Nashville Scene

A Derby Dispatch

If only the Steeplechase had a "Granny" like the Derby in Louisville does

• by Susan Adcock
• Tags: Features, Features, Louisville, Churchill Downs, Toledo

Pate and Kegs

Who'll be eating what at Nashville's biggest spring social event

• by Kay West
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, The Neiman Marcus Group Inc., Publix Super Markets Inc., Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital

The Horse Side

What this day is supposed to be about—and handicapping the equines

• by Christine Kreyling
• Tags: Features, Features, Calvin Houghland, Neil Morris, F. Bruce Miller, Sanna Hendricks

The Politics of Education Funding

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Bill Purcell, Pedro Garcia & Co., Julia Green

Horse Play

A look back at the evolution of Nashville's premier social event

• by Kay West
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Alice Hooker, Lisa Hooker Campbell, Iroquois Society

Probation Violations

This time, Tennessee's parole board is the lawbreaker

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, William Tate, Tennessee, Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole, Jerry Gonzalez

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, Heather Byrd, Libby Callaway

Blogged to Death

The stuff people talk about when they talk (and talk and talk) about blogging: dispatches from last week's BlogNashville convention

• by Brittney Gilbert
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Andrew Marcus, Dave Winer, Tim Morgan

Love And Hate Mail

In praise of a beautiful mind

• Tags: Features, Features, Bernie Sheahan, Nashville, Planet Claire, Bureau of TennCare

Copy Cat Journalism

Channel 4 lazily goes after the work product of its TV news nemesis

• by Wendell Rawls Jr.
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Phil Williams, Pulitzer Prize Committee, Bureau of TennCare

Making Your Own Picnic

• Tags: Features, Features, Chevrolet Tahoe, Ford F-150, Tupperware Brands Corporation, Pepperidge Farm Inc.

Menace in the Hood

Infamous East Nashville sex offender pops up in the investigation of Tabitha Tuders' disappearance

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, David Duke, Paul Duke, Debra Tuders, Marlene Pardue

Trivial Pursuits

• Tags: Features, Features, Cork (County Cork), Edmund Blake, Radnor Township, Elizabeth Taylor

TSU to keep Hayhonky Hall

Court ruling nixes renaming plan

• Tags: The Fabricator, Tennessee State University, Amon Hayhonky, Thomas Hayhonky, Robert Taft

Forget the F-word. Let's talk public television.

• by John Spragens

J-Ro and J-Lo

• by Jim Ridley

WWYD?

• by Brent Rolen

All the News That's Fit To Link

• by Claire Suddath

Frist Things Frist (Warning: Wonk Alert)

• by Bruce Barry

The Sky Is Falling: Taxophobics At It Again

• by Bruce Barry

Enough Already

• by Brent Rolen

Everything Oldies is New Again

• by Claire Suddath

So He Really Is a Republican

• by Bruce Barry

cannes do

• by Jim Ridley

Frist Confronts His Inner Hypocrite

• by Bruce Barry

bruce is the boss

• by Jim Ridley

Video Games Are Good For You

• by Bruce Barry

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

• by Brent Rolen

Biggest story we missed last week...

• by Bruce Barry

Frist Friday, Hypocrisy Monday

• by John Spragens

Enterprisers of the World Unite!

• by Roger Abramson

The Other D.C.

• by Chris Neal

Cost-Benefit Analysis

• by Bruce Barry

How Do We Know It's You This Time?

• by Bruce Barry

Film--The Cutting Room

News from the local movie front

• Tags: Stories, Elvan Penny, Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, Timo Kurti

Game of Twister

Jarring, trickily plotted Korean film induces plenty of flinches, but with a carefully worked sense of purpose

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Stories, Kim Ki-duk, Park Chan-wook, Hollywood, Choi Min-sik

Phil Earhart, 1947-2005

Leader of the Jefferson Street Bluesmen leaves distinctive legacy in Nashville blues and R&B

• Tags: Stories, Phil Earhart, Johnny Terrell, Kenny Rogers, Albert King

Angels With Dirty Mouths

Kathleen Edwards and Martha Wainwright demonstrate the power of the real F-word: fearlessness

• by Chris Neal
• Tags: Stories, Martha Wainwright, Kathleen Edwards, Bloody Mother Asshole, Rufus Wainwright

The Spin

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Bob Edwards, Jeff Meltesen, be your own PET

Backward and Forward

Welcome to the hellhouse of Todd Solondz's scalding satire

• Tags: Stories, Todd Solondz, Mama Sunshine, Dawn Wiener, Debra Monk

Hoss of a Different Color

"Hick-hopper" Cowboy Troy raps to a country beat

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Troy Coleman, Troy, Charley Pride, Big & Rich

She Was No Laura Bush

New biography looks at a first lady who smoked and played cards

• Tags: Stories, Nellie Taft, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Japan, Carl Sferrazza Anthony

The Spying Game

Act I presents David Henry Hwang's gender-bending psychological thriller

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, David Henry Hwang, Rene Gallimard, Brian Hill, Marc Mazzone

Space Crunch

Unfortunately for Nashville theater companies, all the world's not a stage

• Tags: Stories, Nashville

Fair Play on Death Row

Capital punishment opponent argues for the rights of the guilty

• by Paul V. Griffith
• Tags: Stories, Carl Johnson, Houston (Texas), University of Houston, U.S. Court of Appeals

Website of the Week

Even badly scarred galactic fascists need a little public introspection

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Bruce Barry, Darth Vader

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, William Wright

Weekend Updates

Flaming Lip service at The Basement, the Dirtbombs at The End, and more

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, The Flaming Lips, Detroit, Santa Claus, Stanley Kubrick

When 3's a Company

All-new 3-Series bears the weight of BMW's past, present and future

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, BMW 3 Series, BMW AG, Beaver Falls, BMW 5 Series

Shots

The Yank-mes

Trash-talking Steinbrenner's overpaid brood is quintessentially American

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, AL East Division, American League (Baseball), George Steinbrenner, Major League Baseball

They've Got Pep, All Right

Cheerleaders' "sexually suggestive" moves have got Texas lawmakers all worked up

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Fred Thompson (Politician), John Edwards (Politician), Texas, Al Edwards

Desperate Housepest

It's 4 p.m.—does Jamie Denton know where Brad Schmitt is?

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Brad Schmitt, Jamie Denton, BSchmitt Jamie, JDenton Brad

Straight Off the Farm

Franklin Farmer's Market returns, offering the bounty of spring

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Franklin Farmer, Nashville, Franklin, Kansas City

Music to Post By

We promise: no more blog-related content for today

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Bruce Barry, Nashville, Matt Pulle, MySpace Inc.

Warming Trends

Summer means new hours, new menus and other news of interest to people who like to eat

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Whole Foods Market Inc., Reader Neil Bergman, Chicago