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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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Review: Sinners (2025)
The most exhausting aspect of Art in the Age of Trump is the tendency to boil down complex works to vapid lefty platitudes. But, for the pas
The Staged Battle for Nashville's Soul
🎙️ Chris Cobb stuck in a time loop · Stand Up Nashville isn't local · Bridgestone expansion · Home rule airport · Much more!
Chris Cobb Can’t Stop Reenacting “The Battle for Nashville’s Soul”
A new documentary deifies the former EXIT/IN owner, but the facts have been easily accessible for anyone curious enough to look.
Future Shock
🍔 McDonald's does the robot · Property tax protest · D-16 zoning battle · Unified housing strategy · Andy Kaufman in Memphis · Week in streaming · Much more!
Memphis, Andy Kaufman, & Inter-gender Sports
Step back fifty years in time with me if you will. A simpler time. You wake up in the house you could afford on a single income. Instead of
This Week in Streaming (April 29th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Densification On the Ropes in Woodbine
🏘️ District 16 shouts down upzoning proposal · New Youth Safety Director · Fusus on the fritz · Voucher voyage · Repeat offender of the day · Much more!
The Rise and Fall of Pants
👖 Civilizational decline and the rise of men's pants · Metro Sues RFK · Casada/Cothren Trial Update · Weekly film rundown · Much more!
Cut 'Em Loose, Round 'Em Up, Then Do It All Over Again
👑 Old Tent City requests audience with king · Upzone ya · Bills that died · Future deported of the day award · Conclave review · Much more!
Review: Conclave (2024)
Back in early March, we thought this Oscar also-ran would be going the way of many of its prestige predecessors after Anora and The Brutalis
Gavel, Out
🏛️ General Assembly concludes · Casad/Cothren Trial · Refugee funding tap runs dry · Canadian tourists · Bar to avoid like the plague of the day · Much more!
The future is now
🔮 Who will make it out of the 21st-century · Mayor O'Connell ready to take on LPRs · Pitfalls of Potholes · This week in streaming · Much more!
This Week in Streaming (April 22nd)
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Slash and Burn
💸 Grover Norquist stays on message · Reappraisals · O'Connell unphased · Biden's Gone · Repeat tourist offender of day · Much more!
Do we need more parties?
🌊 Tourism on the rocks around nation · Importing employees and property tax rates · New state budget · Cui bono Super Bowl · Criminals at large · Film Rundown · Much more!