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Helter Shelter
On my first day of school, I walked to the schoolhouse wearing a pair of stiff new blue jeans, a white polo shirt and a pair of brown Hush Puppies.
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Cover Story
You cannot grow up in the South, and Middle Tennessee in particular, without a healthy respect for the weird.
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Features
In 1997, Perry March described himself to a Scene reporter as the Richard Jewell of Nashville, victimized by police
allegations that he murdered his 33-year-old wife Janet and disposed of her body so well that they still haven’t recovered it.
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The Fabricator
Radio show host Steve Gill last week derided marchers observing the 2,000th American death in Iraq, saying, “Their compassion for life seems to have a political agenda behind it,” and alleged that marchers “gleefully” anticipated the death.
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Features
On their new album These Colors Run, the Murfreesboro band Ghostfinger allow a broad palette of colors to run around, together and sometimes amok.
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Features
Gretchen Wilson once claimed that “Redneck Woman,” the surprise smash of 2004 that turned country on its head, was inspired by watching the glossy divas on CMT and thinking, “I’ll never look like that.”
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The Twenty-Eights went back to rock ’n’ roll’s Big Bang last Saturday at The Basement with an evening of Chuck Berry classics that sounded fresher than a drunk Warren Beatty at the Playboy Mansion.
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Features
The first few bars of Kenny Chesney’s new album, The Road and the Radio, will cause some listeners to make sure they cued up the right CD.
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Dining
There’s something really telling—and absolutely perfect—about Richard Trest’s explanation for why his charming little Cajun joint, open now for about a month-and-a-half, doesn’t serve étouffée.
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Dining
Williamson County is hitting the bottle this weekend, or more accurately, hundreds of bottles, with two major wine events taking place simultaneously and within spitting distance of one another.
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Reviews
Steve Conrad’s script for The Weather Man consists mostly of a running interior monologue by a Chicago TV weatherman named David Spritz, who’s bucking for a job on a national morning show while at the same time dealing with his father’s terminal illness, the demands of his estranged wife and the adolescent crises of his two children.
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Reviews
Throughout his career, Charlie Chaplin was asked if he were Jewish; after he made 1940’s The Great Dictator, a bold parody of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, the question was put to him like an accusation. He is said to have replied, “I do not have that honor.”
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Reviews
A side effect of becoming a parent is that situations you could have handled before in movies without a ruffled hair suddenly have you chewing your nails.
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A testament to the diversity of Nashville’s electronic music scene, WRVU-91 Rock’s third annual Buzz & Click show brings together many faces of the city’s binary contingent.
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Books
Any Bitter Thing (Chronicle Books, 345 pp.), Monica Wood’s latest novel set in her native New England, begins with a subject that is simultaneously lurid and clichéd—sexual abuse of children by priests—and spins from it an unexpected story about the beauty of human devotion.
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Art
Two years ago, the Frist Center organized a major survey, “The Art of Tennessee,” that did what major shows do: defined its subject.
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Books
In March 1965, a group of prominent historians—including C. Vann Woodward, Richard Hofstadter and William Leuchtenberg—traveled to Montgomery to participate in the final stages of the Selma-to-Montgomery march.
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This week your beloved SceneCast includes songs by Freakwater, Hanna-McEuen, Ghostfinger, Sara Evans, Faith Hill and another chapter in the Secret Musical History of Nashville.
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Editorial
As Charlie Strobel’s reign as Nashvillian of the Year comes to an end—the Scene will name a new one in December—we have a few more words to say about him and a cold night way back in 1985 that changed this city.
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Columns: What I'm Driving At
Seismic shifts are rumbling under the big-tent, multi-division automakers Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp.
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Columns: Sports
Back in the farm community where I spent part of my deformative years, they still talk about how Donkey Allison got his house torn down.
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Columns: Desperately Seeking the News
Mutiny is brewing among fledgling journalists at Middle Tennessee State University, where the new faculty advisor to the student newspaper Sidelines abruptly discontinued the paper’s entertainment insert “Flash” recently.
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Columns: First Person
In spite of all my good intentions, I have rescued another dog. This makes my third, a young Lab/probably boxer mix. He was born to be a big, gorgeous guy, but now one of his back legs dangles uselessly, and he is so thin you can see every rib.
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Columns: Planet Claire
As a journalist, it is my duty to investigate and report interesting stories that the public deserves to hear. I usually find these stories while wasting time on the Internet instead of writing the other, much less interesting stories that I am paid to write.
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These days, mayoral ambitions seem to be everyone’s dirty little secret. Off Limits is pleased to introduce three more people whose friends tell them they should run for mayor.
