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NashVillager Podcast: Two tight elections

By Nina Cardona

December 4, 2025

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How was the Matt Van Epps win this week like another Tennessean’s victory in the 1800s? Plus the local news for Dec. 4, 2025, and a Curious Nashville story.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: James K. Polk

Music Citizens: The Tastemaker

By Mary Mancini

December 3, 2025

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Today we travel along with Music Citizens to go inside the highest stakes job in the industry – A&R.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Anay Richardson, Kim Buie, Music Citizens, Steve Robertson, WNXP

NashVillager Podcast: More East names for Nashville’s east side

By Nina Cardona

December 3, 2025

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What’s in a place name? We’re getting a taste of what we’ll call the city’s soon-to-be new neighborhoods on the East Bank.

Filed Under: Metro, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: East Bank, East Nashville

Our Grand Divisions

By Josh Deepan

December 2, 2025

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There aren’t many states like Tennessee with three distinct regions so unique each has its own star on the state flag.

Filed Under: Programs

NashVillager Podcast: Jewish Nashville

By Nina Cardona

December 2, 2025

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When did religious diversity come to Nashville? The South is sometimes assumed to be a monoculture. But that’s not certainly not true … and it never has been.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: history, Jewish, religion

Vandy neurologist Britt Stone on coming back around to ‘bush medicine’

By Blake Farmer

December 1, 2025

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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 […]

Filed Under: Profiles, Programs Tagged With: Britt Stone, Meharry Medical College

NashVillager Podcast: Big banks getting bigger

By Nina Cardona

December 1, 2025

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When national holidays were rare, what did it take for Thanksgiving to make the cut? Plus the local news for Nov. 26 and a round-up of events in What Where When-sday.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: banking, Music Citizens

Our most popular episode of 2025: The HBCU we never knew

By Mary Mancini

November 26, 2025

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This time of year, we like to recommend some of the best podcasts of the year. So we’ve sprinkled a few recommendations throughout the show today while we let you enjoy our most downloaded episode of the year. It’s about the history of the historically Black university that we never knew – Roger Williams University. Nothing […]

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: 2025 Year In Review

NashVillager Podcast: A hankering for turkey and unity

By Tony Gonzalez

November 26, 2025

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When national holidays were rare, what did it take for Thanksgiving to make the cut? Plus the local news for Nov. 26 and a round-up of events in What Where When-sday.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: history, thanksgiving

How the Opry and WSM made it 100 years

By Mary Mancini

November 25, 2025

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The Grand Ole Opry is more than just the longest-running radio show in America.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Grand Ole Opry, Opry 100, Opry at 100, WSM

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