Director Robert Altman’s Nashville premiered in Nashville on August 8, 1975. The film was already doing well in New York and elsewhere, but even before then, before it even hit theaters, legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael dubbed it “the funniest epic vision of America ever to reach the screen.” Nashville would go on […]
How MNPS is addressing teacher concerns this year
As Metro Nashville Public Schools prepares to start Monday, we sat down with Dr. Mason Bellamy, chief of academics and schools, and Michele Sheriff, president of the Metro Nashville Educators Association, on Friday’s episode of This Is Nashville.
It’s August in Nashville, so let’s shop for school supplies, science teacher style
Every other Friday for This Is Nashville, I hop out of my host chair and into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with one of our fellow Middle Tennesseans. The school year is about to begin for Metro Nashville Public Schools (and has already begun for other districts). That means it’s time for some school supplies!
Back to school with Nashville’s teachers
It’s back-to-school season! Big box stores have put out special school supplies displays, and the airwaves are full of commercials for backpacks, clothes and markers. It’s a pretty familiar phenomenon, but it’s also impossible to deny that a lot has changed about education over the past few years, from the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Adventures in Nashville home shopping with first-time buyers
In this episode, we meet Nashville residents who’ve had vastly different experiences buying homes over the last year. We’ll talk house flipping, gentrification and interest rates.
What does ‘affordable housing’ mean to you?
The federal definition of affordable housing is spending no more than 30% of your income on rent or a mortgage. Is your definition of “affordable housing” different?
Navigating Nashville’s nightlife scene while sober
Nashville is a party city, full of honky-tonks, cherished bars and good old Tennessee whiskey. Pedal taverns and party buses fill the streets, while music venues are stocked with drinks. It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to go out in this city when you can’t, or choose not to, drink. But that’s the reality for many Nashville residents.
Living at risk of Huntington’s disease
Huntington’s disease is a rare genetic neurological disorder that can impact everything from a person’s ability to move to their memory and can cause psychiatric disorders, like depression. For many, it’s fatal, and there’s a 50% chance that the biological child of a parent with Huntington’s will inherit the disease. Yet, there is still hope. […]
Browsing Nashville’s bookstore scene, past and present
This hour, we explore Nashville’s bookselling scene and its independent bookstores. We talk with newcomers Novelette, longtime staples Alkebu-Lan Images, and also browse the city’s diminishing used bookstore scene.
Meet the people who make Nashville laugh
Nashville comedians share their experiences on what it’s like on stage and how they got their start.
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