Nashville Scene

Meet the New Al Gore

• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Frist, U.S. Senate, David Brooks, Lamar Alexander

Throw Me the Money

The link between money and school quality is as two-sided as it is volatile

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Features, Features, Eric Hanushek, Bill Purcell, Alan Krueger, The Heritage Foundation

Policing Gays

Metro cops use confidential informants to target gay chat rooms and lure homosexual men into trading and selling drugs. This undercover operation changed the life of one man who may well be innocent.

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Tasered Steve, Eric Snyder, Joel David Goodwin, Steve Brady

Annual Skulking

Just like last year (and pretty much every year before that), Metro Council members meet in secret to discuss how much you'll pay in taxes

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Eric Crafton, Charlie Tygard, Ronald Reagan, Diane Neighbors

Jacko Trumps All

Even the local news was preoccupied with Michael Jackson

• by Wendell Rawls Jr.
• Tags: Features, Features, FOX Broadcasting Company, Michael Jackson, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Public Radio Inc.

Test Scores Are Up

Metro schools announce some big news, and not a moment too soon

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Pedro Garcia, Nashville, Bill Purcell, Eric Crafton

Lady in Waiting

Meet Rosalind Kurita, the Democrats' Plan B

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Harold Ford Jr., Rosalind Kurita, Dennis Phillips, Van Hilleary

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, Adam Dread, Village People

Cookout Talk Inexplicably Substantive

"No real estate chatter? How did that happen?" neighbors wonder

• Tags: The Fabricator, Sandy Timothy, Crieve Hall, William Markham, Belmont University

Love And Hate Mail

Outraged over semi-nudity? What about TennCare?

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, John Kerry, Wendell Rawls, Jim Wallis

Taking Liberties

• by Bruce Barry

Right On

• by Bruce Barry

Duplicate

• by Bruce Barry

TennCare? Next Question!

• by Bruce Barry

all you zombies in high places

• by Jim Ridley

Door-to-door sales

• by Chris Neal

The Numbers

• by Bruce Barry

Supremes 2: Grokster

• by Bruce Barry

Bush Speech: Nothing New

• by Bruce Barry

PNB v. MLK

• by Bruce Barry

Big Monday at the Court

• by Bruce Barry

But I can't drive 55!

• by Chris Neal

Reading on Television

• by Claire Suddath

The Last Throes of Sanity

• by Bruce Barry

Monday's Money Quote...

• by Bruce Barry

Brought to you by the letter Z ...and another letter Z...and another Z...

• by Claire Suddath

Insert Zombie Pun Here

• by Claire Suddath

Supremes 1: Ten Commandments

• by Bruce Barry

All Dressed Up

Exhibit showcasing clothes and designs by Halston wears well

• by Michelle Jones
• Tags: Stories, Liza Minnelli, Andy Warhol, Kent State University, Cheekwood Museum of Art

Outside the Box

Guitarist Lauren Ellis uses blues as a foundation for exploring broader roots

• Tags: Stories, Lauren Ellis, Muddy Waters, Nashville, Bonnie Raitt

Holey Moses

Boiler Room's hilarious staging of a questionable script just might be miraculous

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, D.W. DeWitt, Douglas Goodman, Phil Bennet, Jack Chambers

Jesus vs. the Flying Saucers

Bizarre sci-fi horror comedy envisions one crackpot's war against Armageddon

• Tags: Stories, Park Chan-wook, Hannibal Lecter, Donnie Darko, The Stooges (Musical Group)

Castles in the Air

Miyazaki's latest animated feature affirms the joys of imagination and reflection

• by Scott Manzler
• Tags: Stories, Hayao Miyazaki, Pixar Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Play-Doh

Classic Country

Bill Anderson keeps singin' and writin' 'em like they'll never go out of style

• by Paul Griffith
• Tags: Stories, Bill Anderson, Country Hall, Ray Price, George Jones

Let It Shine, Let It Shine

The light of faith burns at both ends of Ralph Stanley's recorded legacy

• by Chris Neal
• Tags: Stories, Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe, Bristol (Virginia), Carter Stanley

The Ghost in the Marriage

Debut novel chronicles the dead places in suburbia

• by John Freeman
• Tags: Stories, Charlotte, The Knot Inc.

You Can Skip the Hug

A boozy memoir that won't be shelved in Self Help

• Tags: Stories, Heather King, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, Edina

The Spin

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Nathan Burkett, Marion James, Athens

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, Vince Buwalda, Eric England, Paul Revere

Dead Set

Get your zombie on with a catch-up list of living-dead cinema

• by Jason Shawhan
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, George A. Romero, Prince (Musician), John Carpenter, Mary Woronov

Happy Feet

Mad Hot Ballroom preaches the message of merengue

• by Daniel Darland
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Amy Sewell, Marilyn Agrero, Bensonhurst, Washington Heights

We'll Always Have Parisa's

At last, Nolensville Road has an ethnic fine dining option

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Ron Sepehr, Iran, Tehran

All Grown Up

Minivans come of age with the Nissan Quest

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nissan Quest, Pringles, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Website of the Week

Sing along with Joyce, The Ministers Quartet and Devastatin' Dave the Turntable Slave

Shots

Weekend Updates

All-nite radio, all-right audio, and all the entertainment options you could desire

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Nashville, Denny Diamond, Ernie Smithson, Dave Cloud

Band on the Run

The day nepotism died on Music Row

• by Lacey Galbraith
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Paris, Denny's Corporation, McDonald's Corporation, McDonald's Filet-O-Fish

Who Are the Children Here?

The Eagleville grad screaming First Amendment violations is a brat, and his principal's not much better

• by Kristin Hall
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Abraham Stoklasa, Rhonda Holton, Eagleville, McDonald's Corporation

That New Home Smell

To unload your house, you gotta dump the funk

• by Walter Jowers
• Tags: Columns: Stories, 206