Kay Ruty’s garden grows more magically than any other Nashville hide-away this writer has seen. Two wooden gates open to an English garden that is a fantasyland of color and life.
And, after watching Ruty in her garden, visitors know the spot is also a place of love, whose roots run deep - six generations back, [...]

The Nashville Predators got defensive. The fans were impressive. And the city is prepared to go on the offensive for an NHL All-Star Game.
Defenseman Ryan Suter, the Predators’ first round pick at No. 7, thought he needed to know the way to San Jose. Instead, he landed in Music City, becoming the first-ever draft pick [...]

A forthcoming book by authors Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, titled Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African-American Communities (Ballatine), will most certainly rank among the year’s most controversial works.
The book may even spark as much discussion within the black community as such past books as E. Franklin Frazier’s 1957 landmark Black [...]

Dear Jessica,
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figure out how to “get” you to talk to me instead of all those others. You’re now the interview to get, you know.
So what can I offer? I know you’ve been offered a free Hawaii vacation, and that the networks have offered everything but the three wise [...]

With the launch of the HomeSafe program sponsored by the banking industry, including mortgage buyer Fannie Mae, the industry is admitting there is a problem with predatory lending.
This new program involves a $2 million commitment in Nashville and $3 million in Memphis to refinance existing predatory loans. Borrowers have been losing their homes due to [...]

A prescription drug bill is now before our national Congress. Are we in for further redistribution of wealth?
A redistribution of wealth is not the way to get and keep a viable civilization. Those who make a contribution eat. Those who do not work do not eat until they, or a loved one, step up to [...]

Singer/songwriter Todd Sharp wants fans to know that tonight’s show at the Bluebird is going to be a little different from the customary engagements. “We’re going to rock out,” said Sharp. “The Bluebird is such a great place, with fantastic acoustics, and it’s very intimate. We’ll be just a little quieter in deference to the [...]

A Nashville marketing firm is on the cutting edge of the latest in high-tech wizardry making its way into contemporary Christian worship services.
McMullen Marketing Group SyncLogic (MMGSL) has produced DVDs that will be distributed to Christian churches worldwide and consumers to help children get in the spirit of worship through a multi-media experience of music, [...]

Disagreement with the world’s environmentalist wackos doesn’t mean that one is for dirty air and water. Dr. Richard Stroup, Montana State University professor of economics and senior associate of the Center for Free Market Environmentalism, explains commonsense approaches to environmental issues in his new book Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment.
Stroup [...]

Now it’s dementia. It turns out that the magic hormones that were supposed to stave off the effects of aging on women actually speed up the scariest part of growing old: the possibility of losing your senses.
Despite studies showing that hormone replacement “therapy” (HRT) increases the risks for breast cancer, heart disease, stroke and blood [...]

Reality took a backseat to political expediency Wednesday when the Davidson County Election Commission summarily dismissed the case of Councilman Ludye Wallace and where he lives.
We felt as if we were back in the Clinton era as the president redefined the definition of sex when we watched Wallace and his attorney, George Barrett, redefine the [...]

1. Florida
Florida general manager Rick Dudley is getting more ink than the brightest star on the Grand Ole Opry this weekend.
Dudley’s Panthers have the top pick Saturday in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft at Gaylord Entertainment Center. The general consensus is that something big is going to happen shortly around high noon when the first [...]

Vocalist Bonnie Parker adores the virtuoso technique of great jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, but takes a slightly different in tailoring her own sound. In fact, Parker, who’ll be appearing Saturday night at Café 123, calls her sound “cocktail jazz,” though some of the artists that she cites as influences have also [...]

Assassination Tango, Robert Duvall’s labor of love, combines dazzling footage of the incredibly sensual tango with a haunting and hypnotic depiction of a flawed, alternately repulsive, vulnerable and enchanting figure. John J. Anderson is a contract killer, but also a devoted stepfather and husband. He’s set to retire following one last job, a hit on [...]

The Hulk is a bloated, erratic disappointment. Exceptional director Ang Lee spends far too much of this meandering film’s two hours and 18 minutes showing everything except what people came to see; the specter of the computer-generated, marauding monster defeat everything thrown at him by both human and supernatural forces.
Instead, there’s far too much focus [...]

The company started by Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, inventor of the famous Laffer Curve that became the symbol of the Regan-era supply-side economics, will be opening an office Monday in Nashville.
Heading the new office at 2908 Poston Ave. will be the founder’s 36-year-old son, Arthur B. Laffer, Jr., who is president and chief executive of [...]

Nashville-based Gobbell Hays Partners Inc. continues to broaden its environmental services focus, with a $1.5 million project well underway in Palm Beach County, Fla., and a recently announced effort slated for Diego Garcia Naval Base in the Indian Ocean.
GHP is the only local firm, and one of just a handful nationally, that integrates environmental consulting [...]

A local public affairs radio talk show host has invited Louisiana Enrichment Services (LES) attorney Larry Woods to arrange a public debate between Trousdale County’s nuclear waste consultant Bill Rickman Jr. and LES chairman Dr. Pat Upson.
The issue is a $1.1 billion uranium enrichment plant LES wants to build in Trousdale County.
Rickman has established good-neighbor [...]