

Small Wonders

Less is so much more at tasyt

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Dan Morrissey, Jeremy Barlow, Nashville, Shirley Horowitz

"A Black Man's Game"

One Larry Bird finally says what no one else would

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Detroit Pistons, Larry Bird, National Basketball Association, NBA Central Division

Messin' with EXes

Suzuki Forenza and Honda Civic battle for the hearts and minds of compact car shoppers

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Honda Civic, Suzuki Forenza, Toyota Corolla, Pininfarina SpA

Talk to the Animals

Even if a dog can understand human language, what good will it do him?

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Frisbee, John Milton, Jesus Christ, James Brown

Mourning in America

A political confessional undertaken while returning from Reagan's state burial

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Ronald Reagan, Iran, Ted Koppel, Jimmy Carter

The Battle for Nashville, Chapter 6

In which Joe Mudge teaches a valuable lesson about life, lending, and the smart way to kill a company

• by Bruce Dobie
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Joe Mudge, Trigg Moseley, Stress Free Concrete Inc., James Moseley