Nashville
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Newyork
Why Are There Neo-Nazis on the Streets of Nashville?
I wish I could say I was shocked when neo-Nazis started parading around downtown Nashville last week, wearing shirts emblazoned with swastikas and the words “Pro-white.” I wish I could say I was shocked when they asked passers-by, “Are you a Jew ...
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Newyork
A Tiny Museum Takes the High Road and Shows the Way Forward
When the Nashville Scene held its first annual “You Are So Nashville If” contest in 1989, the winning entry read, “You think our Parthenon is better because the other one fell apart.” The winners of the news weekly’s long-running contest unfailingly ...
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Newyork
Can Nonprofit News Save the South From Itself?
When I moved here in 1987, Nashville had two daily newspapers: a morning paper, The Tennessean, whose editorial page leaned left; and an evening paper, the Nashville Banner, whose editorial page leaned right. I still a subscribe to The Tennessean ...
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US
Six Dead and More Than 60 Injured After Severe Weather in Tennessee
Reed Arnold was watching TV on Saturday at his home in Clarksville, Tenn., when he saw a warning on his phone. He stepped outside and filmed the swiftly moving clouds and a looming tornado. Minutes later, the twister hit his neighborhood. “One second ...
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Newyork
A Funny Thing Happened on Her Way Out of a Comedy Club
Sarah Berkman and Phillip Dinner were standing in a stairwell in New York when they bonded over Nashville. A little over a year later, they began living together in Nashville … with her parents.
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US
After School Shooting, Nashville Grieves and Ponders Its Divisions
For decades, Nashville has prospered while finding common ground between urban and rural, left and right, state and city. In a partisan era, that’s becoming much harder.
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Newyork
This Is How Red States Silence Blue Cities. And Democracy.
NASHVILLE — January in Nashville ushers in two forces for chaos: erratic weather and irrational legislators. Both are massively disruptive. Neither is surprising anymore. In the age of climate change, Mark Twain’s old joke about New England — if you ...