Movies on a shoestring budget
🍿 Troma's Ben Johnson talks · Transit prevails · This week in streaming · Much more!
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Outside Money, Local Leaders
🗳️ Mayor O'Connell considers a second run · Bucksnort bomb plant explodes · A new election administrator · Much more!
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📅 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, 10/13 🪕 Kyle Tuttle's Bluegrass Monday @ Dee's Lounge, 6p, $10, Info 🪕 Val Storey, Carl Jackson, Larry
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The Mania of Independent Film
Longtime Troma Entertainment contributor Ben Johnson talks about the value of experience, ideas, and a good day-old bagel spot
This Week in Streaming (January 14th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Measuring public safety with a ruler
🚔 A more natural metric for crime · Fusus returns · War on Hate · Much more!
Trumpian Swiftian America
🎤 Donald Trump and Taylor Swift · Snow · Suing Transit · Film Rundown · Much more!
Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, and the Universal Traits of American Iconography
How a new book about the world’s reigning pop artist accidentally makes a case for the appeal of the once and future president.
Climate Change is real, the solutions are fake
📑 Primitive Climate Paperwork Offerings · Snow · A Real Pain · Much more!
Film Review: A Real Pain (2024)
Most living Americans remember the days when Woody Allen would crank out at least one seminal film a decade. So it comes as little surprise
The Ideal Nashvillian
🎨 A city of life artists · Community reacts to break-ins · ESA session · Much more!
The Root of All Traffic
🚗 We fixed traffic · Car break-ins · Week in streaming · Much more!
This Week in Streaming (January 7th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
The View from Behind the Lens
🎥 Jay Curtis Miller talks film · Pork of the Year · Much more!
The Making of Jay Curtis Miller
From action figures to auteur
The Modern Healthcare Vampire
🧛🏻♂️ Nosferatu as MAHA fable · Fusus returns · Safety on Broadway · Much more!
Nosferatu as MAHA Fable
Robert Eggers’s Riff on Dracula is the crown jewel of post-COVID horror