Nashville Scene

The highs—and oh so many lows—of dating a musician

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Husband Dave, Jack Lawrence, Kelli Craig, Alexis Bartley Paulson

From NFL cheerleader to Playboy—earning the boobs that kick-started a career

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Stories, Jo Dee Messina, Tesha Nicholson, Facebook Inc., Mike Nezer

State takes on saggy pants; plumbers prepare lawsuits

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Woods, Joe McCord, Memphis, Tracy O'Neill, Decency Police

Love-Hate Mail

• Tags: Letters, Love/Hate Mail, Nashville, Harold Bradley, Rick Blanc, Brantley Hargrove

Now taking song requests

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican, NAFTA, Mexico, "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Vicente Fox

House Committee Discombobulates Over Slavery Resolution

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Politics, Woods

Doug Horne's $10K Helps Keep Democratic Party Afloat

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Shoot the Messenger: Toby Keith vs. Peter Cooper--The Movie

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Media, Silverman, Academy of Country Music, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Moby Teeth, Peter Cooper, Rolling Stone, Silverman, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, Video

Legislature Might Make Suzy Pee in a Cup to Sing in the School Choir

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Politics, Woods

Coming Attractions, 2009 Nashville Film Festival: 'That Evening Sun'

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, 2009 Nashville Film Festival, Hal Holbrook, Nashville Film Festival, That Evening Sun, Video

Morning Roundup: Mockery Banned in the State House

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods, Video

Herron Joins Clueless Democratic Field

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Pro-lifers Praise God for House Victory

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Politics, Woods

Harwell Votes Against Guns-in-Bars: Is She Next in Line for GOP Excommunication?

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Politics, Woods

Rainbow Coalition of Douchebags Tell Us How Gay Marriage Hurts the Straights

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Crazy Crap, bigotry, douchebaggery, National Organization for Marriage, Video

Morning Roundup: Herenton Pockets Cash from Christmas Bash and More News

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Far Right Goes Off the Deep End: Are Conservatives Inciting Violence?

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

Mobile Karaoke Owner Shot to Death in Nolensville Pike Bar

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Breaking News, Benjamin Goeser, Johnny's Bar, mobile karaoke

LOL: Douglas Henry Pontificates on Text Messaging <3

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Woods

Memphis Offer Puts Bruce Pearl in the Driver's Seat

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: By the Way, Hannan, Sports, Bruce Pearl, Memphis, University of Tennessee

Phil Valentine: Swimming in Drool

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Hannan, The Economy, drool, Phil Valentine, Scream-a-Tron 9000, Tennessean

More Convention Center Math from MDHA

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Barry, Politics, The Economy

Ramsey Hopes for Memorial Day Recess

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Woods

Hometown Boy Makes Good: Marvel Comic Author Jim McCann at Great Escape Saturday

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Daily Diversion, Silverman, Great Escape, Jim McCann, Marvel Comics, New Avengers, Silverman

Shoot the Messenger: Toby Keith vs. The Tennessean's Peter Cooper

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Media, Silverman, Academy of Country Music, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Moby Teeth, Peter Cooper, Rolling Stone, Silverman, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson

Tennessee Legislature Continues Its Preparations for the End of Days

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Woods

Stacey Campfield Waxes Delusional Poetic on the Binghamton Murders

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Law and Order, Legislature, Silverman, Binghamton, guns, kook power rankings, Silverman, Stacey Campfield

Morning Roundup: Firearms Association to Fight Curfew in Guns-in-Bars Bill

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Susan Lynn Tops This Week's Kook Power Rankings

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Kotz, Legislature, Media, Politics

Zach Wamp Refuses to Apologize to El Rushbo

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Chicago Bears Bogart Former Commodores

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Hannan, Sports, Chicago Bears, Jay Cutler, Vanderbilt football

Ramsey Takes Flak for Calling for Ethics Rollback

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Politics, Woods

Bill O'Reilly Crops Carefully

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Daily Diversion, Hannan, American Idol, Bill O'Reilly, the gays, Video

Morning Roundup: All the News That's Fit to Post on This Blog

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Karl Dean's Scary Flirtation With Charter Schools

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Education, Kotz, Politics, charter schools, Karl Dean, Nashville charter schools, Nashville education

Creative Convention Center Mathematics With Phil Ryan, Head of MDHA

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: 40 Jealous Whores, Hannan, Politics, The Economy, convention center, fudging the numbers, MDHA, Music City Center, Phil Ryan

State Government Makes New York Times Front Page for Helping Tout Risky Deals

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: The Economy, Woods

Don't You Want This Guy Coaching Your Daughter's Soccer Team?

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Daily Diversion, Sports

Vince Young Destined for Third-String?

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Hannan, Sports, Peter King, Tennessee Titans, Vince Young

Nashville: A Pork-Starved City

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Berlinger's 'Crude' to be Honored at Nashville Film Festival

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, 2009 Nashville Film Festival, Amazon Chernobyl, Crude, Joe Berlinger, West Memphis Three, Video

Cowardly House Flinches, Votes Down Guns at Capitol

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Woods

In Tennessean Opinion Piece, Industry Turns Nurses into Pawns

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Legislature, Kill Old People Cheap, National HealthCare Corp., Tennessean opinion piece, tort reform

Conspiracy of the Week: Obama Appoints Wife-Beating Advocate

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: By the Way, Crazy Crap, Hannan, Politics, AM Radio, Harold Koh, Janet Parshall, kooks, sharia

A Jewel in the Bible Belt: Coming Out in Clarksville on ImFromDriftwood.com

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: By the Way, Clarksville, gay, ImFromDriftwood.com, lesbian, love

News Flash: Legislators Say No to Corporate Cash

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Woods

Fund Set Up For Slain Karaoke DJ's Funeral Expenses

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: By the Way, Benjamin Goeser Memorial Fund, funerals are freakin' expensive, senseless murders

Money Laundering at Eyecandy Salon and Police Blustering

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: By the Way, Cassie King, Eyecandy Salon, marijuana

Nashville Banner Editor Eddie Jones, 1924-2009

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: By the Way, Hannan, Media, Politics, Eddie Jones, eulogy, Nashville Banner

Rowdy Pro-Lifers Cheer As SJR127 Sails out of House Committee

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Woods

Morning Roundup: Newspapers Decry Guns in Bars

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Pittsburgh Cop Killer Posted Beck Rant

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Hannan, Media, Glenn Beck, Richard Poplawski, these are your viewers, yep

Sheryl Crow Leads 'Music Saves Mountains' Campaign

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Woods

Wamp Placed on Apology Watch for Dissing Rush

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Indianapolis Sucks in New and Interesting Ways

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Hannan, Politics, Indianapolis, Lucas Oil Stadium, Mayor Karl Dean, Music City Center, Phil Ryan

Competition Fierce for 'Whopper of the Month' Award

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Whopper of the Month, Woods

The Creepiest Picture of All Time

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Daily Diversion, Hannan

Bela Fleck's Africa Project is a lesson in more than history

• by Jewly Hight
• Tags: Features, Bela Fleck, Africa, Bobby McFerrin, Sony Corporation

Tin Pan South still has a few surprises left

• Tags: Features, Sonny Curtis, Tim O'Brien, Gunnar Nelson, Mmmbop-alicious Hanson

Robyn Hitchcock on life, rock 'n' roll and that song he's never heard

• by Edd Hurt
• Tags: Features, Robyn Hitchcock, Light Hitchcock, Oslo, Syd Barrett

Chick Corea and John McLaughlin connect jazz history's dots beyond Miles

• Tags: Features, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Cab Calloway

Chairlift, Acrylics, The Dynamites and more

• Tags: The Spin, Cowboy Keith, Los Angeles, Chris West, Mother Teresa

Exactitudes: You're So Different, Just Like Everybody Else

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Cream, Exactitudes, fashion

Creamin' Over The Privates: Album Release April 3, Redesigned Website and More

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Motions EP, Out the Other, The Privates, Audio

JEFF the Brotherhood: Two Split Sevens

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream Calendar, 7-inches, JEFF the Brotherhood, vinyl

Want KISS to Play Nashville? All You Have to Do Is Vote--Kinda

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Cream Calendar, do it!, get up and get your grandma outta here, KISS, Nashville, not playing here, Video

Shoot the Messenger: Toby Keith vs. Peter Cooper--The Movie

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Cream, Wow, Academy of Country Music, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Moby Teeth, Peter Cooper, Rolling Stone, Silverman, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, Video

Bonnaroo Bookers AC Entertainment Acquire Nashville's Great Big Shows

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Bonnaroo, Hot Goss, National Skyline, AC Entertainment, Bonnaroo, Great Big Shows, mergers and acquisitions

Fresh Tracks, Theory 8 Style: New Stuff From WOTT and Shoot the Mountain

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream, fresh tracks, Shoot the Mountain, Theory 8, varying degrees of scorching, We Own This Town, Audio

Robyn Hitchcock, Bela Fleck's Africa Project and More: Inside This Week's Music Section

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Liner Notes, Bela Fleck, Ben Folds, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Robyn Hitchcock, Tommy Ramone

The Privates, Hotpipes & Tristen at The Basement 4/3/09

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Garland Sisters, Hotpipes, The Basement, The Privates, Tristen

102.9 The Buzz Is Having an Awards Show

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Whatevs, 102.9 The Buzz, everything that rocks!

Superdrag at Lake Fever

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Lake Fever Sessions, large hairdos, Superdrag, Video

Roadtrip to Atlanta: U2 Play the Georgia Dome Oct. 6

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Atlanta, Cream Roadtrip Series, Georgia Dome, U2, Video

Metallica Presale Today

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Metallica, presale, tickets

Darls in Charge: Those Darlins Release, or "Drop," Tour Dates

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, free tracks, rainbow jumpin', Those Darlins, tour dates, Audio

Shoot the Messenger: Toby Keith vs. The Tennessean's Peter Cooper

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Cream, Wow, Academy of Country Music, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Moby Teeth, Peter Cooper, Rolling Stone, Silverman, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson

Weekend Round-Up: Tornadic Activity Style! Part 1

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, doppler, Gold's face, party at my house, The Ettes, The Privates, The Whigs, tornado!, Wax Fang

Gene Ween Band at Exit/In

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Exit/In, Gene Ween, I'm genuinely a little freaked out by the magnitude of your sucking, Video

The Dead Weather, Jessica Simpson, et al. (Tuesday Non-News)

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Whatevs, Jack White, Jessica Simpson, not playing here, The Dead Weather

From the Pile: Mandy Moore's Amanda Leigh

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Reviews, Amanda Leigh, deliciously brutal, From the Pile, Laura Smith, Mandy Moore

What's the Score? A Question on Movie Soundtracks

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Whatevs, bad movies, Cadillac Records, Knowing, soundtracks

Rocketown, Musicians Hall of Fame May Get Wrecked

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Hot Goss, fat wreck chords, Musicians Hall of Fame, Rocketown

Name That Bio: Family Force 5 Have Fun in Nashville, Make What Kind of Music?

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Wow, Family Force 5, name that bio, they look ridiculous because of the novelty glasses but not the hair, Video

The Dead Weather 'Video' for 'Hang You From the Heavens'

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Jack White, pixels, The Dead Weather, videos, Video

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man Shows This Weekend at The Belcourt

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Scott Walker, The Belcourt, Video

Do Rules Suck, or Do They Rule? (Music Dogma)

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, dogma, drum machines, manifestos, rules, rules rule, that sucks

Where's, Like, the Bailout for Musicians, Man?

• by Ashley Spurgeon
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Whatevs, child actors, I want to see some auto workers take to the streets G20 style, John Rich, Shoot the Mountain, Video

A Night With Marjane Satrapi: The French Aren't More Civilized; They're Just Less Hungry

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, comic books, cool chicks who rule your face off, Marjane Satrapi, MTSU

A Reason to Go to Murfreesboro: Persepolis Author Marjane Satrapi at MTSU Tonight

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Marjane Satrapi, MTSU, Murfreesboro, Persepolis

Robyn Hitchock and the Venus 3 at Exit/In 4/6/09

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Bill Berry at home, Exit/In, Michael Stipe at home, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Robin Hitchcock, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers still sweating it out in smelly bathrooms

Weekend Round-Up: Tornadic Activity Style! Part 2

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Michael McDonald, The Carter Administration, The Mattoid, Tin Pan South, weekend round-up, Video

Born to Run: The Highs--And Oh So Many Lows--of Dating a Musician

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Cream, born to run, dating musicians, dudes, ladies, Nashville

Thought They Were Emo Parking Lot: Avenged Sevenfold, Buckcherry & Papa Roach at Sommet Center

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, line-checking over front of house is bullshit, Video

Condo Fucks Invading Nashville (Yo La Tengo in the Hizzy)

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Hot Goss, Sightings, Condo Fucks, Yo La Tengo

Chin Music: What Would Your Song Be? (Opening Day 2009)

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Whatevs, baseball, Pudge

A beautiful brunch leads Boscos beyond its 1990s heyday

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Dining, Reviews, Hillsboro Village Boscos, Memphis, Germantown, Oskar Benedict

On and Off the Menu: The Monthly Update for March

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, Tombstones, Nashville restaurant closings, Nashville restaurant openings

Lunch Date Redux: Sunshine and Chocolate at Mitchell Delicatessen

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Restaurants, brownies, East Nashville restaurants, lunch date, Mitchell's, outdoor eating, sandwich, Sweet 16th

Eggs Benediction: Saying Grace Over Brunch at Boscos

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Foods, Boscos, brunch, Cool Springs restaurants, Hillsboro Village restaurants

Nick's Italian Deli Closed--at Least for Now

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, Tombstones

Speaking of Good Combos, What About Salsas and Nashville?

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Fun and Games, 12South Tap Room, Asheville restaurants, Baja Burrito, Calypso Cafe, ChaChah, Re'Je's, Salsas, Savarino's

The Internet is for Goat Curry

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Restaurants, Flickr, Pakistani food, photographs

Meat Is Murder in IACP's Best Internet Article of the Year

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: News, meat ethics, meat is murder, pork, Seattle Weekly

A Searing Pain

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Foods, Grill at Green Hills, seared tuna, Whole Foods, William Safire, word play

Growing Season Means the Return of Fresh Harvest Coop

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: CSA, Delvin Farms, growing season in Nashville, John Drury, local vendors, locavore cuisine, Tallahassee May

Nooley's Gets a New Spot in Farmers' Market

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Restaurants, Nashville Cajun food, Nashville Farmers' Market, po'boys

That's No River, That's Elliston Place

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, Bites Storm Watcher, Elliston Place, weather in Nashville, Video

Serving Time: 108 Grille Opens in Old Franklin Jail

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, 1808 Grille, Franklin restaurants, martini bar, Prime 108

Bites Personals: Malaise in Music City

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Bites, 30 Rock, Bijou, Bites personals, cocktails, Video

Best Things in Town: Strawberries with Mascarpone Returns to Marché!

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Bites, Marché, mascarpone, seasonal, spring, strawberries

Best Things in Town: Sunday Night Supper at City House

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Restaurants, artichokes, Best Things in Town, City House, pizza, ribs

Free Burritos for a Year? Must Be Another Moe's Opening

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Events, Restaurants, Belle Meade restaurants, Mexican, Moe's

Couple's GPS Found MGD PDQ

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Restaurants, Travel Advisory, Donelson, GPS, I-40, My Greek Deli, Nicki Wood

File in Line for Free Ice Cream at Maggie Moo's

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, April 15, free food, taxes

Pad Thai Kitchen: I Take it All Back

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Restaurants, East Nashville restaurants, Pad Thai, Pad Thai Kitchen, second impressions, Thai food

Table for Two on the Patio: My Date with My Husband

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Restaurants, 12South Taproom, lunch

Gross Things That You Like Anyway: Shmura Matzoh

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Bites, gross stuff, Passover, Shmura matzoh

Snack Tray: Challah Nirvana, Fail Caesar, and Beans, Beans, Beans

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Party Mix, A Man's Gotta Eat, Beyond the Fried, black beans, Caesar salad, challah French toast, Chili's Guiltless Grill, Nashville Restaurants, Pied Piper Eatery, Sir Pizza, Slow Food sucks, Urban Flats

Beer, How I Love Thee. Let Me Count the Ways.

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Drinks, drinking at lunch, Mason jars, Samuel Adams, Sewanee restaurants, Shenanigans

Bread & Co. to Cost Less Dough

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Foods, Retail, bakery, bread in Nashville, recession cuisine

Holiday Eats: Passover Favorites

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: Bites, holiday eats, matzo, Passover, tuna

Throwdown Monkey Bread: How Panera Is Like My Grandmother

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Foods, Recipe File, Cobblestone, food nostalgia, Monkey Bread, Panera, recipes

Twice Bitten: The Weekly Rehash

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Twice Bitten, Weekly Wrap-Up, At the Table, Food Security Partners, Sofie's Bistro, urban farming

The Wine Chap Opening in Belle Meade

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Drinks, News, Belle Meade Publix, wine in Nashville

Are You Interesting Enough to Work at Fido?

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Coffee Filter, coffeehouses, Fido, job postings

Happy Meal: Jazz and a Burger at F. Scott's

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Foods, Restaurants, burgers in Nashville, F. Scott's, Green Hills restaurants

Empty Plate: What's It Gonna Be on Our Weekly Open Thread?

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Open Thread, Bites open thread, Cajun Steamer, ChaChah, Crow's Nest, Davis Cookware, Fido, Five Guys, GiGi's Cupcakes, Hot Diggity Dog, J. Alexander, La Hacienda, loose leaf teas in Nashville, Los Rosales, Miro District, Nashville cookware, Nashville crawfish, Nashville restauarant news, Nashville restaurant tips, Nashville veggie burgers, PM, Savarino's, South Street, Teavana, Thai Star

Young Chefs Academy: Cutest. Thing. Ever.

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Party Mix, cooking class, cooking with kids

Nick's Italian Deli Closed--at Least for Now

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, Tombstones, closings, Italian food in Nashville, relocations, tombstones

Eighties theme-park comedy Adventureland is more than a nostalgia trip

• Tags: Reviews, Reviews, Greg Mottola, Scott Walker, Stephen Kijak, Amy Adams

New on DVD April 7

Exposed and More

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Christina Lindberg, Dorothy Arzner, Hollywood, Kate DiCamillo

Hunters Auto Expo at Tennessee State Fairgrounds

Thunder Roadshow

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, George Foreman, Toyota Matrix

Private Motions

• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Hamilton Leithauser, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, The Clash (Band)

Ben Folds Fine

• by Dustin Allen
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, William Shatner, Nashville

Surface + Insight at Scarritt-Bennett's gallery F

Insightful Art

• by Emily Bartlett Hines
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Ryan Hogan, Eva Hesse, Scarritt-Bennett Center, Jennifer Campbell

Whiggin’ Out

• by Andrew Clayman
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, The Whigs (Band), Athens, Julian Dorio, Tim Deaux

Punk's Not Dead

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville, Screeching Weasel, Wes Traylor

Franne Lee's The Nature of Things at Family Wash

Art That'll Give You Wood

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, 180

Del Shores the Storyteller at Actors Bridge Studio

Dude, You're Getting a Del!

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville, Hollywood, Dharma & Greg, Queer as Folk

The Mattoid at Exit/In

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, MySpace Inc.

Refreshy Fresh at Davis Art Showroom

Funky Fresh

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Davis Art, Jennifer Hecker, Kim Frohsin, Norman (Oklahoma)

Brian Regan at the Ryman

Reganonmics

• by Julie Seabaugh

Can You Deg It?

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Merriam-Webster Inc., Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Hornsby, Elvis Costello

As Artists See Us: The Contemporary Portrait at LeQuire

Picture This

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Bessie Smith, Brody Vincent, Joshua Bronaugh, Murat Kaboulov

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man at The Belcourt

Walker, Reckless Ranger

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Scott Walker, Stephen Kijak, Brian Eno, David Bowie

Dark Meat: The Other White Meat

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Dark Meat (Band), Albert Ayler, Athens, Jim McHugh

Works by Hunt Slonem at Rymer Gallery

Slonem? Nearly Killed 'em!

• by Emily Bartlett Hines
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Art Rich, New Orleans, Wassily Kandinsky, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Circle Players' Once Upon a Mattress at Looby Theatre

Embedded Theater

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Hans Christian Andersen, Carol Burnett, David Arnold, Ed Amatrudo

An Evening with Marjane Satrapi at MTSU

Comi-Kaze Woman

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Iran

Does it Offend You, Yeah?

• by Matt Sullivan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Minneapolis, Jason Wade

Isolation at Estel Gallery

The "I" in Isolation

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Georgia O'Keeffe, Warren Zevon, Georgia

Music City Burlesque: Spring Break or Bust at The Belcourt

Aureole Speedwagon

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Bella DeBall, Sadie Twist

Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker at Davis-Kidd

• by Faye Jones
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Ashley Cleveland, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Jonell Mosser, Kim Carnes

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts on NPT-Channel 8

I Love the Sound of Philip Glass

• by Grayson Currin
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Philip Glass, Scott Hicks, New York

Jen Cartwright and Off the Wall at Twist

Got Any Papers?

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Jen Cartwright, Jaime Raybin, Janet Heilbronn, Jenny Luckett

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans at Downtown Presbyterian

Daybreak

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, F.W. Murnau, George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor

Mitch Fatel at Zanies

Do Tell, Fatel

• by Julie Seabaugh
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Howard Stern, Carson Daly, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy

Augusten Burroughs' latest memoir is not the laughing matter his fans might expect

• by Brent Rolen
• Tags: Books, Augusten Burroughs, H. Franklin Brooks, Ingram Hall, Stephen King