Subject: Mary Mancini

• Evans Will Wear a One-Piece, Jameson a Two-Piece

  June 19, 2008

• News Flash: 'Advancing Equality Day' Fails to Advance Equality at Legislature

  Has Sen. Diane Black suddenly decided to stop meeting lobbyists? With a series of audio reports on the Liberadio(!) website, Mary Mancini paints a picture of democracy in action--Tennessee style. Any oily lobbyist with a checkbook can waltz into any legislative office at any time of the day or night and receive a full hearing. But when gays and lesbians and their supporters tried to lobby the legislature yesterday like any other citizens of this great land, their elected representatives often

  February 18, 2009

• Gay lobbyists expose democracy, Tennessee-style

  February 26, 2009

• Our Critics' Picks

  April 17, 2008

• Confederacy of Dunces

  A weekly roundup of embarrassing behavior

  April 17, 2008

• Power to the People

  Liberadio(!) brings liberal talk radio to Nashville’s commercial airwaves

  April 5, 2007

• Media and Politics

  October 7, 2004

• Media

  Read All About It: Davis-Kidd Booksellers

  January 4, 2007

• Group Therapy

  September 30, 2004

• Media Listings

  December 29, 2005

• Media: Radio On

  Radio Free Nashville looks back on its tumultuous start

  December 29, 2005

• Best of Nashville 2005

  Love Thy Neighborhood

  October 27, 2005

• Media — Writers’ Choices

  October 27, 2005

• Low Power to the People

  Flying under the radar, the scrappy Radio Free Nashville broadcasts from a city you never knew you lived in

  April 14, 2005

• Talkers Magazine Names Liberadio(!) Top 50 Webcaster

  Faces made for television, but on the radio nonethelessTalkers magazine, the trade publication for talk media, has named Mary Mancini and Freddie O'Connell of Liberadio(!) to its Frontier 50 list of "outstanding webcasters." The lefty Nashville duo is in famous (or infamous) company, sharing the honor with such notables as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Adam Carolla. According to the magazine, the list is composed of "a wide variety of hosts, teams and shows representing a cross section of the

  April 16, 2009

• Off Limits

  November 18, 2004

• Rock the Vote

  Former co-owner of Lucy's Record Shop ressurrects the spirit of her now defunct store/club to get out the word about voter registration

  September 16, 2004

• Eat Your Vegetables

  November 7, 2002

• Love/Hate Mail

  Funding the arts

  September 5, 2002

• The New New Wave

  Film's new auteurs are starting younger than ever

  August 3, 2000

• A Dog's Life

  January 29, 1998

• Notes

  November 20, 1997

• Notes

  October 2, 1997

• The Secret Cinema

  June 26, 1997

• A Moveable Fest

  February 13, 1997

• Six Nights to Rock

  November 28, 1996

• Place-Setting

  October 10, 1996

• The Lucy Show

  June 13, 1996

• At ease, molesters: Tennessee’s religious right draws a bead on doctor-patient confidentiality for teens

  May 21, 2009

• Morning Roundup: Legislature Leaves, Delirious Citizens Party All Night

  One of many rural Tennessee celebrations sparked by news of the legislature's adjournment.Lobbyists and staffers erupt into wild cheers as the legislature finally goes home. The last day is highlighted by the surprise failure in the Senate of legislation delaying installation of voting machines capable of producing paper trails to verify voting results. Also, lawmakers vote to enhance sentences for gun crimes. And in yet another big surprise, the bill to roll back ethics laws by letting Ron Rams

  June 19, 2009

• Would Racial Sensitivity Classes Work for the Legislature?

  The Tennessee GOP's new recruitment poster.Tennessee bloggers are wringing their hands over whether they should feel guilty for helping publicize the GOP's latest racial faux pas and almost costing Sherri Goforth her job. At the state GOP's auxiliary website, official party censor Adam Kleinheider asks: "What was the point of the whole Sherri Goforth thing?" Well, black lawmakers say they hope the affair leads to change in what they see as the racist culture of the Capitol. They're calling for

  June 22, 2009

• Is Dick Cheney Running the TBI Now? Agents Check 'Terrorist Threat' from Affable Activist

  Bernie Ellis: Does this guy look like a terrorist to you?The last time lawmen rolled onto Bernie Ellis' Middle Tennessee farm, they were there to arrest him for growing medical marijuana. For that crime, growing a little herb to ease the agony of a few sick and dying people, Ellis spent 18 months in a halfway house. The Scene told that story in this article. Today, the law returned. This time it was two TBI agents. According to Ellis, they were there to investigate whether he made a "terrorist t

  June 23, 2009

• 20 years of Nashville music: From Lucy's to Leon, momentous events from two decades in Music City

  June 25, 2009

• What Kind of Buffoons Are Running the Secretary of State's Office Now?

  Tre HargettNew Republican Secretary of State Tre Hargett and his little hillbilly sidekick, elections coordinator Mark Goins, are getting off to a fantastic start, aren't they? Faced with a collection of earnest do-gooders with the audacious demand that we count every election ballot, Hargett and Goins are behaving like a couple of thugs. In the latest news, Hargett sent the TBI to investigate his complaint that one of his terribly dangerous political opponents, the mellow marijuana lover Berni

  June 25, 2009

• Bernie Ellis, P.J. Tobia First Guests on New Online 'Liberadio(!)'

  Mancini. O'Connell. Daily. OK, weekdaily. But after four years of Monday mornings on 91 Rock, Liberadio(!), the city's hit liberal talk radio and public-affairs program, has expanded online to five days a week. Starting this morning, hosts Mary Mancini and Freddie O'Connell will add an hour-long broadcast 9 a.m. Tuesday through Friday on Blog Talk Radio. And they're starting with a bang. Their first guest in the new format is election-reform advocate Bernie Ellis of Gathering to Save Our Demo

  July 1, 2009

• Tennessee's secretary of state attempts to intimidate a voters' rights activist

  July 2, 2009

• Who Needs Town Hall Meetings? Cooper Looking for Other Ways to 'Interact with Constituents'

  Rep. Lloyd Doggett's meeting with constituents on health care reform in Austin, Texas. A town hall meeting in Philadelphia with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter. Whoa! These town hall meetings are getting a little out of hand, aren't they? For that reason, Congressman Jim Cooper might decide against holding any during Congress' August recess. Are you boiling with outrage and antsy to exercise your democratic right to act like an ass in a public meeting and scream at

  August 4, 2009

• Liberadio(!)'s Freddie O'Connell Launches New Internet Marketing Venture

  ​No stranger to the pages of Pith, Liberadio(!) has been informing, entertaining and infuriating Nashville listening audiences for five years now. Each Monday morning from 7 to 9 a.m. on WRVU-91.1 FM, co-hosts Mary Mancini and Freddie O'Connell offer an alternative perspective to the glut of right-wing talk radio shows clogging up the airwaves. McConnell has left his job as an Internet strategist at SouthComm (publisher of The City Paper, Music Row magazine, nashvillepost.com and several

  August 11, 2009

• Best of Nashville 2009: People, Places & Events

  October 15, 2009

• Are Democrats paranoid, or is the GOP really blocking vote reform?

  October 15, 2009

• Commie FAIL: Best Local Liberal Curiously Absent From Our Best of Nashville Readers' Poll

  Sad commie.​Man, for a bunch of pinko commies, we sure did miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to advance the agenda of our own kind. The Scene and Fidel Castro are sorry to report that we left out an entire category from the 2009 Best of Nashville Readers' Poll results in the print edition of the paper. And of all the categories we could have overlooked, we actually left out "Best Local Liberal." Hey, the irony's not lost on us! And just like all lofty liberal social efforts, hierarchical c

  October 16, 2009

• A proposal to limit community DJs on Vanderbilt's WRVU triggers an avalanche of anger—but the air may be clearing

  November 26, 2009

• List of Community DJs Whose Shows Will Stay on WRVU

  ​Good news and bad news today as we found out which community DJs will be staying on the airwaves at WRVU and which will not, as the new VSC board-mandated cap on "non-affiliate" DJs (more here and here) was applied for the first time to the 2010 spring semester show selection. Station general manager Mikil Taylor sent an email with the list of 25 DJs to the WRVU listserv, saying, in part: If you made it, congratulations! If not, then please remember that we will keep your application on

  December 8, 2009

• Morning Roundup: Chris Feinstein, Veteran Nashville Bassist, Dies at 42

  ​Nashville's music scene receives a crushing blow: the death of Chris Feinstein, a staple of local rock bands such as The Questionnaires, Shadow 15 and Iodine and more recently bassist for Ryan Adams & the Cardinals. Cause of death has not been determined. He was 42, and far too young. ... Chronicle of a death foretold: At Nashville Post, Ken Whitehouse literally writes the obituary for the Tennessee Democratic Party. Not while there's breath in Mary Mancini's body. ...Come on down, Elain

  December 17, 2009

• Election Reform Activists Go on High Alert Against Senate Attack

  ​Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey is making good on his pledge to give his top priority to delaying the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act. Ramsey has placed it on Tuesday's Senate agenda, one of only five bills up for votes before the start of the special session on education reform. Election reform activists have been spurred into action and hope to mobilize in time to stop Ramsey and the Republican-run Senate. "This means we have only one day to flood the Capitol with calls," Liberadio(!) cohost Mary M

  January 11, 2010

• If You Love Jesus, This Is Your Legislature

  ​When Steve Cohen was the state Senate's only Jewish member, he worked out an informal agreement with the leadership to try to ensure that the legislature's "ministers of the day" showed a little restraint in their prayers and made at least a token attempt to recognize the diversity of beliefs in Tennessee. Well, now Cohen's gone to Washington, and the Christian Right is running the show. This year's legislature has only just begun, and already the preachers have abandoned just about all s

  January 14, 2010

• Moonbeams Organizing to Displace Tennessee Democratic Party

  Unite TN will hold its next organizational meeting in this magic bus.​Without bothering to notify the state Democratic Party, a group of lefties is organizing to influence the 2010 elections. According to an email to the group from its leader, Liberadio(!) co-host Mary Mancini, Unite TN is "off to a fantastic start" and hopes to do pretty much what the party is supposed to do--organize, develop messages and get out the vote. A few minutes ago, we asked party chairman Chip Forrester for hi

  January 26, 2010

• Tennessee Regulatory Authority Director Defends Pat Robertson on Haiti

  Kenneth Hill​Here's happy news for our state this morning: One of the directors of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, Kenneth Hill, went on the air on his radio station and defended Pat Robertson for saying earthquake-ravaged Haiti made a deal with the devil and brought all its misery on itself. As Mary Mancini reports, Hill said: "And so for CNN or anyone else to pull this and say he doesn't like the Haitian people or to infer that he's a crazy man, you're wrong! He has a opinion, he st

  February 2, 2010

• Revolt of the Moonbeams! Chapter Two

  The moonbeams have landed!​At last report, Nashville's moonbeams were organizing to take control of state politics and reign supreme over Tennessee in a new age of enlightenment. Although he'd not heard a word about these activities until we told him, Democratic Party chairman Chip Forrester immediately proclaimed he was working with the lefties in their quest, united together for a better tomorrow. Now, more intelligence has arrived from Pith's stable of smug anonymous insiders suggestin

  February 3, 2010

• Lambchop Playing Live in 3-D Mar. 21; Choose Your Arms-Crossed Avatar Now

  ​Whoa, you guys, is it the future already? This coming Sunday, local freestyle country ensemble Lambchop will be playing live on the Internet -- in 3-D. Lambchop will be playing LIVE in Videoranch3D on Sunday March 21st, at 8:00 PM Central Time. The show is part of the Global Zone Music Festival happening live in 3D and brought to you by Videoranch3D. Other performances throughout the week include A Fine Frenzy, Asleep at the Wheel, Lal Meri, and many others. Now, I've never used Videora

  March 15, 2010