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Anatomy of a Scandal
🏛️ The Council Halvening · Brent Taylor weathers a scandal · TIRRC files another lawsuit · Much more!
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Good morning everyone! I hope you all are recovering nicely from the coalescing forces of Halloween festivities and government mandated time changes. My weekly playlist is particularly chill this week, you can listen to it here. Tonight, there is a lovely indie-folk bill over at The East Room with
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Sitting up under things
🦚 A movie about Flannery O'Connor · Peep show · Blocking roads don't pay · Charter revisions · Much more!
Ethan Hawke’s Good Country People
Hollywood’s most versatile artist brings his Flannery O’Connor movie to Nashville
Back When a Chuckwagon Was a Chuckwagon
🤠 Eating like a cowboy · Who do you work for · Tennessee's San Francisco · Single stairwells · Much more!
A Genuine Cowboy Picnic
Town Creek Chuckwagon serves up great food alongside American history
Intifada in the Council Chambers
🇵🇸 "Inshallah," cries the public · Baseball put on ice · Memphis Hilton · Waller in the Holler · Much more!
The Famous Faces of Broadway
🍻 Neon monuments · Revisionist views of sex · Environmental toxins · Ole St. George · Much more!
A Day at the Races
🐎 Horse races here and elsewhere · Free money Mary Jane · Wallen Effect · St. George MIA · Much more!
Misdiagnosing the psychology of belief
✝️ Hallucinating a threat · Campus hijinx · Jones to remain · AFP lets Nashville take the wheel · Much more!
Defender of the Faith
A Review of Dave Verhaagen’s How White Evangelicals Think: The Psychology of White Conservative Christians
Some good bills passed by the state this year
⚖️ Laws that you might like · Budget season commences · Ticket to ride · ACLU attacks · Much more!
Drive for your life
🚗 Why everyone is driving crazy · Title IX · Nashville limelight · The politician's widow maker · Much more!
Reading the License Plates
🚙 Divining crime from license plates · Metro Arts update · Trains running early · Catch and release · Much more!
Titans Draft Recap
🏈 Titans' draft performance · What to expect from transit · East Bank updates · Jones loses more support · Much more!
Cinema’s Missing Link
🎞️ Movies on tap · Sasquatch Sunset · Things to see · Places to go · Much more!
Consider Alex Jones
⛑️ Donning the tinfoil hat · Children in charge · Sunshine is the best disinfectant · Much more!