Nashville Scene

Army of City Officials Opposes GOP Power Play on Schools, But Where's Karl Dean?

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics

Meet the First Ever Openly Gay Metro Council At-Large Candidate

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Around Town, John Lasiter, Metro Council candidate

Firearms Association Takes Aim at Kelsey for Crossing Beavers

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics

House Bill Limit Fails to Curtail the Crazy

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

Ron Ramsey vs. the NRA?

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Legislature, Ron Ramsey, Wayne LaPierre, NRA, guns, carry permit, Tennessee General Assembly, guns in parking lots

No, Rep. Duncan, You Don't Really Think Violence Against Women is as American as Apple Pie

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Jimmy Duncan, Violence Against Women Act, VAWA, Chattanooga Times Free Press

The Hippodrome: Imma Let You Finnish

• by J.R. Lind
• Tags: Sports, The Hippodrome, Finland, Teemu Selanne, Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators, Vanderbilt Commodores, U.S. Soccer, TSU Tigers, Belmont Bruins, Vanderbilt Commodores, Corn Elder, James Franklin, old-school sport

Marsha Blackburn Waxes Nostalgic about When She Made Twice the Minimum Wage

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Marsha Blackburn, minimum wage, who says a dollar doesn't buy much anym—oops

Sen. Ken Yager Suggests A Bill Doesn't Have a 'Chinaman's Chance'

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Legislature, Ken Yager, Chinaman's chance, Tennessee legislature, Video

GOP House Leader Calls for Retaliating Against Media for Making Republicans Look Stupid

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Media

Guns-in-Parking-Lots Bill Firing Toward House Floor

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

Politico Hails Haslam: 'The GOP Star You've Never Heard Of' [Warning: This Is Not a Spoof]

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Politics

Whopper of the Century: Stacey Campfield Says He's Not Seeking Attention

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Crazy Crap

Gift of Grandpappy's Gun Makes Ramsey Cry, and That's Why We Can't Have Universal Background Checks

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Crazy Crap

From This Week's House Hearing, the Case Against State-Level Charter School Authorizer

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature, Video

Turner Takes Shots at Harwell Over Charter Schools

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

Beavers Disputes Couple of Centuries of Supreme Court Rulings

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

No One Deserves to Be Abused

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Law and Order, domestic abuse, domestic violence, assault

The Sex Issue 2013

Harwell Delays Charter Schools Bill; Is Compromise in the Works?

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Education

Harwell Defends Herself, Denies Resegregation Charge

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

'Can't Say Gay (Except to Narc to Parents)' Has a House Sponsor

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Stacey Campfield, John Ragan, HB1332, Don't Say Gay, Can't Say Gay (Except to Narc to Parents)

Rep. Sherry Jones Is Getting Access to DCS Files

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Law and Order, Sherry Jones, DCS, Department of Children's Services

In Surprise, House Republican Squishes Win One Against Kooks

• by Jeff Woods
• Tags: Legislature

Cohen Non-Scandal Reveals Valentines Surprise and a TNGOP Boner

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Congress, Steve Cohen, Anthony Weiner, Victoria Brink, deleted tweets, daugther, TNGOP

The State Museum's new Civil War exhibit briefly displays Lincoln's handwritten Emancipation Proclamation — but that's not the whole story

History Written in Longhand

• by J.R. Lind

The GOP supermajority must decide whether a federal windfall is worth a politically toxic dose of ObamaCare

Bitter Pills

• by Jeff Woods

A local businesswoman wants to teach you about sex, door to door

Gimme Friction

• by Laura Hutson

Money can't buy love at a website for sugar daddies, but there's plenty it can rent

Need a Little Sugar?

• by Abby White

Greased and slicked down with the director of Nashville's S&M dungeon

Trampled Underfoot

• by Laura Hutson

Hook-up protocol for the limited singles pool in East Nashville, where dating is Darwinism

The Rules of Attraction

• by Seth Graves

Reading about your sex life in the newspaper isn't as much fun as it sounds

My Life as Mr. Big

• by "Alien Boy"

Spurgeon's General Warning: Neighborhoods of London

• by Ashley Spurgeon
• Tags: Whatevs, Moving Pictures, Spurgeon's General Warning, London, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mary Poppins, Street Smartz, Pulp, Good Shoes, The Clash, Madness, Ethelred the Unready, leftover bombs from WWII, Michael Caine, Video

A Song for Craig: Lurking in the Craigslist 'Musicians' Community [East Nashville]

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Whatevs, Craigslist, sadness, A Song for Craig, "musicians" community, East Nashville

Caption Contest: Freakin' Weekend Ticket Giveaway; See the Full Lineup Now! [Updated]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, caption contests, ticket giveaways, Nashville's Dead, Freakin' Weekend, show announcements, concert announcements, The End, Exit/In, Black Lips, JEFF the Brotherhood, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, White Fence, Natural Child, PUJOL, Cy Barkley, D. Watusi, Ranch Ghost, Doo It

Remembering Mindy McCready: Bravo's Naked Nashville

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Cream, Mindy McCready, suicide, Bummerino Metropolis, Naked Nashville, Bravo TV, Video

Ben Todd, The Mavericks, Tift Merritt, Nashville Blues Festival, Pallbearer and More: Inside This Week’s Music Section (and Elsewhere)

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Liner Notes, Ben Todd, The Mavericks, Tift Merritt, Nashville Blues Festival, Pallbearer, liner notes

Party & Bullsh*t: This Week in Nashville Hip-Hop [Ben Todd]

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Newsy Bits, Party & Bullsh*t, Nashville Hip-Hop, I don't care if it's Night Train or champagne, Video

Best Local Rock Songs Ever, Part Five [Charlie Rich, Dallas Frazier, Moldy Goldies, Moby Grape]

• by Edd Hurt
• Tags: Creamtastic, Best Local Rock Songs Ever, Charlie Rich, Dallas Frazier, Moldy Goldies, Moby Grape, '60s, rock 'n' roll

Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 122

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, The Chris Crofton Show, The Scientist comin' in from Kentucky with a load of mousetraps, hot yoga, groupies, steaming crotches and suggestive slide guitar, a bunch of yelping children, Passion Pit, hold up your cell phones, wet your pants, suck your thumb, 35-year-old baby, The Eunuchs, more bands than people, jackass soy boys, clamheads

Get Plow'd in the ’Boro on Saturday Night

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Murfreesboro, Plow'd, cowpunk, Hank Flamingo, Blind Farmers From Hell, Roy Watts, Eddie Grigg, Ben Northern, Johnny Montgomery, Zack Montgomery

Jack White Is Record Store Day 2013's Official Ambassador

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream, Moving Pictures, Jack White, Karl Dean, Record Store Day 2013, United Record Pressing, Record Store Day, Third Man Records, LOLs, Video

Sam Doores + Riley Downing and the Tumbleweeds, Promised Land, Phil Lee, Webb Wilder and Fred Koller Tonight at The Stone Fox

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, The Stone Fox, Sam Doores + Riley Downing and the Tumbleweeds, Promised Land, Webb Wilder, Phil Lee, Fred Koller, Video

Watch Night Beds Perform on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Night Beds, performance vids, fresh vids, Winston Yellen, NPR, Tiny Desk Concerts, slobber, new-media darlings, Video

Weekend Round-Up: Pope Style

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, weekend round-up, East Nashville Underground, Machines Are People Too, Magnolia Sons, All Them Witches, Glossary, Smokey Robinson, Emancipator, fun., Colorfeels, Hanzelle, Moon Taxi, James Wallace and the Naked Light, Ponychase, Tipper Whore, QDP, Wayne Hancock

Useless Eaters, Hypertension [Review]

• by Stephen Trageser
• Tags: Reviews, reviews, Useless Eaters, Seth Sutton, Jeffery Drag, Jay Reatard, Casey Weissbuch, Chet Jameson, Drew Akers, Hypertension

Paul McCartney, Mumford and Sons, R. Kelly, Bjork, Tom Petty and More Top Bonnaroo Lineup

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Bonnaroo, Bonnaroo, lineup, Paul McCartney, Mumford and Sons, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bjork, Wilco

Doin' Good, Feelin' Good Dispatch: The Protomen Auction off Their Old Shit and Give Some of the Money to Charity

• by Stephen Trageser
• Tags: Cream, The Protomen, good causes, eBay, auctions, gear, nerds, PSA, the American Brain Tumor Association, Child's Play

Third Man Records, The Belcourt and James Cathcart Partner on Avant-Garde Film Series

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Moving Pictures, James Cathcart, Third Man Records, The Belcourt, The Light and Sound Machine, Kentucker Audley, Dustin Guy Defa, Bad Fever, Joshua Safdie, Ben Safdie, Nashville experimental film, Dan Sallitt, The Unspeakable Act, Perfumed Nightmare, Kidlat Tahimik, Video

fun. w/All Get Out at the Ryman, 2/16/13

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, The Spin, fun., the Ryman, All Get Out, flugelhorn, Slideshow

The Week in Fresh Tracks [Sol Cat, Readymade Records, Tipper Whore, Meth Dad, Clear Plastic Masks, Repeat Repeat, More]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Music, The Week in Fresh Tracks, fresh tracks, Dolly Parton, The Kingston Springs, Alabama Shakes, Daytrotter, Sol Cat, Readymade Reocrds, Meth Dad, Clear Plastic Masks, Tipper Whore, Repeat Repeat, Video

The Independent Streams Caitlin Rose's The Stand-In

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Music, Caitlin Rose, The Independent, The Stand In, fresh tracks, ATO

Bruno Mars and Fitz and the Tantrums To Play Bridgestone Arena Aug. 17

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Bruno Mars, Bridgestone Arena, Fitz and the Tantrums, Les Savy Fav, Lightning Bolt, show announcements, concert announcements

Useless Eaters' 'Hypertension' [Fresh Vid]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, fresh vid, Seth Sutton, Useless Eaters, Jeffery Drag, Hypertension, Video

Daniel Romano: The Cream Interview

• by Jewly Hight
• Tags: Interviews, Interviews, Daniel Romano, The Constantines, Baby Eagle, Attack in Black, You've Changed Records, Normaltown Records, Manuel, Nudie, When I Was a Bro

East Nashville Underground Feat. James Wallace and the Naked Light, Frances and the Foundation, Colorfeels and More, 2/16/13

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, East Nashville Underground, The Spin, Colorfeels, Frances and the Foundation, James Wallace and the Naked Light, COIN, The East Room, Slideshow

Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 123

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, The Chris Crofton Show, Quad system, CD4 separation knob, stylus, stylist, blow-drying corduroy, toggle switch, zither, clock radio calibration, accordion-arm-boxing-glove alarm clock, early bird got the infidel, unnerving chicken presence, make sure you don't teach anybody anything

Ball-less: Lady Gaga Cancels March 10 Born This Way Ball Appearance at Bridgestone Arena Due to 'Labral Tear'

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream, cancellations, Bummerino Metropolis, Lady Gaga, Bridgestone Arena

Phil Lee leaving Nashville? Say it ain't so!

Exit Interview

• by Jim Ridley

Black Francis on Frank Black, Pixies, Nashville and more

Speaking Frankly

• by Adam Gold

Band of (figurative) brothers Jukebox the Ghost settles in for Safe Travels

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

• by Chris Parker

Alias Chamber Ensemble presents the world premiere of composer and scientist John Marvin's new sonata

Rocket Man

• by John Pitcher

Dissecting pop outfit fun. and their Grammy-winning breakthrough record, Some Nights

Serious fun.

• by Edd Hurt

Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling defies convention with his homage to Brill Building standards

Brill Seeker

• by Ron Wynn

Torres with BF/GF Sex and Catfish at The Basement, Wooden Wand with Lylas and Meadownoise at The Stone Fox

The Spin

The Weekly Open Thread: User-Generated Restaurant Reviews

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Open Thread, user-generated reviews, Google+, Yelp, Urbanspoon, TripAdvisor, restaurant reviews, Tupelo Honey, Garage Bar, Louisville, Asheville

Wine Wednesday: Donelan Family Wines

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Wine, Wine, Wine Wednesday, Donelan Family Wines, Syrah

Mangia! with Nashville Shakes on the Eve of the Ides of March

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, Mangia Nashville, Fundraiser dinner, Nashville Shakespeare, Nick Pellegrino

Table 3 Reaches Out to the Lazy Cook Inside Us All

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Good advice, Table 3, Grab-and-go dinners in Nashville, Weeknight Family Meals

Beard Nominations: Lockeland Table, Tyler Brown, Margot McCormack, Tandy Wilson

• by Steve Cavendish
• Tags: Restaurants, Tyler Brown, Tandy Wilson, Margot McCormack, Lockeland Table, Hal Holden-Bache, James Beard Awards

Finally, a New Food Truck Concept I Can Get Behind — Doughworks

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Restaurant openings, Food Trucks, Doughworks, doughnuts, Friedman's Army Navy

Soup's On this Sunday for Our Kids

• by Lesley Lassiter
• Tags: Events, Our Kids Soup Sunday

First Bite: Viener Fest

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: First Bite, Viener Fest, wurst in Nashville, schnitzel in Nashville, German food in Nashville, Austrian food in Nashville

Wandering Wino: 'Ode to Barbera' Edition

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Wine, 100% Italiano, Flyte World Dining and Wine, Barbera, Grand Cru, Woodland Wine Merchant

Otaku South's Sarah Gavigan: Why I Make a $13 Bowl of Ramen

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: Conversation Bites

Rumours Wine Bar Reopens in Icon Building in Gulch

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: Restaurant openings, Rumours 12th and Division, Jenn McCarthy, Christy Shuff, Jo Ellen Brown, wine bars in Nashville, Gulch restaurants

Dine Out Monday Night at Germantown Café to Benefit the Jay Luther Scholarship Fund

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, Charitable dinner, Jay Luther, Chris Lowry, Germantown Cafe, Jay Luther Scholarship Fund, Randy Rayburn Culinary School, Nashville Originals

First Bite: Rosebud Bistro

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: First Bite, First Bite, Mambu, Rosebud Bistro, Anita Hartel, Jan Firek

A guide to scoring points with your lover (or yourself) on Valentine's Day

Just Desserts

• by Abby White

The Deer Hunter's Vietnam remains troublesome, but its maimed Middle America is more affecting than ever

Hart of Darkness

• by Michael Sicinski

A sidesplitting work of staggering genius — yes, that's Belcourt midnight movie Pootie Tang

Call of Pootie

• by Jason Shawhan

Reconsidering the controversial path of civil-rights leader Whitney Young in a new documentary

Talking Soft and Saying Something

• by Ron Wynn

You May Already Be a Winner! Last Week to Enter Nashville Scene Photo Contest

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Country Life, Nashville Scene Photo Contest

Local Comedian Brian E. Kiley Killed in a Car Accident [Updated]

• by Lance Conzett
• Tags: Comedy, Brian E. Kiley, obituaries, Bummerino Metropolis, NashvilleStandUp.com, Zanies, Video

Presenting Patrick DeGuira: The Nashville Artist Talks Tonight at Watkins

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Visual Art, Patrick DeGuira, Watkins College, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Prince, lecture, exhibition, Zeitgeist, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University

An Interview With Mercury, Lord of The Mark

• by Laura Hutson
• Tags: Culture, The Mark, CPI, Mercury, FetLife, S&M, BDSM, kink, kinky, sex, sex issue, Q&A

Nashville 2012 Trailer From Docujournal Project Looks Pretty Great

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Film, Nashville Docujournal, The Moving Picture Boys, Nashville 2012, film, documentary, Video

Daniel Frazier Headlines Pictures of Fireworks, Tonight at Fido

• by Lance Conzett
• Tags: Culture, Pictures of Fireworks, Corporate Juggernaut, Fido, Jane Borden, Sean Maloney, Bobby Allyn, Daniel Frazier, Will Copeland

Third Man, Belcourt, James Cathcart Partner on Avant-Garde Film Series

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, James Cathcart, Third Man Records, Belcourt, The Light And Sound Machine, Kentucker Audley, Dustin Guy Defa, Bad Fever, Joshua Safdie, Ben Safdie, Nashville experimental film, Dan Sallitt, The Unspeakable Act, Perfumed Nightmare, Kidlat Tahimik, Video

Nashville Means Business at FilmNashville's Belcourt Town Hall Meeting

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, FilmNashville, Town Hall Meeting, Film-Com, Belcourt, Karl Dean, Beth Curley, Nashville Public Television, AFFT, Jan Austin, Gisela Moore, Marilyn Edwards

Tonight: East Side Storytellin' w/Kevin Wilson and Amanda Shires at Rumours East

• by Joe Nolan
• Tags: Books, Family Fang, Kevin Wilson, Rumours East, Chuck Beard, East Side Storytellin'

Luxury Label Ledbury Loves Nashville

• by Abby White
• Tags: Fashion, Ledbury, Peter Nappi, Phillip Nappi, Imogene + Willie, Jay Wilkison, Avenue Bank, Ron Samuels, Max Goldberg, Benjamin Goldberg, pop-up shop

Project Runway: Week Four

• by Abby White
• Tags: Fashion, Television, Project Runway, Amanda Valentine, reality TV

'On Race, Health and Justice': Melissa Harris-Perry at Vanderbilt Tonight

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Culture, MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry, Vanderbilt, lecture

You WILL Believe a Man Can Deliver an Entire Intro in Pootiespeak

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, Pootie Tang, Belcourt, Pootiespeak, Louis C.K., cunning linguistics, follow that Anthony Burgess, sa da tay, Video

Thirteen Alternatives to Fifty Shades of Grey

• by Rose Marie Pink
• Tags: Books, Susie Bright, Herotica, Best American Erotica, Three the Hard Way, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Orgasmic, The Leather Daddy and the Femme, Carol Queen, Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, Henry and June, Aqua Erotica, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Poppy Z. Brite, Gynomite, Liz Belile, Feminist Porn, Tristan Taormino

First Night Report: Traces at TPAC

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Theater, Traces, TPAC, Broadway Series, Les 7 Doigts de la Main, Video

Flying Bodies! Death-Defying Acts! Traces Opens at TPAC

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Theater, Traces, TPAC, Broadway Series, Les 7 Doigts de la Main, Radiohead, V.A.S.T., Blackalicious, America's Got Talent, Stomp, Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group, Video

Wang Dang, Sweet Pootie Tang! Midnight This Weekend at Belcourt

• by Jason Shawhan
• Tags: Film, Pootie Tang, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes, Belcourt, Belcourt midnight movie, Video

Free Tonight: Donald Davis, Master Storyteller, at JT Moore Middle School

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Country Life, Donald Davis, storytelling, JT Moore Middle School, Video

Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome: Smash Cabaret Opens at TPAC

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Theater, Cabaret, TPAC, Tennessee Rep, Jenny Littleton, David Compton, Liza Minnelli, Bob Fosse, René Copeland, Mike Baum, Ruth Cordell, Marin Miller, Patrick Waller, Derek Whittaker, Martha Wilkinson, Christopher Isherwood, Fred Ebb, John Kander, Video

Killing It: Harrumphy New Republic Hates Microbrews and Cities That Are Not New York or Los Angeles

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Culture, Nashville, The New Republic, It Cities, Chuck Thompson, If at first you don't secede, Maxim is a high standard of thought, I can't believe a Facebook poll produced unreliable results

Disco, European Style: Space Is The Place Tonight at Stone Fox

• by Jason Shawhan
• Tags: Country Life, James Cathcart, Zack Hall, Space is The Place, The Stone Fox, Nashville dance nights, Nashville electronic music, psychedelic, Valentine's Day

Kickstarter Alert: Seth Christian's Film Discover Kasper, With The Golden Sounds' Todd Evans

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Film, Discover Kasper, Todd Evans. The Golden Sounds, Seth Christian, Kickstarter, Video

Vesna Pavlovic's photography installation at Seed Space takes aim at sight

Getting Real

• by Joe Nolan

Nashville Ballet collaborates with visual and music artists to change the way you think about ballet

Not So Still Life

• by Abby White

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith talks about inspiration, personal reflection and recitation

Is There Life on Mars?

• by Tom Markham and Chapter16.org