By Liz Garrigan, CHAPTER 16 If all you knew about the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL) was its name, you might conjure a group of retired English teachers, and a few of their librarian friends, circa 1960, alternately talking and knitting on the front porch over tea and scones, fretting about that new sign...
By Liz Garrigan, CHAPTER 16 It was hardly predictable that Matthew Gavin Frank, a child of the Chicago suburbs who grew up on nuked bacon and boiled beef ribs, would go on to become a line cook and caterer in places as varied as Juneau, Alaska, and Key West, Florida. Of course, as Frank...
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE Every good magazine editor gets fired from a job at one point in his career. When it happened to Eric Pooley, managing editor of Fortune at the time, he seized the opportunity to launch a book to chronicle the war on climate change.
By Matt Pulle and Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE Did decades of poor urban planning make the Nashville Flood worse? What Metro has done right and wrong, and where we go from here.
By Liz Garrigan, CHAPTER 16 Born in 1942 to a wise-cracking car salesman, Fred Dalton Thompson grew up in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, where his Grandma Thompson padded around town showing off her excised goiter (which she carried in a handkerchief), where old men swapped lies at the Blue Ribbon Café, and where he wandered into...
By Liz Garrigan, CHAPTER 16 All I could think last weekend as the rain came unceasingly down, trapping us in our house in the woods without power or a safe route to civilization, was, "Dear God, how did the frontier women do it?" While their men were out hunting or doing whatever it was frontier...
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE Their modest home is already in the shadow of mammoth interstate exchanges and the victim of traffic noise. And then the water came. How Gerald and Elouise Williams are faring.
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE As culture war idiocy among lawmakers gains more traction, it might be time to consider lanyards with bullet pouches.
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE The Farm Bureau and its knuckle-dragging apostles (no offense, chimps) are using all their might to oppose proper penalties for animal abuse.
What Would Warren Buffett Do?
By Liz Garrigan, THE CITY PAPER Imagine telling your intended at the altar that you need two weeks to figure out if you can do better. If not, you’ll be back to settle for him. If so, you hope you can still be friends.
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