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How to Be a Hollaback Girlnew
To be a NFL cheerleader you don't have to be thin, tan and busty. Well, actually, you do.
Nashville Scene |
Elizabeth Ulrich |
08-18-2008 |
Sports
Bonnaroo's Comedy Lineup Features Big Laughsnew

The Bonnaroo comedy tent is an oasis in the desert (read: air-conditioned tent in the dusty, hippy-strewn festival wasteland). Performers include Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, Brian Posehn and more.
Nashville Scene |
Lee Stabert |
06-13-2008 |
Performance
How a Local Plumber Became One of Tennessee's Most-wanted Bootleggersnew

The Alcoholic Beverage Commission swooped in on a stunned Randy Piper at the two cramped souvenir shops he runs in Lynchburg's sleepy town square. He doesn't know what they expected, but he does know what they confiscated: nearly $600,000 worth of his whiskey collection.
Nashville Scene |
Elizabeth Ulrich |
05-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Shan Foster: Mr. Big Shotnew
The Vanderbilt basketball star is having the kind of year even Disney couldn't script.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
03-21-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Burgundy Bootleggernew

Overzealous inspectors investigate a local wine enthusiast and turn up ... nothing.
Nashville Scene |
P.J. Tobia |
12-28-2007 |
Food+Drink
Albert Haynesworth, Man in the Middlenew
With playoffs and a big contract on the line, has this Titan finally put a troubled past to rest?
Nashville Scene |
P.J. Tobia |
12-07-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
'Red State Update': From Obscurity to National Famenew

For less than two years, two fictitious Middle Tennesseans have hosted Red State Update, an internet show that uploads several times a week, usually in three-minute increments -- after an appearance on the CNN/YouTube Democratic Debate, they're all over the place.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
09-24-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Thirsty for Company at El Dos de Orosnew
A Nashville bar draws Mexican men and the white girls (and boys) who love them.
Nashville Scene |
P.J. Tobia |
06-29-2007 |
Culture
Tennessee Arts Commission Silences Sexualitynew
They decline to show artist Cindy Rehm's "suggestive" videos.
Nashville Scene |
John Pitcher |
05-25-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Fisk University's Folliesnew
How the university tried to unload a Georgia O'Keeffe painting and almost lost a bundle in the process.
Nashville Scene |
Elizabeth Ulrich |
04-13-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Liberadio(!) Brings Liberal Talk to Nashville Radionew
After months of planning, co-hosts Mary Mancini and Freddie O'Connell have decided to challenge the old yap that commercial talk radio and progressive politics go together like peanut butter and failure.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
04-06-2007 |
Media
Tags: radio
Group Demands Gore Suicidenew
It's the "only way he can be true to his beliefs," the Tennessee Center for Policy Research says.
Nashville Scene |
The Fabricator |
03-15-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Super Bowl News Roundupnew
Rich white owners vie in Super Bowl.
Nashville Scene |
The Fabricator |
02-01-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Witty, Sly and Even Earnestnew
Sculptor John Watts finds a way to connect the Renaissance and Gene Simmons.
Nashville Scene |
David Maddox |
10-24-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Nuisance Artnew
Nashville's graffiti writers are mostly white, well-off kids who want someone -- anyone -- to listen.
Nashville Scene |
William Dean Hinton |
09-28-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts