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Cover Story
We did it for you, our hungry readers. We stuffed our pockets with $10 bills and debit cards and set out to find the best of the cheapest places to eat in Nashville.
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The Fabricator
Teddy Bart, whose radio program was unceremoniously yanked off
the air in July, says he is settling in quite nicely at Nashville’s Retired Radio Host Home.
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Letters
Letters from readers
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Features
Four months after a gay Nashville man was beaten and Tasered by undercover Metro police officers, a lab report reveals that the man did in fact have illegal drugs on him—not the legal drugs he thought he had or the fake drugs police thought he had.
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Dispatches from the clubs.
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Features
Bob Mould said in a recent interview with Paste magazine that the first time Hüsker Dü booked a gig in Chicago, they took The Replacements with them.
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Features
Free-folk enclaves have seemingly sprouted overnight like so many mushroom rings.
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Features
A photograph of the tangled branches of an ancient cypress tree appears on the last page of the booklet that accompanies Kevin Gordon’s new album, O Come Look at the Burning.
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Features
It’s something of a paradox: soul music, one of the most formally delineated of all musical genres, has boasted some of popular music’s most colorful characters.
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Dining
Though the Italian Market has been open less than a week, on the Saturday night celebrating its grand opening, the store had the feel of a place that had been there forever.
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Dining
Nashville pulls together a harvest of help for hurricane victims
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Reviews
Neil Young’s umpteenth live set, Year of the Horse, opens with a fan’s distant shout, “They all sound the same!”—to which old Shakey wryly responds, “It’s all one song.”
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Reviews
As if we needed any more proof of how fragile and illusory is man’s dominion over nature, two sobering new documentaries arrive to put us in our place.
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Our Critics Picks
Everything you need to know about entertainment in Nashville
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Books
Aside from the latest Harry Potter installment, the most anticipated children’s book this summer is Christopher Paolini’s Eldest, the second volume of his Inheritance trilogy.
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Columns: Planet Claire
Last weekend, I saw seven men dressed up as Storm Troopers. I watched Darth Vader eat a cheeseburger and many women prance around in skimpy outfits.
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Columns: What I'm Driving At
There is something intrinsically satisfying about having the proper tool for a given task.
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Columns: Desperately Seeking the News
Leslie Giallombardo, publisher of The Tennessean since 2002, was summarily replaced—and presumably dismissed—abruptly last week.
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Late Edition: Stories
Death Cab’s new record Plans offers “Marching Bands of Manhattan” as stubborn obstacle to my musical progress.
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Columns: Urban Front
I now know what it means to miss New Orleans. Of course, I’ve longed for the old girl many times since departing north for Nashville. But this time is different.
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Late Edition: Website of the Week
Another way to help Katrina victims, how to say thank-you, and a good reason to get naked.
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Columns: A Face in the Crowd
MELISSA BIANCHINI, from Chalmette, La., and currently living at Clearview Baptist Church with other hurricane survivors posted at www.hurricanehousing.org
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Late Edition: Weekend Updates
More aid for Katrina’s victims, and a not-so-secret secret show.
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Editorial
As you’re reading this, 75 Metro employees from a number of different departments have departed on a search-and-rescue mission to St. Bernard Parish just southeast of New Orleans.
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Columns: Stories
Last week’s Scene editorial raises important points about the downside of the current sales tax proposal. It also suggests that “progressives” are in a quandary.
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Columns: Sports
The most stupendous, never matched, never-to-be-repeated achievement in college football history began a little south of here.
