Nashville Scene

Since my 5-year-old started kindergarten back in August, I've become intimately acquainted with that circle of hell commonly known as the car-rider pickup line. Full Story »

A fine Nashvillian I just read Lyda Phillips' article and was moved to respond (" Our City in Ruins ," Dec. 3). I am a local roofing contractor and have been on or around many of the buildings highlighted in the article. Full Story »

A foreclosure tops November's list of the biggest home sales in town, but more interesting transactions can be found a few notches down. Full Story »

The design crimebusters are out in full force this holiday season. Their target: the Christmas display among the flagpoles at the foot of Broadway. One irate Deep Throat fumed about "the cheesy Santa with Home Depot reindeer." Full Story »

Last August, after a staffer was charged with molesting elderly patients—some of whom were too ill or frail to plead for help—at a Bristol, Va., nursing home run by Murfreesboro-based National Healthcare Corp., whistleblowers hoped that the ensuing attention would create an inhospitable climate for serial predators. Full Story »

If you stayed at home leaving nasty anonymous comments on Nashville Cream instead of going out to shows this year, go ahead and kick yourself six times right now—and that's just for missing The Jesus Lizard. Full Story »

As the decade ends, country music stands on two strong legs, once again weathering music-industry tumult by relying on its basic tenets: good storytelling, compelling personalities, solid musical talents, and real-life themes about home, responsibilities, consequences and the way people relate with each other as lovers, as family members and as citizens. Full Story »

There was a lot of bicuspid-gnashing and phalange-wringing this year as people tried to figure out some way forward from the whole sue-the-pants-off-Grandma or all-music-should-be-free dichotomy. It's so confusing when the people who steal the most music also buy the most. Or something like that. Full Story »

The Post-MEEMAW EraBegins Remember MEEMAW? They were scrappy, creative, catchy without being sugary, and awesome—and a lot of readers agreed. (The ones who didn't were typically more vocal, even if they were more wrong.) Full Story »

This wasn't just the year everyone you know got an iPhone. It was also a fitful, eventful year for the local music scene—full of blown speakers, broken strings, breakups, reformations, interruption memes, rock docs and No. 1 hit singles. Full Story »