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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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“I believe the Internet is in the early stages of transforming the political world in the same way it has transformed the world of the music business.”
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Features
It’s Friday at New Masters Barber Shop and Car Wash, and more than a dozen men are lounging in the shop’s cool interior, getting trimmed and primped for the weekend.
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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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Helter Shelter
When you hire a home inspector, you’re not just hiring him to look at a house and explain it to you.
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Ask a Mexican
I just don’t get Mexicans and their grooming. The men slick their hair with baby oil, gel or Vaseline, or just shave it all off.
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The Fabricator
In a shocking reversal of 40 years of live music tradition, there was more pot smoke at the recent Kenny Chesney show at LP Field than at last week’s Michael McDonald-Steely Dan show at Starwood, according to local concertgoers.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Features
In his Pixies days, Frank Black was known for letting his voice shift from a puckish, conversational rumble to a full-on scream.
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Features
An eight-hour van drive within the state of Texas sans air conditioning—in late spring, no less—is hardly an ideal way to travel.
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Features
Since making his recording debut in 1960 at age 7, Billy Burnette has led many musical lives.
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We were disappointed to find out our favorite comedian NEIL HAMBURGER would be sharing the bill with indie darlings DANIELSON last Wednesday at The End.
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Dining
Not to get all Capt. Jack Sparrow on you, but sometimes hidden treasure can be discovered in the most public of places.
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Dining
Swveral years ago, the winner of the Scene’s “You Are So Nashville If...” contest was “...you never meant to stay here this long.”
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Reviews
Two weeks ago, a colleague insisted that Superman Returns isn’t the remake of the 1978 original, as I wrote, but a reinterpretation—its melancholy flip side.
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Reviews
It would be a mighty sweet thing to see M. Night Shyamalan as the great redemptive storyteller he clearly thinks he is—or as he portrays himself in those American Express commercials.
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Reviews
For anyone who doesn’t believe that film qualifies as visual art there’s a cool new movie in which beautifully sculpted objects move together through a constantly recalibrating space.
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Two-and-a-half years ago, Vanderbilt University Methodist chaplain Mark Forrester began overseeing a local oral-history project conducted by members of the school’s Wesley/Canterbury Fellowship.
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Art
Baseball is a game of lore and superstition, and of legends as hoary as old wives’ tales. Each game deepens the slow accretion of records assigned to each player, but anyone who studies the game knows that no records can truly map baseball’s quirky and unpredictable course.
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Books
Scott Mebus is a songwriter, comic, former television producer for MTV’s The Real World and The Tom Green Show, and a novelist whose debut work, Booty Nomad (Miramax Books, 2004), was written after a particularly bad breakup.
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You Are So Nashville If
Mike Williams is the winner of the 2006 “You Are So Nashville If…” contest.
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You Are So Nashville If
Some of these are painfully earnest, others hopelessly too specific, still others simply creepy or just really out there.
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You Are So Nashville If
You Are So Nashville If... winners from years gone by.
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You Are So Nashville If
You were a gay cowboy before being a gay cowboy was cool. —Mike Williams
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SceneCast
In light of the Muslim world's latest attempt to destroy the only functional democracy in the Middle East, could there be a connection to the titles appearing in this week's Scenecast?
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Mules, Mom and Apple Pie. Lately, some big-city papers have called into question the importance of some of our small-town traditions.
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Columns: Stories
“OK, kids, the Department of Children’s Services has a surprise for you. Who wants to go to Youth Ranch for the summer?”
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Columns: Stories
So I’m standing in frozen foods, asking myself, “Should I get Hot Pockets or Lean Pockets? Or what about Croissant Pockets?
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Columns: Garrigan
So Nashville’s worst-kept secret—that detractors of Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce president Mike Neal were gunning for him—is out, at least by implication, as Tulsa World and then Nashville media reported he was leaving the membership organization.
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Sweet Riffs
Waiting in Starwood’s will-call line last week to pick up my Cinderella/Poison tickets, I overheard a woman talking to a friend a few queues over, and the conversation went something like this:
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Columns: Sports
I never have recurring dreams—with one exception. In it, I dream that I’m in college. It’s the end of the term. Finals are next week.
