Nashville Scene

Hype Index Reaches Record Levels

Normal summer weather gets catastrophic treatment

• Tags: The Fabricator, Nashville, Sean Beam, Mike Cutler

Love And Hate Mail

Hustled

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Meharry Medical College, John Spragens, Captain D's Inc.

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Family Research Council

Attaboy, Bill!

• Tags: Features, Features, Bill Frist, George W. Bush, Nashville, Family Research Council

Of Bare Boobs and Booze

Burlesque dancers send a local club afoul of state liquor laws

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Kicky La Rue, Adam Dread, Michael Cawthon

Off Limits

• Tags: Features, Features, Laura Bush, ABC Inc., Smart Bush, Phil Bredesen

Vice Follies

Why prosecuting victimless crimes is a colossal waste of time

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Peter McWilliams, Alabama, California, Anthony A. Williams

operators are standing by

• by Jim Ridley

The Sibling of Peace

• by Bruce Barry

Senator Santorum

• by Roger Abramson

a reporter with guts

• by Jim Ridley

I Like Timelines

• by Claire Suddath

Bush Popularity

• by Roger Abramson

Men on a Mission

• by Roger Abramson

Moderation?

• by Bruce Barry

operators are still standing by

• by Jim Ridley

Tennessee's Senate Race Goes National?

• by John Spragens

griplike vice

• by Jim Ridley

Men on a Mission

• by Roger Abramson

Inside the Valerie Plame Wilson scandal

• by John Spragens

Science vs. Romance

• by Tracy Moore

NCAA's Indian nickname/mascot ban

• by Jack Silverman

Then why don't you marry it?

• by Claire Suddath

A Temporary Contemporary

Cheekwood curator Terri Smith, a key player in the local visual arts scene, leaves town

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Joseph Mella, Terri Smith, Charlotte

The Quiet Man

Tom T. Hall tears himself away from retirement for a three-night stand at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum

• by Chris Neal
• Tags: Stories, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Franklin, Country Music Association, George Jones

Brand New Love

Swan Dive make delicate retro-pop for lovers

• Tags: Stories, Bill DeMain, Molly Felder, Mama Loves Me, Tower Records Inc.

The Spin

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, DJ Lord, MC Divinity, Public Enemy

Deeply Rooted, But Still Alone

Biography attempts to explain the paradox of Eudora Welty's life

• by Clay Risen
• Tags: Stories, Eudora Welty, Suzanne Marrs, Jackson (Mississippi), Mississippi

The Three Obstructions

Restrictive rules of the 48 Hour Film Project challenge local filmmakers to rely on their ingenuity

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Geoffrey Sexton, Jorgen Leth, Paris

Desperate Housewives in Rural Tennessee

Daughters and mothers fight and heal in local writer's novel

• Tags: Stories, Lee West, Bitsy Wentworth, Clancy Jane, HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

Putting the Fun in Dysfunction

Actors Bridge excels with David Lindsay-Abaire's exploration of a conflicted but lovable family

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Kimberly Akimbo, David Lindsay-Abaire, Debi Shinners, Vali Forrister

They Put the Bomp

Ecstatic, electro-pop visionaries Le Tigre just might augur feminism's next wave

• by Bill Friskics-Warren
• Tags: Stories, Kathleen Hanna, Chicago, Susan Brownmiller, JD Samson

A Face in the Crowd

• Tags: Columns: Stories, George Green, Eric England, Myanmar

Escapism, But No Capes

Sky High superhero saga tweaks the genre but retains its fundamental respect

• by Noel Murray
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, John Byrne, Mike Mitchell, Brad Bird, Kelly Preston

Shots

Website of the Week

Surely there are easier ways to get away from James Carville

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, George W. Bush, James Carville, Robert Novak, Valerie Plame

Solo Performance

Who cares if the audience is an unsympathetic mirror?

• by Karen Alea
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Zora Neale Hurston

Weekend Updates

All's fair in Williamson County, the Celebration of Music and Friendship rolls into Douglas Corner, and Japanese pop pops up in 12South

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Franklin, Nashville, Georgia, George Jones

All That Glitters Is Glut

The new Hustler Hollywood store demystifies transgressive pleasures

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Nashville, Gap Inc., Hollywood, Ashley Blue

Spirited Occasion

Vintner's 2005 event makes wine accessible to Nashvillians while serving a vital local agency

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Rick Beresford, Nashville, Morocco, Comprehensive Care Center

Young Americans

Remember when bikers, burgers and Wal-Mart could make you friends for life?

• by Claire Suddath
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kmart Corporation, Nashville

Planet Claire

The lessons of Le Tigre: dancing is cool, guys better stand back, and feminists can wear pink

• by Claire Suddath
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Elvis Presley, Gertrude Stein, JD Samson, Bud Light

Dining Notes

Upcoming tomato festival has Nashvillians seeing red

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Jimmy Kelly, Nashville, Tennessee, Bongo Java Roasting Co.

Rival Usurpers

Cadillac STS and Infiniti M45 vie to out-Euro the Euros

• by Marc K. Stengel
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Cadillac STS, Infiniti, General Motors Corporation, Infiniti M-Series