Nashville Scene

He Said, He Said

• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Purcell, Phil Bredesen, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Nashville

The Capitol Capers

The feds target lawmakers' grip on greed

• by Matt Pulle and John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Charles Harrison, John Ford, Michael Bowers, Tim Willis

The Waltzies

You can't win if you don't pay

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Clarence Thomas, Memphis, C. John Wilder, U.S. Supreme Court

Coming Jefferson Street Renaissance Ends Second Decade of Anticipation

"Waiting to pop" even longer than Lockeland Springs

• Tags: The Fabricator, Roscoe Caruthers, Adell Crowe, The Tennessean Newspaper

Love And Hate Mail

The South always gets the blame

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville Predators, National Hockey League, NHL Central Division, NHL Western Conference

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, John Ford

Slippery Ice

A Metro Council member represents the Predators in a financial dispute with the city

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Chris Whitson, Karl Dean, David Briley, Hugh Lombardi

Why not now?

• by Roger Abramson

Teddy Bart's Roundtable

• by Roger Abramson

Make Room For More Bumper Sticker Activism!

• by Brent Rolen

Supreme Court Turnover! (here, not there)

• by Bruce Barry

Time Out

• by Roger Abramson

The Times They Are A-Feudin'

• by Bruce Barry

Boogie in your Butt

• by Claire Suddath

Nashville at 30

• by Bruce Barry

Jimmy Buffett's Lost Cell Phone

• by Roger Abramson

"Officer Boles told me then that he had no idea who Dave Cooley was and that there was nothing unusual about the traffic stop."

• by John Spragens

What are you best known for?

• by Bruce Barry

Wacky Headline Files

• by Roger Abramson

reasons to be cheerful, part 235

• by Jim Ridley

Private Parts

• by Roger Abramson

Plane Scare?

• by Roger Abramson

The Right to Privacy Turns 40

• by Bruce Barry

At Home in the World

A crafty voyeur breaks, enters and does people's laundry in offbeat Korean film

• Tags: Stories, Kim Ki-duk, Jae Hee, Brian De Palma, Robert Altman

Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

An open letter to the local rock community

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Stories, Murfreesboro, Nashville, be your own PET, Kings of Leon

Bobby Thompson, 1937-2005

Bluegrass banjoist left behind an innovative, unsung legacy

• Tags: Stories, Bobby Thompson, Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck, Bill Keith

In Praise of Digression

Rambling around with T.R. Pearson

• by Michael Ray Taylor
• Tags: Stories, T.R. Pearson, Mark Twain, North Carolina, Simon & Schuster Inc.

Respect and Barbecue

A talk with veteran film and TV writer Les Bohem about this weekend's Nashville Screenwriters' Conference

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, The Alamo, Nashville Screenwriters Conference, Vanderbilt University

The Spin

• Tags: Stories, Martha Wainwright, Todd Tidwell, Nashville, Murfreesboro

Little Big Man

Former Saddlesong member steps out on his own

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Stories, Elliott Smith, Wilco (Musical Group), Roy Orbison, Nashville

Careful What You Wish For

Nashville author Jeanne Ray revisits her first lovers

• Tags: Stories, Jeanne Ray, Nashville, Simon & Schuster Inc., William Shakespeare

Scooped

Attention-getting drama doesn't deliver on script's promise

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Tracey Scott Wilson, John Wiggins, Janet Cooke, Sista Style Productions

Lucinda Comes Alive

Lucinda Williams' new live album stakes a defiant claim for the persistence of her muse

• by Chris Neal
• Tags: Stories, Fillmore, Lucinda Williams, Doug Pettibone, Jim Christie

Glass Eyes

An artist's vision of plastic, artificial American culture encounters Old Europe and old materials

• Tags: Stories, Kristina Arnold, Nashville, Clark Stewart, Viktor Hulik

Mike Mahaffey, 1967-2005

Community mourns the sudden passing of Murfreesboro musician

• Tags: Stories, Mike Mahaffey, Gary Welch, Murfreesboro, Billboard.com

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Eric England, Fall City Angels

More Pat Tillmans?

It's fair to wonder whether high-profile athletes still hold up mirrors to our society, just as they did to the Greatest Generation

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jack Lummus, Detroit Pistons, National Basketball Association, NBA Central Division

Pushing the Envelopes

Miss Sheahan goes to the Hill, foisting, uh, packages on unsuspecting lawmakers

• by Bernie Sheahan
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, NAMI, Bureau of TennCare, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Capitol Hill

The Disc Jockey

Bygone obscurities expand the definition of movies in two new DVD box sets

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Stan Brakhage, The Chemical Brothers, Wham-O Inc., Robert Florey

Built to Last

Put something together well enough, and chances are that it's here to stay—barring unforeseen circumstances, of course

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Space Shuttle Columbia, Kansas City, Hyatt Corporation, Space Shuttle Challenger

Roads Less Traveled

New Audi, Mazda models transcend boundaries of traditional designs

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Audi A3, Mazda RX-8, Audi AG, Mazda Motor Corporation

Lords of the Ramp

Skateboarding biopic Lords of Dogtown barely keeps its balance

• by Daniel Darland
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Stacy Peralta, Venice (California), Tony Alva, Emile Hirsch

Rumours Has It

12 South establishment features fine wine, good food and quirky charm

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Christy Shuff, Michael Gilbert, Whitney Ferre, Portland

Weekend Updates

Fife-and-drum fury, Phil Lee and more

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, Otha Turner, Chris Thile, West End

Dickering Around

How I Appealed My Property Taxes and Won

• by Grace Renshaw
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, J.K. Rowling, Arthur Weasley, Ken Upchurch, Nashville

Shots