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📜 Mayor's Office files 32 pieces of new legislation · Fairgrounds racing referendum stays on track · Burchett pushes for Blackburn's senate seat · Much more!
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Good morning everyone! Welcome to this week's exciting list of events around Nashville. Here are some of the highlights: Indie folk artist Ian Sweet is performing at DRKMTTR tonight and tomorrow night The Eighth Room is hosting a special edition of Hooked: Halloween Wild Card Night. The Alex
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Vision Zero Crime
🌃 Cities choose to allow crime · Ford pumps the brakes · Free parking · Cookin' in the courts · Weapons review · Much more!
Review: Weapons (2025)
August long ago gained the moniker of Hollywood’s dumping ground, a reputation that has only worsened in the age of franchise IP. But the su
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🚍 How bus service changes city · Metro audits assessor · Noise about MNPS settlement · SNAP exemption · Much more!
Nashville's Big Blockbuster
🎞️ BNA's first nationwide release since the 70s · Boring Co. tunnel updates · What's happening in the housing market · Much more!
A Sketch of Nashville's Film Industry
Steve Taylor has been a pillar of Music City’s film scene for decades. Now he’s produced the movie of the summer in our own backyard.
The Fog of Growth
📉 Everything you've been told about Nashville's growth is a lie · Nashville housing assessment · D7 True Grit and Mudslinging · Week in Culture · Much more!
The Week in Culture (August 7th)
WATCH Hot Ticket: Freakier Friday and Weapons The former reunites Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis for a nostalgic family romp 20+ years
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!
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