The Ragged Old Flag
🇺🇸 Flag day salutations · Rural trad trauma · Arts audit · Leaks and more leaks · Low battery · Film rundown · Much more!
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A Night at The Opera
🎭 A night at the Nashville Opera · CM Horton slapped with ethics complaint · Behn hates Nashville · 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, 12/1 🎸 Teethe @ DRKMTTR, 8p, $15, Info 🎄 Little Big Town: The Christmas Shows @ Ryman Auditorium, 7p,
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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.
This Week in Streaming (June 11th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
A Round at Two Rivers
⛳️ Hitting the links · Downtown crosses the river · Flooding · Streaming this week · Much more!
Review: Two Rivers Golf Course
Porter plays a round at the spacious Two Rivers course in Donelson
How to win a fight with the federal gov't
⚖️ Full interview with AG Skrmetti · Build it better blemishes · Transit moves · Not so prideful · Much more!
One-On-One with Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti
Two years into his term as the state's attorney general, we sit down with Jonathan Skrmetti about what his office has been working on
The Cinema of Self-Deception
🎞️ A24 flops on their latest "hit" · CMA Fest changes · Downtown spreads across the river Film rundown · Much more!
I Saw The TV Glow and the Cinema of Self-Deception
A24’s latest wallows in its own insularity.
Book Review: Adult Drama
What does art that passes an amorphous purity test look like? It’s the question that has remained woefully uninterrogated in the wake of #Me
Skrmetti On the Record
🏛️ The AG talks Title IX · Blacking out · Why don't you ride the bus · Book review · Much more!