Nashville Scene

Drunk With Power

Former Maddox staffer says foundation head boozed it up on company time

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Robin Costa, Tara Hermansen, Cancun, Maddox Foundation

NIMBYs Run Amok

• Tags: Features, Features, Vivian Wilhoite, Martin Luther King Jr., Woodbine Community Organization, Antioch

Status Report

Where we are, circa 2004

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Beth Halteman Harwell, George W. Bush, Randy Button

Your Move, Phil

Gov. Phil Bredesen may have outmaneuvered Gordon Bonnyman on TennCare, but now it's the governor's cross to bear

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Phil Bredesen, Gordon Bonnyman, Bureau of TennCare, Medicaid

Off Limits

• Tags: Features, Features, Jane Alvis, Ronal Serpas, George Jones, Bill Purcell

A Sexy Santa Day

After the stockings are hung with care, put a little X back in Xmas

• by Kay West
• Tags: Features, Features, Santa Claus, X-rated Sandi Does Santa, Google Inc., Victoria's Secret Stores Inc.

Twisted Christmas

It's a wonderful terrible life in these offbeat Yuletide videos

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Features, Features, Denis Leary, Bea Arthur, Carrie Fisher, Chewbacca

Love And Hate Mail

What do you have to lose?

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Matt Pulle, Rita Tallent, U.S. Democratic Party

Martha Don't Live Here

Snuff your scented candle collection and tell Snow White's dwarves the diorama isn't happening this December

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Features, Features, Newell Rubbermaid Inc., Mary Engelbreit, Christopher Radko, Hallmark Cards Inc.

Sounds Like a Plan

The ballpark deal is reaching its final stages—and things look good for the Sounds

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, First Tennessee Bank, Bill Purcell, Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse Inc., Mike Edwards

My Strangest Holiday Ever

Christmas and Hanukkah viewed through a different lens

• Tags: Features, Features, Blessed Virgin Mary, Justin Jones, Sean Astin, Abe Schneider

When Yasser came calling

Palestinian leader's Music City visit recalled

• Tags: The Fabricator, Yasser Arafat, Nashville, Mohammed Ali, Richard Fulton

Thorny Illusions

Local singer-songwriter Jennifer Niceley releases trenchant debut

• Tags: Stories, Jennifer Niceley, Knoxville, Nashville, Biloxi

A Literary Party

Every year, readers gather to hear from emerging writers—and to have a good time—at Southern Writers Reading in Fairhope, Ala.

• Tags: Stories, Bobby Gatewood, Fairhope, Tom Franklin, Sonny Brewer

Innervisions

Nashville Opera plumbs intensely interior works by Poulenc and Davies

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Voix Humaine, Francis Poulenc, Erik Satie

Transcontinental Southern Lit

Algonquin author breaks out of Appalachia

• Tags: Stories, Nina Schuyler, France, Chapel Hill, Jill McCorkle

Life's Pall on Separate Panels

Memphis painter Jed Jackson uses visual references and cartoon formats to cast a mournful eye on modern life

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Jed Jackson, Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, University of Memphis

Rock 'n' Roil

Music documentary DiG! fails to make its point, but remains a compelling watch

• Tags: Stories, Courtney Taylor, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown

American Beauty

New Yorkers Hem tap the nation's musical colloquialisms on their elegant new album

• Tags: Stories, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Randy Newman

Wal-Mart Rules

Women rate neither bread nor roses in the empire of Sam Walton

• by Maria Browning
• Tags: Stories, Liza Featherstone, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Betty Dukes, Melissa Howard

Days of Wine and Ruses

The bottle lets down two buddies in the acerbic Sideways

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Paul Giamatti, Romacorp Inc.

St. Louis Grammar

The rapper Nelly injects a "new" beat into the pop vernacular

• by Geoffrey Himes
• Tags: Stories, Nelly (Rapper), Nelly Beat, St. Louis, Bo Diddley

A Comfortable Transition

Firefly Grille hones in on upscale diners looking for a casual meal—or is that casual diners looking for an upscale meal?

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Curt Cole, Deer Park, Chicago, Scott Witherow

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, John Massey, Huffy Corporation, Nashville

How It Looks from the Ha-Z-Girl

• Tags: Columns: Stories, AFC South Division, American Football Conference, National Football League, Tennessee Titans

R.I.P., ODB

Russell "Big Baby Jesus/Dirt Dawg/Dirt McGirt/Ol' Dirty Bastard/Osiris" Jones, 1968-2004

• by Jason Shawhan
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Wu-Tang Clan, Catullus, Russell Jones (Designer)

Shots

Category Busters

Ford and Hummer wrestle with novel ways to manage people and cargo

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Ford Freestyle, Ford Motor Company, Hummer H2, AB Volvo

Web Site of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Akin Fernandez, Wilco (Musical Group), James Bond, Cameron Crowe

My Back Pages

On the haunted South, William Eggleston, and an elegant memoir of madness

• by Diann Blakely
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Alan Brown, Franklin, Julie Gregory, Baron Karl von Munchausen

Spoiled Sports

Hey, Sprewell & Co. are just trying to feed their families a few mil worth of kibble

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Ron Artest, National Basketball Association, Latrell Sprewell, Indiana Pacers

Weekend Updates

Dance the night away, then nurse your hangover with Popeye

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Rani Mukherjee, Takashi Shimizu, Nashville, SpongeBob SquarePants

Dining Notes

Where to find that deep-fried turkey for Thanksgiving

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Aubrey Bean, Roslyn McKnight, Nashville, Lee McKnight