Nashville Scene

Morning Roundup: School Daze

• by Jim Ridley

Our intrepid writer enters the world of Nashville’s mixed martial arts — and trains for battle

Cage Fight Confidential

• by Charles Maldonado

Mule Day 2010

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Crazy Crap

Dallas H. Neil Park: A Review

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Around Town, Dallas H. Neil Park, Metro Parks, park review, Nashville parks, park reviews

Flipping Channels: 'Ugly Betty' Gets Ugly Send-off, 'Spartacus' Kills

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Media, Ugly Betty, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Reba McEntire, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, ACM Awards, Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Video

Civics Lesson: Your Guide to Knee-Jerk Reaction, Fighting Gangs Dept.

• by Chris Wage
• Tags: Law and Order, Chief Ronal Serpas, Nashville gang violence

Found Footage Festival: There's More Than Just the Angry Winnebago Man?

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, Video

Health Freedom Act Clears House Committee; Sponsor Says We Can Pay Doctors with Vegetables

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

As The Wheels Keep Turning

• by Nashville Jefferson
• Tags: Education, Nashville Jefferson, House Education Committee, Spinning Wheels

Adoptive Mother Returns Son

• by Ashley Spurgeon
• Tags: Spurgeon, Crazy Crap, Russia, adoption

Who Needs Those Worthless Cops? Second Amendment Superheroes to the Rescue!

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Law and Order

Tennessee Democrats Exposed! Some of Them Like Health Care Reform Law

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

Former Mayor: Horse Slaughterhouses a Drain on Taypayers — Never Mind the Ditches of Blood

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Legislature, Tennessee horse slaughter bill, Tennessee horse abuse, horse abuse, horse slaughterhouses, Frank Niceley

Medical Marijuana Bill Going Up in Smoke Again

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

Morning Roundup: Unprotected Waterways Can't Put Out TDEC Fire

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Morning Roundup

Susan Lynn on Her Feud with Mae Beavers: 'I've Had Hell to Pay'

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Woods

Morning Roundup: In This Corner, Getting His Butt Kicked...

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Morning Roundup

Susan Lynn Gets into Pissing Match with Steve Gill

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics

Bredesen Floats 'Luxury Tax' Idea; Republicans Balking

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

The Tea Party Express Went to the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Video

Facebook, MySpace, and Student Discipline

• by Nashville Jefferson
• Tags: Nashville Jefferson, Taylor Cummings, school discipline, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Tinker v. Des Moines School District, Layshock v. Hermitage School District, Facebook, MySpace

Ramsey's First TV Ad: Giving Washington the Boot

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Video

Why Can't McWherter Raise Money? He's Not Trying, His Campaign Says

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics

This Isn't the Charter You're Looking For

• by Nashville Jefferson
• Tags: Nashville Jefferson, LEAD Academy, Cameron Middle School, charter conversion, Race to the Top, NCLB, The Tennessean

Zach Wamp Living Large on C Street

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics, Video

Morning Roundup: Missing Student Found

• by Jim Ridley

Can a new Nashville film industry confab connect filmmakers here and abroad with the funds to finish their movies?

• by Lyda Phillips

Soccer whiz Eric Frieman turns football newbie for a change of pace at Vanderbilt

• by David Boclair

Wanna see a clash of the titans? Watch the Susan Lynn/Mae Beavers grudge match.

• by Jeff Woods

Love/Hate Mail

How do parents get the secret instructions for what to bring to school?

• by Lindsay Ferrier

Ghostfinger and David Vandervelde's Spring Fever 2010 Tour Starts Tonight at Houselhoff in Murfreesboro

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Hot Goss, Cream Calendar, I know y'all be rememberin' MIMAL and shit!, Ghostfinger, David Vandervelde, tours, PhD = Pretty hairy Dude, -tinged as hell, transplant, possible forthcoming release

This Week's Chris Crofton Show Delayed; Crofton Birthday Soiree April 10 at The Basement

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, Cream Calendar, The Chris Crofton Show, The Alcohol Stuntband, Race Corner meltdown, Necroscope

BandPage for Facebook: Another Way to Talk About Your Band on the Internet

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Whatevs, bands, Facebook, yet another place to fill out all the information, Video

Nashville Cream Rock the Block Tonight at Exit/In!

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, Cream Calendar, awesome things, free shows, Tim Chad & Sherry, De Novo Dahl, Daniel Pujol, The Clutters, Dozen Dimes, Exit/In

Chris Crofton Birthday Show at The Basement, 4/10/10

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Chris Crofton, Alcohol Stuntband, at least we took notes, enablers, Slideshow

Happy Birthday, Loretta Lynn!

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, Moving Pictures, Loretta Lynn, incest jokes, happy birthday, ascots, How I Became the Bomb, cattin' around with kitties, Video

Jack White Considers the Internet a 'Nuisance'

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: National Skyline, Choose your first three words wisely, I read this story on the Internet, Jack White

Lake Fever Sessions Podcast, Volume 2

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, sweet, gnarly-lookin' twin griffins, Lake Fever Sessions, poppin' podcasts

Tex Rambunctious Reckons You Ought to Vote for Dozen Dimes

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Road to Bonnaroo, Dozen Dimes, like a mouse in a cave, also a band, women in the arts, the wingspan of baby Jesus, Video

Reno Bo Releases New Single/Video and Gives Some Stuff Away

• by Seth Graves
• Tags: Cream, Reno Bo, video, Electric Western

Road Trip(s) to Chicago: Pitchfork and Lollapalooza Announce Full Lineups

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: National Skyline, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, Pitchin' Perry, Chicago, Road Trips

Stanley Clarke at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, 4/9/10

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Stanley Clarke, Schermerhorn, more in this week's glossy

Road Trip to Murfreesboro (and Philanthrophy)

• by Ashley Spurgeon
• Tags: Cream Calendar, The Features, The Privates, YEAH!, Southern Girls Rock and Roll Camp, for the kids, if you use sea salt you can afford this

Metallica: Smooth Jazzola

• by Ashley Spurgeon
• Tags: Moving Pictures, smooth jazz, Metallica, crabcore, Video

From the Bedroom to Stereogum: Girls in the Eighties

• by Seth Graves
• Tags: National Skyline, Girls in the Eighties, Stereogum, Band to Acknowledge, Audio

Intern Lance and Nashville for Free Host 8 off 8th Tonight

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream Calendar, 8 off 8th, Lance Conzett, Mercy Lounge Set to Become Diarrhea Planet, Nashville for Free

Furniture for Music Dorks

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, furniture

Weekend Round-Up: The New Style Style

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, weekend round-up, Lone Official, Crofton's birthday, Coolin' System

Daniel Pujol to Open For Emmylou Harris; Half of Raconteurs to Reunite, Change Name [Record Store Day]

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Wow, Record Store Day, Emmylou Harris, Racontwoers, The Groove, Grimey's, Third Man

Resident Nashville Dead Boy Cheetah Chrome Launches New Supergroup Via Music City [Nashville Rock: In Focus]

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Creamtastic, Batusis, Cheetah Chrome, The Dead Boys, Sylvain Sylvain, Ken Coomer, Nashville rock, bands not playing here, Video

Allen Toussaint, Two-Sentence Album Reviews, Stanley Clarke & More: Inside This Week's Music Section

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Liner Notes, Allen Toussaint, Stanley Clarke, Two Short, reviews, Matt Urmy

Cream Rock the Block Feat. De Novo Dahl, Tim Chad and Sherry, The Clutters, Daniel Pujol & The Dozen Dimes

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Creamtastic, Cream Calendar, Daniel Pujol, De Novo Dahl, Dozen Dimes, Exit/In, getting laid while free-loading, Pizza!!!!!!.....maybe, Kroeger and Beck sittin' in a tree k-i..., Rock the Block, The Clutters, Tim Chad and Sherry, Audio

Crescent City legend Allen Toussaint has never reached farther — or played hotter

The Ambassador From New Orleans

• by Ron Wynn

Two-sentence album reviews on Harlem, Morning Benders, Bettie Serveert, Legendary Shack Shakers and more

Two Short

• by Steve Haruch and D. Patrick Rodgers

Always up for a challenge, Stanley Clarke keeps on moving

Forever Changes

• by Ron Wynn

Man of many talents, reviver of the Quonset Hut, Matt Urmy makes good on his return to Nashville

A Poet in His Own Land

• by Jewly Hight

GZA at MTSU, Tegan and Sara at The Ryman and more

The Spin

Dick50 and Becky Schlegel scoot boots and flex their roots respectively on new discs

• by Ron Wynn

You Think Your Chicken's Hot? Compete at the Hot Chicken Festival

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, competitive cooking, Hot Chicken Festival, July Fourth

Wandering Wino: Wine Is Good for Your Allergies, I Swear

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Wine, Wandering Wino, Village Wines, Watermark, Best Brands, The Wine Chap, Woodland Wine Merchant

Twistin' One Up, Chipotle Style

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Restaurants

This is Why I'm Fat

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Conversation Bites, KFC, excess, calorie bomb

Amerigo's Early Bird Menu— It's Not Just for 'Matlock' Viewers Anymore

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Restaurants, Amerigo, dinner specials, early bird, brunch, new chefs, Hrant Arakelian

Desks Still Available for Tayst's School Lunch Dinner

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, Tayst, Jamie Oliver, School Lunch Dinner, charity events, Laura Wilson, Holland House, Will Uhlhorn, F. Scott’s, Dan Maggipinto, Caffe Nonna, Guerry McComas, The Yellow Porch

Our Weekly Open Thread Specializes in Hot Cross Buns

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Open Thread

Magazine Looking for Twists on Traditional Dishes

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Conversation Bites, Park Cafe, Tayst, Watermark

Who's Your Crawdaddy?

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, crawfish boil, Riverfront Park

Herb Sale Blooms Again Saturday, But Read This First

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Retail

James Beard Foundation Seeks Web Intern

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: News

Value Lunch Quest Launched

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Restaurants, General Hospital, Porta Via, Publix, value lunch quest

Dinner at Marché is just as good as brunch, and you don’t have to wait 30 minutes for a table

Supper Time

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: Feature, Marché Artisan Foods

James Benning, one of America's finest filmmakers, trains his attention on the railroad in RR

• by Michael Sicinski

Whether as bumbler, romancer or man of action, Cary Grant emerges from The Belcourt's new series as one thing: ideal

The Perfect Man

• by Donna Bowman

Found Footage Festival founders flog filmic flotsam for fun

Raiders of the Lost Aargh!

• by Jim Ridley

A Nashville artist's astonishing first show delivers the biggest shock of talent the city's seen in years

• by Jack Silverman

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz is set to visit Nashville

‘Wondrous’ Is the Word

• by Melissa Davis and Chapter16.org

Nashville Opera mounts Rigoletto, Verdi's classic tale of infidelity, corruption and a deadly curse

• by Martin Brady