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Desperately Seeking the News
He may have just bought a daily newspaper, but Chris Ferrell isn’t coming to praise print. He’s coming to bury it...or at least kick some dirt on its wheezing body.
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Letters
Letters from our readers.
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The Fabricator
The Nashville Sounds failed in getting funding for a new downtown ballpark, so they’re stuck trying to attract fans to long-in-the-tooth Greer Stadium.
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Features
Almost four months after Pedro Garcia’s departure, it’s fair to say the Metro Board of Education is taking its time looking for his successor.
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Cover Story
The Nashville Film Festival isn’t huge, like Sundance or Toronto. Nor is it tiny, like the many regional festivals that have sprouted in the past 10 years like mushrooms after rain. What the Nashville Film Festival is, mostly, is ours.
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“This is a clear-cut bill. You’re either on the side of Jeffrey Dahmer and the animal abusers or you’re on the side of decent human beings.”
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Features
Last Sunday, former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist showed his knack for creative writing in a Tennessean op-ed supporting his former legislative director and current judicial nominee Gus Puryear.
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Helter Shelter
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: A judge has instructed representatives of James Brown’s estate to sell 394 lots of Brown’s belongings and to do it no later than August 1.
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Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican: I work at a Seattle-based company, and our customer service department uses a phone tree system that asks all callers to press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, and a few other numbers for commonly spoken languages in our area.
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Pith in the Wind
- by Bruce Barry
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Tags: Barry, Presidential Politics, cogitation, conjecture, forecast, guesswork, outlook, prediction, prognistication, rumination, speculation, supposition
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While Tokyo Police Club played simultaneously across town, Mercy Lounge offered its own bill of buzz-worthy indie darlings last Tuesday.
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Features
by Jewly Hight
A quick scan of the track listing for Kathleen Edward’s new album Asking for Flowers won’t offer many clues about where the album’s most romantic moments are found.
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Features
Classical music artists, no matter how impassioned the music they create, tend to emphasize personal restraint in their performances.
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Features
by Seth Graves
In a city rife with commercial recording studios famous for electronic trickery and slick, glossy production values, it’s probably difficult for most Nashvillians to imagine a music scene whose artists actually want their music to sound like crap.
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Features
by Sean MaloneyIn the interest of full disclosure, this writer is a former staff member for Grand Palace Records in Murfreesboro.
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Dining
Sandwiches must lack self-esteem. There’s just no other explanation for why they so seldom reach their potential.
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Bites
- by Jim Ridley
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Tags: Foods
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This week in local theaters.
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Reviews
by J. Hoberman
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in “body art” into the 2004 hit Super Size Me, returns—this time expanding his horizons rather than his girth.
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Art
In the case of Aaron Morgan Brown’s paintings at the Arts Company, clear technique is used to create dense images which become rich with ambiguity.
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Books
J.M. Kearns has a Ph.D. in philosophy, but his approach to romance is simple: To find Mr. Right, you first have to look for Mr. Right.
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Our Critics Picks
Murder by Death, Reckless Kelly, The Moody Blues, Charles E. Cobb Jr., Dale Ann Bradley, The Annual Herb Sale, Drawings by Sculptors, Sam Davidson and more
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Books
If you like crack fiction, put Hold Tight in your pipe and smoke it.
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SceneCast
Scenecast Episode 128 is smoother than cold beer in the middle of a double-header with line drives from Thad Cockrell, Reckless Kelly,
John Gorka, Dixie Bee-Liners, Moody Blues, Okkervil River, New Pornographers, Old Ceremony, Nick Lowe, Braille, Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Elvis Costello, and multi-band events like Rites of Spring, Dirty Rabbit Carnival, Grimeys Spring Festival, MTSU Record
Convention.
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Columns: Damian's Lair
by Damian Winthrop
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dear Damian: I just read about former actress and playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith, who made a YouTube video railing against her husband, whom she's in the process of divorcing.
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Podcasts: SceneCast
Episode 128
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Tags: Podcasts: SceneCast, nashville, scene, scenecast, collin, wade, monk, music, country, rock, pop, indie, independent, listings, critics, picks
