Nashville Scene

From the Desk of Dave Green

• Tags: Features, Features, Dave Green, E.J. Mitchell, The Tennessean Newspaper

The Winners

Albums

• Tags: Features, Features, Gretchen Wilson, Alan Jackson (Musician), Loretta Lynn, Alison Krauss

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, Phil Bredesen, New Republic Inc.

Off Limits

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Matt Pulle, Rogers Group Inc.

Told You So

The speaker is dead! Long live the speaker!

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Micheal Williams, C. John Wilder, Knoxville, Nashville

Opry Mills to stagemonthly "Rumble Nights"

Mall to have "enough security to pacify Baghdad"

• Tags: The Fabricator, Opry Mills, Cheri Spinazzola, Baghdad, Pedro Garcia

Trouble at Watkins

Students revolt over a popular professor's firing. Will Nashville's art scene pay the price?

• by John Spragens and David Maddox
• Tags: Features, Features, David Hinton, Nashville, Jim Brooks, Elvan Penny

Country Music Critics Poll

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Gretchen Wilson, Loretta Lynn, Big & Rich

What They Said

Comments from the critics who took part in this year's poll

• Tags: Features, Features, Loretta Lynn, Nashville, Buddy Miller, Gretchen Wilson

Sexual Dangers

The police department's use of confidential informants may be putting prostitutes in harm's way

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Don Aaron, Ronal Serpas, Louisiana

The Ryman Test

• Tags: Features, Features, Ashlee Simpson, Saturday Night Live, Elvis Costello, Alison Krauss

Who Says a Country Band Can't Rap?

Loretta Lynn, the Muzik Mafia and the country makeover of 2004

• by Geoffrey Himes
• Tags: Features, Features, Loretta Lynn, Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich, Jack White

Republicans and Gays Part 2

• by Bruce Barry

T-to-the-PAC

• by Claire Suddath

State of the Union Drinking Game

• by John Spragens

Freedom on the march

• by John Spragens

a message of vital importance...

• by Jim Ridley

roll 'em pete

• by Jim Ridley

friday evening fever

• by Jim Ridley

Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

• by Bruce Barry

Self portrait

• by Chris Neal

Fleshing the Press

• by Bruce Barry

Illusions

• by Bruce Barry

Blogs blogs everywhere

• by Claire Suddath

License Plate Bingo

• by Roger Abramson

Are You a Technosexual?

• by Bruce Barry

Vanity Fair and Balanced

• by John Spragens

Making rappers cry

• by Chris Neal

The Blue Fingertips

• by Roger Abramson

Republicans and Gays Part I

• by Roger Abramson

Abyssinia, Henry

• by Claire Suddath

A Tortured Soul in Every Family?

Vandy grad pays homage to Faulkner in a new novel

• Tags: Stories, Carter Coleman, Cage Rutledge, Time Warner Book Group, Tennessee

Battle Song

Actors Bridge Ensemble debuts Marcus Hummon's latest creation, a Civil War musical

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Atlanta, Marcus Hummon, The Dixie Chicks, Adrian Pasdar

City Confidential

In the fascinating Los Angeles Plays Itself, the real history of movies is in the background

• by Christine Kreyling
• Tags: Stories, Los Angeles, Thom Andersen, Hollywood, City of Industry

Tear the Walls Down

Walls of Jericho, playing town this week, give hardcore music some needed depth and dimension

• Tags: Stories, Jericho, Candace Kucsulain, Minor Threat (Musical Group), Detroit

Deadly Accuracy

Here's to Dark Star Orchestra—if you're going to try to sound like the Grateful Dead, why not go all the way?

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Stories, Dark Star Orchestra, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Costello, Boston Garden

Rest of the Best

Ten-day fest of overlooked gems a movie lover's feast

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Orson Welles, Guy Maddin, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Poetics of Sound

Composer Joan Tower challenges the hegemony of drama in classical music

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Joan Tower, Otto Luening, John Cage, Columbia

Doomed to Repeat Himself

A hilarious fictional historian replicates his ineffectual subject

• by Pablo Tanguay
• Tags: Stories, James Whorton, John Tolley, Andrew Johnson, Arthur Schlesinger

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Ford Motor Company, Andy Polston, Franklin, Mustang Mach

Shots

How It Looks from the La-Z-Boy

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Vanderbilt University, Buzz Peterson, Jerry Green, Mississippi State University

Signs of life

Saturn probes new markets with innovative Relay minivan

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Saturn Corporation, Saturn Relay, Buick Terraza, Chevrolet Uplander

Time of Nick

For life's lessons and moral guidance, look to nostalgia TV

• by Claire Suddath
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nickelodeon Networks, Bewitched (TV Show), I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore

Athens of the South

Friendly, bustling Greek-American restaurant is a welcome addition on Eighth Avenue South

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Athens, Dina Panagiotakis, Nashville, Florida

Ladies' Night

Chick Singer Night celebrates three years in Nashville

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, Lari White, Laura Clapp, CSN Nashville

Somesuch Explorers

A remarkable new label offers a world tour of sensual immersion

• by Chris Davis
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, India, Tucker Martine, Morocco, Syria

Titanic Departure

Did Mike Heimerdinger leave the Titans for money, or did he escape a sinking ship?

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, AFC South Division, American Football Conference, Mike Heimerdinger, National Football League

Stage Dive

Modest Mouse were pretty great at Vandy Gym; too bad half the crowd didn't even notice

• by Elizabeth Orr and Marie Yarbrough
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Gavin DeGraw, Modest Mouse, Isaac Brock, Vanderbilt University

Prognosis Negative

When doctors and lawyers fight to the death, everybody wins

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Tennessee Medical Association, Tennessee, Russ Miller, Nashville

Thank You, and Goodnight

On the late Johnny Carson, the appeal of nostalgia TV, and the flickering ghosts of an era

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Johnny Carson, Burbank, NBC Universal Inc., Garry Shandling

Weekend Update

A photo exhibit depicts the resilience of the Kurdish people

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Iraq, Nashville, Katherine Bomboy, Saddam Hussein