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The Fabricator
Last week a mayoral study committee recommended that Nashville build a new $455 million convention center between Eighth and Fourth avenues in SoBro.
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Cover Story
Despite more than 80 years of commercial aviation, the airline industry has been unsuccessful in erasing the cliché that airplane food is bad.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Cover Story
Bread, as the saying goes, is the staff of life, a food so fundamental that its history can be traced back thousands of years to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
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Cover Story
Sometimes food is just food, but sometimes it tells you everything you need to know about a culture.
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Cover Story
“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed,” wrote Waverly Root in Food, his 1980 encyclopedia tracing the origin and history of all things edible.
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Cover Story
Chef Sean Brock stares at a pile of citrus fruits and ponders the question posed to him: since the arrival of the pineapple in 15th century Europe, what food discovery has stirred equal delight and surprise?
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Helter Shelter
When I was about 13 years old, I played my first paying gig, at Beech Island Teen Town, down in Beech Island, S.C. The pay was $20.
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Cover Story
It’s dinnertime somewhere, so, naturally, Scene writers are thinking about food.
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Features
For years, Meharry Medical College, one of two historically black medical schools in the country, has lived an uneasy existence with Nashville government leaders.
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Features
On his three previous albums—2002’s Nu Bop, 2003’s Equilibrium and 2004’s Harmony and Abyss—jazz pianist Matthew Shipp worked with electronica producer and programmer Chris Flam (a.k.a. FLAM).
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Features
Nashville native Justin “JC Smooth” Crowder makes a promising debut on his independently released LP, All of Me.
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Features
“‘Supergroup?’ That’s sort of a horrible expression,” sniffs Mark Eitzel. “Don’t they have a tendency to be really boring, just sitting around on stools doing high-fives between every song?” He pauses, with expert comic timing. “Actually, this is just like that!”
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When The Spin heard that Goofus and Gallant of Highlights magazine fame were in town for last week’s SIGUR RÓS show at the Ryman, we tracked them down to get their thoughts on the show.
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Dining
Matt Charette grew up in Massachusetts and is a die-hard Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics and Patriots fan, but he’s not nearly so fond of Northern winters.
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Reviews
Tommy Lee Jones’ feature directorial debut is probably much as you’d expect: a blast of nostalgia that nonetheless accepts the realities of modernity, which isn’t surprising coming from an actor who’s getting up there in years but has found more fame as an old man than as a young’un.
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Reviews
For about the first 15 minutes of Roger Donaldson’s The World’s Fastest Indian, it’s hard to tell whether motorcycle enthusiast Burt Munro (played by Anthony Hopkins) is a charming iconoclast or some kind of raving nutter.
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It might be easier to list the things Angelou hasn’t done during her prolific career. Her six autobiographical books include such familiar titles as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes.
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Art
About 35 years ago, women in increasing numbers started making art with a distinctively “female” character. One of them, Judy Chicago, is currently in Nashville as the Chancellor’s Artist in Residence at Vanderbilt.
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Books
The phone call that changed the course of Bill Carter’s life wasn’t even to him. It was Nov. 22, 1963, and Carter was 27, a Secret Service agent enjoying lunch with fellow agents and their boss, James Rowley, at O’Donnell’s Seafood, about a block from the White House.
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Theater
More than 30 years into his career as writer, stand-up comedian and actor, Steve Martin remains a very funny man.
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Books
Imagine an isolated island civilization that has evolved a rigid caste system. While complex, arcane rituals govern all aspects of everyday life, the inhabitants also enjoy sexual proclivities well beyond what mainstream America would likely condone.
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Columns: Stories
Sorry, hypocrites. We’re not going to stroke your guilty conscience by letting you laugh at some hilarious joke about where in town someone can get the PETA blood washed out of their mink.
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Columns: Garrigan
OK, technically he’s not in the cabinet, but it makes a good headline. The point is, Dave Cooley, Gov. Phil Bredesen’s No. 2, can’t seem to keep his head down.
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Political Notes
As, apparently, with so many things in Dave Cooley’s office, it all started with a call from an old political ally.
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Columns: Sports
Boot her from the Olympic Village. Put her hot-doggin’ behind on the next plane home. We don’t need someone with her mind-set representing the U.S. of A.
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SceneCast
The candy is gone and the roses are wilted, but The Scenecast keeps the love coming your way. Your ever-faithful host, Collin Wade Monk, flings petals of delight.
