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Letters
Letters from readers.
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“Dru Allison Potash, a daughter of E. J. Potash and Dr. David Potash of Franklin, Tenn., was married last evening to Benjamin Conte Bredesen, the son of Andrea Conte and Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee. The bridegroom’s father officiated at his private home in Nashville.”
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Suburban Turmoil
I’m watching my stepdaughter scrimmage on the soccer field when a mom standing beside me asks, “Which one is yours?”
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The Fabricator
The mockingbird has been Tennessee’s state bird for more than seven decades, but this fall the venerable avian symbol faces one of the toughest fights in its career.
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Features
It starts out like a typical account of an undercover prostitution bust: a pimp approaches a plainclothes officer posing as a john and asks what he wants. But that’s where Metro Officer Jason Smith’s report takes a turn for the blue.
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Features
As everyone in Nashville who has not been stranded on a deserted island for the summer knows, our symphony will make its debut in its new home, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Saturday.
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Helter Shelter
A few days back, a neighbor called and asked me about radon gas. She wanted to know if radon gas is really as worrisome as the EPA says it is, and how to get rid of radon if she’s got it.
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Ask a Mexican
My gabacha friends and I marched in the May pro-amnesty rallies and wanted to show our support on our chests as well as our feet. We wore T-shirts that read, “I only (picture of big, juicy lips) mojados” on the front, and “Yo solo (lips) mojados” on the back.
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Cover Story
When The Features signed to Universal Records in 2004, no one was surprised. They’d appeared on the Murfreesboro scene a decade earlier with an invigorating, quirky pop sound that lent itself to easy crowd participation with rowdy sing-alongs and whimsical handclaps.
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Features
Certainly Balakrishnan’s residency and the opening of Schermerhorn have conspired to create a seismic shift for NCO. But the orchestra has been breaking ground for some time now.
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Friday night, The Spin had some show-hoppin’ to do. Woohoo! We started out at Exit/In for WAX FANG and free KINGS OF LEON tix.
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Features
On their new Migrations, Canadian band The Duhks come across as conceptually savvy virtuosos. Because they’re adept at keeping individual personalities in balance, they’re nearly impossible to categorize.
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Features
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: We caught up with conductor Leonard Slatkin at Schermerhorn in between rehearsals for the orchestra’s gala opening night concert to ask him about his work with the NSO.
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Features
Afour-album span should be plenty of time to gain a glimpse into an artist’s world, but not so with Sparklehorse.
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Features
Tony Joe White opens his new album, Uncovered, with a slow-rolling stomp that draws on weather terms—thunder, rising temperature, electricity in the air—as he describes to his lover how hot their foreplay is.
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Features
Chances are we won’t be seeing many of you at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s gala concert Saturday at the new Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
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Nashville Cream
- by Ashley Spurgeon
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Tags: Cream
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Nashville Cream
- by Chris Slack
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Tags: Cream
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Dining
Nothing says Old Nashville like Belle Meade, home of understatedly stately estates, family names that roll back two centuries and seven-figure net-worth profiles.
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Dining
There’s an oddball in every family, and chef Jason McConnell claims the position by virtue of his position. “Everyone in my family is in the Tennessee walking horse business but me,” he admits.
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Reviews
If Superman Returns attempted to resurrect the Man of Steel as mythic hero, the season’s other Superman movie wants to disabuse us of any such childish illusions.
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Reviews
As an artist, Toby Keith may be best known as the guy who sang about putting a boot up Osama’s ass and stringing up every varmint in Texas (with Willie Nelson riding shotgun).
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Books
Until recently, the white experience during the civil rights movement was considered largely irrelevant, if not politically incorrect—a topic best left to KKK meetings, back-road bars, and the corner table at the country club.
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Books
In November 2004, Jimmy Carter was asked what would happen if his highly touted international election monitors were allowed to cover the U.S. presidential elections.
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Our Critics Picks
Way back when, in 2003, people took to calling the Kings of Leon “the Southern Strokes” as something of a pejorative.
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Art
Imaginary sea creatures are becoming to 21st century galleries what still lifes were to their counterparts in days gone by. Drawings of odd little creatures are everywhere, vaguely resembling insects, sea critters or microbes.
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Judging from intelligence and anecdotes circulating among well-placed Vanderbilt sources, the much anticipated Wall Street Journal story expected to detail corporate governance efforts (or problems) at Vanderbilt University may wind up being as much about Chancellor Gordon Gee’s wife Constance as the types of spending controls the Board of Trust has been wrestling with lately.
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Columns: Stories
“Bow wow, and I do mean ‘wow!’ You people are finally taking these ticks seriously, eh? They’re all you can talk about.
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Police responded to a female caller’s report of a burglary last week and, upon arriving at the scene, found the would-be burglar still hanging out at the apartment, where he was “taken into custody at gunpoint.”
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Columns: Garrigan
he editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster was onto something when he said that. It makes us think of Congressman Harold Ford Jr., a smart young man whose Democratic U.S. Senate candidacy is generating all the excitement of a prostate awareness fair.
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SceneCast
If politics is “show business for ugly people,” the Scenecast suggests the leading candidates for Senate take a page from the Brangelina/Bennifer playbook and combine to form the media behemoth FORKER.
