Nashville Scene

Oooh, That Smell!

The fundamental flaw of ScentStories is its failure to awaken any scent memory other than that of air freshener

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Features, Features, Shania Twain, Febreze Scentstories, Nigel, Bengay

Swimsuit Photos

• Tags: Features, Features, Eric England, Dustin Gibson, Heather Dryden, Jason Maynard

When Openness Backfires

• Tags: Features, Features, Mack Cooper, Phil Bredesen, Capitol Hill, The Tennessean Newspaper

Policing the Scene

Vice squad officers wanted to search the Scene's parking lot and offices during the investigation of a newspaper employee

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Nels Noseworthy, Thomas Rollins, Nashville, Mike Flanagan

Tenn(Doesn't)Care

A Scene writer with bipolar disorder cries out as the clock ticks down for her and 30,000 others—is anybody listening?

• by Bernie Sheahan
• Tags: Features, Features, Tennessee, Bureau of TennCare, Capitol Hill, Nashville

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, John Jay

A Summertime Miracle

Praying for even just a drop of rain

• by Reed Richards
• Tags: Features, Features, Preston (Idaho), Walt Disney, Will Shumway, Utah

Purcell 1, Schools 0

Metro schools officials come to class unprepared—and other disturbing dispatches from City Hall

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Purcell, Nashville, Knoxville, Pam Garrett

Bredesen's memory jogged on other conversations

Memories just came flooding back, governor says

• Tags: The Fabricator, John Ford, Phil Bredesen, Bureau of TennCare, Nashville Predators

Life Happens at the Ballpark

My kids have grown up at Greer Stadium, where our lives are chronicled by shutouts, hot dogs and the smell of funnel cake

• by Kay West
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Ron Guidry, AL East Division, American League (Baseball)

Bugging Out

New alternative for eradicating mosquitoes looks appealing—but only up to a point

• by Jonathan Harwell
• Tags: Features, Features, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Linda Brooks, John Clay, Laurence Zwiebel

Delusions of Defeat

Memo to ideologues: Bredesen will be fine in 2006

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Phil Bredesen, Joe Solmonese, Human Rights Campaign, Bureau of TennCare

Love And Hate Mail

That's the word on the street

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Chicago, Whole Foods Market Inc., Bureau of TennCare

Summer Events

From Beethoven to Big & Rich, Nashville's got it

• Tags: Features, Features, Miller Lite, Frist Center, Ludwig van Beethoven, Nashville Symphony

Summer Guide 2005

• Tags: Features, Features

Against Gay Marriage? You Must Be Crazy!

• by Brent Rolen

Rebel with a 401(K)

• by Claire Suddath

Perfecto

• by Bruce Barry

Rebel with a 401(K)

• by Elizabeth Orr

Ford Gets In (Not That He Wasn't Already)

• by Bruce Barry

schickel's list

• by Jim Ridley

Maybe I'll Just Stick with the Chicken

• by Bruce Barry

Well That's a Shocker

• by Claire Suddath

hollaback (v.) — to shout in response, as if to a cheerleading captain's command

• by Jim Ridley

JJ, C & D, and TYCTWD

• by Bruce Barry

TCAP Scores Delayed

• by Bruce Barry

Purcell's Tax Hike

• by Bruce Barry

The Phil Question

• by Roger Abramson

Deplorable

• by Bruce Barry

I Killed Mr. Incredible (or, How I Spent my Thursday Morning)

• by Roger Abramson

Demography Bites

• by Bruce Barry

His Life in Soft Core

Steve Almond returns to the literary form he does best

• by Clay Risen
• Tags: Stories, Steve Almond, Evil B.B. Chow, Isaiah Berlin, Nerve.com Inc.

Hot Hot Heat

• Tags: Stories, Ronan Harris, Mark Jackson, Boxcar Willie, U2

The Cutting Room

Screenwriters look westward

• Tags: Stories, Christian Kane, Darryl Frank, Michael Wright, Nashville

Jimmy Martin, 1927-2005

The king is dead, long live the king

• by Jon Weisberger
• Tags: Stories, Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Paul Williams

Ramble On

Discursive alt-rockers Built To Spill return to town after four years off the road

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Stories, Built To Spill, Doug Martsch, The Shins, Modest Mouse

Sex and the Catholic Church

New Vatican thriller probes papal secrets

• Tags: Stories, Steve Berry, Fatima, Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Valendrea

The Spin

• Tags: Stories, Chris Funk, Colin Meloy, The Decemberists, Nashville

Lost in the Stars

With the conclusion of the Star Wars saga, George Lucas is free at last—maybe

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, George Lucas, Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker, Hayden Christiansen

Gorgeous Writing, Patchett-style

Local writer wins national award for the beauty of her prose

• Tags: Stories, Ann Patchett, Harold Vursell, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., American Academy of Arts and Letters

Magic Markers

Two painters show how both figuration and abstraction depend on illusion

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Carrie Mcgee, Robert Durham, Nashville, Plato

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Leonard Malzman, Woodstock, Michael Jackson, Eric England

A No. 1 Junkie

First, I was fascinated with pop culture lists, but now it's grown into a full-blown addiction

• by Claire Suddath
• Tags: Columns: Stories, VH1 Television Network, Sticky Fingers Inc., Brad Pitt, Courtney Love

Hoopla

Whoda thunk the NBA would ever be fun again?

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, National Basketball Association, NBA Pacific Division, NBA Western Conference, Phoenix Suns

Born to Be Wild

Rowdy, friendly roadhouse provides the perfect antidote to encroaching chain restaurants

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Kelly Jones, Ed Arace, Jim Simpson, John Hamilton

The Disc Jockey

Poltergeists, puppets and prisoners populate this week's DVDs

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Barbara Hershey, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Lonesome Rhodes

Shots

Website of the Week

We've got a fever, and the prescription is...

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Charles Rocket, Steve Vai, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap

Weekend Updates

Lume, kudzu, and a meal of live octopus add up to weekend entertainment

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Tennessee Jack, Jeff Buckley, Nashville, Stone Temple Pilots

What Im Driving At

Dodge reinvents new Charger as a hotrod family sedan

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Dodge Charger, Dodge Daytona, Rudyard Kipling, HEMI Engines