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Features
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: It was probably a bad omen when The Tennessean, under editor E.J. Mitchell's leadership, misspelled the name of new publisher Ellen Leifeld in its own pages the day it announced she was named.
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Ask a Mexican
I see Jews, Asians and Persians making something of themselves and creating safe, walkable communities. Of course they’re not perfect, but I don’t see high Jew-crime communities, either.
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The Fabricator
Diehard supporters of the defunct Castner-Knott department stores are unmoved by the conversion of most of the chain’s former stores into Macy’s.
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Suburban Turmoil
So you’re watching a bunch of heavily made-up girls wearing blond wigs, painted-on tans and bikinis wriggle their butts on a stage to the beat of suggestive dance music.
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“After much thought, I have decided not to be a candidate for mayor of Nashville.”
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Features
In August 2002, representatives from a handful of federal and state agencies embarked on a noble experiment in Tennessee.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Helter Shelter
If you’re thinking about buying a new house, there are some things you need to know.
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Hey Jack White, you think there are no hipsters in Nashville (as you told the Onion A.V. Club last week)? You should have been at The Ryman last Wednesday.
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Features
The formula is simple: add Sabbath to Zeppelin and multiply by Hendrix. The result—as every snooty writer from Vice to NME to Rolling Stone has concluded—is Wolfmother, an Australian band three decades too late.
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Features
Even more than most pop-music pseudonyms, P.F. Sloan hints at the cryptic. The name belongs to Philip Schlein, an undeniably real singer and songwriter born 60 years ago in Queens, N.Y., but there’s something fanciful and wistful in its sound.
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Features
The Americana Music Association’s seventh annual Americana Music Conference finds the organization still busily building additions to its big tent.
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Features
There was a time when Portastatic wasn’t really a band, but more a place for Mac McCaughan to hide out.
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Dining
On Sept. 7, Mayor Bill Purcell conducted the dedication of the magnificent new Schermerhorn Symphony Center. It's hard to believe that the mammoth 197,000-square-foot structure went from excavation to celebration in less than three years.
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Dining
Think of East Nashville as the neighborhood equivalent of a dysfunctional family. The residents bicker with and love on one another; they welcome newcomers and protect longtime borders; they boast about accomplishments and fiercely guard secret treasures.
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Reviews
Patrice Chereau’s relentless, brilliantly acted chamber drama Gabrielle transforms the accoutrements of the pledge-drive period piece—lavish soirées among the tony elite in elegant drawing rooms—into a landscape of unstinting psychological devastation.
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Reviews
Directed by Brian De Palma from the novel by neo-noirist James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia is a true-crime policier unfolding in late-’40s Los Angeles somewhere between the neighborhoods of Chinatown and Mulholland Drive.
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Theater
Thirty-two years is a serious career in any discipline. That’s how long Vanderbilt University’s Great Performances series has been exposing Nashville to world-class performances in a variety of fields and styles rarely seen at other local venues.
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A plane passes overhead, and Sudanese refugees cower involuntarily: they’ve been conditioned to live in terror.
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Books
At the national conference of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators all the chatter about the market for books for young adults rang familiar to Candie Moonshower, a Nashvillian who recently published her first novel, The Legend of Zoey.
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Special Issues: Fall Guide
For those of us who cannot afford a snuggle at a Vermont B&B, who cannot feel the crunch of leaves underfoot in Central Park en route to a rendezvous, there is a sublime alternative: Ella Fitzgerald’s 1956 recording of “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.”
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Special Issues: Fall Guide
Dylan Thomas looked at the world as if it had just been created, so why is autumn his season rather than spring?
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Special Issues: Fall Guide
Mark the beginning of autumn with a trip to Ring Farm’s corn maze and pumpkin patch. Take a hayride around the farm or shoot corn out of the corn cannon.
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Special Issues: Fall Guide
The fall TV season may do wonders for sales of pizza and microwave popcorn, but it does jack-nothin’ for love. Why squander the cool weather and opportunities for couch-bound cuddling on The Nine or Men in Trees?
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Special Issues: Fall Guide
Growing up in a small West Tennessee town, I noticed that adults were accorded several privileges denied me: sex, cars, cigarettes and not having to get booster shots at the beginning of each school year.
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SceneCast
This year, let’s put some pizazz in the upcoming political coverage. Instead of the threadbare blue and red, the Scenecast urges news outlets to shade electoral decisions yellow for the Democrats, in honor of their stance on national security, and purple for the Republicans and their obsession with homosexual marriage.
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Columns: Stories
Move over, Coca-Cola, or Vault is going to four-wheel right over your candy ass.
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Police responded to a call from St. Mary’s Catholic Church on a recent Sunday morning and ordered a protestor to remove the cardboard signs he had placed on the sidewalk and in the roadway.
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Sweet Riffs
I don’t have kids, and neither does anyone in my immediate social circle, so when I heard about Baby Rock Records—the company that takes classic rock tunes and runs them through a lullaby-o-meter—I thought, well, that’s something.
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The Velvet Rope Has Come to Nashville. Sort of. On the Rocks, a bar on Demonbreun, has instituted a new dress code banning those who are wearing certain brands of clothing.
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Columns: Garrigan
The table was set perfectly, and Torry Johnson cancelled dinner. That’s the way one mournful supporter put it earlier this week when District Attorney Torry Johnson, after lots of fervent courting (including from this newspaper), abandoned the idea to run for mayor next year.
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Political Notes
In mid-June, a small group of journalists filed out of the witness room at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, having watched Sedley Alley euthanized on a gurney for killing a female Marine 20 years ago.
