Nashville Scene

Next Big Nashville: The Main Event

200 of your favorite bands duke it out for your attention

• by Steve Haruch, Tracy Moore, Jim Ridley, D. Patrick Rodgers, Lee Stabert & Matt Sullivan
• Tags: Features, Features, Big Nashville, Nashville, Erykah Badu, MTV Networks Company

"What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?"

• Tags: Words of the Week, John McCain, Sarah Palin

Love-Hate Mail

• Tags: Letters, Love/Hate Mail, Jeff Woods, Jerry Maynard, Nashville, Bob Cole Donelson

The Great Gadfly

How a baby-faced kid became the governor's No. 1 nemesis

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Woods, Drew Johnson, Tennessee, U.S. Democratic Party, Ron Ramsey

Scooter Blues

Eye-catching scooters are popping up on Nashville streets, but riders say they may as well be invisible

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Stories, Jan Morrison, Nashville, Will Hoge, Funky McDonnell

Next Big Nashville: Thursday

• Tags: Features, Features, Radiohead, Nashville, Luna Halo, Athens

Next Big Nashville: Friday

• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, Cortney Tidwell, Space Capone, Peanut Butter Wolf

Next Big Nashville: Saturday

• Tags: Features, Features, Beth Cameron, Nashville, NashvilleCream.com, New York City

The Latest Installment in Franklin's Pollution Problem

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Hannan, Egyptian Lacquer, Franklin, problems that could have been avoided with a 79-cent purchase at 7-Eleven

Take Her on the Tundra

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Bullwinkle, Red State Update, Sarah Palin, Video

Throwing Bush Under the Bus: Bush Legacy Tour Coming to Nashville

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Presidential Politics, Americans United for Change, Bush Legacy Tour, Lamar Alexander

Sounds Manager Fired, Loses Opportunity to Wave His Arms Around Really Fast

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Sports, Frank Kremblas, manager fired, Nashville Sounds

Sarah Palin Wants YOUR Severed Wolf Leg

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Hannan, Politics, future vice presidents, Sarah Palin, that crazy gal we can't get enough of, Video

GOP Yuks It Up Over 'Obama Waffles'

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Presidential Politics, Woods, Video

Prayer Rally: The Vince Young Saga Continues

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Sports

Video: Sarah Palin's First Interview on Foreign Policy

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Presidential Politics, Video

Hockey Moms for Truth Swiftboat Sarah Palin

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Presidential Politics, Sports, Video

It’s Official: Media to Blame for Everything

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Immigration, Kotz, Law and Order, Media, Politics, Sports

Ken’s Gold Club Busted for Hand-Jobs, Employing Indiscreet Coke Heads

• by PJ Tobia
• Tags: Law and Order, hand jobs, strip joints, Tobia

Don't Cry For Me Rosalind Kurita

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Honk Your Horn If You Love America! Phil Valentine's The Conservative's Handbook Hits the Streets

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Media, Silverman, books, conservatives, lipstick, Phil Valentine, Sarah Palin

Former Alaskan: Sarah Palin Can't Help But Love High Oil Prices

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Politics, Presidential Politics

He Needs Answers: Matt Damon has Questions About Dinosaurs

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Presidential Politics, Video

How Juvenile Court Clerk Vic Lineweaver Keeps His Job

• by PJ Tobia
• Tags: Politics, Lineweaver, spritzer, Tobia

Barack Obama Leads Early Voting Among Barflies

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Presidential Politics

Titans' Owner Bud Adams is a Pauper by NFL Standards

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Hannan, Sports, Bud Adams, rich guys who aren't as rich as other rich guys, Titans

The Legacy of 9/11: The TSA Knows Everything About You

• by PJ Tobia
• Tags: By the Way, Big brother, Tobia

Funding Mass Transit: The Next Sin Tax Should Be on SUVs

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Kotz, Politics

Alleged Scumbag of the Week: Laletha Nichols

• by PJ Tobia
• Tags: Law and Order, Tobia

Reader: It's Time to Suspend Constitution, Declare Martial Law

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Politics

Blackburn: 'Obama Called Reporter Sweetie'

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Presidential Politics, Woods

Sarah Palin & Hillary Clinton Together -- Sort of

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Politics, Presidential Politics, Video

Adam Dread Fires Back at Tennessean Over Health Insurance Story

• by PJ Tobia
• Tags: Media, Dread, Tennessean, Tobia

Gliding On

Dobro master Jerry Douglas gives (even more) to the music he loves

• by Jon Weisberger
• Tags: Features, Jerry Douglas, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, Nashville

Delta Spirit, Dr. Dog, Squeeze, Ben Folds and more

• Tags: The Spin, Dr. Dog, Aimee Mann, Ben Folds, Scott McMicken

OMG Kelly Clarkson

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: National Skyline

In Moderation: Next Big Nashville Conference Friday Schedule

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Next Big Nashville, panels

Sean Hannity and Michael W. Smith to “Rock” Nashville

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Wow, douche factor of 10, File under WTF, Michael W. Smith, Sean Hannity

Another Way to Piss off Jack White

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Hot Goss, Coke Zero, James Bond, White--Jack White, Zero Zero 7, Video

Get Your Buzz On?

• by Seth Graves
• Tags: Cream, Buzzfest

The Nashville Curse: Don't Call It a Curse

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Cream, massive hits, Nashville curse, NBN, panels, total freaks in their brains

21 (Hundred) Gram (Signature)s

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, Country Music Hall of Fame, Gram Parsons, legend

Kings of Leon Get the 'Fork Treatment

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: National Skyline

I Hope I Die Before I Get Old

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Creamtastic, the kids will have their say, Video

What's Sherwood Doing in My Back Yard?

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, drinking, The 5 Spot, Todd Sherwood, Vimby, Video

Who Owns the Rights to All Things Metal?

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, goblets, metal, plagiarism, skulls

NBN08: Goodbye Vomit-Brick Road

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Next Big Nashville, I'm so hung over I can't come up with anything clever

Stabert vs. Nugent

• by Matt Sullivan
• Tags: National Skyline, Jews working for secret Muslims, Spirit of the Wild and Drilling

Next Big Heads-Up

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Creamtastic, I'm a total ass hat and I should have shown up on time

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu: Stabert Out

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Creamtastic, so long suckas

NBN08: Day 3: Let It Cream

• by Seth Graves
• Tags: Next Big Nashville, Exit/In, Infinity Cat, JEFF, Margaritas, MEEMAW

Not From Here: The Showdown

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, metal

Public Service Announcement: Take the Shuttle. Get Blasted.

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Next Big Nashville, be safe, drink like a fish, tip your bartender

Little Hamilton Noise

• by Matt Sullivan
• Tags: Cream Calendar, house shows

NBN08: Day 4: Talk to the Hand

• by Seth Graves
• Tags: Next Big Nashville, Ghostfinger, Next Big Nashville, sensory overload, Shoot the Mountain

Jessica Simpson Feels Really Comfortable in Nashville

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: National Skyline, Video

Welcome to Candy Land

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Sightings, Oh the Sweetness

Next Big Sleep Deprivation 2008: Wrap Party

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, Next Big Nashville

Hot Topics: Next Big Nashville Conference Starts Today

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream Calendar

NBN08: Day 2: The Mark of the Beast

• by Seth Graves
• Tags: Next Big Nashville, And the Relatives, hand stamps, Next Big Nashville, not Altered Statesman, Protomen

Good Mojo at Gojo

New Ethiopian eatery enlivens a familiar location

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Dining, Reviews, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., Addis Ababa, Ahmed Maregn, Nashville

Greens, Cornbread and Chocolate Pie out Leb'non Road

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Restaurants, Chocolate, Fluffernutter, meat-and-three, Nashville Restaurants

Why Can't I Be Like This?

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Recipe File, iPhone, recipes, Type A freaks

Jerusalem Restaurant Coming to Church Street

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, Church Street, Middle Eastern cuisine, Nashville restaurants

Standard Wine Dinner Sept. 18

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, Joe Shaw, Standard, wine dinner

Get Your Frites On

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Foods, Bricktop's, steak frites

Acorn Hunting: A Chat with Chef Andy Hunter

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Conversation Bites, cookbooks, Nashville Originals, Nashville restaurants, Pork and Sons, The Acorn

Mas Tacos Por Favor!

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Weekend Bites, East Nashville food, late night eats, Mas Tacos, Nashville taco stands

What a Melon

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Events

Legendary Wines, Good Kids: Vintner's Tasting Coming Soon

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Events, charity, Chocolate, Franklin, wine tasting

Recipes with Game

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Cooking the Books, Brian Uhl, Dustin Pritchett, Randy Rayburn Restaurants, Titans

Snack Tray: Stepford Wives Love Fructose!

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Party Mix, Christopher Pizza Company, disgusting drinks, fructose ads, Omnivore's Hundred, Video

What Are You Eating This Week? Restaurant Week Commences

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Restaurants, local restaurant tips, Nashville Originals, Restaurant Week

Help Dean Robb Torture Sean Norton

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Party Mix, Dean Robb, Miro District, Nashville Restaurants, Sean Norton, Watermark

Prickly Sensation

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Foods, ethnic foods, Mexican, Mexican Food, Nashville Restaurants

Things To Eat In Nashville Before You Die

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Bites, Athens, Eastside Fish, Nashville restaurant bucket list, Prince's

Ombidextrous: Multiple Wine Events This Week at Ombi

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Weekend Bites, Burgundies, Frank Nobilo, Nicolas Potel, Ombi, Village Wines

Mario's Restaurant on Fire

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, Mario's

Not Without My Brother

Christophe Honoré makes good on classic Salinger territory

• by Julia Wallace
• Tags: Reviews, Reviews, Christophe Honore, Paris, Louis Garrel, Romain Duris

Oh, Canada

Passing the midway point of the Toronto film fest, things are looking bleak

• by Scott Foundas
• Tags: Reviews, Reviews, Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Toronto, Peter Sollett

This week in local theaters

• by Ella Taylor
• Tags: Short Takes, Column, Diane English, George Cukor, Manhattan, Annette Bening

The Clean Dozen

After pledging to make 12 movies in 12 months, Hendersonville's Cring family completes its impossible dream

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Reviews, Reviews, Tracy Cring, Jon Russell, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick

Intolerable Cruelty

The Coens remain snidely consistent in Burn After Reading

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Reviews, Reviews, Joel Coen, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Coen Brothers

Tramp on Your Screen

The Belcourt surveys a cinematic century of life on the street

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Reviews, Reviews, Charlie Chaplin, Nashville, Thomas Wills, Dustin Hoffman

Retablos: Miracles on the Border

• by Amanda Dillingham
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Blessed Virgin Mary, Center for Latin American Studies, Mexico, Vanderbilt University

Next Big Nashville at The Basement

feat. Dixie Whiskey and more

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Sarah Siskind, Bon Iver, Bob Ferarri, Dixie Whiskey

Light Yourself on Fire & more at The End

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Tampa, Florida

New on DVD: Oct. 23

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Elite Squad, Jose Padilha, Kit Kittredge

Reel Rock Film Tour

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Grand Canyon National Park

Grimey's and The Basemen'ts Next Big Outdoor In-Store

• by Sean L. Maloney
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Caitlin Rose, Jack Jones

Kingfisher Days

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Susan Coyne, Nashville, Holly Allen, Jennifer Richmond

Doorpost Film Festival

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nathan Elliott, Beverly Hills (California), Joseph Mbawe, Los Angeles

Movies@Main: The Candidate

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, George McGovern, Jeremy Larner, Michael Ritchie, Peter Boyle

Next Big Nashville at Cannery Ballroom

What are you doing here, Cortney?

• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville

Faculty Biennial Art Exhibition

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Samuel Dunson, Tennessee State University, Front Porch Inc., Carlyle Johnson

Writers vs. Industry Softball Game

• by Sean L. Maloney
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Thom Yorke, Ahmet Ertegun, Clive Davis, Edgar Bronfman

Next Big Nashville After-Party at City Hall

feat. The Dynamites and more

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw Records LLC

Next Big Nashville at Mercy Lounge

Space Capone keeps it light and sexy

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Space Capone

Cover Music: it Requires Little Thought and Less Energy!

The Vandelays at the Rutledge

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville, Alanis Morissette, Tom Petty, No Doubt

Levon Helm at the Ryman

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Americana Music Association, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Woodstock (New York)

Next Big Nashville at the 5 Spot

feat. Totally Snake, The Tits and more

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville, Ben Folds, Daniel Johnston, Motorhead

Next Big Nashville at Cannery Ballroom

feat. Luna Halo, The Pink Spiders and more

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Luna Halo, Corey Harris, Hollywood, Los Angeles

The Inaugural Belle Meade Plantation Stakes

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Belle Meade Plantation

Nels Andrews & more at 3rd and Lindsley

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Greg Brown, Manhattan, Tom Waits, Off-Track Betting Corporation

Unexpect & more at The Muse

• by Matt Sullivan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Montreal

Ari Hest w/K.S. Rhoads at Exit/In

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Ari Hest, Jason Mraz, Gavin DeGraw, Howie Day

Local Food and Organics Festival

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Barack Obama

Animal House Toga Party

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Fawn Leibowitz, John Blutarsky, Emily Dickinson College

Next Big Nashville Panel Discussions

at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Country Music Hall of Fame

• by Sean L. Maloney
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville, Amherst (Massachusetts), Andy Langer, Ben Folds

Next Big Nashville at Exit/In

feat. How I Became the Bomb, Ghostfinger & more

• by Matt Sullivan and Tracy Moore
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, NashvilleCream.com, Coral Castles, Lake Fever Productions

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

• by Margaret Renkl
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Barnaby Grimes, Harry Potter

City Hall After-Party

feat. The Features and Jensen Sportag

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville

Next Big Nashville at the Rutledge

feat. Eureka Gold, All We Seabees, And the Relatives and more

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Hannah Barbarians, Pixies, Radiohead

Next Big Nashville at the Exit/In

feat. The Protomen, Skyblazer and more

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Athens, Muscle Shoals, Roswell, Dead Confederate

Second Saturday at the Sudekum Planetarium

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Adventure Science Center, Mark Hamill, Nashville, Battlestar Galactica

John Henry, Myth Made Flesh

Historian pins down the man and traces his legacy

• by Ralph Bowden
• Tags: Books, Books, Scott Reynolds Nelson, John Henry, Richmond, Virginia

Don't Hate Her Because She's Beautiful

Two women declare a light-hearted war on bitchery

• by Maria Browning
• Tags: Books, Books, Taj Johnson-George, Katrina Chambers, Eddie George, Britney Spears

Still the One

Despite a reduced schedule, Great Performances remains a leading source of world-class performing arts

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Theater, Vanderbilt University, Bridgette Kohnhorst, Ingram Hall, Grupo Fantasma

Mayhem at the Museum

Tess Gerritsen's latest thriller finds a sociopath among archaeologists

• by Faye Jones
• Tags: Books, Books, Maura Isles, Tess Gerritsen, Jane Rizzoli, Boston

Below the Bible Belt

Novelist Clyde Edgerton takes on the bad guys—and the religious fundamentalists

• by Margaret Renkl
• Tags: Books, Books, Clyde Edgerton, Clearwater, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Henry Dampier

Annual Fall Guide

• Tags: Special Issues: Fall Guide, 1080

The Big Chill

125 Things to Do in Nashville Before You Die

• by the Scene Staff
• Tags: Special Issues: Fall Guide, Nashville, The Parthenon, Warner Park, Brentwood

Who Ya Gonna Call?

Middle Tennessee's spook chasers ain't afraid of no ghost

• by Cody De Vos
• Tags: Special Issues: Fall Guide, Donna Marsh, Joann Shelton, Adsagsona Paranormal Society, Tennessee

Chambers of Horror

Blood, guts and brains are on the menu at local haunted-house attractions

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Special Issues: Fall Guide, Nashville, Hendersonville, Antioch, Bill Johnson

Beer, Bloggers and Barack

From the presidential debate to Oktoberfest, a sampling of the fall's best events

• by Lee Stabert and Jim Ridley
• Tags: Special Issues: Fall Guide, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, Germantown, Red Grooms

Season to Taste

From Brussels sprouts to 'misunderstood' beets, chefs are falling all over the local harvest

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Special Issues: Fall Guide, Nashville, Dean Robb, Tennessee, Will Uhlhorn

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