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Out About

Out, About: This is Halloween

By Rachel Iacovone

October 27, 2023

There is a lot happening around town. So what I really want to spotlight — or rather, lantern light — is one of the lesser-known events this Saturday.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager, Out About Tagged With: halloween, Nashville City Cemetery

Out, About: Where to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day and beyond

By Rachel Iacovone

October 6, 2023

The week before Columbus Day, sometime in early elementary school, I came home and started to proudly recite the poem I’d just learned: “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean bl–” My mom cut me off.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About, Race & Equity Tagged With: Indigenous, Indigenous history, Native American, Native American Indian Association of Tennessee, Pow wow

Out, About: Ice, ice, baby. Hockey’s (almost) back!

By Rachel Iacovone

September 29, 2023

Yes, I am from Florida, which famously has no winter. But I am the biggest hockey fan. Well, second biggest.

Filed Under: NashVillager, Out About, Sports Tagged With: hockey, Nashville Predators

Out, About: Much ado about… something

By Rachel Iacovone

September 22, 2023

Every summer, I look forward to Summer Shakespeare with a nostalgia that’s not exactly my own. I’m not sure if you can inherit wistfulness or if it’s a learned trait, but mine is certainly my mother’s.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About Tagged With: Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Out, About: Swing your partner round and round

By Rachel Iacovone

September 8, 2023

I successfully avoided line dancing, square dancing or any kind of boot scooting for four years in Nashville — until last weekend.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About Tagged With: dance, food

Out, About: An unexpected way to battle this heat

By Rachel Iacovone

August 25, 2023

Curling — yes, the one you take an odd fascination with every Winter Olympics before forgetting about its existence for four years — is right here in West Nashville.

Filed Under: NashVillager, Out About, Sports Tagged With: curling

Out, About: Fun at the fair(s)

By Rachel Iacovone

August 18, 2023

The Tennessee State Fair opened last night in Lebanon, and I can practically smell the funnel cakes from my desk in Metrocenter.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About Tagged With: Nashville Fairgrounds, Tennessee State Fair

Out, About: Let’s go to the beach, beach… er, water park

By Rachel Iacovone

August 11, 2023

Nashville Shores? More like Nashville Sores, OK.

Filed Under: NashVillager, Out About

Out, About: Where to watch the Women’s World Cup

By Rachel Iacovone

July 21, 2023

It’s World Cup season, baby! … Again. This time, it’s the women’s teams from 32 countries facing off in Australia and New Zealand.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About, Sports Tagged With: food, Soccer, Vegan, World Cup

Out, About: Let’s get in formation

By Rachel Iacovone

July 14, 2023

Beyoncé will be with us shortly. The Queen Bey herself will be performing at Nissan Stadium tomorrow night — and there are, shockingly, some tickets left, starting at $128 (before all those lovely Ticketmaster fees).

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About Tagged With: Beyonce, food, music

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