Nashville Scene

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A new study redeems those who've been saying we need more convention space

• by Christine Kreyling
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Bill Purcell, Renaissance Nashville Hotel, Doubletree Corporation

What They're Thankful For

It's getting to be that sappy time of year when people get all gooey and grateful for their share of life's bounty. What follows are the blessings we're guessing a few folks will be counting on Turkey Day.

• Tags: Features, Features, Larry Brinton, Pedro Garcia, Harold White, John Kerry

White Castle Stuffing

• Tags: Features, Features, White Castle System Inc.

Sweet Potato Soup

• Tags: Features, Features, Living Foods, Celtic Sea

Depose Wilder

• Tags: Features, Features, C. John Wilder, U.S. Republican Party, Bill Frist, Don Sundquist

Love And Hate Mail

About face

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Nanci Griffith, Matt Pulle, Cashville

Don't Mess With Thanksgiving

Cooking up funky recipes for the holiday table

• by Kay West
• Tags: Features, Features, White Castle System Inc., Weight Watchers International Inc., Ritz Crackers, New York City

Naked! Stabbed! On Fire!

(A sensational news roundup)

• Tags: The Fabricator, Young Buck, Nashville, Kmart Corporation, Cleveland

Faux Mashed Potatoes & Low-Carb Giblet Gravy

Faux Mashed Potatoes

• Tags: Features, Features, Marc Gilberti, New Orleans, Elmwood Fitness Center

Off Limits

• Tags: Features, Features, Bureau of TennCare, Phil Bredesen, David Brown, Fred Thompson (Politician)

Flag Down on the Play

Vanderbilt's first lady lowers old glory at the chancellor's residence after Kerry's defeat

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Constance Gee, Vanderbilt University, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice

Ritz Mock Apple Pie

• Tags: Features, Features, Nabisco Corp., Ritz Crackers

Trending Dumb

Tennessean retools its youth publication into something Britney Spears would be proud of

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Osama bin Laden, Kent Flanagan, The Associated Press

It's That time of year

Boiler Room Theatre takes on wide range of holiday music in lighthearted seasonal offering

• Tags: Stories, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jamey Green, Lewis Kempfer, Megan Murphy

Slow to Move

Nashville Children's Theatre staging of Judith Viorst story gets sorely hampered by a poor script

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Judith Viorst, Nashville, Matt Mellon, Pete Vann

Blood in the Sugarcane

Madison Smartt Bell brings his Haitian trilogy to a brilliant close

• by John Freeman
• Tags: Stories, Madison Smartt Bell, Antoine Hebert, Haiti, William T. Vollmann

Jonesin'

The greatest, most embattled country singer alive lives to enjoy it all

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, George Jones, Connie Smith, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis

You Turn Me On

Major technical upgrade in the works for WRVU-91.1-FM

• Tags: Stories, Vanderbilt University, John Brassil

Bluegrass Runs Both Ways

New studio album by Alison Krauss + Union Station reaches deeper than ever

• by Jon Weisberger
• Tags: Stories, Union Station, Alison Krauss, Ron Block, Jerry Douglas

Live Shot

Velveteen rockers Luna bid Nashville adieu with sublime show at Exit/In

• Tags: Stories, Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips, Lee Wall, Richard Lloyd

Teenage Jesus

Three years since its release, cult hit Donnie Darko still speaks to viewers

• by Jonathan Marx
• Tags: Stories, Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, Mary McDonnell, Jake Gyllenhaal

Group Therapy

I Saw Me at Coyote Ugly

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jeff Myers, Nashville, New York City, Gold's Gym International Inc.

Shots

Battle of the Bulge

Luxo-SUVs from GMC, Lincoln & Land Rover tempt high-rollers

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Lincoln Navigator, GMC Yukon, Land Rover Range Rover, Yukon Territory

Table Talk

In the midst of holiday feasting, some opportunities to help fight hunger

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Phil Bredesen, Anne Blair Brown, Meals on Wheels Association of America

Thank You, Baby

The most memorable holiday of all, 16 years ago

• by Walter Jowers

The Puck Stops Here

Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck paid a recent visit to Nashville, where he signed books and, of course, soaked up adoration

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Wolfgang Puck, Ted Moats, Atlanta, Nashville