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Cover Story
Now in its 37th year the Nashville Film Festival remains the biggest film event of the year in the city, a seven-day orgy of movie love that drew some 15,000 people last year. And yet, despite its growing size and visibility, it’s still a remarkably democratic event.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Helter Shelter
I’ve always been a little slow to realize how fast daughter Jess is growing up. When she started kindergarten, I kept trying to stuff her into clothes from Baby Gap.
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The Fabricator
A few weeks ago, Sen. Bill Frist’s office sent out an invitation to an exclusive weekend fundraiser called VOLPAC ’06 Weekend, to be held in Nashville April 21-23. But the invite is getting interest far beyond the deep-pocketed GOP faithful.
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Features
Jan. 17 was a strange day to be one of John Summers’ constituents. If you happened to be a supporter of a conservation overlay, a restrictive zoning ordinance fiercely contested within two neighborhoods in Summers’ West Nashville district, you were certain Summers would push forward with the measure.
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“Blastmaster” KRS-One unleashed a full-on lyrical assault on Nashville Saturday night at the Cannery Ballroom.
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Features
Ed Hamell is the kind of guy who’s willing to get his hands dirty. Though short, bespectacled and carrying an acoustic guitar, Ed Hamell isn’t your typical overwrought singer-songwriter type.
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Features
A few weeks ago in Soho, Secret Machines were busy cramming in a day of record-label obligations after just getting back from doing your standard young-rock-band-on-the-go thing.
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Features
Ben Folds has a rather simple take on how he creates music. “My job is to take the feeling of the time that I was creating this stuff,” he says, “and translate it into a record in hopes that someone else was having the same kind of day that I was having.”
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Dining
One of Nashville’s most talented—and certainly most experimental—chefs, Sean Brock, has moved his kitchen laboratory from the Capitol Grille in the Hermitage Hotel to McCrady’s Restaurant in Charleston, S.C., where he will serve as executive chef.
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Eight years after the death of seemingly irreplaceable lead singer Michael Hutchence, veteran Australian band INXS elected to find a new frontman the way all important decisions are made these days: with a reality show.
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Theater
Nashville Opera Association’s 25th anniversary season concludes this week with two performances of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, presented almost 80 years to the day after its April 25, 1926, premiere in Milan, Italy.
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Books
“I grew up around musicians, with music and the like being as important as making your bed,” says 29-year-old Nashville writer Sarahbeth Purcell, whose second novel, This Is Not a Love Song, came out last week.
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Political Notes
Turns out, when you write about bloggers, they write back. So it’s been one hell of a circle-jerk over the past week as computer jockeys around the country weighed in and inveighed upon the Bill Hobbs affair, both on the Scene’s blog and a few hundred others.
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SceneCast
It's Power To The People week here at the Scenecast. The magnificent new enhanced Scenecast gives you control.
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Columns: Stories
Next time someone tells you that you look like a million dollars, pray you don’t look 10,000 times as ridiculous as these Ben Franklins. We don’t blame these two poor souls.
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Columns: Garrigan
How many bloggers actually have jobs? We don’t know, except to say one fewer now than before.
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Columns: Sports
The best T-shirt I saw at last year’s ACC basketball tournament read: “Breathe if you hate Duke.” It neatly summarized the prevailing attitude toward the Blue Devils and their fans.
