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The snakes in our grass

By Mary Mancini

June 12, 2025

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Like it or not, it’s snake season.

Filed Under: Programs

Theater of War: Rural Tennesseans, Hollywood actors and a live studio audience

By Mary Mancini

June 11, 2025

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Last month, rural Tennesseans, Hollywood actors and a live studio audience in New York City came together. On the agenda were issues that bind us.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: domestic violence, Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, Scott County, Theater of War

J. Percy Priest: Nashville’s Lake

By Katherine Ruppelt

June 10, 2025

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We’re sailing over to Nashville’s waterfront. Percy Priest is a local’s lake — and the experiences there are as diverse as the growing communities surrounding it. We’re sharing stories about the land, the water and the wildlife. And we’re opening the phone lines to hear your stories! (Extra credit if you call in while on […]

Filed Under: Programs

Locals love Nashville’s Percy Priest Lake

By Katherine Ruppelt

June 10, 2025

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We are heading into the heat of summer — and there is one spot that many locals here in Nashville go to where they can relax and cool down: Percy Priest Lake.

Filed Under: Features, Programs Tagged With: Percy Priest Lake

Joining Nashville Rowing Club for a summer sunset practice

By Katherine Ruppelt

June 10, 2025

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This Is Nashville recently joined the Nashville Rowing Club for an evening practice to see how the rowers experience ‘Nashville’s Lake.’

Filed Under: Features, Programs Tagged With: Percy Priest Lake, Rowing

Samar Ali, peacemaker

By Mary Mancini

June 9, 2025

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Growing up as an Arab-American woman in rural Waverly — and traveling for her career — have shaped Samar Ali’s life as a peacemaker.

Filed Under: Profiles, Programs Tagged With: Millions of Conversations, Samar Ali

Your Turn to Talk: The $3.8 billion dollar Metro Budget

By Mary Mancini

June 5, 2025

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Fifty-seven percent of the mayor’s recommended budget for next year comes from property taxes. Another almost twenty percent comes from local sales tax.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, Mary Jo Wiggins, Metro budget, Murat Arik, Nashville Metro Council

Happy 35th birthday, Athena!

By Josh Deepan

June 4, 2025

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Every year, thousands enter the temple in Nashville’s Parthenon to view the nearly 42-foot statue of Athena.

Filed Under: Programs

‘Where’s the meaning in everything?’ Lessons learned from a week as a Buddhist monk

By Char Daston

June 4, 2025

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For Don Srisuriyo, a Thai American from Murfreesboro, becoming a Buddhist monk was unexpectedly challenging, and changed his relationship to his heritage.

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Buddhism, Buddhist, Middle Tennessee State University, MTSU, Murfreesboro, religion, Thai

How do rites of passage mark important milestones?

By Josh Deepan

June 3, 2025

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Across cultures, rites of passage often honor a transition from one cycle of life to another.

Filed Under: Programs

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