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, Elaine Wood! You could be the next executive director of the Metro Nashville Arts Commission! The commission's new chief is expected to be named at a meeting today, and Wood is among the four finalists. ...A brazen stick-up at the Nashboro Village Fifth Third Bank was caught on surveillance camera yesterday. Watch out for three masked individuals, at least one packing a shotgun. ... An early-morning fire at a Hendersonville apartment complex puts 16 families on the street, right at Christmastime. That makes the second apartment fire this week. ...Gail Kerr takes Clear Channel carpetbaggers to task for booting Al Voecks and Duncan Stewart off WSIX institution The House Foundation—and for doing it the day before Christmas, no less. ...Bart Gordon's political carcass isn't even in the ground, and already GOP jackals are moving in to pick his bones. ...Things are looking up for Second Harvest Food Bank, but keep those jars of peanut butter coming. ...
