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You saw the headlines: PLUTO THROWN OUT OF SOLAR SYSTEM, SCIENTISTS DEMOTE PLUTO, ONLY EIGHT PLANETS? On Aug. 24, the International Astronomical Union (IAU)—including one Nashvillian— convened in Prague.

Dear Mexican: I am perplexed. I just saw a middle-aged wab (complete with a bright-red, lipstick-accentuated moustache) wearing tight pink stretch pants with the phrase “Pink Taco” emblazoned across her misshapen buttocks.

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, which made national news a couple of weeks ago when it broke the story of Al Gore’s prodigious home energy use, has called on the former vice president to commit suicide to help the planet.

In his 1996 State of the Union address, Bill Clinton challenged “all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good citizenship.

“They didn’t pay, they didn’t pay, they didn’t pay. Finally in August they paid him for one day.”

Letters from readers.

When Tennessee temporarily stopped executions last month, Gov. Phil Bredesen tried to minimize the issue, referring vaguely to “deficiencies with written procedures” and assuring the public that the two lethal injections performed here since 2000 were humane.

Music

Late one Sunday evening in April 2005, a young conductor named Arild Remmereit arrived home in Vienna to discover an urgent message on his answering machine.

There’s no real trick in the centrifugal force of teen pop: catch the wave and hang on. But when the tide ebbs, the jagged rocks of the washout can provide a painful and inevitable awakening.

After a visit from the fire marshal at the How I Became the Bomb show New Year’s Eve, Grand Palace announced that after less than a year, the city’s busiest music hub would no longer be able to host shows.

Of Montreal mastermind Kevin Barnes has recorded at least 15 albums worth of music in the past decade, proving as prolific and melodically gifted as Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard.

Most assessments of Albert Hammond Jr.’s solo disc Yours to Keep have focused more on the singer/guitarist’s membership in The Strokes than on the recording itself. Hammond isn’t surprised, but neither is he impressed.

HE SHINS may have found a larger audience, but not necessarily a livelier one, so it was no surprise that married duo and openers VIVA VOCE had to work the crowd a little at the Ryman Friday night.

Restaurants

With the shift to Daylight Saving Time and the advent of spring, everyone's mind--or at least the minds of a cadre of people clustered at The Italian Market off Charlotte Pike--naturally turns to bocce, the traditional game of Italian lawn bowling.

Aging makes people do weird things. Women get their eyes done. Men marry trophy wives or, worse, grow mustaches. Facing the specter of middle age, Midtown Café recently made the simple, counterintuitive decision to go gray.

Movies

It is Nov. 7, election day in America, the year of our Lord 2000, and en route to the ballot (screen, chad dimpler, whatever), every hand miraculously freezes in mid-selection.

The space-time continuum smacks the shit out of Sandra Bullock in Premonition, but the fun really gets going when she smacks back.

Arts and Culture

We tend to associate artists with defining—and often early—periods in their careers. That kind of pigeonholing can be helpful if you’re talking about, say, the bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker, who checked out at 34.

Like the circus that promises a thrill a minute but can’t quite deliver, People’s Branch Theatre’s new production of Hanging Mary is ultimately a disappointment.

ack when jukeboxes were covered with tears and whiskey, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price owned a significant slice of country music.

Oval, the title of David Till’s new collection of poems, at first seems strangely at odds with the concrete particularity of his writing.

For many believers, it’s hard to imagine heaven without its less desirable opposite. That kind of duality—a leftover from the days of Plato—provides religion with balance but also begs a messy question that’s hamstrung theologians for centuries.

Old Archives

The Scenecast is the "audio extension of the music section of the print edition of the Nashville Scene" and expands your reading pleasure with sonic illustrations to keep your ear in gear with your eye.

For some of us, nothing in sports approaches the sublimity of the NCAA tournament’s opening week. And this year it seems especially exalted, since it includes so many teams of local interest.

Jon Crisp, the mouthy chairman of the Davidson County GOP, is slinging mud in the mayor’s race via the Internet.

After a three-game sweep of the University of Illinois-Chicago last weekend, the Vanderbilt baseball team sat atop the national rankings with a perfect 18-0 record.

A woman shopping at the Pull-A-Part auto supply store on Centennial Boulevard went ballistic when she was told to use the Port-A-John outside while “another customer with a small child was allowed to use the employee rest room,” police say.

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