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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Helter Shelter
Now that all the witnesses have witnessed, all the jailhouse snitch tapes have played, and so many events of the last 10 years have been replayed, we all know where Perry March is going.
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Ask a Mexican
What’s with Mexican Americans who live in New Mexico claiming they’re Spanish and not Mexican?
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Features
England in medieval times was, no doubt, a brutal place for those deemed in opposition to the stability of the crown.
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The Fabricator
Nashville International Airport counter worker Michelle Hansard reports that her hair is much more shiny and manageable since she has had her choice of high-end shampoos.
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Cover Story
The waiting room of Dr. Richard Feldman’s diet clinic is a depressing place. Behind the big wooden door and vertical blinds that separate the room from the street is the gloom of well trod wall-to-wall carpeting and flowers wilting in vases.
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“It’s like we flushed a giant turd.”
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Features
Few Nashville musicians have had careers as illustrious and seemingly unlikely as David Schnaufer’s.
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Features
Rumor has it Nashville is the new Brooklyn. But before we had Jack and Nicole, Eef Barzelay of twangy indie-popsters Clem Snide chose to leave New York and make Music City home.
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Stalking the Muse’s Americana-themed booking at The Basement last Wednesday was in full dick swing, with opening salvos from Hurricane Doyle and Laws Rushing. It was like the Spice Channel for Uncle Tupelo fans.
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Features
Since the creative breakthrough of 2000’s Nixon, Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner has been artistically restless, looking for new modes of expression and trying to avoid repeating himself.
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Dining
The Brazilians have left the building—3805 Green Hills Village Drive, that is. Gone are the dark-haired, olive-skinned gauchos dressed in black pants, white shirts and blood-red ties, wielding glinting knives as they slice slabs of juicy meat from huge skewers.
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Dining
From November 1962 until June 19, 1976, Nero’s Cactus Canyon was one of Nashville’s most popular and beloved restaurants. The location at 2122 Hillsboro Drive has changed names several times in the years since.
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Reviews
Just in time for its U.S. release, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ fierce docudrama The Road to Guantanamo received a giant shot of free publicity in early June with the news that three Arab inmates hanged themselves at the infamous Cuban detention center, in the unbearably hot outdoor cages where they’d been kept for upwards of four years.
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Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Snakes on a Plane represents the ideal of contemporary major-studio filmmaking—which is to say, major-studio marketing. Who needs word-of-mouth screenings or critics when you can sell the four-word pitch as written on a napkin?
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Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: A winning tale of sex, real estate, and more or less immaculate conception, Quinceañera, as you might expect from a white-made drama about Latino life in Echo Park, threatens at first blush to be all about a pregnant teenager and a prodigal cholo in the ’hood.
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Reviews
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Invincible harbors no surprises as it tells the tale of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old part-time Philadelphia barkeep who played high school ball for one year, and none in college, and still wound up an Eagle in 1976.
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Reviews
One of the weakest and most ridiculous aspects of popular culture is its narcissistic now-ness.
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A lot of cities ended up where they are because of a river—for generations, urban riverfronts were the site for practical things like handling goods, moving people around and making and storing stuff.
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Theater
This year’s Shakespeare in the Park production, Macbeth, marks the triumphant return of Denice Hicks as Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s artistic director after leaving the post four years ago.
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Theater
The Shades of Black Theatre Showcase, presented throughout August at the Darkhorse Theater, concludes this weekend with the final performances of Shakin’ the Mess Out of Misery, a joint production of two local community theater groups, Sista Style and Collards & Caviar.
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College Survival Guide
Well, this is it. You’re in college. You can design your own schedule, choose your own classes, and if you’re an English major you can breathe a sigh or relief and know that calculus homework is a thing of the past.
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College Survival Guide
I came across former Scene editor Bruce Dobie’s name one afternoon while scouring my alma mater’s alumni website for school contacts in Nashville.
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College Survival Guide
Having graduated from college in 2005, I feel qualified to pass on to you incoming freshmen some advice as you matriculate into higher education. Tips like these below could have saved me from puking on some boy’s computer and crying myself to sleep to
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College Survival Guide
The strange funk that hangs over Murfreesboro year-round has been the inspiration for more than a few contemporary legends.
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College Survival Guide
I’m in a fake band. We write real songs, play them and record them, but we don’t play live shows, and we don’t make records. The reason for this is simple: we suck.
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College Survival Guide
The fall semester is upon us, and once again the school bell tolls throughout the land. Clang! Clang! No, wait, that’s the trolley.
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Welcome to college, the best four-to-seven years of your life.
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SceneCast
Contrary to statements made in his confession, John Mark Karr was not
the original host of the Scenecast. We did receive a couple of creepy
emails from Thailand though, which is more than we ever got from Perry
March.
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Columns: Garrigan
Eight years ago, Bill Purcell characterized Nashville as “the next great city.” And his prediction has pretty well born out.
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Columns: Sports
Bud Adams says Jeff Fisher isn’t going anywhere after the 2006 season. Based on what we’ve seen so far, maybe our leading nonresident oil mogul should have applied his statement a little more broadly and retroactively.
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Columns: Stories
I went to a party once where the conversation turned to worst-ever living experiences.
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Political Notes
Last week, Jesse Hughes, the mouthpiece for Republican state senators, sent an email through the legislative email service intended for a colleague, responding to news that Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen was hospitalized for flu-like symptoms after returning from vacation out West.
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Columns: Stories
Wouldn’t it be great if this were Pamela Anderson’s Corvette?
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We’re pulling a Brad Schmitt this week. Off Limits hosts a guest writer, Channel 2’s talented Andy Cordan, who was among the pack of local reporters who covered the Perry March trial.
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An unruly customer at Joe’s Crab Shack downtown was arrested for disorderly conduct after completely freaking out inside the restaurant.
