Subject: Gang Violence

• Wine tax and gang signs

  March 26, 2009

• OMFG: The Hold Steady & Drive-By Truckers Fulfill My Every Fantasy

  August 13, 2008

• Thou Really Shalt Not Build: Hispanic Church's Zoning Request is Denied

  August 21, 2008

• The Spin: The Hold Steady & Drive-By Truckers at The Ryman

  November 3, 2008

• Ah, What Passes For News Sometimes

  Daily deadlines. I've been there. Makes news out of crap and mountains out of molehills. For some reason, a dust-up at Hunters Lane High School is front and center. Here's how the headlines should read. Two kids engage in fisticuffs, a crowd swells and shoves and jostles to get a look. An unfortunately assigned school resource officer panics, envisions riots, gang signs as students gawk. News is made. Some scratch heads absentmindedly.

  November 20, 2008

• Homeowner Pens Compelling Account of Home Invasion Robbery

  The silver Toyota Highlander was stolen during a West Nashville home invasion. Gang detectives surveilling the Edgehill public housing development spotted the SUV pulling into a driveway. As the detectives approached, the passenger in the front seat bailed, disappearing into the complex. The driver and another passenger were taken into custody.The SUV was stolen on Sunday evening. Here's a terrifying account of the robbery, penned by the homeowner on Harding Place himself (Note: We won't know if

  December 4, 2008

• Sweet Sorrow

  TSU breathes new life into a Bard chestnut

  July 31, 2008

• A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior

  August 28, 2008

• English Only Vote Has Sent Tennessean Commenters Over the Edge

  The racist Latin Kings won't let me join!The Tennessean has more than 300(!) comments on Chris Echegaray's excellent story about the English only amendment dying an inglorious death. The comments start out with the usual poorly syntaxed diatribes, but quickly devolve into people like "Annie Jo" ranting about how "U.S. AMERICAN CITIZENS" are being marginalized by the brown hordes. To wit: Oh God forbid, we whites, have anything, All White. But, racist bigoted non-whites can have all th

  January 26, 2009

• Nashville Gang Sign Ban Is, Like, Totally Nuanced, Homie

  Unfortunately, no amount of legislation can stop these guys from taking pictures.Metro police are working on a law that would make gang signs illegal. So says the Tennessean, which makes it seem as if imitating Lil Wayne will automatically land you in the back of a squad car.At first glance, banning gang signs seems like a law everyone, no matter their political stripe, can line up against. Libertarians can call it unconstitutional. Conservatives can decry the money wasted locking up every kid t

  March 19, 2009

• Moe's: A Dispatch from the Field

  Intrepid Bites reporter Nicki Wood called in this morning with a drive-by dispatch from Moe's Southwestern Grill, which opens in Belle Meade today at 11 a.m. Bottom line: If you were planning to queue up to be one of the first 50 customers and win free burritos for a year, you're probably 12 hours too late. According to Nicki, you'll have to get in line behind some dudes with an inflatable mattress, a father and daughter team who never left after last night's VIP opening and Russ Hickman, who es

  April 9, 2009

• Love-Hate Mail

  December 4, 2008

• Chief Ronal Serpas’ Plan for a Safer Nashville Is to Pull You Over Early and Often

  November 27, 2008

• Shopping Maul

  August 14, 2008

• Scotch and Tequila

  Not quite the same thing

  May 1, 2008

• Courtroom Absence

  Tennessean ignores the prosecution of a deadly gang

  April 3, 2008

• The Nashville Film Festival turns 40—and here's your guide to the life of the party

  April 16, 2009

• Public Art

  July 26, 2007

• Broken Justice

  In one of the oldest federal death penalty cases in U.S. history, three suspected L.A. gangsters have been held without trial for nearly eight years on capital murder charges in Nashville's federal court

  March 29, 2007

• Disturbin’ Legend

  Police debunk popular account of gang activity

  March 22, 2007

• What Happened at Hillwood

  The school's got problems—but so do others—and they're not as bad as you think

  October 21, 2004

• Nuisance Art

  September 28, 2006

• Inner City Cinema

  Kids from one of Nashville’s toughest ’hoods make their own movie—with help from a hot Hollywood director

  July 27, 2006

• Deep Doo-doo

  A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde steal your money again

  June 22, 2006

• Senate Passes Guns-in-Bars Bill; Henry Fears Shoot-'em-ups in Nashville Honky Tonks

  How can you forget your troubles at Tootsie's if bullets are flying?The Senate just voted 26-7 for the guns-in-bars bill without the 11 o'clock curfew that the House added. The bill now goes back to the House, where lawmakers can decide whether they want to adopt the Senate version or stick to their guns (ha!) on the curfew. Sen. Doug Jackson, D-Dickson, fired all his bullets (ha, ha!) in an impassioned defense of his legislation. He claimed it will reduce crime and suggested that a murdered re

  April 16, 2009

• The Winners

  Albums

  January 27, 2005

• Best Live Act

  February 12, 2004

• Best Duo, Trio or Group

  February 12, 2004

• Best Artist

  February 12, 2004

• Top 15 Films of 2002

  January 9, 2003

• Street Gang Abandons Black Leather Jackets

  Street Gang Abandons Black Leather Jackets

  March 7, 2002

• Coming Soon

  A preview of autumn attractions at the movie theater

  September 13, 2001

• Under Western Eyes

  October 16, 1997

• Desperately Seeking the News

  July 24, 1997

• Rosario's Says Adios

  According to a story at Nashvillepost.com and a drive-by confirmation, Rosario's, the nuevo-mex restaurant at 1200 Villa Place on Edgehill, has closed its doors. Sources say paperwork filed recently to comply with a Chapter 11 debt reorganization in January, revealed revenues much lower than predicted. It is anticipated that a Chapter 7 (liquidation) trustee will be appointed to sell assets to satisfy creditors. A sign on the door of Rosario's stated, "Sorry for the inconvenience, Rosario's

  July 1, 2009

• Drive-By Truckers w/Glossary at Cannery Ballroom

  August 6, 2009

• A Shining Endorsment of Tennessee Gun Laws Courtesy of History Channel's Gangland

  ​ The History Channel series Gangland featured an episode on street gangs in Nashville, titled "Hunt and Kill," which aired several times throughout the month of August. The show's hyperbolic tone at times made it sound like the streets of Nashville were a war zone comparable to South Central. Regardless of the exaggeration, there were enough specific details about gang activities here to remind us that Nashville isn't the quaint and cozy town pictured on postcards hawked in the tourist tr

  August 24, 2009