City Without A King
👑 A reflection on Memphis · "Gun violence" · Tainted gas · Planet of the Apes · Much more!
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🃏 New candidates pull petitions for congressional races · Starbucks to get $30M from state · New largemouth bass record · Much more!
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Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
It’s conventional wisdom that the movies of 1968 were as polarizing as its politics–a time of assassinations, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Chi
Memphis, City of Kings
A city of legend, of song, of hallowed and heroic memories that will endure despite its flaws
Chesterton in Nashville
🗺️ Chesterton observes Nashville · Local news has a normal one · Police oversight · Numbers · Much more!
Vols look strong headed into tournament
⚾️ Tennessee and Vanderbilt both make tournament · Metro Arts shakedown · Not a citizen, not a problem · Much more!
Bill Burr Speaks to Nashville
🎭 Bill Burr gets it · WeGo, TheyLeave · Swifties and Preslies · Felons and Chemtrails · Much more!
Bill Burr Takes on Lower Broad
The comedian’s pragmatic social critique offers a promising version of Nashville.
This Week in Streaming (May 23)
Our recommendations to help counteract the endless scrolling.
Why Nashville's crime rate has fallen
🚔 Traditional policing works · Budget priorities · Free facts · The week in streaming · Much more!
Leave Them Broadway Signs Alone
🥃 Council wearing whiskey glasses · Permission to carry · Colonizer or colonized · Back to Black ( Much more!
Review: Back to Black (2024)
“I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles for five minutes,” Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) says in voiceover as she runs
Might go for a walk
🚶 A stroll to the other side of the country · Build It Right · Price of movement · LPRs on hold · Much more!
Kickin' around some ideas
🏟️ The next era for NSC · Nashville bus safety · Homeless census · Metro Arts in disarray · Much more!
Reflections on life during lockdown
📚 Reflections on COVID · Emissions and air quality · Dating app STDs · Movie rundown · Much more!
Post-Pandemic Literature and the Promise of America’s Future
Michael Cunningham and Sloane Crosley prove the book may be the only way forward from our COVID malaise.