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Anatomy of a Scandal
🏛️ The Council Halvening · Brent Taylor weathers a scandal · TIRRC files another lawsuit · 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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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
Might go for a walk
🚶 A stroll to the other side of the country · Build It Right · Price of movement · LPRs on hold · Much more!
Kickin' around some ideas
🏟️ The next era for NSC · Nashville bus safety · Homeless census · Metro Arts in disarray · Much more!
Reflections on life during lockdown
📚 Reflections on COVID · Emissions and air quality · Dating app STDs · Movie rundown · Much more!
Post-Pandemic Literature and the Promise of America’s Future
Michael Cunningham and Sloane Crosley prove the book may be the only way forward from our COVID malaise.
Nashville Fairways Gets Some Love
⛳️ Nashville Fairways and a round at McCabe · Andrea strikes again · New South · Harmony Korine movie · Much more!
Review: McCabe Golf Course
Porter plays a round at Nashville's most popular public course
Review: Aggro Dr1ft (2023)
Nashville product Harmony Korine has spent the last thirty years earning wonder and vitriol on the international film scene. But after the s
Consider an empty bus
🎙️ Recapping yesterday's State of Metro · Beshear comes to town · Crime don't pay · A quote from the past · Much more!
Review: Challengers (2024)
In the wake of the 70s American Film Renaissance, moviegoers could count on high-budget, star-driven dramas for adults as ambitious in theme
The TIP of the Iceberg
💸 How your money'd be spent on buses · State of Metro · Oval City losing power · Challengers review · Much more!
The root of all evil
🌬️ Is air conditioning bad, actually · School threats · East Bank roadblocks · Skyscrapers · Much more!