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Annual Pamphleteer Christmas Gift Guide
By The Pamphleteer
Don't know what to get that special someone for Christmas? We're here to help

Witchy Mayor Wheaton and Her Coven Make Historical Changes to Christmas Parade That Suppress Religious Speech. Community Organizes a Competing Event
By Ellis Crawford
A follow-up on Saturday’s Cookeville Christmas Parade

Forget Pride Floats: Cookeville Mayor Endorses Self-Proclaimed Witches to Steer City’s Christmas Parade
By Ellis Crawford
A follow-up to Mayor Wheaton's assault on Christmas

Forget Pride Floats: Cookeville Mayor Endorses Self-Proclaimed Witches to Steer City’s Christmas Parade
By The Pamphleteer
A follow-up to Mayor Wheaton's assault on Christmas

Cookeville Mayor Caves to Activist Pressure
By The Pamphleteer
How a small-time politician’s Christmas parade takeover betrayed the values of her constituents

Footman Phil Strikes Again
By Davis Hunt
NewsChannel 5's Phil Williams finds his latest bogeyman almost two hours from town via a podcast

First Look: Mario Cuomo’s “Leftovers” Music Video
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Jay Curtis Miller has spent the last 14 months reliving Halloween. The Nashville-based filmmaker and music video director is currently finishing up the film…

Ho Ho Hi-ya
By Geneva DeCobert
10th-degree black belt and Santa Claus Steve Cooper talks health, martial arts, and side work

"I'm Never Leaving the Station"
By Megan Lee Podsiedlik
There is more to the haunting beauty of Union Station than meets the eye. Built in the Romanesque Revival style, the train station-turned-hotel is one of…

Dr. Epiphone Does It All
By Geneva DeCobert
Nashville's Will Jones lives guitars and everything else
The Pamphleteer’s Southern Festival of Books Preview
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
For over four decades, the Southern Festival of Books has brought authors of international renown to Music City and provided a forum for local…

The Presleys’ Unfinished Lives
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Riley Keough never lived in the South, but her Nashville book tour stop revealed the region’s role in preserving her family legacy and dealing with her grief…

Barnes and Noble Is Back
By Tyler Hummel
Retro Minimalism is the Future

A Beating Heart in Music City
By Geneva DeCobert
Musician Kenny Wayne Jr. talks about making art as a service to his community

On Stoicism And New Southern Optimism
By Tyler Hummel
An essay by Walker Percy in 1959 can tells us something about the South today

Getting to Cheekwood Harvest
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Nashville’s premiere botanical garden celebrates fall while never losing sight of the next season.

Robby Starbuck's Crusade Against Woke
By Davis Hunt
The Nashville-area activist carves out a niche by exposing corporate DEI programs to consumers

Thong Girl Forever
By Geneva DeCobert
Filmmaker Glen Weiss talks about his superhero franchise and what’s next

A Sound Transplant
By Geneva DeCobert
Audio Engineer James Price brings his expertise from the North—no yankeeisms included