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Features
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider whether the prevailing method of lethal injection in this country is constitutional, Tennessee officials are forging ahead with plans to execute two death row inmates in the next two months, even while other states have halted such killings pending a high court decision.
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Letters
Letters from readers.
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Features
A female suspect who was “drinking beer and talking on her cell phone” during a movie at the Rivergate Eight Theater became irate when others in the audience complained about her rude behavior. After the movie, the suspect, 47, spotted one of the annoyed moviegoers stopped at a red light on Rivergate Parkway and chucked a beer bottle at the victim’s passenger window, breaking the glass.
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Helter Shelter
I would like to introduce today’s generation of hand-wringing, lead-fearing parents to some toys that prove we baby boomers—and our kids—were in greater danger back in the day than children are now.
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“The suspect is a white male in his early 40s, weighing about 200 pounds, with blonde hair…. He wore a dark sports coat, button-down blue shirt and blue jeans, police said.”
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Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican: Is Lou Dobbs right when he says that close to 80 hospitals in California have been closed down because of illegals, or is he lying?
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Stars coach Thompson supporters on the basics of rhythm
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The Fabricator
Among political observers, it’s a truism that Republicans can’t clap in time to music.
Years ago, humorist Dave Barry even suggested that party affiliation could be determined by asking somebody to clap along to Ray Charles’ “Hit the Road Jack.” Democrats would clap at the right places, Republicans would not.
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Features
The Sadler Avenue neighborhood may be one of Nashville’s best-kept secrets. Forty-four homes, some newly renovated by house-proud residents, line tidy, tree-shaded streets. Located off of Nolensville Road between the Fairgrounds and I-440, it’s a working-class neighborhood that in recent years has cleaned the grit from beneath its fingernails.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Jim Ridley
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Features
If Aesop Rock’s latest CD, None Shall Pass, sounds different from the rest of his catalog, it’s because his life has changed dramatically of late.
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Features
Wax Fang have kept good company. Last year, the trio toured with fellow Louisvillians My Morning Jacket, then opened for Spoon in Nashville a few months later, acquiring a higher profile than your typical unsigned band.
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The once ubiquitous dance party craze that swept through town last summer, winter and spring seemed to fizzle out as of late, only to pop up in full form last Saturday night. The End was looking pretty desolate when we arrived for Left Can Dance’s “Back to the Garage” party.
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Features
People don’t refer to Nashville as the Protestant Vatican for nothing.
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Features
by Grayson Currin
Right now, a 26-year-old female barista is walking home somewhere, guarding herself against the cold with an iPod and the song “1234.”
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Nashville Cream
- by Jim Ridley
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Nashville Cream
- by Matt Sullivan
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Dining
In Mexico, agave provides a major cash crop for farmers who extract sap from the succulent plant to produce tequila. At the corner of 12th Avenue South and McGavock, Agave provides a chic gathering place for the young and beautiful, who spill onto the patio in a tide of colorful cocktails and $200 handbags.
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Reviews
by J. Hoberman
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is less Sidney Lumet’s comeback than his resurrection. Three years after being presented a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, the 83-year-old director comes forth with a violent family melodrama that is his strongest movie in at least two decades.
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by Ella Taylor
Covering the final years of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’ brief life, music photographer Anton Corbijn’s directorial debut traces its subject from his teen years obsessing over Bowie records to his troubled relationship with wife Debbie (Samantha Morton) to his battles with depression and epilepsy to his 1980 suicide.
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Reviews
by Jewly Hight
Mary Gauthier is a purposeful woman. She can focus on a phone interview even in Manhattan traffic while the precious few minutes until sound check tick down.
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Reviews
It starts with a circle of dead bodies and a suitcase full of money. It ends with an elliptical speech and a shocking cut to black. In between, No Country for Old Men sprawls across Texas, from the sticks to the city to the border and back, trying to find a peaceful, reasonable place to rest—somewhere not already broken beyond repair.
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Our Critics Picks
Blue Man Group, The Blakes, Euros Childs, Umphrey's McGee and more
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Books
Poetry is a search for meaning. Until relatively recently, that has meant a search for God. A distinctly Christian poetics began with the New Testament, notably in the epistles of Paul, and went on to include, among countless others, Donne, Milton, Blake and Hopkins.
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Books
It would be a shame if Illuminated (Thomas Nelson, 314 pp., $22.99) gets lost in the flood of post-Da Vinci Code read-alikes.
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We editorial elves at the Scene have been checking our list twice, and it appears, Nashville, that you’ve been nice this year. You deserve something really special for the holidays, and we’ve penned a wish list to fill the 12 days of Christmas, the eight nights of Hanukkah and a week of Kwanzaa. We’re not talking ponies and Red Ryder BB guns, either. We’re talking ambitious, outside-the-gift-box presents that could make our city a better place. Sure, some of our ideas are pie in the sky, requiring either a blank check or a miracle on Bransford Avenue, but what the hell, it’s the holidays.
While we’re holiday dreaming, we’ve assembled a list of slightly more realistic—and philanthropic—gift ideas, and we’ve gathered a potluck of recipes from some movers and shakers who could help make our civic wishes come true. Happy Holidays, Nashville!
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Holiday Guide
In this town, everybody knows a broke-ass musician—always borrowing money, never bringin’ a bottle of wine to a dinner party, always scarfing down their food like its their last meal.
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Holiday Guide
A map of Davidson County’s “impaired”—or polluted, as most of us would say—streams and tributaries looks a little like the graded blue book from my freshman chemistry class.
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Holiday Guide
Santa Claus is standing on the back of a train stopped somewhere in southeastern Kentucky, throwing toys and candy to the screaming throng below.
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Holiday Guide
by Doug Fir
As we head into the grand consumption festival you call “Christmastime,” I want to go out on a limb and break the tree-to-human silence.
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Holiday Guide
Santa's driving a Prius this year, folks. And Prancer will just have to get over it.
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Holiday Guide
Like Templeton, the rat from Charlotte’s Web, I envisioned the Dumpsters of Nashville’s restaurants as a veritable smorgasbord (orgasbord, orgasbord) of leftover top-quality cuisine.
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Holiday Guide
If scientists could figure out how to make a day’s worth of oil last for eight, like it did back in the day, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 106 is a last deep breath before the mayhem of the holiday season overwhelms the senses, with fresh oxygen from Lightnin' Malcolm & Cedric Burnside, James King, Kenny Baron, Blue Man Group, Physics of Meaning, Umphrey's McGee, The Evens, The Blakes, Euros Child, David Kilgour, Steep Canyon Rangers, Man Man, Rocket Summer,
Rev. Horton Heat, and a song from the film "I'm Not There".
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Columns: Stories
We’re getting rather annoyed with these rising gas prices. In fact, you want to know the only thing more annoying than the cost of a fill-up these days? It’s the Tim McGraw support-the-troops ballad “If You’re Reading This.”
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 106
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