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🥞 Cracker Barrel's big rebrand · Courtroom activism backfires · Optics of Privilege · Voucher update · Week in culture · Much more!
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Boot-Strapped on Broadway
🍺 Haslam throws cold water on bar bailouts · Hatley pours another $5M more into independent governor bid · Shoplifter with 40+ warrants arrested · Much more!
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Good morning everyone! Here are some highlights from this week in Nashville. This evening— The Pamphleteer, in collaboration with Meriwether Academy, presents the third night of The Nashville Antichrist Lectures with Peter Thiel and Bright Eyes play Brooklyn Bowl. Tomorrow, Foster The People are performing at The Truth and Sienna
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The Week in Culture (August 21st)
### Watch Hot Ticket: Eden Ron Howard delves into thriller territory with this pre-WWII parable about a group of expats who find their jung
Tuesday Night Smackdown
🏛️ Last night at the Metro Council · Has Woke peaked · Cracking down on panhandling · McKay's Knoxville has union vibes · Much more!
Weird Metro Money
👍 Blackburn lands another endorsement · Housing supply misses the mark · Repeat offender of the day · Americana interview · Much more!
Sydney Sweeney and The King of the Summer Movie Season
Actor Paul Walter Hauser and writer/director Tony Tost pay homage to the rest of the country in their neo-western Americana
Councilmanic Rubber Stamp
🙉 CM Horton doesn't want to hear it · Will Blackburn debate · Council musical chairs · The office of family safety · Much more!
Food at the Fair
🎡 The state fair's main attraction · TIRRC sues THP · Scrapyard future · Homeless count remains steady · The Corvette Caper · Much more!
The State of the Fair
As the Wilson County — Tennessee State Fair inches toward one million annual attendees, Pick Tennessee has become its crown jewel
The Corvette Caper
Bowling Green's GM assembly plant gets hit by some sophisticated criminals
More than meets the eye...
🧊 A new ICE facility in West TN · Cleaning up the Capitol · Dress code scaries · Murfreesboro grave destroyed · This week in culture · Much more!
The Week in Culture (August 14th)
Watch Hot Ticket Nobody 2 Bob Odenkirk returns as the lifelong assassin turned family man who now finds his summer vacation interrupted by
Murfreesboro Founding Fathers’ Grave Destroyed By Vandals
On Tuesday morning, the Murfreesboro grave of a Revolutionary War Hero was found destroyed. In addition to his own, the graves of his family
Battling Over Battle
🎓 Residents sound off against MNPS director Battle · Boring back-and-forth · BNA ends DEI program · Much more!
Vision Zero Crime
🌃 Cities choose to allow crime · Ford pumps the brakes · Free parking · Cookin' in the courts · Weapons review · Much more!
Review: Weapons (2025)
August long ago gained the moniker of Hollywood’s dumping ground, a reputation that has only worsened in the age of franchise IP. But the su