Nashville Scene

Fear and Loathing on Capitol Hill

Scene correspondents offer dispatches from Capitol Hill and the federal courthouse, where four apparently corrupt lawmakers go down

• by John Spragens and Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, John Ford, Memphis, Ward Crutchfield, Harold Ford

Love And Hate Mail

Cuckoo for Cook

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Bernie Sheahan, Randy Horick, Elizabeth Cook

The Jackson Jive

Dickson state Sen. Doug Jackson tries to give his family's money-losing Renaissance Center to the state

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Renaissance Center, Richard Rhoda, U.S. Department of Education, Nashville

Metro Council to wear 'moon suits' during meetings

NASA-purchased suits are climate-controlled, bulletproof

• Tags: The Fabricator, NASA, Jim Gotto, Diane Neighbors, Rick Temple

The Next Big Thing

Developers eye Eighth Avenue/Franklin Pike. Will Melrose Lanes survive?

• by Kay West
• Tags: Features, Features, Franklin Pike, Nashville, Scene Three Inc., Boston English High School

Predators or Prey?

10 reasons why the future of professional hockey in Nashville is on thin ice

• by Doug Brumley
• Tags: Features, Features, Craig Leipold, Nashville Predators, National Hockey League, NHL Central Division

For(get) the Children

Old folks are the new young folks. Is it tough love or tough luck from Mayor Bill Purcell?

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, David Briley, Diane Neighbors, Nashville, Pedro Garcia

The Unreal World

Athens Family Restaurant owner claims "mental anguish," threatens to sue ABC

• by Kristin Hall
• Tags: Features, Features, ABC Inc., Bryan Lewis, Dina Panagiotakis, Franklin Pike

Fristibuster

Meet Bill Frist, the castrated majority leader

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Frist, The Walt Disney Company, Tim Wildmon, U.S. Senate

Say No to Sales Tax Hike—and Age-Based Subsidies

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Bill Purcell, Michael Jackson, Tennessee

Jetlag Journalism

The Tennessean and Channel 4 offer too little too late

• by Wendell Rawls Jr.
• Tags: Features, Features, The Tennessean Newspaper, Dennis Ferrier, Jim Wilbert, Steven Womack

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, E.J. Mitchell, Phil Bredesen, The Tennessean Newspaper

Enron at the Belcourt

• by Bruce Barry

'Tennessee Waltz' Indictments - Summary and Excerpts

• by Bruce Barry

Blogging the Waltz

• by Roger Abramson

When Does a Blogger Become a Media Impresario?

• by Bruce Barry

Desperate Review

• by Roger Abramson

Waltzing Elsewhere

• by Bruce Barry

Yeah, Dust Off That Race Card

• by Liz Garrigan

What Makes America Great

• by Roger Abramson

He Just Talks Too Much, That's All

• by Roger Abramson

Deep Throat: Back to Being Just a Porn Movie

• by Claire Suddath

uneasy listening

• by Jim Ridley

Big Media Flapdoodle of the Week...

• by Bruce Barry

Rocky Top II?

• by Roger Abramson

House Folds on TennCare

• by Bruce Barry

"We even had grandpa there"

• by Chris Neal

$100K a year

• by Roger Abramson

In Not-So-Breaking News...

• by Roger Abramson

Sounds of Silence?

• by Bruce Barry

Be Here Now

The luminous, earthbound folk songs of Josephine Foster open a window to the sublime

• Tags: Stories, Vashti Bunyan, Greil Marcus, Harry Smith, Devendra Banhart

Flickering Lights

Established talents turn in good-to-grievous films at Cannes 2005

• by Mike D'Angelo
• Tags: Stories, Michael Haneke, Cannes, Jim Jarmusch, Bill Murray

The Spin

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Trent Summar, Miller Lite, Jamie Kindleyside

Beautiful Baseball

One manager's search for perfection

• by Pablo Tanguay
• Tags: Stories, H.G. Bissinger, Tony La Russa, Major League Baseball, National League (Baseball)

Publish and Perish

Local writer Steven Womack creates a homicidal novelist

• Tags: Stories, Michael Schiftmann, Nashvillian Steven Womack, Taylor Robinson, Watkins College of Art & Design

Halfway to Memphis

Singer-songwriter Greg Trooper's latest album masters mood

• by Barry Mazor
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Greg Trooper, Memphis, Richard Thompson

Drawn Inward

Zeitgeist gallery artists focus on polished and battered surfaces

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Andy Harding, Tim Hussey, Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center

Hell Naw

Smart-ass twang-bangers Toby Keith and Robbie Fulks flout expectations and make their best albums in years

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Toby Keith, Robbie Fulks, Honky Tonk University, Nashville

Elegiac Finale

Alias began their final concert of the season with a tribute to the late NSO conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn

• Tags: Stories, Clarinetist Lee Levine, Johannes Brahms, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Johann Sebastian Bach

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Eric England, Sharita Milton

All in the Family

As Mrs. Grissom's Salads turns 50, co-founder Grace Grissom passes the reins to her son-in-law

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Herbert Grissom, Kenneth Funger, Nashville, Grace Grissom

Fit For Spit

A Nashville invention lets tobacco chewers keep spit in their pockets

• by Claire Suddath
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Percy Spencer, SPOT Inc., John Wayne, Nashville

Bill Kill, Vol. 1

Applying the logic of a William Shakespeare character to the shortcomings of collegiate sports

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, William Shakespeare, Type AAA, Horatio Alger, Mark Twain

Random Mutation

Lincoln and Chevy take pick up truck design to the outer limits

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Chevrolet Silverado, Lincoln Mark LT, Ford Motor Company, Lincoln Navigator

Triumph of the Sensible

Anarchy is checked, the center holds and Bill Frist will be flying home soon to look at wallpaper samples

• by Bruce Dobie
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Bill Frist, Harry Reid, John McCain, Lamar Alexander

Designed for Success

Le Peep/Ombi Bar bring big-city ambience to Elliston Place

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Avice du Buisson, David Powell, TGI Friday's Inc., Anthony Bates

Website of the Week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Manhattan, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Sarasota

Shots

Weekend Updates

Keep a-rockin' that piano with The Twenty Eights

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Johnnie Johnson, Chuck Berry, Keyboardist Jack Irwin, Jeff Jarrett

Slippery Ice

The Predators find themselves in a dispute with the city—and they're being represented by a Metro councilman

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Chris Whitson, Nashville Predators, National Hockey League, NHL Central Division