http://www.nashvillescene.com Nashville Tennessee's alternative newsweekly en-us Copyright © 2005 City Press Publishing, Inc. 2008-07-17T22:02+0000 City Press Publishing Nashville Scene (mailto:web@nashvillescene.com) NashvilleScene.com http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Books/2008/07/17/Hollywood_or_Bust/index.shtml Bret Lott’s newest work, <em>Ancient Highway</em>, is a multigenerational novel told from three alternating perspectives spanning half a century. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Books/2008/07/17/A_View_to_a_Thrill/index.shtml <strong>by Chris Scott</strong><br />For readers who want to escape the summer heat, Ridley Pearson’s latest thriller, <em>Killer View</em>, should generate some welcome chills. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Books/2008/07/17/_She_Terrified_People_/index.shtml You could never sell the story of Georgia Tann as fiction. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Film/2008/07/17/Night_of_the_Hunter/index.shtml Alex Gibney’s documentary <em>Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson</em> makes the familiar case that Thompson’s notoriety eventually capsized his career, well before his long-foretold suicide in 2005. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Film/2008/07/17/Short_Takes/index.shtml <strong>by Ella Taylor</strong><br /><em>Mamma Mia!</em> finally rocks as a tirelessly nostalgic pub crawl through a narrow street of 1970s pop history Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Film/2008/07/17/Heart_of_Darkness/index.shtml <strong>by Scott Foundas</strong><br />In <em>The Dark Knight</em>, 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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/2008/07/17/Accidents_and_Emergencies/index.shtml <strong>by Andrew Clayman</strong><br />The first Spiritualized record since frontman Jason Pierce’s nearly fatal bout with double pneumonia, <em>Songs in A&E</em> is what you might expect—a heavyhearted, acid-gospel epic about death and all his proverbial friends. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/2008/07/17/Wreck_Your_Life/index.shtml 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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/2008/07/17/Talking_With_Robert_Plant/index.shtml <strong>by Rob Trucks</strong><br />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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/SceneCast/2008/07/17/Episode_141/index.shtml 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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/The_Spin/2008/07/17/The_Spin/index.shtml 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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Our_Critics_Picks/2008/07/17/Our_Critics_Picks/index.shtml Colour Revolt, Nels Cline Singers, NOMO, <em>Raising Arizona</em>, Matt Keating, Slime Across America, Tift Merritt, XYZ Affair and more Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Theater/2008/07/17/Brothers_in_Arms/index.shtml Suzan-Lori Parks’ <em>Topdog/Underdog</em> is a work of social relevance—a strongly worded, cleverly crafted and often poignant meditation on matters that transcend its African American milieu. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/Ask_a_Mexican/2008/07/17/La_Migra_Manchurian/index.shtml <strong>ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: </strong>Dear Mexican: Why are there Mexicans in the Border Patrol? Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/Dining/2008/07/17/Posizione_Posizione_Posizione/index.shtml 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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/Free_Will_Astrology/2008/07/17/Free_Will_Astrology/index.shtml Your weekly astrological forecast by Rob Brezsny. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/Helter_Shelter/2008/07/17/Breakdowns/index.shtml <strong>ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: </strong>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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/Savage_Love/2008/07/17/Savage_Love/index.shtml <strong>ONLINE EXCLUSIVE:</strong> 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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/The_Fabricator/2008/07/17/Give_Me_Twenty_Five_/index.shtml 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? Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/Word_of_the_Week/2008/07/17/Words_of_the_Week/index.shtml “...[M]y children have heard of childhood accounts of my being called an ‘n...-lover’ for playing with African American pals on the playground.” Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/News/2008/07/17/Heads_of_the_Class/index.shtml <strong>by Katie Lewis</strong><br>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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/News/2008/07/17/Mother_Knows_Best_/index.shtml When the <em>Scene</em> 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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/News/Desperately_Seeking_the_News/2008/07/17/Advertising_Age/index.shtml The day after <em>The Tennessean</em> 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.” Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/News/Love_And_Hate_Mail/2008/07/17/Love_Hate_Mail/index.shtml Letters from our readers. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/News/Woods/2008/07/17/Pedro_s_Smoking_Gun/index.shtml 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. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Special_Issues/You_Are_So_Nashville_If/2008/07/17/You_Are_So_Nashville_If_/index.shtml Every year, Nashville, we ask you to complete a sentence following the same five-word phrase: “You are so Nashville if....” Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Special_Issues/You_Are_So_Nashville_If/2008/07/17/Your_Are_So_Nashville_If_And_/index.shtml Roy Moore was surprised to find out he won this year’s “You Are So Nashville If…” competition, mainly because he thought a co-worker submitted a funnier entry. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Special_Issues/You_Are_So_Nashville_If/2008/07/17/You_Are_So_Nashville_If_Past_/index.shtml A list of the winners since 1989. Nashville Scene 2008-07-17T00:00-0500 http://nashville.backpage.com Read and post your classified ads for free! 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