Watch live at noon on YouTube. Audio will be added after the broadcast. A simple aluminum pole. The annual airing of grievances. The legendary feats of strength. It can only mean one thing: It’s Festivus – the holiday for the rest of us.
Curious Nashville: Why did a Nashville bank release a Christmas album?
It’s Curious Nashville: where WPLN News answers your questions about Middle Tennessee and takes you on a monthly adventure to find answers. Today we’re shining a light on an obscure album recorded in Nashville more than 50 years ago that features a Christmas choir performing inside the lobby of a downtown bank. Astute local listener […]
Marie Williams on bringing heart to Tennessee’s bureaucracy
Marie Williams is the kind of state official who will get choked up on stage talking about the passion of her team. She came up through homeless services in Memphis and found her way to the state agency that oversees mental health and substance abuse services when Gov. Bill Haslam appointed her to lead the […]
The Debt: What Tennessee owes its HBCU (Call-in)
What happens when government funding is withheld from a public university that’s served generations of Black Tennesseans? And what could be possible if that debt were finally paid?
Death penalty activists sit down in our studio — one for, one against
On days when someone is executed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, community members are generally allowed to gather outside the prison in a large field. Separated by fences and distance are the “against” and “for” sides. The “againsts” are usually made up of a few dozen clergy and abolitionists, including one of our […]
Andi Marie Tillman and her hilarious TikTok characters
When Andi Marie Tillman moved to Nashville from Scott County, Tennessee, she had dreams of writing the next hit song.
The Roundabout: ICE raids in churches, Christians and execution, our founding fathers and faith
It’s Thursday and time for another episode of The Roundabout.
Music Citizens: The Tastemaker
Today we travel along with Music Citizens to go inside the highest stakes job in the industry – A&R.
Our Grand Divisions
There aren’t many states like Tennessee with three distinct regions so unique each has its own star on the state flag.
Vandy neurologist Britt Stone on coming back around to ‘bush medicine’
When Dr. Britt Stone was growing up in Tupelo, Mississippi, her Bahamian mother made her choke down a spoonful of cod liver oil each morning. That daily ritual was part of a “bush medicine” philosophy incorporating an array of natural supplements and remedies. While training at Meharry Medical College, and later specializing in neurology, Stone […]
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