Is it campaign season yet?
🗳️ It's quiet, too quiet · TNGOP Summer picnic · Council vs. Legal · Edgehill development · Much more!
Today's Newsletter
Crunching The Numbers In D7
🗳 Early voting update · Trump calls Behn a lunatic · TN puts $6 billion in the bank · Much more!
This Week's Events >>
📅 Visit our On The Radar list to find upcoming events around Nashville. 🎧 On Spotify: Pamphleteer's Picks, a playlist of our favorite bands in town this week. 👨🏻🌾 Check out our Nashville farmer's market guide. Monday, 11/17 🪕 Leif Vollebekk @ The Basement East, 8p, $36.01, Info 🎸 Triathlon @ The Blue Room, 7p,
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The Potential of Nashville's Mad Max Future
🏁 Nashville, The Bikeriders and the new Mad Max · Clash over peace resolution · Students beating teachers · Non-stop Pride · Much more!
Journeys to the Wasteland
The Bikeriders and Furiosa chart the enduring appeal of the open road.
The Future of Cracker Barrel
🍳 What's driving change at Cracker Barrel · Shrinking council · Taser debate · Review of Coma · Much more!
The Transformation of Cracker Barrel
From the inside out, the Lebanon-based chain has quietly shifted its priorities away from its core customers
Review: Coma (2022)
The most disheartening aspect of life in Pandemica was the unified compliance of the arts community–-Rage Against the Machine requiring fans
Metro balances the books
💸 The council balances the budget · Where journalists have no names · New restaurants and developments · Much more!
Mega Council Meeting
🚙 Who steals the guns from the cars · Mega Council meeting · Hearing for what · This week in streaming · Much more!
New Leadership on the Pitch?
🥅 NSC reveals a new coaching candidate · Tax for buses · Campaign season lite · Much more!
The Ragged Old Flag
🇺🇸 Flag day salutations · Rural trad trauma · Arts audit · Leaks and more leaks · Low battery · Film rundown · Much more!
The Strangers: Chapter 1’s Rural Trad Trauma
The much-maligned reboot is the ultimate treatise on the vapidity of coastal elites and family-values fetishists.
Book Review: In My Time of Dying
Over the past four decades, journalist Sebastian Junger has routinely cheated death in warzones and fiefdoms in Afghanistan and Nigeria. His
Nashville's Most Pristine Parks
🏞️ The city's most untouched parks · Metro's budget · Blasting zone ahead · Book review · Much more!
You can't do that here
⛳️ Jody Barrett on red flag laws · NAACP takes a stand · Loose lips sink ships · Much more!
One-On-One with Representative Jody Barrett
Governor Lee signed a bill that prevents municipalities from instituting their own red flag laws. Barrett sponsored it. Here's what he had to say.