The COVID War Kids
The pandemic wrecked Gen Z. Now, they’re upending the arts and culture status quo.
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The TDZ Tussle
💰 Metro-state tussle over Nashville TDZ · Nashville among least-safe large U.S. cities · Tales from the Westside: Shitty, Shitty Bang, Bang · Much more!
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💡Local Noise We're spinning out our weekly event calendar into its own newsletter that will hit your inbox Monday mornings. In addition to the standard collection of events, we'll also have artist interviews and other arts and culture-related content when relevant. You can login and
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Ancient Nashville
🇺🇸 Gallivanting amongst the ruins · AG sues DOE · The race is on in D7 · New BNA roads · No race-based art grants · The Unholy Trinity · Much more!
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
It's Pride Month?
🌈 Local media plays the patsy · MNPS rejects charters · No tax cut proposal · TN congressional races · Most wanted illegal · Much more!
Off for the week
🏝️ O'Connell checks out of Nashville · Green steps down · Doxxing bill · Library garage destroyed · Week in streaming · Much more!
This Week in Streaming (June 10th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Fight the power
✊ Movements become businesses become rackets · High profile case in town · Did Metro dox · Housing market hot...For buyers · Illegal offender all-star · Ed the Zebra · Much more!
Nashville on the Silver Screen
🎞️ What Altman's Nashville tells us about the city today · O'Connell's doxxing of ICE agents · Casada/Cothren sentencing · Eley steps down · Film rundown · Much more!
Nashville at 50, The Belcourt at 100
Actor Keith Carradine celebrates Nashville’s oldest movie theater and the legacy of a film that knows Music City better than itself
Local politics without locals
💸 Who funds the Southern Movement Committee · How Metro assesses local NGOs · Invasion is Nigh · Blackburn against doxxing · Government Gangsters · Much more!
Review: Kash Patel’s Government Gangsters
For years, Kash Pramod Patel has fantasized about remaking the F.B.I. “in his own image.” At least that’s what The New York Times’s Adam Gol
The Activist Community Speaks
🏛️ Last night at the Metro Council · Council shrinkage · Will Schwinn Get Confirmed? · O’Connell Burning Bridges · Egyptomania in Old Nashville · Much more!
Strickland's Church
Egyptian Revival in Music City
O'Connell's gangplank walk
🚨 A timeline of the city's response to ICE operation · Old Tent City Closes · Alternative budgets · Bridgestone closes factory · Airport rideshare drop-off changes · Week in streaming · Much more!
The Probe Into Freddie O’Connell
A timeline of events leading up to the investigation into Nashville’s mayor.