While the facade of the Belle Meade Theater lives on, the interior is empty. That prompted a listener to ask Curious Nashville what happened to the marble slabs filled with celebrity autographs.
Cynthia Abrams
Cindy Abrams is WPLN’s metro reporter. She grew up in Eugene and Portland, Oregon and moved east after graduating from Whitman College. Cindy comes to Nashville from central Virginia, where she covered the courts at Rappahannock News. She was WPLN’s digital news intern in 2021 before joining the station full-time as a newscast and digital producer last year. She started covering the Metro government in the fall of 2023.
Here’s where Nashville’s lawsuits against the Trump administration stand
Metro Nashville has filed seven lawsuits against the federal government over funding losses since President Donald Trump began his second term.
Research labs and retail: Vanderbilt’s ‘Innovation Neighborhood’ gets approval over contentions
Retail, restaurants and research labs are coming to the parking lots around Vanderbilt University.
WeGo ridership steadily increases as Nashville ramps up transit investments
WeGo’s latest ridership numbers come close to the all-time ridership high set in 2015.
Dolly Parton’s legacy transcends music, from books to scholarships to vaccines
Dolly Parton’s death Tuesday marked the loss of not only an American country music legend, but, also, a major philanthropist.
No right on red? Pedestrian deaths have Nashville pursuing intersection safety measure
The idea is that right-on-red turns would be banned in much of downtown, school zones and at some high traffic intersections.
‘Significant shortfalls’ in Nashville storm response — report zeroes in on NES, OEM
Nashville’s emergency response to January’s devastating ice storm “illuminated significant shortfalls in both planning and execution” even as other parts of the city’s systems worked as intended, a new report says.
Nashville sues over Trump administration’s withheld anti-terrorism grants
DHS is requiring that states comply with new election procedures to receive complete funding through the Homeland Security Grant Program. Some localities argue that is a constitutional violation.
Tennessee mounds, churches and courthouses get federal preservation boost
More than two dozen Tennessee projects will share in $1 million in federal funds for historic preservation.
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