In bright yellow polo shirts, and often gliding through crowds on motorized Segways, the downtown Nashville “ambassadors” are easy to spot. And they’re seemingly omnipresent — working 16 hours a day, every day.
Curious Nashville: The Construction Boom Puppet Show
What happens when you adapt a podcast episode into a puppet show? Curious Nashville magic, that’s what. In May, we hosted a celebration of Nashville Public Radio’s podcasts — called Podcast Party (fittingly) — at the Nashville Children’s Theater. We teamed up with local puppeteers to produce a live animated version of one of our […]
Curious Nashville: How An Engineering Failure Led To A Riverfront Park
Lock One Park may be one of Nashville’s smallest parks, but it combines easy access to the Cumberland River with a surprising skyline view — and early 1900s stone ruins that lend an air of mystery.
Curious Nashville: How The Polar Bear Lives On As Edgehill’s Symbol
Among Nashville’s neighborhood oddities, the polar bear statues in Edgehill can definitely turn heads. And while the history of the sculptures at Wedgewood and 12th Avenue South is relatively easy to trace, WPLN listener Mary Gingrass opened the door to a more contemporary answer by wording her Curious Nashville question this way: Why is a BEAR […]
Curious Nashville: Why One Of Metro’s Strangest Buildings Sits Empty
The ship-shaped former Naval Reserve Training Center received historic landmark status in 2015, but its story doesn’t end there.
Curious Nashville: So How Much Rain Does Nashville Get In A Year?
WPLN listener Daniel Wooden asks Curious Nashville: “Is it true that Nashville gets more rain annually than Seattle, Washington?” The answers is pretty straightforward: yes.
Curious Nashville: What Happens When The Wrong Stuff Gets In The Recycling Bin?
For most people, recycling means placing an empty soda can or some scrap paper in a blue bin. They might take that bin to the curb or to a drop-off site. But beyond that, the process is mysterious, filled with arbitrary rules and a vague reassurance that we’re doing the right thing for the environment. […]
Curious Nashville: A Tombstone Mystery About Who ‘Turned From Bloodkin’
The winning question in our very first Curious Nashville voting round led us on a circuitous path — but we are pleased to say that we found the answer.
Who Writes Those Pithy TDOT Highway Signs? It Could Be You
Listen If you’ve ever wondered who writes the digital highway signs up above you on Tennessee interstates — well, some of the most popular were created in a statewide contest. Now the Tennessee Department of Transportation is asking the public for another round of pithy, safety-related sayings.
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