Nashville Scene

How Does a Convicted DUI Killer Keep Getting Back Behind the Wheel?

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Law and Order, Danny Lee Ross Jr., Nashville DUI laws, 287(g), Sheriff Daron Hall, Gustavo Garcia Reyes

Pick of the Day: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at Lipscomb University

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, Nashville theater, Lipscomb University, Shamblin Theater

The People Issue 2011

Pick of the Day: Holy Ghost Tent Revival at FooBar

• by Edd Hurt
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, FooBar, Video

Pick of the Day: Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior at The Frist

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Vishnu exhibit, Vishnu, The Frist, Joan Cummins

Pick of the Day: Deneen Coleman-Ruff's Testimony at the Parthenon

• by Laura Hutson
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Deneen Coleman-Ruff, Testimony, Parthenon, Parthenon art exhibits, Nashville artists, Nashville art, Nashville art exhibits

Vandy Alum/Federal Judge Stays Own Health-Care Ruling

• by Brantley Hargrove
• Tags: Politics, Judge Roger Vinson, Vandy alum, Affordable Care Act

Pick of the Day: Kaz Video Wicked Amazing Super Party at The Basement

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Kevin Kaz, Kaz Video, Charles Butler & Associates, Deep Fried 5, Telecommunicators, Matthew Hungate, The Jones Brothers Experience, Hugh Mundy, Video

Bullets in the Washing Machine: A Scene from Nashville's Low-Income Housing Crisis

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: The Economy, Nashville low-income housing, City Paper

Nashville Symphony Bargain Alert! Slatkin Conducts Philip Glass for $20!

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Silverman, Leonard Slatkin, Big Deal Nashville, Nashville Symphony, Philip Glass

Just Like Crazy Otto: Johnny Maddox Wins Governor's Arts Award

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Johnny Maddox, Crazy Otto, Grateful Dead, Thomas Maupin, Estelle Condra, W.O. Smith School, Video

Legendary Docudrama On the Bowery Opens Tonight at Belcourt

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, Belcourt, Milestone Films, Martin Scorsese, John Cassavetes, Video

Woods: Dead Dog Days for City Governments?

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Legislature, Glen Casada, David Fowler, Nashville nondiscrimination

Woods: Senate Votes to Kill State Income Tax Once and for All

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Legislature, Tennessee income tax, no Tennessee income tax, Tennessee income tax amendment, Tennessee Constitution, Bill Ketron, Brian Kelsey, Tennessee currency

Woods: Huffman & Haslam's Collective Silence on Collective Bargaining

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Woods, Bill Haslam, Kevin Huffman, collective bargaining, Tennessee collective bargaining

Dudley Park: A Review

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Dudley Park, Nashville park reviews, Metro Parks

Phantom of the Opera Fans: Franc D'Ambrosio Tonight at Blair

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Franc D'Ambrosio, The Phantom of the Opera, SENSE Theatre, autism

Happy Wife, Happy Life, Unhappy Comedian — Nashville Comic Sues 'Real Housewife'

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Silverman, Jeffrey Mishler, Jeff Allen, Christian comedy, Real Housewives, Teresa Giudice, Video

Dave Feldberg, World's Best Disc Golfer, Gives Free Clinic This Weekend

• by John Lamb
• Tags: Sports, Dave Feldberg, disc golf, Nashville disc golf, Hendersonville disc golf, PDGA, Video

Pick of the Day: Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra Free Spring Concert

• by John Pitcher
• Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Nashville free concerts, Nashville Philarmonic Orchestra, Debussy, Dvorak, Don Hart

Could Tennessee Steal Wisconsin's Spotlight?

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Stacey Campfield, Wisconsin, Tennessee unions, Tennessee right-to-work state

Welcome Home! Those Gone North Are Returning South

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, The Great Migration

From Nicole Kidman, Beth Harwell, Christine Maddela and Friends: The People Issue 2011:

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Around Town, The People Issue, Nicole Kidman, Beth Harwell, Christine Maddela, Gunner Sweeney, Linda Mendez, Ravi Gupta, John Williamson

Glen Casada's bill to strip cities of zoning power could have dire repercussions at the local level

Twilight Zoning

• by Christine Kreyling

Nobody asked the feds if they want to join Elliott Ozment's 287(g) scrum — the city just assumed they would. Now the feds have made it clear they don't.

The Blindside

• by Brantley Hargrove

Nicole Kidman

The Actress

• by Noel Murray

A doomed Hank Williams, scary clowns, and a boom year for world cinema firm up a strong Nashville Film Festival lineup

Celluloid Carnival

• by Jim Ridley

John Guider

The Adventurer

• by Jack Silverman

Tony Formosa Jr.

The Stockcar Showman

• by Stephen George

Jacqueline Menish

The Bird Lady

• by Jim Ridley

Ademir and Adriana

The Dreamers

• by Steve Haruch

Charles-Marie Anthonioz

The Producer

• by Jack Silverman

Christine Maddela

The Anchorwoman

• by Steve Haruch

Gunner Sweeney

The Entrepreneur

• by D. Patrick Rodgers

Linda Mendez and Ravi Gupta

The Educators

• by Tracy Moore

John Albert

The Man in the Crowd

• by Adam Gold

John Williamson

The Coach

• by J.R. Lind

Leslie Keffer

The Noisemaker

• by Steve Haruch

Jean "Momma" Burch

The Den Mother

• by D. Patrick Rodgers

Sam Smith

The Cover Artist

• by Jim Ridley

Krazy Kyle Hankins

The Entertainer

• by J.R. Lind

Brazilbilly

The House Band

• by Edd Hurt

Mark Dunkerley

The Brewer

• by Sean L. Maloney

Talmage Shearer

The Clothier

• by Sean L. Maloney

Jasen Howard

The Street Salesman

• by Stephen George

Love/Hate Mail

Before you hand a contractor a fistful of dough, consider this

Contractually Bound

• by Walter Jowers

Beth Harwell

The Speaker

• by Jim Ridley

James Wallace, Caitlin Rose, Dee Goodz and Sugar Skulls All Have Videos

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, James Wallace and the Naked Light, Caitlin Rose, Jensen Sportag, Dee Goodz, Sugar Skulls, Kelli Shay Hix, Video

Gwyneth Paltrow Reportedly Inks Record Deal With Atlantic Records

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Hot Goss, National Skyline, GOOP don't let me down, Country Strong?, Country Weak?, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kelly Cantor, or can she?

The People Issue 2011: People Are People, Musically Speaking

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream, The People Issue, 2011, Leslie Keffer, Brazilbilly, Krazy Kyle Hankins, John Albert, Sam Smith

Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 49

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, The Chris Crofton Show, Get those noodles out of your dairy sections!, I'm getting communications from outer space, If you feel like being humiliated by a human tiger, People are after my soy milk!, Banging 7-gram rocks, The old Mussolini Technique, The Sheen-Gaddafi Connection, Made from human breast milk, Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest, speed on before you get peed on, rich people deaths, Nicholas Gobble-dee-ots-sotsos, "I had to get to the strip club somehow."

Freakin' Weekend: Davila 666, Turbo Fruits, Natural Child, Denney and the Jets & Cannomen at Springwater, 3/6/11

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Freakin' Weekend, Cannomen, Turbofruits, Davila 666, Denney & The Jets, Natural Child, Slideshow

JEFF the Brotherhood, United Record Pressing and 500 Free 7-Inches at SXSW

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, SXSW, United Record Pressing, JEFF the Brotherhood, SXSW, free, 7-inch records, do you like rhetorical questions?, Audio

Nashville's Dead's Freakin' Weekend, March 4-6

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Moving Pictures, Freakin' Weekend, Nashville's Dead, fresh vids, Heavy Cream, Diarrhea Planet, D. Watusi, Slammers, Davila 666, Local Honey, pop-up shop, Video

Weekend Round-Up: Duckie Style

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, weekend round-up, Duckie, InterSheen, Freakin' Weekend, Davila 666, Ty Segall, Turbo Fruits, Korean Is Asian, JEFF the Brotherhood, Heavy Cream, PUJOL, Slammers, D. Watusi, Useless Eaters, Flogging Molly, Bravo Max, The Nobility, Cortney Tidwell, Yacht Rock Revue, YEAH! Rock Block Camp Benefit

Korean Is Asian Album Release Saturday Night at The 5 Spot, Plus an MP3

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Korean Is Asian, Caress, Audio

Road Trip to Chicago: Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, TV on the Radio and More Announced to Play Pitchfork Music Festival 2011, July 15-17

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream Calendar, National Skyline, Animal Collective, bands, Chicago, fan pages, indie old-school vs. indie zeitgeist, Pitchfork Festival 2011, roadtrippin'

Caption Contest: Tennis + La Sera Giveaway!

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Creamtastic, Tennis, La Sera, caption contest, The Basement, ships

Conference Call: PUJOL, 'Providence'

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, PUJOL, Conference Call, eat and breathe, Video

Questlove w/Dee Goodz, Chance Warhol & Wick-It at Mai, 3/7/11

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Questlove, Wick-It, Chance Warhol, Dee Goodz, Mai, hip-hop, unsolicited reviews, Slideshow

Freakin' Weekend: JEFF the Brotherhood, Jacuzzi Boys, Cy Barkley and Diarrhea Planet at Exit/In, 3/4/11

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Freakin' Weekend, JEFF the Brotherhood, Jacuzzi Boys, Cy Barkley and Diarrhea Planet, Exit/In, Slideshow

Miley Sexting KOL; OMG WUT???

• by Ashley Spurgeon
• Tags: Hot Goss, Miley Cyrus, Jared Followill, Robert Frost, Impressionism, sexting

Harmony Korine/Die Antwoord Short to Premiere at SXSW, Tristen Gets Stoned, Across Tundras on A.V.

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Newsy Bits, Die Antwoord, Harmony Korine, Tristen, Denise Grollmus, The Black Keys, Patrick Carney, Across Tundras

Keegan DeWitt on Scoring Cold Weather, Tonight at Belcourt

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Keegan DeWitt, Aaron Katz, Cold Weather, Charlie Sheen, Belcourt, Video

Hear the Wick-It Get Drummer

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Moving Pictures, DJ Wick-It, turntablism, scratch-drummin', Video

NPR Loves Amanda Shires and SXSW, Next Big Nashville Loves SXSW, & Heypenny Will Be There, Too [SXSW-y Bits]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: SXSW, Newsy Bits, South by Southwest, NPR, All Songs Considered, Amanda Shires, Third Man Records, Next Big Nashville, panels, Heypenny, You Ain't No Picasso

The Freakin' Weekend, David Mayfield Parade, Charley Pride and More: Inside This Week's Music Section

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Liner Notes, Freakin' Weekend, Nashville's Dead, David Mayfield, Charley Pride, Alias

Nashville Hangs on in American Idol as Paul McDonald, Lauren Alaina and Ashthon Jones Advance

• by Lee Stabert
• Tags: National Skyline, American Idol, Paul McDonald, Lauren Alaina, Ashthon Jones, ethnic noses, Slivovitz

Photo of the Week: The Tennessean on the State of Music Row Jobs

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Whatevs, Hot jobs growing cool, Music Row, The Tennessean, Photo of the Week, At first I was like, but then I was like, Local Rock Dude

Aaron Robinson Gets More Porn Action, Brandon Jazz Blogs, Caitlin Rose's 5-Year-Old Fangirl Goes Viral, Protomen Kick-Start a Documentary [Stats-y Bits]

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Newsy Bits, Aaron Robinson, Brandon Jazz, YouJazz, Caitlin Rose, numbers, Rowan, The Protomen, statistics, video, Westboro Baptist Church, YouJizz ... more, Video

In its second year, the Nashville's Dead-curated Freakin' Weekend climbs out of the cellar and into the rock clubs

Tennessee's Dying

• by D. Patrick Rodgers

Rock music has undergone generations of upgrades, but David Mayfield likes the original model

That'll Be the Day

• by Jewly Hight

A legend finally at ease in the recording studio, Charley Pride reflects on Choices

Country's Last Stand

• by Ron Wynn

Alias' debut disc, featuring Gabriela Lena Frank, was well worth the wait

A Frank Assessment

• by John Pitcher

Road to Bonnaroo 2011, round one: Chancellor Warhol, Evan P. Donohue, Tyler Bryant and more

The Spin

Paula Deen Riding Things

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: Fun and Games, Paula Deen Riding Things, Paula Deen, food humor

Breakfast in Sylvan Park at . . . Sylvan Park

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: News, Sylvan Park Restaurant, breakfast in Nashville, Sylvan Park restaurants, meat-and-threes, fried bologna -- the breakfast of champions

Better Ladle Than Never: Bites Reports Soup Sunday Winners

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: News, Our Kids Soup Sunday, chef contests, soup glorious soup, Noshville, Whitfield's, The Dogwood Room at Park Manor

West End Dairy Queen's Hidden in Plain Sight

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Cheap Eats, Dairy Queen, Cheap Eats

Shish-Kappeal: If You Haven't Been to Shish Kabob, You Don't Know Kashk

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Restaurants, Shish Kabob, House of Kabob, Nashville Persian restaurants, Nashville Middle Eastern restaurants, hummus, kashk, dolmeh, falafel, Hikmet Gazi, Nashville falafel, Nashville stuffed grape leaves

Eat This Landscape: Food Fun at the Lawn & Garden Show

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: Events, Nashville Lawn & Garden Show, edible landscaping, Rosalind Creasy

Wandering Wino: Man v. Booze Edition

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Drinks, Wandering Wino, beer tastings, wine tastings, scotch tastings, Morton's Steakhouse, Spiegelau glassware, Miel, West Meade Wine and Liquor, Uptown's, Grace's Plaza Wine and Liquor, Village Wines, 360 Bistro, Midtown Wine and Spirits, The Standard, Frugal MacDoogal's, Amerigo, Vinea, Mafiaoza's

A Contradiction So Delicious You Can Taste It at Amerigo

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Restaurants, Meatless Monday, Wine and Swine, Porkapalooza, Amerigo, Amerigo West End, Amerigo Cool Springs, Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?

Nashvillian Competing on America's Next Great Restaurant

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: TV Dinner, Eric Powell, Bobby Flay, America's Next Great Restaurant

Adam Richman, 'Man v. Food' Strut Their Stuff at Rooster's

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: News, Adam Richman, Man v. Food, Rooster's Texas-Style BBQ and Steakhouse

Beer & Bacon Tuesdays at Cabana

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, Beer & Bacon Tuessdays, bacon, Cabana

Meet Mayor at Whole Foods Party to Launch Energy-Saving Program

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: News, Karl Dean, Whole Foods, green efforts, home energy conservation, Go Green Nashville

'Wild Shot' Wednesday: Toby Keith Wants You to Be a Good American and Drink His New Mezcal

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Drinks, Wild Shot Mezcal, mezcal, Toby Keith, Man I hope the Toby Keith fan club doesn't find this post by googling these tags

Weekly Open Thread Passes Along Church's Chicken's Apology

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Open Thread, Weekly Open Thread, Church's Chicken, restaurant apologies, restaurant customer service, fried chicken in Nashville

"Pour Though Portugal Event" Tonight at Mambu

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, wine dinners, Mambu, Portuguese wine

60 Years of Granny's Groovy Kitchen Gear

• by Nicki Wood
• Tags: Kitchen Gear, Kitchen Gear, vacation homes

New Middle Eastern restaurant Shish Kabob stakes out a familiar claim

Shish-Kappeal

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Dining, Shish Kabob

Aaron Katz's muted mystery Cold Weather offers pleasures beyond the solving of a crime

Cloudy and Cool

• by Steven Hale

When it comes to mind-blowing sci-fi, The Adjustment Bureau doesn't know Dick

Bureau of Missing Excitement

• by Craig D. Lindsey

The heroine of Korean melodrama The Housemaid behaves too much like a houseplant

• by Steve Erickson

Even at three hours, Blackbird's staging of Tom Stoppard's high-minded comedy-thriller Arcadia is riveting theater

Brain Teaser

• by Martin Brady

The March Art Crawl looks a whole lot like the February version — and that's a good thing

• by Joe Nolan