2025 will mark two years since Nashville passed what was one of the nation’s largest-ever sports subsidies. That contentious deal for a new Tennessee Titans stadium was tied to another major project: development of the East Bank. Here’s where the projects stand.
NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Happy new year!
What were our favorite NashVillager essays of 2024?
NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Under the trees
What are your tree stories?
The key question that caused chaos at Metro Arts this year
The debate can be summed up like this: should Metro Arts focus its grantmaking on individual artists or arts nonprofits? The issue has divided Nashville’s arts community.
NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Understanding Nashville through literature
Fact or fiction?
Crossover made the boundaries of country and roots music a little less clear in 2024
Linda Martell — the too-long-overlooked, first Black woman to reach the country charts in the early 1970s — reemerged on Cowboy Carter to drop some wisdom on us this year: “Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they? Yes, they are.”
NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Inside and outside the statehouse
What makes our lawmakers tick?
How Tennessee’s juvenile justice laws impacted kids in 2024
This year started off with a battle in the state legislature. And kids caught up in the justice system are the ones who have dealt with the consequences.
5 stories from WPLN that held powerful institutions accountable in 2024
“A light shining into all dark places” — this is one way to describe the work of investigative journalism, and it’s familiar enough to feel like a cliché. But it’s also fitting for good reason.
NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Nashville’s changing seasons
Can we still appreciate the simple things around us?
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