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Helter Shelter
I spend a lot of time working with words. I write reports for my little business and I write columns for this newspaper. It’s way better than my old job.
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Cover Story
Last year, cheap production costs did something that exorcists, spook chasers and even President Andrew Jackson failed to accomplish. They drove the Bell Witch out of Tennessee.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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The Fabricator
Dr. Ming Wang, Nashville’s self-promoting eye surgeon, announced this week that he will pioneer a new surgical technique that will restore sight to blind trusts of politicians.
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Features
You couldn’t blame Ari Dubin for overlooking the roasted pig’s head. It was impaled on a piece of wood and propped, rather discreetly, in a corner on the front patio of Vanderbilt’s Schulman Center for Jewish Life.
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Features
At the end of a winding gravel lane that curves off Old Hickory Boulevard in Bells Bend, near the ramp where Cleece Ferry once delivered passengers to the northern side of the Cumberland River, lies a small cemetery.
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Features
In pop music, the only thing that takes more work than self-reinvention is failure.
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Remember in junior high school when you and a couple of your mean-spirited friends would tell some socially awkward schoolmate a joke that made no sense, then you’d pretend to crack up, just to see if the poor sap would laugh with you rather than admit he didn’t get it?
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Features
The well-known Silver Jews side project known as Pavement might have ceased recording six years ago, but Gold Sounds indicates that their music stands a chance of entering the jazz repertoire.
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Features
That Dean Miller takes on Fred Eaglesmith’s “105” during his third shot at establishing a country music career says something about how he’s evolved since he began playing around town more than a decade ago.
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Features
Like the blues musicians who electrified their guitars to compete with the roar of Chicago and Detroit, Konono No. 1 have adapted traditional instruments and material to the urban setting of Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Dining
A couple of Sundays ago, I arranged to meet friends for brunch in East Nashville’s Five Points, within walking distance of their homes; we set the rendezvous for 11 a.m., getting the first reservations of the day with the intent of beating late-risers.
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Dining
Unless you live in East Nashville or commute from Point A to Point B on Gallatin Pike, it’s not likely you’ll stumble across Eastside Fish.
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Reviews
Reading a novel or short story by Japanese author Haruki Murakami is like picking at a thread that eventually threatens to unravel the world.
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Reviews
It’s too bad that much of the discussion surrounding Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown is going to be about the 20 minutes he cut from the movie just prior to its release—but then, Crowe’s prior editing woes have made movie buffs more aware of the big effects of small cuts.
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Art
Look at the tags in the National Gallery or the Metropolitan Museum, and you notice the recurring names of extremely wealthy people whose personal collections helped form the foundations of great museums.
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Books
Everyone knows that the ideal Victorian woman was supposed to be the angel of the house, providing a calm, civilized oasis for her husband when he returned from the harsh world of business and intrigue.
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Performance poetry often lies flat on a record, but Williams, the star of the 1998 movie Slam and a legend at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, makes it work on his second, self-titled album.
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Books
Modern soldiers do more than just fight and kill the enemy. They must master the incredibly complex technology that supports them.
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Columns: First Person
I noticed my first gray hair at dawn on the morning of my 30th birthday. Here’s how the whole thing went, like the parody of a horror movie.
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Columns: What I'm Driving At
“This, too, shall pass,” must be the consolation phrase uttered by SUV-makers of all stripes these days.
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Columns: A Face in the Crowd
CHARLES HENDRICKS, World’s oldest busboy, Sylvan Park Restaurant on Eighth Avenue South
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Late Edition: Website of the Week
In today’s overscheduled world, it’s so hard to get to the gym, take the kids to soccer practice, pay the bills, not to mention have any quality time with the family—which leaves many of us wondering, who has the time to think up evil plans anymore?
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Late Edition: Stories
Nashville Children’s Theatre has inaugurated the fall season with one of its finer efforts in recent years.
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Late Edition: Stories
The second production from Street Theatre, one of Nashville’s newest theater companies, is being performed at PLAY on Church Street, a venue best known for showcasing female impersonators.
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Late Edition: Weekend Updates
Pumpkins rot, candy molds, bats fly away. No, if you want a Halloween keepsake that’ll be just as daisy fresh in April, go see the Lylas show tonight (Friday) at The End.
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Columns: Desperately Seeking the News
Tennessean publisher Ellen Leifeld, who was recruited a month ago from another Gannett paper to replace the defrocked Leslie Giallombardo, has tapped the paper’s former editor, Frank Sutherland, to move into her office suite and take on special projects.
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Late Edition: Stories
Sometimes rumors turn out to be true.
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Editorial
Some people don’t believe this, but it’s true: from time to time, we go out into the actual world to talk to real people. And all we’re getting lately is a bunch of whining. We can identify.
