Nashville Scene

11/14/2025

Some Lower Broad bar owners appeal their reappraisals while others seek nine-figure sales — telling two different stories about Nashville's party center.

Some bar owners appeal their reappraisals while others seek nine-figure sales, telling two different stories about Nashville's party center

11/14/2025

State departments' funding requests this year increased by more than $1 billion.

State departments' funding requests increase by more than $1 billion; education department yet to request TISA, voucher funds

11/14/2025

With the season rapidly approaching, we collect some recent-ish Nashville holiday music, from YK Records, Uncle Ellen, Alanna Royale and more.

As the season dawns, we run down some favorite selections from YK Records, Uncle Ellen, Alanna Royale and more.

11/14/2025

Longtime Scene art contributor Joe Nolan's book 'Nowville' has won the Norman L. and Rosalea J. Goldberg Prize. Read Billy Kilgore's Q&A with Nolan, courtesy of Chapter 16.

Joe Nolan’s oral history is out now via Vanderbilt University Press

11/14/2025

Tickets are on sale now for the Tennessee Local Food Summit, to be held at Trevecca Community Church.

Tickets are on sale now for the early December symposium, to be held at Trevecca Community Church

11/14/2025

Once Upon a Time in France, the French bistro that opened in East Nashville in late 2019, is under new ownership.

11/13/2025

Harold “Wayne” Nichols is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, Dec. 11, as Tennessee’s third ex*****on in seven months. His clemency petition rests with Gov. Bill Lee.

Working against the clock, attorneys wage a multifront campaign against the state and Gov. Bill Lee

11/13/2025

A key figure in Music City's baseball lineage was honored Thursday morning with the unveiling of a new mural in E.S. Rose Park.

Work designed by Belmont student features local baseball legend Turkey Stearnes, historic Edgehill buildings

11/13/2025

Democratic state Rep. Caleb Hemmer will not seek reelection in 2026, the lawmaker announced Monday.

Democrat Mark Proctor and Republican Bill Hancock among candidates vying for the seat

11/13/2025

After a few years dormant, Lower Broadway institution Ernest Tubb Record Shop is set to make a grand return on Thursday, Nov. 13.

The revived Lower Broadway landmark will celebrate its grand reopening — including an expansion with multiple bar and performance spaces — on Nov. 13.

11/13/2025

Talking with Indigenous comedian Blake Pickens ahead of this year’s IndigeNash, which takes place Nov. 19-23 throughout Nashville.

IndigeNash — the Nashville festival celebrating Indigenous art and culture — is returning on Nov. 19, and one way it’s expanding is through comedy, with scheduled performances from comics Eagle Blackbird and Blake Pickens.

11/13/2025

This week's cover story: The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s new exhibit — ‘Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising’ — puts a spotlight on Muscle Shoals’ rise as a hitmaking recording center.

Talking to musicians and co-curators about the new exhibit, whose two-plus-year run at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum begins Nov. 14