Nashville Scene

Test Your Boner Acumen:

• Tags: Features, Features, Southeastern Conference, Vanderbilt Commodores, Ku Klux Klan, Angelinette Crawford

Bad Sell

Tax reformers thumb their noses at the very people they need to win over

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Bob Rochelle, Steve Gill, Tennessee Tax Study Commission, Nelson Andrews

The Boner Awards

A double shot of the year's worst and weirdest moments in Music City

• by The Committee of Inbreds, Illustrations by Paul Gilligan
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Craigen Harris, Pedro Garcia, Robert Davis

Bill Plays Ball

How Mayor Bill Purcell and the Sounds finally hit a homer

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Glenn Yaeger, Bill Purcell, Nashville, Patrick Willard

Let The Old Ones Learn, Too

• Tags: Features, Features, Phil Bredesen, Tennessee, Richard Florida, Bureau of TennCare

CCA's Dark Days

Hostages, riots, angry protestors, a $60 million lawsuit and a federal investigation plague one Nashville company

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Corrections Corporation of America, Estelle Richardson, Colorado, Daron Hall

Love/Hate Mail

Put up or shut up

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, David Gold, J.A. Jackson, Marnie Cotton

Demon Tree kids out on a limb

Satan's Navy needs more volunteers to provide bundles of switches, lumps of coal to bad children

• Tags: The Fabricator, Satan's Navy, Quentin Barnabus

Off Limits

• Tags: Features, Features, Gordon Gee, Nashville, E.J. Mitchell, The Tennessean Newspaper

Holiday Lights

Highlights of the year-end movie season

• Tags: Stories, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Steve Zissou, Jean-Pierre Jeunet

What’s in a List?

The Scene’s critics offer their personal takes on the year in music

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Gretchen Wilson, Alison Krauss, Bob Dylan, Loretta Lynn

Bad Dog!

In a hilarious new novel, Inman Majors captures the ineffable joy in breaking all the rules and screwing up your life

• by Lacey Galbraith
• Tags: Stories, Inman Majors, Alabama, Joe Majors, Cormac McCarthy

If You Pitch It, They Will Come

Tireless marketing and outreach help Kaine Riggan succeed in the precarious world of community theater

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Kaine Riggan, Donelson Senior Center for the Arts, Nashville, Jane Schnelle

The Professor of Desire

Kinsey shows the limits of sex as clinical curiosity

• Tags: Stories, Alfred Kinsey, Bill Condon, Liam Neeson, Clyde Martin

Memphis, Without the Mississippi

Looking at what really matters to our western neighbors

• Tags: Stories, Memphis, Jacqueline Smith, Lorraine Motel, National Civil Rights Museum

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Leon Harris, Harley-Davidson Inc.

Goodies for Foodies

Gift ideas for the epicure on your list

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Beverly Bartsch, Nigella Lawson, Hoyt Hill, Franklin

She'd Call Foul

Judge Judy would fix the sporting world's knuckleheadism if we could just recruit her for the job

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jason Giambi, Bowl Championship Series, Texas, Brian Cashman

Weekend Updates

A tribute to Nashvillians left in the cold

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, State Capitol, Sexual Abuse Center of Middle Tennessee, Velcro Stars

Around the Bend

Mercedes-Benz broadens prestige and appeal with two revamped models

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class, Acura TL, BMW AG

Shots

How It Looks <$>from the La-Z-Boy (BOWL EDITION)

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Champs Sports Inc., GMAC LLC, Houston, Louisville

Word of the week

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Bill Frist, Fritz Hollings, 60 Minutes, CBS Corporation

The Chump

How Bruce Dobie became a candidate for the Tennessean editor post—and why he got passed over

• by Willy Stern
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Frank Sutherland, Bruce Dobie, Leslie Giallombardo, Gannett Co. Inc.

The Unwatchable

A controversial art installation pushes the boundaries of what viewers will tolerate

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Eugene Armstrong, Scott Phelps, Elvan Penny, Nashville

Face the Music: Jonathan Andrews

• by Marie Yarbrough
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Jonathan Andrews, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Nashville

Web Site of the Week

It's all right now—in fact, it's a gas

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Comedy Central, Vatican, Citrus Magic