• Issue Archive for
  • Mar 1-7, 2007
  • Vol. 26, No. 5

News

  • Cover Story

    • Food Trip

    For the 2007 Food & Drink issue, Scene writers took a slow, meandering tour through Nashville and the surrounding counties to find out where food comes from. From Allan Benton’s country hams in Madisonville, Tenn., to Chateau Ross wines in Springfield, we discovered all-natural delicacies being made the old-fashioned way—with creativity, patience and passion.
  • Helter Shelter

    • Sweating the Details

    For the last couple weeks, I’ve been shouting out warnings about the low quality of new-house construction. This week, I’m going to explain some details of how they just don’t build ’em like they used to.
    • by Walter Jowers
  • Cover Story

    • Eat Local, Drink Local

    The hardcore “eat local” contingent—including Nashville’s very active Slow Food convivium, which has featured the Proctors’ wines at its quarterly dinners—has long known about the possibility of finding great Tennessee wine, but the time is ripe for a broader range of wine lovers to discover how good it can be to drink local.
  • Cover Story

    • Some Pig

    A school guidance counselor in quest of a master’s degree, Benton had a hot plate in his room, and when he took to frying up the ham from his home in Madisonville—about 50 miles southwest of Knoxville—the heady scent filled the entire dormitory, luring students to his door, plate in hand. “I kept my dad busy getting hams for me.”

Music

Movies

Arts and Culture

  • Our Critics Picks

    Hip-hop doesn’t always mean rhyming about fast cars, loose women and thugs—at least not for New York’s Gym Class Heroes, who spin through everyday tales with a far more universal appeal. The band draws Roots comparisons for mixing rap with live instrumentation, but they’re also uniquely aligned with the emo/pop-punk set, thanks to frequent collaborations with groups like Fall Out Boy.
  • Books

    • For the Sake of the Song

    To Live’s to Fly is an authorized biography, and Kruth had access to those who knew Van Zandt best, including his children, ex-wives and his many friends. In fact, it appears that Kruth may have sought out everyone Van Zandt ever knew during his 52 years on this earth, an indication of the profound effect Van Zandt had on others.

Old Archives

  • Suspect Behavior

    Police responded to an apartment just off Elliston Place after receiving a call about a man threatening two acquaintances with a “long Japanese sword.”

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