Nashville experienced its hottest year on record in 2024, breaking the record set in 2023.
Nearly two years in, early skeptics help steer East Bank and stadium projects forward
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 in 2024
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?
A Covenant mom reflects on election ‘déjà vu’
In the wake of the presidential election, the dynamics at the Tennessee State Capitol captured in the “Supermajority” podcast have taken on new meaning. “I don’t know where I belong,” says Melissa Alexander, “and I think a lot of America, maybe, feels the same way.”
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.