Nashville Scene

A Real Conservative

• Tags: Features, Features, Richard Kramer, Kay West, California, Lynn Williams

On the Mayor's Terms

Sizing up his odds, Purcell prefers the courtroom to the ballot box

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Purcell, Nashville, Chris Whitson, Ross Perot

Losing The Connection

The dance club that redefined gay Nashville nightlife shuts its doors

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Russell Yarbrough, DJ Russell, Louisville

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, The Tennessean Newspaper

Gojo to Help TennCare?

Beloved chimp may fling darts to decide who gets coverage

• Tags: The Fabricator, Dave Goetz, Bureau of TennCare, Nashville, Edna Karl

Love And Hate Mail

Critical success

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Chicago, Vienna, Howard Dean

Help Wanted

There are some halfway decent GOP candidates for governor

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Phil Bredesen, Zach Wamp, Steve Gill, Tennessee

The Longest Yard

Eddie George's toughest play yet is transitioning from NFL icon to aging athlete

• by Beverly Keel
• Tags: Features, Features, AFC South Division, American Football Conference, Eddie George (Football), National Football League

Goin' down to South Park

• by Claire Suddath

Here's 2 TNF

• by John Spragens

Spam Spam Spam Spam

• by Claire Suddath

What is it...

• by Roger Abramson

Language Evolves

• by Bruce Barry

Man on a Mission

• by Roger Abramson

The Old School Speaks

• by Roger Abramson

Two Years Later

• by Bruce Barry

Pressure

• by Chris Neal

Dubya's Baldy Fetish

• by John Spragens

Culture of Gall

• by Bruce Barry

I have measured out my life with books about the gays

• by Claire Suddath

Hosiery Girls and Bomberettes

A lipstick and layup history of women's hoops

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Robert Ikard, Shelbyville, Sophie Newcomb

The Spin

• Tags: Stories, Elvis Costello, Bingham Barnes, Murfreesboro, David Andersen

Watching the World

In a remarkable series of photographs, Garry Winogrand captured an America turned into spectacle

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Garry Winogrand, Susan Sontag, Guy Debord, Los Angeles

Iraq and a Hard Place

A talk with Michael Tucker, director of the war documentary Gunner Palace

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Michael Tucker, Stuart Wilf, Baghdad, Motion Picture Association of America

Keeper of the Fold

The son of Sara and A.P. Carter, Joe Carter had his own, unrecognized place in music history

• by Colin Escott
• Tags: Stories, Virginia Maybelle, Ralph Peer, A.P. Carter, John Carter Cash

What's Outside the Frame?

Despite many strengths, award-winning documentary doesn't give us a fully rounded glimpse into the world of Calcutta's impoverished children

• Tags: Stories, Zana Briski, Calcutta, Jorgen Leth, Ross Kauffman

Drawn from Life

Progressive theater group The Civilians brings its unique exploration of the human experience to town

• Tags: Stories, Steven Cosson, Nashville, David Hare, Vanderbilt University

Living While Dying

A long-awaited first novel by the voice of Southern letters

• by Clay Risen
• Tags: Stories, Sonny Brewer, Henry Stewart, Fairhope, Leo Tolstoy

Ear X-tasy

Tex-Mex combo Los Super 7 revisit border radio's heyday

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, John Binkley, Rick Trevino, Joe Ely, Austin

Skankonia

Ska fest comes to town

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, The Dukes of Hazzard, Memphis, Nick Hardy

Southern Discomfort

Original play at Bongo After Hours explores racial progress, and lack thereof, among a group of Mississippi baby boomers

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Odessa, Randy Moomaw, Arita Trahan, Big Bawl Baby Productions

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Roger Johnson, Don Driscoll, Boy Scouts of America

Nice Work if You Can Get It

UT athletic department just loves to blow money buying out contracts

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Buzz Peterson, Jerry Green, Mike Hamilton, Knoxville

How It Looks from the La-Z-Boy—NCAA Tournament Edition

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Illinois St. Second Round, University of Connecticut, Boston College, Louisville

No Sweat

Ford's King Ranch pickups aspire to no less than royal favor

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Ford F-150, Ford F-350

Contract Sports

Buyers all over town have their fists in the air.

• by Richard Courtney
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Richard Courtney, Greater Nashville Association of Realtors, Nashville

Weekend Updates

Let the imagination run wild: Marilyn Chambers and Duckbutter

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, Sam Bush, Sid Haig, Robert Bradley

Dining Notes

Do or dine

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Southwest Airlines Inc.

Planet Claire

Do real grown-ups eat Lucky Charms?

• by Claire Suddath
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Gap Inc., Johnny Depp, Green Day, Pepto-Bismol

Shots

Will Work for Food

Fried pies bring the Travel Channel's new Taste of America show to Nashville

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Mark DeCarlo, Nashville, Martha Stamps, The Travel Channel

My Back Pages

On the AIDS crisis in black America and psalms of the South

• by Diann Blakely
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Jacob Levenson, Atlanta, Harry Crews, Oakland