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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Features
Among the flotsam and jetsam floating around the halls of the Tennessee General Assembly is the draft of a bill that insiders call the “Get Nicely” bill.
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The Fabricator
Friends and co-workers of East Nashville’s Gary Bauer noticed all day Wednesday that his forehead had a dark smudge on it.
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Cover Story
It was a Sept. 11 he will never forget. At 10 p.m. on that date in 1980, a factory worker named Francisco Calderon heard the sound of boots loudly kicking the door of his home in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador.
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Helter Shelter
It’s softball season at the Jowers house—high school softball season, to be exact. After the high school season, there’ll be the summer season, which takes us right up to the fall season.
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Free jazz, avant-garde, modern classical—while y’all are arguing about what to call MATTHEW SHIPP’s music, we’ll just sit here with our jaws around our ankles, trying to make peace with the fact that we may not see another Nashville show of this magnitude for a long time.
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Features
Even more than most styles of pop music, country-rock shivers with a formalist chill. The monuments of the genre add real passion to the mix of Bakersfield honky-tonk, country and bluegrass harmonies, and British-Invasion pop that went into its formation.
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Features
James Talley was 29 when he recorded his debut album in 1973. The title summed up his station.
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Features
Belle and Sebastian are now 10 years into what has proven a fairly brilliant career, and they still have to put up with writers calling their music twee.
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Features
The Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s Saturday performance of Porgy and Bess testified to the Herculean efforts of guest conductor John Mauceri and his collaborators to reconstruct the score of Gershwin’s original 1935 production.
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Dining
On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19, the elegant Loews Vanderbilt Hotel ballroom, favored location for many of Nashville’s highest-ticket pay parties and celebrations, instead hosted the city’s longest soup line.
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Reviews
Michael Haneke fits the reputation that the international film community has assigned him—a stern taskmaster who uses well-deployed shock value to deliver intensely focused lessons that demand much of his audience.
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Reviews
Like a lot of foreign films these days, Michael Haneke’s Caché holds static shots for absurdly long times, encouraging the viewer to scan the frame for more meaning than the actors and dialogue are providing.
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David Mamet’s Oleanna was first presented onstage in 1992, not too long, coincidentally, after the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings brought to light some peculiar elements of the mentor/protégé relationship and raised questions about the nature of sexual harassment.
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Books
At the beginning of Marshall Boswell’s short-story collection Trouble With Girls, a fly ball miraculously drops into 12-year-old Parker Hayes’ baseball glove.
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Art
Whether you dread it or romanticize it, aging is a fact of life. Some people even look forward to their later years as a time when they can finally escape all the angst, frustration, desire and hyper-ambitiousness of youth.
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SceneCast
Even Fidel Castro's gulag can't hold back talent like Belle and Sebastian, Living Things, New Pornographers, David Gray, Van Morrison, Owen, Buckethead, The Strokes, Stephen Clair, Lee Roy Parnell, Nina Simone and more.
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Columns: Sports
In the good old SEC spirit of spite, and with a nod to the spate of commissions that reported on who screwed up what after Katrina, our Committee of Way-Too-Far Insiders convened this week at the Scene Sports Desk at McCabe Pub.
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Columns: Stories
“Yeah, the new heart’s working fine,” says Berry Hill’s Tin Man, “but now I wish I’d picked me a brain.”
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Columns: Desperately Seeking the News
Editor Catherine Mayhew’s somewhat abrupt departure from The City Paper two weeks ago coincides with the paper’s plans to redesign its front page, push deadlines to make the giveaway daily timelier and more aggressive, and chuck national op-ed commentary in favor of local voices, sources there say.
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Political Notes
Thank God the state legislature is back in session. When they’re gone, political columnists are forced to take up serious topics like the deputy governor lobbying subordinates on local political issues, U.S. national vulnerability to cyber-attack and the police chief threatening to storm out of a neighborhood meeting.
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Columns: Garrigan
Until someone realizes that dream-team remake of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, there’s only one way to see Ashley Judd, Dolly Parton and Bettie Page on the same big screen.
