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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Cover Story
With the opening of the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall on the horizon this fall, you can practically hear the Nashville Symphony tuning up their instruments this winter. Meanwhile, scores of groups and galleries are unveiling a season filled with arts, music and dance. From Alias to Zeitgeist, there’s something for every taste.
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Features
On Thursday, Dec. 15, former Father Ryan High School student Mike Coode was kicked off his alma mater’s campus.
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The Fabricator
Regal Cinemas, which operates several multiplexes in the Nashville area, reports growing sales of the “Movie Pal,” a device that allows moviegoers to urinate without leaving their seats.
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Helter Shelter
Over here on the west side of town, my Sylvan Park and Whitland neighbors are choosing up sides, getting ready to fight the last battle over conservation zoning, which puts minor restrictions on remodeling or demolishing houses of a certain age.
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Features
Last week, R. Allan Edgar, a senior federal district judge in Chattanooga, granted a 30-day stay of execution in the case of death row
inmate Greg Thompson, likely to be the the last reprieve for a murderer first scheduled to be executed 20 years ago.
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Features
On “Ask Me Anything,” track seven on the new Strokes record, First Impressions of Earth, there isn’t a trace of distortion in singer Julian Casablancas’ voice.
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Features
If it’s true, as Vladimir Nabokov wrote, that “the spirit of parody always goes along with genuine poetry,” then that spirit operates in the world of raunchy funk and R&B much as it does in Nabokov’s rarefied realm.
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Features
Early in the last season of American Idol, when Carrie Underwood was just one of 11 wannabe stars, judge Simon Cowell predicted she would not only win handily, but would sell more albums than any of the show’s previous winners.
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Last Thursday at Rumours Wine Bar on 12th Avenue South, Niceley and guitarist Joe McMahan weaved and slithered their way through a couple sets of moody, downtempo material, veiled in echo and slowly undulating tremolo that hypnotized and seduced, rendering the establishment’s considerable stock of fermented grape beverages redundant.
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Dining
What’s new for the new year? Depends on who you ask. For Martha Stamps, it’s a new restaurant; for Red Door and Rumours, a new meal; for Piranha’s, Provence and Kalamata’s, new stores; for Germantown Café, Tin Angel and Ellendale’s, new rooms; for Wild Boar, a new chef. And chef Sean Brock, who’s all about what’s new, has a brand new blog.
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Reviews
Penguins and gays are the new high-concept thriller. March of the Penguins and Brokeback Mountain may have little in common—besides cute couples—but their unpredicted success has once again shaken Hollywood’s certainties.
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Reviews
As Neil Jordan remembers it, 1970s Dublin was a peacock’s parade of clashing wardrobes. “You had a very schizophrenic combination of elements on the streets,” the Irish writer-director recalls.
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Art
The distinction between “craft” and “fine art” is one of those slippery terminological dividing lines that gives way as soon as you poke it.
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Books
Popular music is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget the important role it plays in our individual and collective lives.
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Books
Good characters are like old friends, and turning the last page of their story can be the definition of bittersweet: so glad you met them, so sad to see them go.
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Rev. James Lawson may not be the best-known figure in the struggle to end segregation, but he was integral to its success. After embracing pacifist principles as a youth, he was imprisoned for resisting the draft.
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SceneCast
This week, your beloved Scenecast and ever-faithful host, Collin Wade Monk, outdoes himself and scores an off-the-charts podcast with music from The Strokes, An Albatross, Leslie and the Lys, Cindy Bullens, Carrie Underwood and — sit down — Blowfly. Spread the Love.
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Columns: Desperately Seeking the News
Something altogether anticlimactic happened Friday night when WSMV-Channel 4 aired the premiere of The Book of Daniel: God did not smite Middle Tennessee or cast into stone those viewers who find intriguing the character of a fallible Vicodin-addicted clergyman.
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Columns: Sports
Even with a miserable 4-12 record to show for all his work in 2005, Jeff Fisher can at least be thankful for one thing in this new year. He doesn’t work for Zygi Wilf.
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Editorial
There are 70,000 students in our public schools, and most of us have been talking about director Pedro Garcia’s poor bedside manner or his elected board’s proclivity for divisiveness and concern with style over substance.
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Columns: What I'm Driving At
Say what you want about the inequity of it all, but one good thing about high fuel prices is the way they keep the poseurs at bay.
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Columns: Stories
From the collection of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, #1 N Tha Hood G promotes the success of the Department of Safety impound program.
