Nashville Scene

Spring Hill Catches Whiff of Trend, Votes Against It

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Around Town, pet chickens, trend alert, Spring Hill

The fairgrounds debate could turn into a dunking booth for the Dean administration

Too Long at the Fair

• by Stephen George

Fisk Will Fight Stieglitz Collection Court Ruling

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Fisk University, Stieglitz Collection, Hazel O'Leary

DREAM Act Rally

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Immigration, Around Town, DREAM Act, immigration, reform, holding signs, TIRRC, Video

City Paper: Dean to Keep State Fair at Fairgrounds, Scrap Expo Center Move?

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Breaking News, Mayor Karl Dean, Fairgrounds, Nashville racetrack, expo center

View from the Fairgrounds: A Sampling of Racetrack Noise

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Politics, Tennessee State Fairgrounds, Nashville fairgrounds, racetrack noise, Video

Nashville Announces First Official Fashion Week March 29 - April 2

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Breaking News, Lexus Nashville Fashion Week

Can You Kill Someone Without Causing 'Horrific Pain?'

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Law and Order, Stephen Michael West, Tennessee lethal injection, Tennessee capital punishment

Idaho Prisoner Beaten In Nashville-Based Corrections Corp. of America Facility As Guards Look On

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Law and Order, Corrections Corp. of America, Idaho, Hanni Elabed, Associated Press, Video

View from the Fairgrounds: Goodbye Expo Center, Hello Antioch!

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Politics, Tennessee State Fairgrounds, Nashville fairgrounds, Nashville flea market, Antioch, Video

Cockfight: Antioch Protest Chicken, Meet the No Racetrack Rooster

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Crazy Crap

Bringing Some Light to Black Friday: The Community Foundation's Giving Card

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: By the Way, charity, CFMT, The Giving Card, why don't you do right

Adam Ross: No Good at Bad Sex

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Books, Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut, Jonathan Franzen, Bad Sex in Fiction Award, New York Times Notable Books of 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Milan Kundera, Ann Beattie, Ian McEwen, Nicole Krauss, Martin Amis, Philip Roth, Stephen Sondheim

View from the Fairgrounds: A Sampling of Racetrack History

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Politics, Tennessee State Fairgrounds, Nashville fairgrounds, Nashville Speedway, Marty Robbins, Video

Steve Gill: Kill Wikileaks Founder

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Media, WikiLeaks, Steve Gill, right-wing nutjobs, Julian Assange, First Amendment

Sarah Palin Killed Davis-Kidd!!!!

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Sarah Palin, Costco, Davis-Kidd

Come For the Funnel Cakes, Stay For the Hysteria

• by Stephen George
• Tags: Politics, Fairgrounds, Darden Copeland, Jackie Jones, Metro Parks

Holiday Waffle Shop Benefits Homeless Today at Downtown Presbyterian Church

• by Nicki P. Wood
• Tags: Around Town, Holiday Waffle Shop, Downtown Presbyterian Church

Frank Niceley Has to Take a Moment to Let the Little Lady Know She's Won Because She's Cute

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Beth Harwell, Frank Niceley

Take that, turkey! In praise of Nashville's indigenous burning bird — hot chicken

Heart Burn

• by Jim Ridley

Can We Hang When Jesus Comes, Rapture Billboard Lady?

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Hicks From the Sticks, Who is Edgar Whisenant?, Family Radio Inc., Allison Warden, Rapture dates, cumulonimbus chariots

George: No Picnic at the Fairgrounds

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Politics, Tennessee State Fairgrounds, Mayor Karl Dean, Music City Center

Joe Rehyansky: Making Tennessee Proud and by "Proud" I Mean "Embarrassed"

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Hicks From the Sticks, Joe Rehyansky

Tennessean Columnist and Pro-Execution Advocate Robert Blecker Goes Eloquently Off the Deep End

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Law and Order, Robert Blecker, Stephen Michael West, execution, lethal injection, death row, The Tennessean, perfect worlds

Comcast V. Netflix — Yet Another Reason to Hate Your Cable TV & Internet Provider

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Media, Comcast, Netflix, U-verse

Take That, Turkey: The Scene's Ode to Hot Chicken

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: By the Way, hot chicken

Judson Phillips Would Restrict Voting to Property Owners

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Judson Phillips, Tea Party

A guide to common hot-chicken sides and their cooling powers

Sideburns

• by Jim Ridley

Where to get Nashville hot chicken

Bird Watch

• by Jim Ridley

This is your brain on hot chicken

Tastes like Burning

• by Steve Haruch

Political and musical luminaries weigh in on hot chicken

Gut Reactions

So you just ate a pile of hot chicken. Guess what happens in about 24 hours?

Exit Strategies

• by Tracy Moore

How a twist of fortune, a confetti cannon and a large rabbit helped save the movie version of Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz

Into the Wild Blue

• by Steven Hale

How'd Vince Young go from invincible to indefensible — and will he ever come back?

Young Frankenstein

• by J.R. Lind

The tale of Grady's frugal Thanksgiving

Hamfisted

• by Walter Jowers

What's Worse? Willie Nelson Singing With Jessica Simpson or Willie Nelson Singing About Tacos? [Oh the Humility]

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Creamtastic, ballin', Bill Hicks, Christmas music, Jessica Simpson, marijuana, tacos, Texas, Willie Nelson, Video

Segway Cop Goes Country

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, honky-tonkin', Segway, the man I want to be, Video

Justin Townes Earle & Caitlin Rose at Mercy Lounge, 11/27/10

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Justin Townes Earle, Caitlin Rose, Mercy Lounge, Slideshow

The Spectacle of Society Is Right: Magic Hammer Farewell Show Tonight at The Building

• by Kari Ames
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Magic Hammer, complicated dance moves, dance dance revomitlution, metal, The Building

Stunning Cortney Tidwell Interview/Performance Featured in Arsenal's Four-Part Documentary Series

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Cortney Tidwell, Arsenal, KORT, "my angry guitar", Connie Eaton, interviews, Video

White Trash Formal Tonight at Melrose Billiards

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream Calendar, White Trash Formal, Armed Forces, Nite Nite, Evan P. Donohue, Sean Baloney

Heavy Cream Shirt! And Garage Rock Bands of the USA

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, garage

Wee-Yoo He Sounds Just Like Buddy Holly: Paul Burch Hanukkah Series Launches Tonight at Sundown

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, Paul Burch, hanukkah, Buddy Holly, downloads, free, Video

You Remember?: Monsters on Television, The Greenhornes, Friction + MSCB, Turbo Fruits & the Rock 'n' Roll Poll [Newsy/Vidsy Bits]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, Cleft Records, Monsters on Television, Surfer Blood, Turbo Fruits, Matt Friction, My So-Called Band, The Greenhornes, Rock 'n' Roll Poll

Charlie Louvin, The Low Anthem, The Black Cab Sessions & More: Inside This Week's Music Section

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Liner Notes, Charlie Louvin, The Low Anthem, The Black Cab Sessions, Tristen, The Greenhornes, Caitlin Rose, Tristen, Those Darlins, We Were the States, Altered Statesman

Back to Black Friday at Grimey's

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Metallica, Live at Grimey's, Back to Black Friday, Record Store Day, The Basement, Goatee McRecorddude, Video

We're Not Blogging for a Few Days

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, Thanksgiving, vacation, shows, but we'll be back

People Noticin': William Tyler in The New York Times, Willie Nelson Getting Busted & Village Voice Hatin' on Songs [Newsy Bits]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, William Tyler, Willie Nelson, Ke$ha, Taylor Swift, bad songs, roasting a bone or two, Behold the Spliff

Your Turntable's Nashville's Dead: Blog Record Label Preps New Useless Eaters, The Paperhead Singles

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, Nashville's Dead, vinyl, Useless Eaters, The Paperhead, singles

Bandcamp Round-Up: New and Newish Tunes from Cheyenne Medders, Dead Antlers, Natalie Prass, Mikky Ekko & More

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, Cheyenne Medders, Dead Antlers, Natalie Prass, Austin Yarbrough, Mikky Ekko, Spoken Nerd, Paris Ontario, Tristen, Michael Eades, Bandcamp, fresh tunes, RIYL

Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 40

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, The Chris Crofton Show, Dressed as some man from the future, Soapin' up my chest pubes, "GOT YOU IN THE SACK WITH A SEED!", I didn't get a sack hickey from a bumblebee, The truth about Crofton's ex-wife: grease trap manager, I could carry meat in a wine skin!, meat molder

Sharon Van Etten to Play The 5 Spot Jan. 22

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Sharon Van Etten, The 5 Spot, MP3, Audio

Justin Townes Earle & Ben Folds: Inside This Week's Music Section

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Liner Notes, Justin Townes Earle, Ben Folds, Liner Notes

Missed Connections: 'You Accused Me of Blocking the Door and I Accused You of Calling me Fat.'

• by Tracy Moore
• Tags: Creamtastic, Hard-A Club, Missed Connections

Diarrhea Planet, Big Surr, Spanish Candles & Reid Magette at The Frayed Knot

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Diarrhea Planet, Big Surr, Spanish Candles, Reid Magette, Frayed Knot, 'fraid so, Video

Match the Artist to the Venue: Rush, Reggie Watts, Lissie & Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Lissie, Reggie Watts, Rush, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, weirdest supergroup ever, Mercy Lounge, Cannery Ballroom, Third Man Records, Bridgestone Arena, Games!, Blind Item, Jake 'n' Tay-Tay, weird uncle, Video

Jack White Defends Third Man Selling Its Own Records on eBay, Donates Items for Andy Kotowicz Foundation

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Hot Goss, Jack White, Third Man Records, auctions, eBay

Ben Folds Says Some Things About the Internet, Pomplamoose and Nashville

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Interviews, Ben Folds, the Internet, Schermerhorn, symphony, Pomplamoose, Video

Bradford Cox vs. Sony Music in the Case of the Deleted Files [Updated: Woops, That Was a Mistake]

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Hot Goss, Bradford Cox, Sony Music, delete first, ask questions later, Atlas Sound, Blogger, in the bedroom

Grapefruit Record Club to Release New Albums by Lambchop, Richard Youngs, L. Eugene Methe and 200 Years via Subscription

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, Grapefruit Record Club, Lambchop, vinyl, subscriptions, tempted by the Grapefruit of another, Music City Shits

Denney and The Jets, 'Killing Machine' [Fresh Video]

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Denney and The Jets, vertical horizon, aspect ratio, anamorphic, Cinemascope, cell phone cameras, Video

And the Relatives, 'Hammer Down' [Fresh Vid]

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, And the Relatives, hammers, pantyhose faces, Video

Ben Folds is serious about rebuilding the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, even if he does like goofing around on the Internet

Ben There

• by Steve Haruch

Justin Townes Earle returns to Tennessee, a step ahead of his demons once again

Live Through This

• by Jewly Hight

Nick Cave's Grinderman at The Cannery Ballroom

Mel Tillis talks comedy; Ray Charles, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan celebrated among fine new releases

• by Ron Wynn

The Oldest Holiday Celebration in Town is About ... Waffles

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Events, Waffle Shop, holiday events, holiday charities, waffles, turkey hash, cheese wafers, Downtown Presbyterian Church

Sweet CeCe's Plan for World Domination Continues

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Restaurant openings, Sweet CeCe's, CeCe Moore, frozen yogurt, Bellevue restaurants

Some Like it Hot: In Praise of Hot Chicken in This Week's Scene

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Foods, Nashville hot chicken, Prince's, Bolton's, 400 Degrees, The Pie Wagon, Corner Pub, hot chicken, Nashville Hot Chicken Festival

Exit Strategies: The Most Important Article You May Ever Read

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Good advice, Nashville hot chicken, ring of fire, flamin' anus, Dickerson Road Steamer, anus horribilis

Be Thankful for the Sides at the Downtown Turnip Truck

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Foods, Turnip Truck, Nashville downtown groceries, corn pudding, Nashville Thanksgiving menus, Laura Wilson, Sam Tucker

Wijn Woensdag: Share Some Holiday Cheer with a Kopstootje

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Drinks, Holland House, holiday cocktails, shots, spirits, Bols Genever, kopstootje

'Top Chef All-Stars' Premieres Tomorrow Night

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: TV Dinner, Top Chef All-Stars, Top Chef, competitive cooking, Arnold Myint, Carla Hall, Tom Colicchio, Anthony Bourdain

My Favorite Thanksgiving Tradition: I Hope You'll Be Entertained and a Little Moved

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Party Mix, Traditions, Adam Sandler, ThanksKilling, aspic, video, Video

Morton's Mondays Benefit Toys for Tots

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, Morton's the Steakhouse, holiday charities, Toys for Tots

Food Safety Bill: Early Christmas Present from Congress, or Lump of Coal?

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: News, food safety, federal food regulation, food legislation, tainted food, food recalls

What Would Wu Do?

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Fun and Games, food blogs, Mr. Wu Project, healthy eating, Chinese food, Chinese restaurants, Royal Panda in Memphis, Memphis restaurants, Gwenyth Paltrow needs to eat a whole damned cheeseburger instead of having an assistant blog about it for her

Eating 'Weigh' More at St. Cloud Corner, Circa 1880

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Food Fight, competitive eating, gluttony-based wagers, Nashville history, Old News blog, Tom Wood, E. Thomas Wood

Oysters Add Touch of Class to Margaritaville

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Restaurant openings, Margaritaville, oysters, oysters Rockefeller, oysters Bienville

The Gulch gets a gastronomic green grocer in Turnip Truck

Look What Just Turned Up

• by Carrington Fox
• Tags: Dining, Turnip Truck

Despite the product Jake Gyllenhaal's peddling, Love and Other Drugs is more limp than penetrating

Viagra Falls

• by Bilge Ebiri

The Tangled mother-daughter relationship is strong stuff for Disney

• by Jim Ridley

Short takes on 127 Hours, Welcome to the Rileys and The Next Three Days

Nashville-area artists create a picture book that simultaneously celebrates the city and raises funds for flood relief

Counting the Ways

• by Margaret Renkl and Chapter16.org