Country Stars Come Out Against Mountaintop Removal
It is time to save the Appalachians from mountaintop removal coal mining. Music Saves Mountains just may mark the swan song for this horrendous crime against nature and our heritage.
It is time to save the Appalachians from mountaintop removal coal mining. Music Saves Mountains just may mark the swan song for this horrendous crime against nature and our heritage.
Michael Bialas | Posted 11.05.2009 | Home
Allison Moorer has signed a deal with Ryko Records and will be releasing Crows, her seventh studio album, on February 9, 2010, almost two years after Mockingbird, her most recent release.
Holly Goddard Jones | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books
I'm a southern Kentucky native -- grew up just a few miles away from the Tennessee state line, turned to Nashville in my growing up as the nearest "real" city -- and yet this weekend's Southern Festival of Books was my very first.
Vail Daily. | Vail Daily | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
Nashville-based duo perform two shows in Vail Valley...
Michael Bialas | Posted 10.09.2009 | Entertainment
In 1973, the Man in Black gave his teenage daughter a cultural legacy: his 100 essential country songs. More than 30 years later, Rosanne Cash has decided to pass this legacy along to her fans.
AP | KRISTIN M. HALL and TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee newborn kidnapped in a knife attack on his mother was placed in foster care with his three siblings after allegat...
The Associated Press | LUCAS L. JOHNSON II | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)- A mother whose newborn was kidnapped by a knife-wielding woman posing as an immigration agent was briefly reunited with her bab...
AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newborn snatched from a Nashville home was missing and his mother recovering from stab wounds she said she suffered in a st...
AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home
TOKYO — An American father was arrested in Japan after snatching his children from his ex-wife, who had taken the kids to her native country without telling him.
The back-and-forth exposes a simmering diplomatic dispute over Japan's traditional favoritism toward mothers in custody battles. While the father was apprehended by Japanese authorities, a U.S. court has issued an arrest warrant for the mother.
Christopher Savoie grabbed his two children – an 8-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl – while they were walking to school on Monday, forcing them into a car and driving away, Akira Naraki, a police spokesman in the southern city of Fukuoka, said Wednesday.
His former wife, Noriko, then called the police. Savoie, a 38-year-old technology executive from Franklin, Tennessee, was arrested just as he was about to enter the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka with his children, said Tracy Taylor, a spokeswoman at the consulate.
Savoie is chief executive officer of Franklin-based Tazzle Inc. Tazzle makes data sharing devices for BlackBerry mobile phones and has an office in Tokyo that looks after manufacturing in Asia, according to the company's Web site.
AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — A new study suggests retired National Football League players may have a high rate of Alzheimer's disease or other memory problems.
The telephone survey asked if the retirees had ever been diagnosed with dementia, Alzheimer's disease or other memory-related disease. Nearly 2 percent of the former players ages 30 to 49 said yes. That's 19 times the rate for the same age group in the general population.
For retirees over 50, the rate was about five times higher.
Lead author David Weir emphasized the results don't show football causes memory problems, only that the risk is worth studying. The study of more than 1,000 ex-players was performed by the University of Michigan at the request of the NFL and its Player Care Foundation.
Posted 09.29.2009 | Impact
The dire state of the economy and a record number of home foreclosures have spurred the growth of tent camps for the homeless, in cities such as Nashv...
AP | LUCAS L. JOHNSON II | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home
A former Tennessee Titans player claims the team failed to tell him about a defect in his knee that led to injury and eventually ended his career.
Former wide receiver David Givens makes the claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Givens claims a doctor discovered a defect in his knee during a physical around the time his contract was being negotiated in March 2006. He claims the examining doctor told team officials he "may need surgery at some point."
But Givens claims he was "kept in the dark about his condition" and urged to keep playing by team officials.
Givens hurt the knee in a game later that year. He has not played professionally since.
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home
ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...
Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
Two years ago, during a working trip to Lyons, musician Darrell Scott visited an energy healer. It changed the way he thinks about music.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment
R.E.M. will be releasing Live At The Olympia, a 39-song, two CD set containing "working rehearsals" from 2007. I was lent a track that captures the band's energy and insightful views.
wsj.com | JENNIFER LEVITZ | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Last summer, police responding to complaints about campfires under a highway overpass found dozens of homeless people living on pu...
Steve Parker | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business
When Nissan introduced their close-to-production Leaf electric vehicle yesterday, we caught a glimpse of transportation's future. You can bet that today oil companies are somewhat nervous.
Samantha Marshall | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York
In a media capital like New York, we're obsessed, and a little suspicious of anyone whose views don't line up on the side of political correctness. But, south of the Mason-Dixon line, other priorities loom large.
AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 08.04.2009 | Home
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was shot multiple times, including once in the head, and a pistol was discovered near the...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.20.2009 | Entertainment
In an under-reported move, Ticketmaster-owned Echomusic dumped a whole bunch of artists with 30 days notice, took their content, and in effect cast them into the netherworld of cached pages and lost content.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment
You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race
Sal Nunziato | Posted 03.22.2009 | Entertainment
Just three weeks into February and I am already overwhelmed with amazing new music.
AP | JUANITA COUSINS | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville voters rejected a proposal on Thursday that would have made it the largest U.S. city to require that all government...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama and others should relax and let Governor Blagojevich appoint a Senator. I have a suggestion too. That is Blago's job. The Senate's call ...
Rob Perks | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green