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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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Cover Story
In the movie Saved!, a satire of evangelical teens at a Christian high school, there’s a scene that brilliantly captures just how lame most efforts are to spin Christianity as hip and relevant for kids. “Let’s get our Christ on!” chirps Pastor Skip, an enthusiastic cheerleader for God played by Martin Donovan, somersaulting onstage during a pep rally for the Big Guy Upstairs. “Let’s kick it Jesus-style!”
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“That’s a classic football game that both sides will talk about for a long, long time.”
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The Fabricator
T he black granite facade of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, D.C., may soon have a look-alike companion in Franklin, Tenn., dedicated to the victims of the “War on Christmas.”
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Features
“I still believe my baby girl would be alive if I hadn’t left the house. I probably just threw the pillow over the top of her and snuggled on top of her.”
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Helter Shelter
Some years back, my sister Ann, who lives down in South Carolina, called my house in Nashville. Daughter Jess, who was in the first grade at the time, answered the phone.
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Suburban Turmoil
While most of you were sleeping off a turkey overdose last Friday at 4 a.m., I was answering my front door.
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Features
by Tom Finkel
Just as Sandy Koufax pitched his way to baseball immortality in half a dozen transcendent seasons with the Dodgers, John Fogerty’s five meteoric years with Creedence Clearwater Revival earned him a spot in rock music’s pantheon.
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Features
by Steve Jansen
When Stevie Wonder swings through town on an eagerly anticipated 10-city U.S. tour, there will be high expectations for him to perform his classic, radio-recognizable songs. Some in attendance will certainly holler for the 1969 chart-topper “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours).”
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Features
by Chris Parker
Though the Immortal Lee County Killers may be crippled, or for most intents and purposes dead, their legacy will endure.
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Features
By Chris Parker
Many critics and fans dismissed Electric Six after their incendiary single, “Danger! High Voltage,” but these Motor City retro-rock jokers have not only persevered, but prospered, with the October release of one of the year’s most amusing and danceable albums, I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being the Master.
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Nashville Cream
- by CreamMaster
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Tags: Cream
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Dining
Amid all the breathless hyperbole about the debut of Whole Foods Market in Green Hills—the panting at the pastry case, the elation at the hot bar, the rapture at the cranberry bog—no one’s bothered to make much mention of the restaurant in the back of the store, by the meat department.
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Bites
- by Bitesmaster
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Tags: News
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Reviews
It was the early ’60s in Greenwich Village, and the bars were closing down in the wee morning hours. When that happened, Murray Lerner recalls, you went back to somebody’s apartment and kept the party rolling.
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Our Critics Picks
Jewsical! The Musical, Blue and Gray Days at Carnton, José González, Kelly Clarkson, Rick Atkinson and more
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Books
Anderson Design Group, Anne Byrn, Craig Havinghurst, and more
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Art
Great loss and tragedy turn some people to substance abuse, others to violence or suicide. The horrors James Makuac witnessed during the nearly 14 years he endured as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan turned him into an artist, and he vividly remembers how it happened.
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Theater
Boiler Room Theatre got an early start on the holidays, opening its new, seasonally inspired production a week before Thanksgiving. But it seems that the creators of this original show didn’t leave the turkey in the oven long enough.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 108 is the "must have" gift of the holiday season with chocolate-covered nuts and chews from the Most Amazing Century of Science, David 'Fathead' Newman, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, LiveBox Nashville/Once and
Future Kings, The Protomen, Jose Gonzalez, Cass McCombs, Dolores O'Riordan, Ben Lee, Stoll Vaughan, Kristen Cothron and The Silver Seas.
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Columns: Stories
Meet the Scylla and Charybdis of the Belle Meade Plaza parking lot.
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A resident of a Clifton Avenue apartment complex was wandering around outside and screaming about the “bitches” who always call the police on him when, not surprisingly, officers responded to the scene.
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Columns: Sports
Fred Taylor, the legendary basketball coach at Ohio State, used to have a favorite term of disaffection for America’s autumnal gridiron sport. He called it “oblong ball.”
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 108
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