AltWeeklies Wire
Wise Guysnew
On their new albums, country singers Rodney Crowell and Marty Stuart cope with the middle-age blues by taking a hard look at this world -- and the hereafter.
Nashville Scene |
Neal, Chris |
08-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Outsider, Rodney Crowell
Every Day Is Like Justice Sundaynew
Nashville houses Justice Sunday II, the second installment in a series of "Save the Court" events designed to get certain segments of evangelical Christians ready for battles over U.S. Supreme Court nominations.
Nashville Scene |
Roger Abramson |
08-17-2005 |
Commentary
Confessions of a Substitute Teachernew
A substitute teacher realizes she's not worthy to lace up a real teacher's comfortable shoes. On stealing office supplies, moderating fart fests and locking students in closets (not really).
Nashville Scene |
Bernie Sheahan |
08-17-2005 |
Education
The First-in-the-Country Video-Journalist Modelnew
At WKRN-Channel 2 in Nashville, photographers become reporters, reporters become photographers, and a news station becomes the first in the country to turn conventional TV news on its head.
Nashville Scene |
Liz Garrigan |
08-17-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Jesus Is Just All Right with Democrats, Toonew
Many Americans think that Democrats are skeptical of, if not downright hostile to, religion, particularly the Christian variety. Tennessee Democrats are doing something about it.
Nashville Scene |
Roger Abramson |
08-11-2005 |
Commentary
The Last Temptation of Cobainnew
Last Days does not leave us with the illusion that we know Kurt Cobain. If anything, it snatches him away.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
08-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Last Days
What the Scene Knows: Excerpts from a Two-part Seriesnew
In a 1997 award-winning report, the Nashville Scene reveals the police's working thoery on the death of Janet March, whose husband is now charged with her murder.
Nashville Scene |
Willy Stern |
08-11-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Charged! Details of Murder Suspect's Long-Awaited Arrestnew
For nine years, former Nashville lawyer Perry March eluded arrest in his wife's disappearance and presumed murder. Now, he's been deported from Mexico and charged with her killing and abuse of her still missing corpse.
Nashville Scene |
John Spragens |
08-11-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Love. Death. Sex. Sin.new
Nashville soccer mom by day, Minton Sparks is a groundbreaking performance poet by night, and her work is getting nationwide attention.
Nashville Scene |
Pablo Tanguay |
08-03-2005 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Attaboy, Bill!new
Bill Frist is having a good week with the moderates. Does that mean we should forgive him for all the times he's abandoned good, commonsense judgment in favor of political expediency?
Nashville Scene |
Liz Garrigan |
08-03-2005 |
Commentary
Vice Folliesnew
Marijuana, poker, sex toys in Alabama: It's time to get our public policy priorities straight and stop prosecuting victimless crimes.
Nashville Scene |
Roger Abramson |
08-03-2005 |
Commentary
Dream Loversnew
The surreal is made real for this New York band as they employ changing musical styles and languages (six in all, if you count whistling) to convey their dream logic.
Nashville Scene |
Makkada B. Selah |
07-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Brazilian Girls
Destiny Deferrednew
The final album from the superstar trio trades the "Independent Women" vibe for something more submissive.
Nashville Scene |
Makkada B. Selah |
07-11-2005 |
Reviews
Policing Gaysnew
Nashville cops use confidential informants to target gay chat rooms and lure homosexual men into trading and selling drugs. This undercover operation changed the life of one man who may well be innocent.
Nashville Scene |
Matt Pulle |
06-22-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Meet Bill Frist, the New Al Gorenew
Even David Brooks has publicly broken up with the Senate majority leader. Bill, we hardly know ye.
Nashville Scene |
Liz Garrigan |
06-22-2005 |
Commentary
