The Case for Ring County Rights
Though their populations are stagnating, Tennessee’s Blue Dot cities have undue power over the entire state. It’s time to level that playing field.
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Review: Materialists (2025)
For the past two weeks, pundits and armchair politicos alike have struggled to explain Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the New York Cit
Major Lewis & Nashville’s Pyramid
A profile of one of Nashville's most impactful patriarchs
This Week in Streaming (July 8th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
The Devil Went Down To Dayton
The Tennessee town that played host to the Scopes Monkey Trial wants to tell its own story
Review: F1 (2025)
If the first half of the summer movie season belonged to a plane-jumping Tom Cruise on the eighth leg of his impossible mission, the second
This Week in Streaming (July 1st)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Forever 2002
Why the Long Post-9/11 Summer still defines our cultural imagination.
Review: Art for Everybody
“I have about twenty of his paintings,” a woman says in the trailer promoting Art for Everybody, the new documentary about Thomas Kinkade. W
This Week in Streaming (June 24th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Protest as Performance Evaluation
No Kings wasn't an altruistic groundswell. It was an act of self-preservation that brought the Left into an era of Capitalist Magical Realism.
Review: The Phonecian Scheme (2025)
With 2023’s Asteroid City, Wes Anderson fully waded into political terrain for the first time in his thirty-year career, offering up a COVID
This Week in Streaming (June 17th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
The COVID War Kids
The pandemic wrecked Gen Z. Now, they’re upending the arts and culture status quo.
The Unholy Trinity and The Western’s Global Frontiers
We talk with director Richard Gray about his new Western set in Montana in the wake of the Civil War