Pickin' & Fiddlin' in the Upper Cumberland
The 53rd annual Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree And Crafts Festival celebrates Tennessee’s musical heritage this July 4th weekend.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 28-July 4
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming releases, check out our 2024 Film G
Review: Daddio (2023)
One of the most reliable cultural barometers of the last few years should have been the fall of Sean Penn. The shorthand for the worst speci
Anatomy of a Protest
What a caravan of tractors and the heirs to Ross Perot tell us about Middle Tennessee’s relationship to its past.
This Week in Streaming (June 25th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Journeys to the Wasteland
The Bikeriders and Furiosa chart the enduring appeal of the open road.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 21-27
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming releases, check out our 2024 Film G
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 Council Rundown (6/18/24)
RESOLUTIONS * RS2024-543 (Passed) MNPD Taser upgrade * RS2024-539 (Passed) an agreement for the purchase of 3 acres to build a new fire
This Week in Streaming (June 18th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
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.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 14-20
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming releases, check out our 2024 Film G
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
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.