Jim Crow in a Cardigan
🏛️ Last night at the Metro Council · Blackburn launches gubernatorial bid · Battle's Nothingburger Response · Back-to-school vaccinations · Much more!
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What’s Next for Old Nissan?
🏟 East Bank officials tease a signature park in place of old Nissan Stadium · CATS, Not The Musical · First glance at the latest Beacon Poll · Much more!
This Week's Events >>
Good morning everyone! I hope y'all are enjoying your punishingly hot Labor Day weekend. Here are some events around town this week: Tonight Gena Britt's Bluegrass All-Star Night will be at The Station Inn. The lineup includes Aaron Ramsey (Dan Tyminski Band), Gena Britt (Sister
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Much Talk About Killers
🚔 Death Row inmate captures headlines · Upzoning in the Nations · Jones vs. the American Gestapo · Saving Main Street · Much more!
Review: Gary Rivlin’s Saving Main Street
From 9/11 to the Great Recession, epoch-defining events often provide a windfall for America’s largest publishing houses. Yet, five years af
Watching Ivory Towers Crumble
👫 No country for Co-eds · Eyes on D7 · Waffle House shooter back on trial · Blackburn takes on teacher's unions · Much more!
No Country for Coeds
How the Right’s scorched-Earth approach to higher ed compromises its fundamental principles.
The Truth Hurts
🚨 Will the libs ever "get it" about crime · Blackburn roots out foreign subversives · Schwinn steps aside · Echoes of Riley Strain · Much more!
Nashville Spending Vastly Outpaces Growth
💸 The city's balance sheet bloat · Protesting tunnel talks · Pushback against Nations upzone · BNA the next ATL · Rumor mill · The week in culture · Much more!
The Week In Culture (July 31st)
WATCH Hot Ticket: The Naked Gun Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson star in a reboot of the classic 80s cop movie sendup. Turns out, the guy be
Springtime for Scammers in Nashville
🦆 Conmen on the hunt · Not so Boring tunnel · Green's new gig · ODs in Nashville · Repeat offender all-star · Much more!
The Tesla Tunnel
🚗 Utopian dreams of no traffic · Tunnel from BNA to downtown · The D7 field fills up · DCEC admin retires · Oh, Hi review · Much more!
Review: Oh, Hi!
Twilight and some Freddie Prinze Jr. teen movies notwithstanding, millennials never got their Hollywood romance. Blame the Great Recession o
State vs. City
🏙️ Prioritizing restoring American cities · Musk tunnel in Nashville · MNPS axes DEI · The Nations upzoning · Much more!
Hollywood's COVID Reckoning
🦠 COVID on the silverscreen · D7 election dates set · Vandy and Belmont hiding DEI · No cellphones in school · Much more!
Pandemic Multiplex
From Eddington and 28 Years Later to Jurassic World: Rebirth and Death of a Unicorn, the movies are the only medium coming to terms with the aftermath of COVID
Dang, it's hot out there
⚡️ TVA in transition · Metro lobbying your dime · ICE blocked from detaining Garcia · The week in culture · Much more!