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Features
State Sen. Mark Norris doesn’t do entertainment law. He’s a defense attorney who specializes in tort litigation.
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Ask a Mexican
Bienvenidos to ¡Ask a Mexican!, the world's foremost authority on America's favorite beaners!
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Helter Shelter
In the coming weeks or months, home inspectors will be licensed in Tennessee. This will come as a surprise to a lot of people for two reasons.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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The Fabricator
Lawmakers at both the state and federal level—mostly liberal Democrats—have been stymied for years in attempting to pass legislation they would consider “progressive.”
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Features
The master plan for a ballpark/mixed-use development on the former Thermal plant site is slowly coming into focus.
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Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican, Why do more Mexicans than Argentines worship Che Guevara? I don’t think we even give a shit about him.
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Cover Story
Back in rural Virginia, Darnell Arnoult was one of those sensitive young girls who dream of growing up to be a writer. It’s a classic adolescent female phase, like being crazy for horses.
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Features
Singer Lari White has recently garnered national headlines for becoming the first female to produce a record for a male country superstar, but her latest accomplishment is merely the fulfillment of a destiny for which she’s spent most of her life preparing.
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Features
For Joe Chambers, every instrument tells a story. Picking up a guitar donated by Eddie Willis, a key member of Motown Records’ famed Funk Brothers session group, he fires off classic hits featuring the artist and the instrument.
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Murfreesboro’s weariest road dogs Feable Weiner returned home Friday night to Wall Street in the ’Boro for the penultimate stop of a 30-day, 30-show tour.
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Features
“We understand that being from L.A. has its stigmas. Well, fuck you.” So begins the official bio for the band Dios (Malos).
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Features
“I think I’ll take a moment to celebrate my age,” begins Tim McGraw’s “My Next Thirty Years,” just one of the energetic tunes by then little-known songwriter Phil Vassar that invaded country radio between 1998 and 2000.
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Dining
“As God is my witness, I will never be thirsty again!” Certainly not if you reside in the 12 South neighborhood, which in its eight-block commercial district counts two coffee shops, Rumours wine bar and restaurant and two full bars at Mirror and MafiaOza’s Pizzeria.
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Dining
Has there ever been an industry more unpredictable than the restaurant business? Great product, good atmosphere, reasonable business acumen—in any other industry, if you had all those elements, you’d have a success.
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Reviews
You know how in most romantic comedies, the best friends are nearly always more interesting than the actual leads? The Break-Up doesn’t play that game.
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Reviews
If there’s a tougher sell than a Romanian movie by a hitherto unknown director, it’s a Romanian movie by an unknown director that takes two-and-a-half hours to tell the tale of a 62-year-old pensioner’s final trip to the hospital.
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Reviews
On Friday, in its biggest commitment to film and TV production incentives in more than a decade, the state appropriated $10 million to fund the Visual Content Act of 2006.
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Art
Among the greatest hits of childhood quasi-science experiments—alongside chemistry sets, chick incubators and ant farms—plaster of Paris volcanoes surely hold an honored place.
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Theater
“My name is Matt Besser, and I’m an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from Harrison, Ark., and somehow I’m an atheist now living in L.A. I am a Razorback living in the Razorback diaspora.”
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A shift in venue—from the Vanderbilt Marriott to the downtown Hilton—is reportedly not the only change brewing at the eighth annual gathering of film and TV writers, which runs Friday through Sunday.
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SceneCast
Fight Global Warming!!! The carbon-neutral Scenecast and your own personal Ice Man, Collin Wade Monk, will spin tunes so cool it will give you a brain-freeze.
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Columns: Stories
This may be the final resting place of Charles Dickinson, a man who died May 30, 1806, in a duel with Andrew Jackson.
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Sweet Riffs
I’m not ashamed to admit it: I have Guest List Anxiety. It wasn’t always this way—in college, as a girlfriend of a band member, my presence as guitar-carrying merch booth attendant rarely elicited suspicion, and I was always ID’d and stamped without question.
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Political Notes
District Attorney Torry Johnson’s cautious approach to becoming a mayoral candidate is getting a push from the rear.
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Columns: Garrigan
Taylor Hicks dances like a drunk frat boy with a venereal disease. He is to an American idol what Murfreesboro Road is to Madison Avenue.
