Nashville Scene

The Nashville Scene 20th Anniversary Issue

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nashville, Bruce Dobie, AFC South Division, American Football Conference

Recalling the early days, when the Scene walked the mean streets of Brentwood

• by Bruce Dobie
• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nashville, Mike Pigott, Jim Ridley, Brentwood

20 years of Nashville politics: It's a tale of two mayors—but that's not the whole story

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nashville, Karl Dean, Phil Bredesen, Fate Thomas

20 years of Nashville's landscape: Music City still can't decide between green and unclean

• by Christine Kreyling
• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nashville, East, Berlin, Berlin Wall

20 years of Nashville sports: From the Sounds to the Preds and Titans, a fan looks back

• by Kay West
• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nashville Predators, National Hockey League, NHL Central Division, NHL Western Conference

20 years of Nashville food: more options and greater expectations

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nashville, Deb Paquette, West End, Germantown

20 years of Nashville music: From Lucy's to Leon, momentous events from two decades in Music City

• by Steve Haruch, Adam Gold, D. Patrick Rodgers and Jim Ridley
• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nashville, Garth Brooks, Lower Broad/ Ryman, Jason & The Scorchers

A 20-year reunion photo of some of the Rock Block's hardiest denizens

• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Jim Ridley, Joe Blanton, Chuck Allen, Ken McMahan

People we miss

• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nelson Andrews, Chet Atkins, Nashville, H. Franklin Brooks

Then and Now

• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Adam Dread, Nashville, Lucinda Williams, Sheldon Williams

Ten Scene stories that stirred up controversy

• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Willy Stern, Nashville, Caleb Hannan, Bill Boner

Actual Scene cover stories or Onion headlines? You make the call.

• Tags: Cover Story, Features, Nashville, Another Ridley, Pedro Garcia, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Recalling the Tennessee legislature's freak show of 2009

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Woods, Blake Graves, Barack Obama, Sherri Goforth, U.S. Republican Party

More preachers behaving badly

• Tags: Stories, Steve Galiher, Music City Center, San Diego, California Highway Patrol

Love-Hate Mail

• Tags: Letters, Love/Hate Mail, Maury Davis, Frank Meeuwis Madison, Jo Ella Liles, Bobbi Kleffman

The questionable heritage of Disney and Beck

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican, The Walt Disney Company, Beck (Musician), Justin Timberlake, Anaheim

Debating Religion: The Problem is Bigger than Maury Davis

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Media

Despite Their Intolerant and Misguided Views, Islamophobes Have a Sense of Humor

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Law and Order, Politics, Silverman, extremism, holy war, intolerance, Islam, jihad, New English Review, Silverman

Gibbons Finds Surprise Wedge Issue: the Haywood County Industrial Site

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

Very Brief May Town Center Update

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Around Town, Phillips, Bell's Bend, May Town

Corker Takes Big Money from Banks He's Regulating

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Whopper of the Month: Who's the Best Liar in the Land?

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

Liberty Rally: TN Teabaggers Unite Today at Noon at Legislative Plaza

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Daily Diversion, Politics, Silverman, Independence Day, liberty, mad dashers, Phil Valentine, Silverman, Steve Gill, tea party, teabaggers

Ramsey Campaign Makes 11th-Hour Plea for Cash

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Celebrating the Defeat of May Town

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: 40 Jealous Whores, Around Town, Politics, The Economy

Come On, People! Where is the Wild Speculation?

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Around Town, Phillips, May Town, TSU

Music, Fun for the Whole Family and Speech by Hate Monger at Next Tea Party Rally

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Bernie Ellis Accuses Tre Hargett of Turning TBI Into Personal 'Gestapo'

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

History-Making History in Bell's Bend?

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Bell's Bend, Clovis folks, Native American Burial Grounds

Cammack: 'I'm Not Going to Quit' Belle Meade Country Club

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Rocky Topless: Alexander Fights to Stop Mountaintop Mining

• by Jeff Woods

Bredesen Discusses Going Off the Grid, Sherri Goforth and More

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Red State Update and the Iranian Elections

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Politics, Red State Update, Video

Ode to Infinity: The Longest Story Ever Told In Nine Words

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Daily Diversion, copyright 3009, infinity, neato, Opium

Fred Thompson: Not Just a Lawyer, Senator, and Actor, but Now a Metaphor for Deflated Expectations

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Barry, Media, Fred Thompson, metaphors, Sarah Palin, Titans, unmet expectations, wives

NRCC: 'Turn Off the Lights on Bart Gordon'

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

Save the White Children: More Racism Headlines from Tennessee

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Hicks From the Sticks, Kotz, Law and Order

Blackburn: 'We are the party of no!' Know? Wait, what?

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Congress, Hargrove, Know?, Marsha Blackburn, Marsha Marsha Marsha, No?, Video

Red State Update: Mark Sanford Brings New Meaning to the Appalachian Trail

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Politics, Red State Update, Video

Please, Tennessean, Can We Have a Normal Editorial Page Back?

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Barry, Media

Pith's Crack Legal Team Predicts Guns-In-Bars Lawsuit Doomed to Failure

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Law and Order, Legislature, Politics, Woods

Slumlord Alert! Councilmember Anna Page Targets Lee Barrett

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: By the Way, Hannan, Anna Page, Lee Barrett, slumlords

Bernie Ellis, P.J. Tobia First Guests on New Online 'Liberadio(!)'

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Media, Bernie Ellis, Betsy Phillips, Emily Evans, Freddie O'Connell, Liberadio, Mary Mancini, Nashville liberal talk radio, P.J. Tobia

Morning Roundup: Congressman Cooper Discusses Life as a Nerd and More

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Morning Roundup: Mumpower Sneers as Governor Plants Flowers and More News

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Sen. Mae Beavers: Not Successful Stripper, Has Never Been to Oregon

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Hicks From the Sticks, Kotz, Legislature, Media, Politics

Cammack Campaign Suicide Watch: Regarding His Membership in Belle Meade Country Club

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Tony Giarratana Finally Admits May Town's True Aim

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: Hannan, Politics, Giarratana, May Town, money money money, Tony G, Video

What Happens When You Have a Gun, But No Place Left to Carry It?

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Hicks From the Sticks, Phillips, Dolly Parton, guns-in-bars, Loretta Lynn, West Tennessee

Morning Roundup: May Town Center Defeated After Seven-Hour Public Hearing

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Layoffs Coming to Gannett, Tennessean?

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Hargrove, Media, Gannett, Gannett Blog, layoffs, newspocalypse, The Tennessean

Red State Update: Jackie's Tired of the Gun Violence

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Red State Update, Video

A Word From Frank Dileo, Michael Jackson's Manager, and a Look Into His World

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Breaking News, Media, Silverman, Frank Dileo, King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson remembrance

Chris Johnson, the Ochocinco of Tennessee, Leads This Week's Kook Power Rankings

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: 40 Jealous Whores, Congress, Crazy Crap, Hicks From the Sticks, Kotz, Law and Order, Politics, Sports

This Exists: Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park

• by Ashley Spurgeon
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Hicks From the Sticks

Wamp Says He's 'Clicking on All Fronts'

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

In Murfreesboro, Second Amendment Freak Holsters His Weapon

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Ramsey Beats Chest Over 'Eye-Popping' Cash Haul

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Who Would Win in a Ty Cobb-Off?

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Legislature, Phillips, Ty Cobb(s)

Strange Bedfellows in May Town: What's Up with the TSU Land Gift?

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: 40 Jealous Whores, Around Town, Education, Politics, The Economy

May Town: Why is the Planning Commission Voting Now?

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: 40 Jealous Whores, Hannan, Politics, Emily Evans, Jason Holleman, Lonnell Matthews, May Town, URGENT!!!

From the Scene Dept. of Duh: Hickory Hollow Among America's Most Endangered Malls

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Breaking News, Daily Diversion, Silverman, The Economy, Antioch, Hickory Hollow, shopping malls, Silverman, U.S. News

Bob Corker and the Curse of the 2012 Presidential Contenders

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Twitter & the Planning Commission Meeting

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Media, Phillips, May Town, Michael Cass, Twitter

Karl Dean "Voted" Against May Town Center Rezoning?

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Barry, Politics

Democrats Waylay Ramsey in Murfreesboro

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Give to Cammack: He Up-Fitted His House!

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Notes From Last Night's May Town Meeting

• by Caleb Hannan
• Tags: By the Way, Hannan, Politics, David Briley, Emily Evans, Karen Johnson, May Town

What Kind of Buffoons Are Running the Secretary of State's Office Now?

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Nashville Hoteliers Are Still Taking a Beating

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: 40 Jealous Whores, Around Town, Kotz, Politics, The Economy

Morning Roundup: The Governor's Next Big Adventure and More

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Tennessee Legislature Gets an F for Conflict of Interest

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Kotz, Law and Order, Legislature, Politics

It's About Sex, Not Murder, For the Anti-Abortion Crowd

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Crazy Crap, Hargrove, Anti-abortion crazies, hang-ups, motivations revealed, Obama

Bernie Ellis Unleashes Reign of Terror Against Quivering Tre Hargett

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Blue Dogs Rake in the Dollars from the Health Care Industry

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

Harmonic Convergence of Journalism and Advertising

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Barry, Media, The Economy, advertising, irony, journalism, The Tennessean

Kentucky Creation Museum Defies Science, Common Sense

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Hargrove, Hicks From the Sticks, Creation Museum, Noah's Ark, Petersburg KY, REAL scientists-faux scientists, religious wankery

Morning Roundup: Obama Ignores Phil on Health Care and Dunn 'Gits R Dunn' for Haslam

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Breaking News, Woods

Miley Cyrus Takes on the Scalpers

• by Pete Kotz
• Tags: Kotz, The Economy

What Were They Thinking? Guns Laws Backfiring on Legislators

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

Teabaggers Unite to Help Promote Talk Radio

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Those Darlins take (the) country by storm

• by Sean L. Maloney
• Tags: Features, Murfreesboro, New York City, Nashville, SGRRC Kelley

Fleetwood Mac, Blueprint, Tunnel Clones and more

• Tags: The Spin, Nashville, Oriana Lee, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks

Road Trip to Atlanta: Sunny Day Real Estate Reunite, Play CW Center Stage Oct. 3

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream Calendar, '90s, crying, Emo, jnuh jnuh jnuh jnuh jnuh, Road Trip to Atlanta, Sunny Day Real Estate

Weekend Round-Up: R.I.P. Style Part 2

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Bill Maher, don't fear the reaper, Shoot the Mountain is everywhere, The Black Lips, Those Darlins, weekend round-up

You Are So Nashville If... Cheat Sheet

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, contests, roflcopter, YASNI, You Are so Nashville If...

A Word From Frank Dileo, Michael Jackson's Manager, and a Look Into His World

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: National Skyline, Frank Dileo, King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson remembrance

Ruminations on the Persecuted (and Prosecuted) Artist

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Cream, meritocracy, Michael Jackson, persecuted artists, sure the argument's nothing new but no less relevant

Atlanta's Local Rock Community Could Use Our Help

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream, Atlanta, Bobby Ubangi, The Black Lips, Video

Music That Will Make You Cream: '60s Night 8 off 8th, July 6

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Creamtastic, 60s covers, Eureka Gold, Jacob Jones, Kindergarten Circus, Matt Friction and the Cheap Shots, META!, Millionaire Magicians, Ole Mossy Face, Roman Candle, The Clutters

Was Michael Jackson Your Elvis?

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, Your Own Personal Elvis

Michael Jackson: Well-Read, According to His Attorney, Bob Sanger

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: National Skyline, Michael Jackson

'The Nashville Effect' Part 3: New York Is Cooler Than Nashville (Industry vs. Scene)

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: National Skyline, pro gear pro attitude, the Nashville effect

Weekend Round-Up: R.I.P. Style Part 1

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, ELO, ICON in the Gulch, icons in the sky, weekend round-up

Web Bits: Stuff to Look at on a Wednesday

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Whatevs, 33 1/3, Elliott's Passat, exorbitantly nerdy, Largehearted Boy, Lil Tweedy Bird, web stuff, Wednesdays

Questions For Duane Denison?

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Creamtastic, Duane Denison, interviews, Jesus Lizard, you report we decide

Those Darlins, Fleetwood Mac and More: Inside This Week's Music Section

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Liner Notes, Fleetwood Mac, Those Darlins

Plain White Parking Lot

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, It was hard to hear them because of the speakers, like a young Coldplay, music reference FAILs, synchronized ums, Video

Road Trip to Murfreesboro: All Your Favorite Bands Are Coming to Club 527

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Bullet Boys, Candlebox, Coolio, Days of the New, Faster Pussycat, Flavor Flav, Humpty Hump, L.A. Guns, Saliva, The Whigs, Tone Loc

Nashville Rocks, 1989-2009 (Part 2)

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, National Skyline, 1999, Self, Spongebath Records, The Katies, wayback machine

Michael Jackson: From a Lonely Planet

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: National Skyline, Michael Jackson, R.I.P.

The Black Lips Return to Mercy Lounge Oct. 29 (This Time With Turbo Fruits)

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Moving Pictures, betcha Drew Barrymore will be there, The Black Lips, Turbo Fruits, Video

Heypenny on the Road to Bonnaroo

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Heypenny, Road to Bonnaroo, Video

Michael Jackson Dead at 50

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: National Skyline, Michael Jackson

Those Darlins and The Black Lips at Mercy Lounge 6/27/09

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, The Black Lips, Those Darlins, Slideshow

Those Darlins Again, The Crystal Method, Newsy Bits

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, Crystal Method, MSTRKRFT, Show and Smell, Those Darlins

How I Became the Bomb and KinderCastle Play Out of the Blue at Mercy Lounge 6/26/09

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Electric Light Orchestra, Emiglio, How I Became the Bomb, KinderCastle, Oldsville, Slideshow

Andrew Bird, St. Vincent to Play The Ryman Oct. 10

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Creamtastic, National Skyline, Andrew Bird, not not playing here, St. Vincent, Video

'Starnimals': The Most Absurd Thing I've Seen All Week

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Wow, a little freakay, K'Dre, Legend has it...that this guy's a douche, Starnimals, Video

It's Wednesday! Discuss.

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Cream, Wednesday

Those Darlins' Lake Fever Session

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, If it ain't Michael Jackson or Those Darlins, it ain't news, Linwood's bare chest, Nikki's bear hat, Video

Those Darlins, Paramore Lead Your Monday Morning Newsy Bits

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, Paramore, shitty-ass shit, Those Darlins, video, Video

Nashville Rocks, 1989-2009 (Part 1)

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, 20 years old, curse, Nashville, no curse, Rock Block

Belcourt's Food on Film Continues with 'The End of the Line'

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, Belcourt Theatre, food films, The End of the Line, Video

Whose Ceviche Rules the Waves?

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Food Fight, ceviche, fish, Mexican cuisine, Mexican food in Nashville, seafood in Nashville

Competition Most Fowl: Hot Chicken Teams Posted

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, culinary contest, July 4 in Nashville, Music City Hot Chicken Festival

The Beet Beat, Vol. 1: Pink Radio Cake

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Beet Beat, Foods, baked goods in Nashville, beet recipes, Fido

'Pressure Cooker' Boils at Belcourt's Food in Film Week

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Events, Belcourt, food movies, Pressure Cooker, Wilma Stephenson, Video

A Hint of Myint at Farmers' Market Saturday

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, Farmers' Markets, Arnold Myint, Nashville Farmers' Market

Rosario's Says Adios

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Tombstones, Mexican food in Nashville, restaurant closings in Nashville, tombstones

The Best Laid Plans

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Drinks, cocktails, Patterson House, recipes, summer

Green Wagon Seeks Investors for East Side Store/Cafe

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: News, Retail, East Nashville, Food Inc., Green Wagon, organic

Transform This: 'Food, Inc.' Doing Blockbuster Business at Belcourt

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: News, Belcourt, Food Inc. movie, Food Inc. movie box office, Little Ashes, Robert Pattinson, Summer Hours, Whole Foods

Tuesdays with Martha: 'A Sense of Wonder' and Lunch-and-Learn

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, food films, Video

Beauty and Beast in One Stove

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Good advice, Kitchen Gear, corn cakes, kitchens, oven, stoves

Midweek Check-In

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Restaurants, Flyte, Nashville Originals, Nashville restauarant news, Restaurant Week, Tin Angel

Burger Up Coming to 12South in December

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, Restaurant openings, 12South restaurants, locavore cuisine, restaurant openings in Nashville

Here's Hoping Krispy Kreme Can Knock Off a Grillswith

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, Foods, Grillswith, Krispy Kreme, The White Spot

Restaurant Equipment for Auction until 2 p.m., June 30

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, restaurant equipment for sale in Nashville

Chef Greenberg Opening Chez Lis in Green Hills

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: News, Restaurant openings, Clay Greenberg, French cuisine in Nashville, Green Hills restaurants, locavore cuisine, restaurant openings

Urban Farming, Chapter 14: I Told You So, but You Said, "Noooooo."

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Urban Farming, dammit, Gardens of Babylon, Great Wall of Corn, perennials

Urban Farming, Chapter 15: Take That, You Wascally Wabbits

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Urban Farming, cobras in Nashville, locavore cuisine, Rex Hammock

Sometimes a Banana is Just a Banana...

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Restaurants, Arby's, artereosclerosis, fast food, guilty pleasures, Hardee's, Las Palmas, sports bars, Subway

Hoods for Foods: Nashville's Top 5 Neighborhoods for Dining Out

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Bites

When the Moon Hits Your Eye: Pizza Places Slug It Out for National List

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Food Fight, Travel Advisory, best foods in the country, pizza

Star & Stripes Gets You a Half-Price Burger & Fries at F. Scott's

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, burgers in Nashville

Tonight's Cline Cellars Tasting at Amerigo Benefits Cancer Research

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, Wine, Amerigo, Cline Cellars, wine tastings in Nashville

'The Garden' Plays at Belcourt's Food on Film

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, Belcourt Theatre, food films, South Central Farmers, The Garden, Video

Open Thread: Thumbs Up or Down on 'Food, Inc.'?

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Open Thread, Belcourt Theatre, Food Inc., Food on Film, Good Food Film Festival

The Momnomicon

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Conversation Bites, Happy Hour, Restaurants, Coolsprings restaurants, I-24 restaurants, kids, kitchens, Miel, Mommy you are a genius, Taste of Russia, wheee!, Whole Foods Green Hills

Fukuoka Fuzz

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Drinks, Restaurants, drinks, fun food, Japanese food, Nicki Wood, sake

Remembrance of Zings Past: In the Stacks with Nicki Pendleton Wood

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Bites, Nicki P. Wood, Scene 20th Anniversary

The Beet Beat, Vol. 2: Firefly Grille's Beet Vinaigrette

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Beet Beat, Beet It, Firefly Grille

CZOJ: A Carroty Update and a Juicy Calendar

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: CZOJ, Drinks, discounts, Fresh Blends, juice bars in Nashville, vegetarian

Unleash Your Inner Viking

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Kitchen Gear, Travel Advisory, celebrity chefs, foodies, golf, PGA, Viking

Empty Plate: Our Weekly Open Thread Smells Like Bacon

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Open Thread, Bites open thread, Nashville restaurant news, Nashville restaurant tips

Goody Balls, Hole Munchers, Bisticles: New Hardee's Ad Lowballs Its Demographic Again

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Bite Your Tongue, advertising, Burger King, Carl's Jr., Hardee's, sex in advertising, yum yum balls, Video

Martin's Makes List of America's Best New Barbecue Joints

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Barbecue, best barbecue in the U.S., Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint, Nashville best barbecue

Food on Film Series Opens Tonight With 'Food, Inc.'

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Events, Food Films, Food Inc., Video

How Can You Miss Me When You Don't Know I've Gone

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Travel Advisory, all-inclusive, chicken wings, Cozumel, discounts, Fresh Blends, huevos, Mexico, travel

Three new docs dig into grave issues surrounding the food we eat

• Tags: Reviews, Reviews, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Rupert Murray, FOOD, INC., Michael Pollan

This week in local theaters

• Tags: Short Takes, Column, Michael Bay, Dave Eggers, Verona, Mountain Dew

Dailey and Vincent w/The SteelDrivers at Bluegrass Nights

• by Jon Weisberger
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Jamie Dailey, Dailey & Vincent, The SteelDrivers

Nashville Originals Restaurant Week

Meal Deals

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Germantown, Jimmy Kelly, Nashville

Knowing Me, Knowing You Pay Tribute to ABBA at The Basement

Take a Chance on Knowing Me

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, ABBA, Sweden, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Chuck Close's Process and Collaberation at the Frist

Close to Perfect

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Chuck Close

2 x Budd Boetticher at The Belcourt

Western Weekend Classics

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Randolph Scott, Budd Boetticher, Anthony Mann, Burt Kennedy

A Sketchy Night

Theatrical Oasis

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, John Conlon, Nashville, Amy Delvin, Christy Eidson

Rock for Ovaries

Over Easy

• by Emily Bartlett Hines
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Guthrie Trapp, Mark Holder, Sara Williams, National Coalition for Ovarian Cancer

Bill Maher at the Ryman

Infidels, Unite!

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Home Box Office Inc., Real Time with Bill Maher, Barack Obama

Music City Motor Jam at Lane Motor Museum

Car Nation

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nikki Williams, Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Steele, Eric Clapton

Food on Film Week at The Belcourt

What's Eating You?

• by Timothy C. Davis
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Robert Kenner, Wilma Stephenson

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

You Ain't No Casanova

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Something Corporate, Throbbing Gristle, Nashville

Lisa Lampanelli at the Ryman

Lampooned

• by Julie Seabaugh
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Donald Trump, Elaine Stritch

DJ Ghost Dogg at Hebroots

Night on Earth

• by Sean L. Maloney
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Jim Jarmusch, Teddy Riley, Timbaland, Virginia Beach

A Way Out at Darkhorse Theater

Tough Love

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Jene India, Mary McCallum, Rashad Rayford, Shawn Whitsell

Tuesdays With Morrie and Parallel Lives at Art Space Nashville

2 x 4

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Street Theatre Company, Bakari King, Holly Allen, Kathy Najimy

An Evening with The Independents at The Rutledge

Careless Whispers

• by Timothy C. Davis
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Lucinda Williams, Matthew Ryan, Amanda Shires, Amelia White

Cadillac Sky at Station Inn

I Just Want You in my Caddy

• by Jon Weisberger
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, David Mayfield, Andy Moritz

Project Censored With Dr. Peter Phillips at First Unitarian Universalist Church

To Tell the Truth

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Peter Phillips, Jessica Simpson, Nadya Suleman, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Tuesdays With Morrie and Parallel Lives at Art Space Nashville

2 x 4

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Street Theatre Company, Bakari King, Holly Allen, Kathy Najimy

Represent Nashville

Y'all Ready for This?

• by Sean L. Maloney
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, 1767

Town Mountain at Station Inn

Downtown

• by Jon Weisberger
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Asheville, Annie Staninec, Barrett Smith, Nashville

Ballhog at The Basement

• by Timothy C. Davis
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Mike Watt, The Marshall Tucker Band

Firefly Fine Arts Festival at the Renaissance Center

'Round Here We Call 'Em Lightnin' Bugs

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Nashville, Joe Nolan, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Luke Bulla at The Violin Shop

Whatta Load a Bulla

• by Jon Weisberger
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Luke Bulla, Nashville, Casey Driessen, Jerry Douglas

Art at the Woodlawn Courtyard

A Midsummer Night's Dream

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Cale Jones, Corey Stephens, Peggy Snow, Chels Pickard

Stephen Garrett CD Release at the Basement

Grin and Garrett

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Keith Urban, Livingston (Staten Island), Nashville, Rhett Miller

Dean Byington's Terra Incognita at the Frist

Faraway

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Chuck Close, Dean Byington

Sound System Syndicate at The Muse

• by Sean L. Maloney
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Sound System Syndicate, Eric Masq, Nashville, Hot Topic Inc.

The 100-Year Anniversary of James Agee's Birth in Tennessee

DeLoss McGraw & James Agee

• by Diann Blakely
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, James Agee, DeLoss McGraw, Andrew Hudgins, Knoxville

Sausagefest at The Basement

Sausage Party

• by Emily Bartlett Hines
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, 818

Dean Byington's Terra Incognita at the Frist

Faraway

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Our Critics Picks, Chuck Close, Dean Byington