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Pickin' & Fiddlin' in the Upper Cumberland
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldCulture
The 53rd annual Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree And Crafts Festival celebrates Tennessee’s musical heritage this July 4th weekend.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 28-July 4
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming releases, check out our 2024 Film Guide. A Quiet…
Review: Daddio (2023)
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
One of the most reliable cultural barometers of the last few years should have been the fall of Sean Penn. The shorthand for the worst species of liberal…
Anatomy of a Protest
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldCulture
What a caravan of tractors and the heirs to Ross Perot tell us about Middle Tennessee’s relationship to its past.
This Week in Streaming (June 25th)
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Journeys to the Wasteland
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
The Bikeriders and Furiosa chart the enduring appeal of the open road.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 21-27
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming releases, check out our 2024 Film Guide. The Bike…
The Transformation of Cracker Barrel
By Davis HuntCulture
From the inside out, the Lebanon-based chain has quietly shifted its priorities away from its core customers
Review: Coma (2022)
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
The most disheartening aspect of life in Pandemica was the unified compliance of the arts community–-Rage Against the Machine requiring fans to wear masks and…
Metro Council Rundown (6/18/24)
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikMetro
RESOLUTIONS * RS2024-543 (Passed) MNPD Taser upgrade * RS2024-539 (Passed) an agreement for the purchase of 3 acres to build a new fire station for $3.1…
This Week in Streaming (June 18th)
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
The Strangers: Chapter 1’s Rural Trad Trauma
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
The much-maligned reboot is the ultimate treatise on the vapidity of coastal elites and family-values fetishists.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 14-20
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming releases, check out our 2024 Film Guide. Ride A…
Book Review: In My Time of Dying
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldBooks
Over the past four decades, journalist Sebastian Junger has routinely cheated death in warzones and fiefdoms in Afghanistan and Nigeria. His documentary…
One-On-One with Representative Jody Barrett
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikTennessee
Governor Lee signed a bill that prevents municipalities from instituting their own red flag laws. Barrett sponsored it. Here's what he had to say.
This Week in Streaming (June 11th)
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Review: Two Rivers Golf Course
By PorterSports
Porter plays a round at the spacious Two Rivers course in Donelson
One-On-One with Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti
By Megan Lee PodsiedlikTennessee
Two years into his term as the state's attorney general, we sit down with Jonathan Skrmetti about what his office has been working on
I Saw The TV Glow and the Cinema of Self-Deception
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldMovies
A24’s latest wallows in its own insularity.