Nashville Scene

Employer Malpractice?

Credit union employees sue Saint Thomas after carbon monoxide poisoning

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Mary Coleman, Chloe Nguyen, Cindy Wedel, Gordon Peerman

I See White People

New M. Night Shyamalan thriller to film in Brentwood

• Tags: The Fabricator, Brentwood, M. Night Shyamalan, Ernest Borgnine, Hollywood

Young Buck

A local rapper rises above the cycle of poverty, violence and drugs to become the best-selling rap act outta Music City

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Young Buck, 50 Cent, Nashvillian Jeff Pringle

American Lesion

There's a new flip-flopper in town, and his name is George W. Bush

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, The American Legion, John Edwards (Politician), Ronald Reagan, Bill Frist

Love And Hate Mail

Back in the day

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Vanderbilt University, Austin (Texas), Eileen Beehan

Cooley Meter

• Tags: Features, Features

HCA & the Real World as We Know It

• Tags: Features, Features, HCA Inc., Nashville, Richard Florida, Phil Bredesen

News Briefly

Cooley on the hot seat

• Tags: Features, Features, Dave Cooley, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Bill Phillips, Phil Bredesen

Handling Panhandling

Sweeping the streets of handout seekers is one way to deal with the problem—but is it the best way?

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Bill Purcell, Howard Allen, Nashville Downtown Partnership

Just Out of Reach

With their minimal patterns and expressive brush strokes, Todd Green's paintings beg for—but don't easily yield to—interpretation

• by Rachel Crumpler
• Tags: Stories, Todd Greene, Sistine Chapel

Something for Everyone

Nashville Symphony Orchestra's 2004-05 season promises everything from Brubeck and Bernstein to Mozart and Messiaen

• by Paul Deakin
• Tags: Stories, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, Olivier Messiaen, Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Chaotic Forecast

Tennessee native Clint McCown takes on God, death and the weather

• Tags: Stories, Clint McCown, Birmingham (Alabama), Taylor Wakefield, China

Testifyin'

Annual musicians' reunion bears witness to unsung or largely forgotten Nashville blues and R&B greats

• by Bill Levine
• Tags: Stories, Marion James, Nashville, James Nixon, Sunnyland Slim

They Just Don't Get It

Gender gurus' junk science keeps us mired in sexist thinking

• by Maria Browning
• Tags: Stories, Rosalind Barnett, John Gray, Caryl Rivers, Carol Gilligan

Playing It Straight, Sorta

Wry new album by Todd Snider confronts life and death

• by Chris Neal
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Todd Snider, Billy Joe Shaver, Bing Crosby

Warriors' Tale

Chinese epic Hero offers a compelling hybrid of kung fu action, stunning visual flourishes and compelling narrative

• by Adam Ross
• Tags: Stories, Zhang Yimou, Jet Li, Ang Lee, Christopher Doyle

Double Cross

Watchable group study We Don't Live Here Anymore details spousal trade-offs between two unhappy adulterous couples

• Tags: Stories, Hank Evans, John Curran, Jack Linden, Mark Ruffalo

Scruggstacular

Nonpareil banjoist Earl Scruggs takes up residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame

• Tags: Stories, Earl Scruggs, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Melissa Etheridge, Steve Morse

A Face in the Crowd

KEITH TREHY, a.k.a., "Bond, Chemical Bond," of the Mad Science Group

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Antoine Lavoisier

How It Looks from the La-Z-Boy

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Vanderbilt University, South Carolina Gamecocks, Southeastern Conference, Vanderbilt Commodores

She's Got Game

Tennessean editor goes on Jeopardy

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jennifer Peebles, Larry Brinton, Tim Chavez, The Tennessean Newspaper

Weekend Updates

Entertaining ways to avoid labor this Labor Day weekend

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Dan Baird, Cloud & Co., Nashville, Viktor Krauss

Al Be

• by Claire Suddath
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Weird Al Yankovic, Nashville, Al Gore, Al Sharpton

Face the Music

A conversation with Pattie Cossentino, who's got a bone to pick with "Play That Funky Music"

• by Marie Yarbrough
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Pattie Cossentino, Nashville, Franklin, Vladimir Horowitz

Shots

Food Drive

A culinary excursion through Nashville's southeast quadrant turns up three new ethnic eateries worth visiting

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Dona Rosa, Hiro Watanabe, Nashville, Dunya Kabob

Sic Transit Gloria

A fan laments the unsung loss of an '80s pop chanteuse

• by Jason Shawhan
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Laura Branigan, Michael Bolton, Donna Summer, Madonna (Entertainer)

Cash With No Class

The NCAA's charge conflicts with its business

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Mike Williams, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Jeremy Bloom, Mike Williams (Wide Receiver)

For all the marbles

Honda takes aims at minivan rivals with ambitious Honda Odyssey makeover

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Honda Odyssey, Toyota Sienna, Chrysler Town & Country, Chrysler LLC

Living It Up

Lawsuit portrays trustee of the Maddox Foundation as a greedy and reckless caretaker of a beloved family's estate

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashvillian Robin Grindstaff Costa, Dan Maddox, Foundation Corporation, Maddox Foundation

Group Therapy

All the way down to the not so Bitter End

• by Amy Waddell
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Gary Clarke, Jimmy Buffett, Bill Purcell, Dave Pearson

Dining Notes

The hours

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Germantown, Nashville, Atlanta, State Capitol

Having

Put down the poncho

• by Amy Waddell
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Anna Sui, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford

Web Site of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Jerry Falwell, Liberty University