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The Big Slice
🔪 State cap takes a slice out of Metro Council · Judge blocks state on immigrant licenses · Nashville’s ultra-luxury home boom · Much more!
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Good morning everyone! I hope you all are recovering nicely from the coalescing forces of Halloween festivities and government mandated time changes. My weekly playlist is particularly chill this week, you can listen to it here. Tonight, there is a lovely indie-folk bill over at The East Room with
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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)
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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.
This Week in Streaming (June 3rd)
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A little derring-do
🧠 Taking risks makes you human · Will Freddie Get Indicted By The Feddie? · Blackburn Polled Well, O’Connell Didn’t · The Dragon · Repeat offender all-star · The Code review · Much more!
The Year of Reckoning Gets a Reckoning of Its Own
With The Code, filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko obliterates the sentiments that defined the age of COVID