-
-
Features
Yolanda Aleman didn’t want to return to her native El Salvador. Fortunately for her, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services department—the Y2K version of INS—would let her stay in Nashville if she filed a few forms on time.
-
-
Features
In 1976, the neighborhood of Edgefield in East Nashville was territory that only an urban pioneer could love. That’s where Charlie Williams came in.
-
-
Helter Shelter
A couple weeks back, I went up to Goodlettsville to take a look at houses that were hit by the April 7 tornadoes.
-
-
The Fabricator
Last week, as the U.S. Senate debated a proposal to send every American $100 to help offset the high price of gasoline, Mayor Bill Purcell’s office quietly floated a similar proposal for Nashville—only for coffee, not gasoline.
-
-
Features
The advice Jerry Gonzalez was receiving over the telephone made no sense. Insulate his walls, he was told. Find a job so he wasn’t home all day. Or maybe think about selling his house, which sits on 30 acres of grassland in an unincorporated part of southwest Lebanon.
-
-
Features
As Erasure, singer Andy Bell and keyboard whiz Vince Clarke have spent the last two decades building one of the most rewarding songbooks in synth-pop.
-
-
Features
To a legion of women, John Corbett will always be Aidan Shaw—the affable furniture maker who wanted to marry Sex and the City heroine Carrie Bradshaw and sand her floors.
-
-
Features
The old saw about popular music being a young person’s game lost ground when the first generation of rockers hit middle age. Fortunately, cocky slogans like “Don’t trust anyone over 30” and “Hope I die before I get old” didn’t age nearly as well as the artists who spouted them.
-
-
Features
John Corbett and Rick Moranis aren’t the first actors to attempt the twang, nor do they represent the highs or lows of such ventures. Here’s a roundup.
-
-
Dining
Erratic temperatures of the last month have lent credence to the notion that spring in Nashville is becoming shorter and shorter, with conspiracy theorists claiming the season has been preempted all together.
-
-
Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Coming closer even than Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers to resembling the Chinese cover art for an Iron Butterfly album, Chen Kaige’s The Promise is psychedelia extremis.
-
-
Reviews
In 1817, a Tennessee landowner named John Bell was startled by a bizarre creature, described as a dog with a rabbit’s head, which materialized in a cornfield and vanished when fired upon.
-
-
Reviews
The box-office verdict on last week’s Nashville Film Festival is in: high on celebrities and Tennessee, mixed on Central Europe and cancer.
-
-
Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Mission: Impossible III finds Tom Cruise downplaying the world’s single greatest piece of action music in deference to an Age of Fear vibe that’s a lot more grueling than rousing.
-
-
Books
For most writers, there’s a small, very specific window of time each day when the work comes most easily, when there’s no struggle to find the right words for description, no tempestuous relationship with plot or characterization.
-
-
Theater
Jeremy Childs is a talented man of the theater: he acts, he directs and he’s written a few interesting plays that have been produced locally and feature outré characters and a sardonic point of view.
-
In last year’s movie The Aristocrats, 100 of the world’s funniest comedians took turns delivering their interpretations of the most perverted, disgusting joke in the annals of jokedom—featuring incest, pedophilia, defecation and bestiality, among other such edifying topics.
-
-
Art
The fence around what constitutes “serious” art has always had holes in it, but the last vestiges of aesthetic probity went out the window with Andy Warhol’s “Brillo Boxes” if not with Marcel Duchamp’s urinal.
-
-
SceneCast
The Scenecast and Fearless Leader, Collin Wade Monk, cheer comrade Anna Nicole Smith in her battle over the evil oppressors, may the holy profit motive be praised.
-
-
Columns: Sports
If you’re a glass-half-empty type, look at it this way: the Predators won but one lonesome game in their playoff series with San José.
-
-
Columns: Stories
Dear Mexican, For decades, I’ve heard mexicanos refer to one another as “güey.” For example, the other day I overheard one mexicano refer to his amigo as “pinche güey,” and the amigo responded with, “Ay, güey.” What’s up with “güey”?
-
-
Columns: Garrigan
If anyone needs reminding, or simply explanation, about why the Titans stadium deal polarized the city a decade ago, they need only look at the way the franchise, led by off-the-charts megalomaniac Bud Adams, has treated team quarterback Steve McNair.
-
-
Columns: Stories
“OK, Kiba, stay cool. The shades are a perfect disguise. Nothing unusual here. You’re just a gal on her way to Hohenwald in need of some roadside assistance.
