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Features
There’s a bad smell emanating from a grassy, wooded site at the intersection of Gallatin Road and Briley Parkway.
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Cover Story
Scene writers choose their highlights of the Southern Festival of Books.
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Features
One of the last times Wallace Rasmussen saw Dan Maddox, a self-made millionaire who became one of Nashville’s best-known philanthropists, Maddox had surprising news for him.
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Cover Story
How to find our favorite local writers at the festival.
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Cover Story
Select authors on their picks for the SFB.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Features
A month ago, you could have seen Slack and Feable Weiner together, but it would have been tough.
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Features
The clichéd image of Music City is that of the lone singer-songwriter, guitar in hand, trudging up and down Music Row, trying to get an audience with the big record companies towering over the street.
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Features
Since he made his mark on the contemporary blues scene almost 20 years ago, singer-guitarist Robert Cray has tapped a bottomless well of contrition in songs about illicit relationships.
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Lucinda Williams always sounds best when she’s at her most relaxed, and she was as loose as ever when she led her Love Band through two sets at the Ryman Auditorium last week.
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Features
By the looks of the cover, Anti-Records would like you to believe that they resurrected soul singer Bettye LaVette from the dead.
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Dining
After months of planning, designing, redesigning, constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing Cabana is almost ready for its close-up.
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Reviews
The “chick lit” genre and its “chick flick” cousin don’t get much critical respect, probably because they both lean heavily on contrived plots, shallow supporting characters and crowd-pleasing clichés.
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Reviews
Resurrection devices don’t exist in movies—only in real life, where Hollywood freakonomics can give a network-TV casualty like Joss Whedon’s space Western Firefly a big-screen comeback, via the elixir of DVD sales.
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Armor for Sleep * Oct. 7th
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Dance
As Nashville Ballet embarks on its 20th anniversary season, the company has much to celebrate.
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Theater
Ever since Matt Chiorini became involved with People’s Branch Theatre he’s been the driving force behind its program of adapting classic novels for the stage.
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Art
When gallery artists venture deep into popular culture, they can end up in any number of realms—anywhere from the world of gaudy, shiny things, to the bloodied and bruised lands of death and trauma.
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Homes & Interiors
I am told that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. But in reality, most things that are thrown away are done so for a reason.
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Homes & Interiors
If you’re like me, then you never took an art class, never learned how to draw, paint, collage or decoupage properly.
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Homes & Interiors
Fall brings a menu of tours, sales and auctions to satiate the hungriest of decorative appetites.
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Homes & Interiors
Having spent a lot of time with physical therapists while nursing this or that injury, I’m always impressed by their ability to motivate stubborn joints into moving again.
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Homes & Interiors
Until recently, the loft—the residential unit, not the golf shot—was defined as a dwelling carved out of former industrial quarters, like London’s Dockside and New York’s Soho.
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Homes & Interiors
Say goodbye to ars gratia artis, art for art’s sake, when it comes to modern home furnishings.
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Late Edition: The Disc Jockey
Most cineastes can cite a particular movie-going experience that cemented their passion, a single screening after which an engaging diversion became a life-long obsession.
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Columns: Sports
Other than the Bible, the most quoted book written about God’s chosen people (us) has to be Democracy in America.
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Late Edition: Weekend Updates
If, like us, you grew up with monster mags, Sir Cecil Creape, and dusk-to-dawn drive-in marathons, this weekend is horror-geek heaven.
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Late Edition: Website of the Week
If you’ve ever thought our malaprop-happy president was the victim of poor verbal skills, a weak vocabulary or perhaps even a low IQ, think again.
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Editorial
If we had to choose who looks worse this week, Sen. Bill Frist or the Metro teachers’ union, we’d have to go with the teachers.
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Late Edition: My Back Pages
Should New Orleans be moved upriver? Should it be rebuilt away from as many of the hazards of flooding as possible?
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Columns: First Person
It will be years before I can approach a riverbed without imagining women washing colorful clothes in the green water, children diving from jungle vines, or the spray of my horse as he splashed in the River of Passion.
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Columns: What I'm Driving At
A bit bigger about the middle. Not quite so light on the feet anymore. A little portly perhaps, but by all means refined, most definitely distinguished.
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Late Edition: Stories
On a Friday evening this month, Gordon Gee, one of the wealthiest college administrators in the country, will board a two-hour Southwest Airlines flight bound for Providence, R.I.
