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Paramount may stay in California for the time being, but Hollywood is already moving to Nashville
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These Old Bones
👻 Hospital bones, grocery treats, & budgetary ghosts · Governor’s race roundup: it's getting personal · 24 charged in cartel-linked drug ring in Middle TN · Much more!
This Week's Events >>
Good morning everyone! Welcome to this week's exciting list of events around Nashville. Here are some of the highlights: Indie folk artist Ian Sweet is performing at DRKMTTR tonight and tomorrow night The Eighth Room is hosting a special edition of Hooked: Halloween Wild Card Night. The Alex
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Words Have Meaning
🗣️ Blah, blah, blah · Freddie vs. DOGE · Fairgrounds speedway · Repeat offender of the week · Much more!
The Endurance of the Smoky Mountains
🐻 Gatlinburg Nation · Taxes for trip · Diversity our strength · Film Rundown · Much more!
Gatlinburg Nation
How the Smoky Mountain tourist town embodies America’s political realignment.
Confused by the screens
📺 The medium is the message · Traffic calming · Fruitless pushback · Illegal of the week · The Monkey · Much more!
Review: The Monkey (2025)
“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” So goes the Imposition of Ashes that marked the less-evangelical devout yesterday. Bu
What's past is prologue
🏛️ Last night at the Metro Council · Right to have rights · Deportations · Much more!
The Stage is Set
🗺️ TN gears up for immigration challenges · Council meeting · Oscars · Week in streaming · Much more!
This Week in Streaming (March 4th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Headline Hijinx
🗞️ Funny papers make news · NEST meetings · DOGE victims · Disaster relief · Much more!
Best Movies from Last Year
🎥 Our own private Oscars · Butterfield · Transit security · Rose for guv · Much more!
The Pamphleteer’s Top Ten Films of 2024
Our picks for the best movies of the year on the eve of the Oscars
Watching the Watchmen
🏛️ Historic zoning bills collide · Wired up · Charter school revival · Book of Elsewhere · Much more!
Book Review: Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s The Book of Elsewhere
Though John Wick may have returned Keanu Reeves to the A-list, he has always done what he wants on his own terms, stretching his acting abil
Building Resilient Food Systems
🥬 Local food for locals · Nashville Exec heads up DOGE · Faux-zempic · Much more!
What Tennessee Gets Wrong About Food and Farms
Elizabeth Murphy of Nashville Grown talks about the need for a robust regional food system in the Volunteer State