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If Not for a Special Election, English Only Would Have Prevailed in Nashvillenew
It's heartening that the Nashville's progressives seem able to stop daydreaming about love and harmony long enough to run an effective campaign. But not by any stretch is this the dawning of a new day or a crippling blow to intolerance in our city.
Nashville Scene |
Jeff Woods |
01-30-2009 |
Policy Issues
Steve Ganaway: Business Mogul or Nashville's Numbers King?new
Listening to Nashville businessman Steve Ganaway talk earnestly about community development, it's hard to believe he's a man with the time — much less desire — to run a sprawling numbers game. Then again, Ganaway's business is show business, where perception and reality have always been worlds apart.
Nashville Scene |
P.J. Tobia |
01-30-2009 |
Business & Labor
A Handful of Designers Ignite Nashville's Underground Fashion Scenenew
A city where trends arrive two years too late and stick around for three years too long doesn't make anyone's short list of scenes to watch. But Nashville's underground designers are thriving despite that, mainly because they've managed to tap into a niche audience.
Nashville Scene |
Tracy Moore |
12-12-2008 |
Fashion
Roy Orbison and His Nashville Recordings, 20 Years After His Deathnew
With the 20th anniversary of Orbison's death on Dec. 6, and with the recent release of a career-defining box set, Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll, it's an apt time to reflect on how several of pop music's most timeless and artful songs unexpectedly emerged from a small Nashville recording studio on 17th Avenue.
Nashville Scene |
Michael McCall |
12-05-2008 |
Reviews
Nashville's Scooter Riders Say They Might as Well Be Invisiblenew
You would think someone riding a praying mantis-like vehicle the color of a strawberry milk shake could make it through workday traffic without cheating death. Not in Nashville, where rising gas prices and the attendant popularity of pump-friendly scooters are creating all new hybrids of traffic hazards and road rage.
Nashville Scene |
Tracy Moore |
09-12-2008 |
Transportation
Nashville School Resegregation Threatens a New Generationnew
The black-white educational achievement gap is already yawning in Nashville, and the city's black leaders are convinced a rezoning plan will exacerbate that.
Nashville Scene |
Jeff Woods |
08-29-2008 |
Education
New High-Rise Condos Betting on Nashville's Pursuit of Coolnew
Welcome to the new Nashville skyline: It's frighteningly high, undeniably modern and so ... money. It's no Nashville you've ever seen, because it's every bit an image straight out of Miami or Los Angeles -- or at least a show set there.
Nashville Scene |
Tracy Moore |
08-22-2008 |
Housing & Development
'A Bend in the River' Looks at a Nashville Prison Rehab Programnew
While it's neither a wallow in sensational cellblock horrors nor a Scared Straight-style sock in the gut, A Bend in the River offers quiet, solemn and persuasive evidence that prison is the last place on earth anyone wants to end up.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
06-27-2008 |
Movies
What Happened to Tabitha Tuders?new
Five years ago, the 13-year-old walked to the bus stop -- and her family hasn't heard from her since. As more time elapses without an arrest, the chances of cracking the case diminishes.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
04-25-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Why So Many Bands Skip Music Citynew
Booking touring acts operates on three principles: warm bodies, location and cold, hard cash. Which do you think Nashville struggles with?
Nashville Scene |
Tracy Moore |
04-11-2008 |
Concerts
Shelley Short Quietly Saves Country Musicnew
Rather than waxing naively cute, a la Jenny Lewis, or idiotic, Short encapsulates much of what makes old-school Nashville country great: a showman's charisma, credible melancholy and close geographical ties.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
04-09-2008 |
Reviews
Liberal-On-Liberal Antagonismnew
A terminated employee calls one of Nashville's leading liberal activist organizations a racist "progressive plantation."
Nashville Scene |
P.J. Tobia |
12-15-2006 |
Race & Class
The Real Dealnew
Dwight Yoakam is a purist and a
reactionary, but that doesn’t make him any less of a rebel.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
08-05-2005 |
Reviews
