Boner Awards


Boner Awards 2007
What do a trio of hapless state legislators, the reigning bad boy of the NFL, and some of the most lame-brained low-rent criminals to sully a cell have in common? These lucky lunks made our 18th annual running of the Boners, our wrap-up of the year’s sorriest, silliest and scurviest newsmakers.



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Boner Awards 2006
Every year, while the rest of you are drinking trees and decorating eggnog and what have you, a gang of surly elves sits sifting through the past 12 months of life in Nashville.
(Dec 21, 2006)


Test Your Boner Acumen
A man shopping at the Monroe Street Kroger drew the suspicion of store security when he...
(Dec 21, 2006)


Boner Awards 2005
Every December, as we have for the past 17 years, we look back on the past 12 months and think, “It wasn’t really that bad a year, was it?” We drift off to sleep, secure in the knowledge that crime is down, civility rules and our public officials are hard at work protecting the common good.
(Dec 22, 2005)


Test Your Boner Acumen
How much do you know about the 2005 Boners?
(Dec 22, 2005)


Test Your Boner Acumen:
(Dec 16, 2004)


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