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🥱 I can't hear your concern over my yawn · Antioch's retail theft problem · Summer of carnage · Streaming this week · Much more!
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Election Hangover
💊 Blackburn won, but the landslide went missing · Anti-nostalgia in the millennial South · Remembering Martha Ingram · Much more!
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A Night at the Movies
🍿 O'Connell introduces Magnolia · Looking at the sky · WeGo is not safe · Oversight for illegals · Much more!
Dr. Ming Wang's Unwavering Vision
👁️ Dr. Ming Wang's new movie · Illegal to break law · Matter of Pride · Weekly film rundown · Much more!
Dr. Ming Wang’s Persistence of Vision
The world-famous Nashville eye surgeon survived China’s Cultural Revolution. Now, he’s entering the world of the multiplex with a new movie about his life.
City Without A King
👑 A reflection on Memphis · "Gun violence" · Tainted gas · Planet of the Apes · Much more!
Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
It’s conventional wisdom that the movies of 1968 were as polarizing as its politics–a time of assassinations, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Chi
Memphis, City of Kings
A city of legend, of song, of hallowed and heroic memories that will endure despite its flaws
Chesterton in Nashville
🗺️ Chesterton observes Nashville · Local news has a normal one · Police oversight · Numbers · Much more!
Vols look strong headed into tournament
⚾️ Tennessee and Vanderbilt both make tournament · Metro Arts shakedown · Not a citizen, not a problem · Much more!
Bill Burr Speaks to Nashville
🎭 Bill Burr gets it · WeGo, TheyLeave · Swifties and Preslies · Felons and Chemtrails · Much more!
Bill Burr Takes on Lower Broad
The comedian’s pragmatic social critique offers a promising version of Nashville.
This Week in Streaming (May 23)
Our recommendations to help counteract the endless scrolling.
Why Nashville's crime rate has fallen
🚔 Traditional policing works · Budget priorities · Free facts · The week in streaming · Much more!
Leave Them Broadway Signs Alone
🥃 Council wearing whiskey glasses · Permission to carry · Colonizer or colonized · Back to Black ( Much more!
Review: Back to Black (2024)
“I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles for five minutes,” Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) says in voiceover as she runs