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The Nashville area now has a handful of doctors who have made the leap to a different kind of business model for medical care.
They join a growing number of physicians nationwide, who say they’re fighting the health insurance system — by bypassing it.
Running a small beef farm requires cultivating good relationships with cows and humans — like local chefs, butchers and individual customers, all of whom help small farmers remain competitive.
But success stories, like that of Ken Drinnon and KLD Farm, are still relatively rare.
Public commemoration of Franklin’s past got a little fuller this week, after five markers detailing the city’s African American history were unveiled near its most prominent Confederate statue.
The Southern Festival of Books is not a political event. But this year, organizers say they couldn’t ignore two of the country’s most pressing issues — immigration and identity.
So they placed them center stage at the 31st edition, which runs Friday through Sunday in downtown Nashville.
The Nashville Film Festival turns 50 this year, under a new executive director making his film world debut.
Jason Padgitt was a music industry veteran when he was tapped for the gig last year. It was shortly after the festival’s longtime CEO and artistic director both left — and before its 50th anniversary edition.
