Special Issue
You Are So Nashville If
Every year, Nashville, we ask you to complete a sentence following the same five-word phrase: “You are so Nashville if....”
Columns
Ask a Mexican: La Migra Manchurian
by Gustavo Arellano
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dear Mexican: Why are there Mexicans in the Border Patrol?
Dining: Posizione, Posizione, Posizione
by Carrington Fox
Restaurateur Michael Tangredi succumbed to the siren’s song of 2000 Belcourt when he attempted to eek one more restaurant out of the tired space.
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly astrological forecast by Rob Brezsny.
Helter Shelter: Breakdowns
by Walter Jowers
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: If you start pondering when your house, car, gizmos and such are going to break, keep this in mind: Everything quits working pretty much like a car battery.
Savage Love
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dan Savage's advice is unedited and untamed. Savage Love addresses everything you've always wanted to know about sex, but now you don't have to ask. Proceed with curiosity.
The Fabricator: Give Me (Twenty) Five!
Is “We’re No. 25!” a message that is going to attract business and tourism to Nashville? Especially when printed on a giant foam rubber hand with—count ’em—25 fingers?
Words of the Week
“...[M]y children have heard of childhood accounts of my being called an ‘n...-lover’ for playing with African American pals on the playground.”
Movies
Heart of Darkness
by Scott Foundas
In The Dark Knight, fair Gotham is a modestly cleaner, better-lit place than it was when last we saw it, if still a far stretch from the shining city on a hill its winged protector believes it can be.
Night of the Hunter
by Jim Ridley
Alex Gibney’s documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson makes the familiar case that Thompson’s notoriety eventually capsized his career, well before his long-foretold suicide in 2005.
Short Takes
by Ella Taylor
Mamma Mia! finally rocks as a tirelessly nostalgic pub crawl through a narrow street of 1970s pop history
Our Critics' Picks
Our Critics' Picks
Colour Revolt, Nels Cline Singers, NOMO, Raising Arizona, Matt Keating, Slime Across America, Tift Merritt, XYZ Affair and more
Theater
Brothers in Arms
by Martin Brady
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog is a work of social relevance—a strongly worded, cleverly crafted and often poignant meditation on matters that transcend its African American milieu.
Books
"She Terrified People"
by Maria Browning
You could never sell the story of Georgia Tann as fiction.
A View to a Thrill
by Chris Scott
For readers who want to escape the summer heat, Ridley Pearson’s latest thriller, Killer View, should generate some welcome chills.
Hollywood or Bust
by Pablo Tanguay
Bret Lott’s newest work, Ancient Highway, is a multigenerational novel told from three alternating perspectives spanning half a century.
You Are So Nashville If
Every year, Nashville, we ask you to complete a sentence following the same five-word phrase: “You are so Nashville if....”
Columns
Ask a Mexican: La Migra Manchurian
by Gustavo Arellano
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dear Mexican: Why are there Mexicans in the Border Patrol?
Dining: Posizione, Posizione, Posizione
by Carrington Fox
Restaurateur Michael Tangredi succumbed to the siren’s song of 2000 Belcourt when he attempted to eek one more restaurant out of the tired space.
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly astrological forecast by Rob Brezsny.
Helter Shelter: Breakdowns
by Walter Jowers
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: If you start pondering when your house, car, gizmos and such are going to break, keep this in mind: Everything quits working pretty much like a car battery.
Savage Love
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Dan Savage's advice is unedited and untamed. Savage Love addresses everything you've always wanted to know about sex, but now you don't have to ask. Proceed with curiosity.
The Fabricator: Give Me (Twenty) Five!
Is “We’re No. 25!” a message that is going to attract business and tourism to Nashville? Especially when printed on a giant foam rubber hand with—count ’em—25 fingers?
Words of the Week
“...[M]y children have heard of childhood accounts of my being called an ‘n...-lover’ for playing with African American pals on the playground.”
Movies
Heart of Darkness
by Scott Foundas
In The Dark Knight, fair Gotham is a modestly cleaner, better-lit place than it was when last we saw it, if still a far stretch from the shining city on a hill its winged protector believes it can be.
Night of the Hunter
by Jim Ridley
Alex Gibney’s documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson makes the familiar case that Thompson’s notoriety eventually capsized his career, well before his long-foretold suicide in 2005.
Short Takes
by Ella Taylor
Mamma Mia! finally rocks as a tirelessly nostalgic pub crawl through a narrow street of 1970s pop history
Our Critics' Picks
Our Critics' Picks
Colour Revolt, Nels Cline Singers, NOMO, Raising Arizona, Matt Keating, Slime Across America, Tift Merritt, XYZ Affair and more
Theater
Brothers in Arms
by Martin Brady
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog is a work of social relevance—a strongly worded, cleverly crafted and often poignant meditation on matters that transcend its African American milieu.
Books
"She Terrified People"
by Maria Browning
You could never sell the story of Georgia Tann as fiction.
A View to a Thrill
by Chris Scott
For readers who want to escape the summer heat, Ridley Pearson’s latest thriller, Killer View, should generate some welcome chills.
Hollywood or Bust
by Pablo Tanguay
Bret Lott’s newest work, Ancient Highway, is a multigenerational novel told from three alternating perspectives spanning half a century.
SceneCast
Episode 141
by Collin Wade Monk
Scenecast Episode 141 is a sprinkle of heavy-duty fairy dust on your breakfast cereal featuring vitamins and minerals from Colour Revolt, Rick Brantley, Nels Cline Singers, Ed Harcourt, Nomo, How I Became the Bomb, Matt Keating, Umbrella Tree, Mock Orange, All We Seabees, Tift Merritt, The Dirtbombs, Beta Macks and one-tenth of Ten out of Tenn.
News
Heads of the Class
by Katie Lewis
As the Nashville school district struggles with a series of well-publicized failings and a furious racial battle over zoning, more candidates than usual are angling to be elected to its nine-member board.
Mother Knows Best?
by Elizabeth Ulrich
When the Scene spoke with Diane Sanders last Thursday, on the morning police arrested her daughter Kelley Cannon for murder, officers had only left her Green Hills home a few hours earlier.
Desperately Seeking the News: Advertising Age
by Matt Pulle
The day after The Tennessean told us about summertime flurries, the paper didn’t exactly tighten its grip on its web content, running an online story about a Brentwood boutique offering a “40 percent sale on summer dresses, tops, shorts, sandals, handbags, belts and more.”
Love-Hate Mail
Letters from our readers.
Woods: Pedro’s Smoking Gun
by Jeff Woods
Bullying and secret backroom deals culminating in a ram-it-down-their-throats vote to resegregate schools—that’s the way outraged black leaders are describing last week’s polarizing Metro school board action and the events leading up to it.
Music
Accidents and Emergencies
by Andrew Clayman
The first Spiritualized record since frontman Jason Pierce’s nearly fatal bout with double pneumonia, Songs in A&E is what you might expect—a heavyhearted, acid-gospel epic about death and all his proverbial friends.
Talking With Robert Plant
by Rob Trucks
Robert Plant is ebullient. Robert Plant is ebullient; for the first time in his life, he has traced the footsteps of Daniel Boone and passed through the Cumberland Gap.
Wreck Your Life
by Lee Stabert
On the handful of songs he sings on each release, Hammond reminds the listener that this band’s magic is most potent at its most dissonant.
SceneCast: Episode 141
by Collin Wade Monk
Scenecast Episode 141 is a sprinkle of heavy-duty fairy dust on your breakfast cereal featuring vitamins and minerals from Colour Revolt, Rick Brantley, Nels Cline Singers, Ed Harcourt, Nomo, How I Became the Bomb, Matt Keating, Umbrella Tree, Mock Orange, All We Seabees, Tift Merritt, The Dirtbombs, Beta Macks and one-tenth of Ten out of Tenn.
The Spin
We got to The Basement at 9:45 p.m. Friday night for SausageFest, a seemingly appropriate arrival time for a “festival,” only to find that most of the performers had yet to arrive.
Slide Shows
The Nation
A Dirty Picture
by Craig Malisow
What mainstream publishers don't want you to know about door-to-door magazine sales.
(Houston Press)
Welcome to Cougar Heaven
by Kristen Hinman
When these huntresses on are on the prowl, the prey very much wants to be caught.
(Riverfront Times)
Sweet Deal
by Bob Norman
How rumored McCain veep choice Charlie Crist wants to bail out Big Sugar.
(Broward-Palm Beach New Times)
All-American Girls
by Lauren Smiley
Are Asian women getting their jawbones cut to look whiter?
(SF Weekly)
Episode 141
by Collin Wade Monk
Scenecast Episode 141 is a sprinkle of heavy-duty fairy dust on your breakfast cereal featuring vitamins and minerals from Colour Revolt, Rick Brantley, Nels Cline Singers, Ed Harcourt, Nomo, How I Became the Bomb, Matt Keating, Umbrella Tree, Mock Orange, All We Seabees, Tift Merritt, The Dirtbombs, Beta Macks and one-tenth of Ten out of Tenn.
News
Heads of the Class
by Katie Lewis
As the Nashville school district struggles with a series of well-publicized failings and a furious racial battle over zoning, more candidates than usual are angling to be elected to its nine-member board.
Mother Knows Best?
by Elizabeth Ulrich
When the Scene spoke with Diane Sanders last Thursday, on the morning police arrested her daughter Kelley Cannon for murder, officers had only left her Green Hills home a few hours earlier.
Desperately Seeking the News: Advertising Age
by Matt Pulle
The day after The Tennessean told us about summertime flurries, the paper didn’t exactly tighten its grip on its web content, running an online story about a Brentwood boutique offering a “40 percent sale on summer dresses, tops, shorts, sandals, handbags, belts and more.”
Love-Hate Mail
Letters from our readers.
Woods: Pedro’s Smoking Gun
by Jeff Woods
Bullying and secret backroom deals culminating in a ram-it-down-their-throats vote to resegregate schools—that’s the way outraged black leaders are describing last week’s polarizing Metro school board action and the events leading up to it.
Music
Accidents and Emergencies
by Andrew Clayman
The first Spiritualized record since frontman Jason Pierce’s nearly fatal bout with double pneumonia, Songs in A&E is what you might expect—a heavyhearted, acid-gospel epic about death and all his proverbial friends.
Talking With Robert Plant
by Rob Trucks
Robert Plant is ebullient. Robert Plant is ebullient; for the first time in his life, he has traced the footsteps of Daniel Boone and passed through the Cumberland Gap.
Wreck Your Life
by Lee Stabert
On the handful of songs he sings on each release, Hammond reminds the listener that this band’s magic is most potent at its most dissonant.
SceneCast: Episode 141
by Collin Wade Monk
Scenecast Episode 141 is a sprinkle of heavy-duty fairy dust on your breakfast cereal featuring vitamins and minerals from Colour Revolt, Rick Brantley, Nels Cline Singers, Ed Harcourt, Nomo, How I Became the Bomb, Matt Keating, Umbrella Tree, Mock Orange, All We Seabees, Tift Merritt, The Dirtbombs, Beta Macks and one-tenth of Ten out of Tenn.
The Spin
We got to The Basement at 9:45 p.m. Friday night for SausageFest, a seemingly appropriate arrival time for a “festival,” only to find that most of the performers had yet to arrive.
Slide Shows
The Nation
A Dirty Picture
by Craig Malisow
What mainstream publishers don't want you to know about door-to-door magazine sales.
(Houston Press)
Welcome to Cougar Heaven
by Kristen Hinman
When these huntresses on are on the prowl, the prey very much wants to be caught.
(Riverfront Times)
Sweet Deal
by Bob Norman
How rumored McCain veep choice Charlie Crist wants to bail out Big Sugar.
(Broward-Palm Beach New Times)
All-American Girls
by Lauren Smiley
Are Asian women getting their jawbones cut to look whiter?
(SF Weekly)
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