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The Fabricator
Bill Fondren, who does traffic reports on several radio stations including NPR affiliate WPLN, has won this year’s Public Radio Enunciation Smackdown, defeating longtime champ Corey Flintoff.
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Features
With the exception of District 2 school board candidate Michael Kerstetter, who kept hanging up on us, all of those running for seats on the Metro school board agreed to sit down recently for individual interviews with the Scene’s Bruce Barry (and pinch-hit interviewer Liz Garrigan).
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Features
If ever a school got a raw deal from a city government, that school is Harding Academy, a small, private, nondenominational school on the western edge of the city, not far from Belle Meade Plantation.
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Helter Shelter
Back in the ’70s, three of my buddies and I put together a pretty good rock ’n’ roll band. After some months of rehearsals, we asked a booking agent to come to one of our gigs.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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“I thought the mayor was coming.”
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Cover Story
Not 20 minutes before a Nashville cop put five bullets in him, Roy Flowers looked like just another tourist out for a night of fun.
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Features
Veteran music executive Paul Corbin describes beloved banker Brian Williams as “the first stop for anybody who needed special attention.” And he was often the last stop. When every other bank turned you down, you could count on Williams—at least most of the time.
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Features
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Telwar was shocked when she opened The Tennessean July 11 to read what seemed to her a sympathetic of Penny Oller, a woman who turned to public assistance in the form of food stamps and Medicaid after her husband, Ronnie Oller, was arrested for a 1990 murder.
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Ask a Mexican
I’m a culturally sensitive, PC, Asian American who laughed my head off at Jack Black’s imitation of a Mexican in Nacho Libre. Is this wrong?
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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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Features
Just about every major rock act eventually goes the covers album route—so the only surprising thing about Yeah!, Def Leppard’s just-released tribute to the 1970s pop and glam-rock artists they grew up on, should be that it took them 26 years to get around to it.
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Features
Running out of hard drive space, Nashville singer Kyle Andrews dragged the master files for his debut release, Amos in Ohio, into his digital trash can and sent them into oblivion.
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Rarely do the worlds of Belle Meade high society and Nashville’s hipster underground meet, but when they do, it’s a good bet Tupper Saussy is involved.
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Features
Glossary’s fourth record For What I Don’t Become has been waiting almost a year for its official release.
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Dining
Whether or not Mothership BBQ is off the beaten track is relative. If you’re one of the 700 people who live in the town of Berry Hill or you work in one of the many businesses squished into that square mile of land, you’re familiar with the neighborhood.
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Dining
For nearly a quarter-century, Arnold’s Country Kitchen—widely regarded as the best meat-and-three in town—has been feeding the most diverse cross-section of Nashvillians to be found anywhere outside of Metro courts.
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Reviews
Perhaps no one can pinpoint the exact moment vaudeville died, but there’s a moment early on in the movie Strangers With Candy where you could swear you had just witnessed the death of visual comedy.
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Reviews
The San Fernando Valley in David Jacobson’s Down in the Valley looks like any other stretch of suburban sprawl, surrounded by freeways and cluttered with wires.
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Reviews
Slipped into the summer movie season like acid in your happy meal, Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly is a blockbuster of counterprogramming.
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Art
Until feminist art of the 1970s broke down barriers between “high art” and “crafts,” painting and media like fiber arts didn’t generally end up hanging on the same walls.
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Books
Last summer’s An Atomic Romance, Bobbie Ann Mason’s first novel in 10 years, was worth the wait in every way.
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Theater
Was Hamlet mad? It’s an age-old question.
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Theater
Producer, director and actor Dennis Ewing, a vital theatrical force in Nashville through the 1980s and ’90s, passed away on July 3.
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While collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers once ensured that melancholic British songstress Beth Orton was known for laidback electronic fare.
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SceneCast
It's official, Peter Jackson has signed on to direct Scenecast: The Movie.
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Sweet Riffs
Last year, a group of local twentysomethings found themselves up late on July 4 and the talk eventually turned to MySpace. The site, they complained, had become a pimped-out homage to Girls Gone Wild, where friend counts were a meaningless representation of real-life socializing.
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Columns: Stories
If you think we’re a little behind the times out here in Bellevue, don’t blame us. Blame our retailers.
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Political Notes
District Attorney Torry Johnson was at the YMCA working out earlier this week when a curious voter asked him the question everybody wants answered: is he or isn’t he running for mayor?
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Columns: Garrigan
Does no one read Vanity Fair anymore? Harper’s? Newsweek? Bark magazine, for crying out loud?
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Columns: Stories
For all of you who have been so fascinated by the “I pooted” billboards, check out what’s breaking wind over on Bransford Avenue. It’s a little pink windmill.
