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East Nashville

A visit to the East Nashville wind telephone, where calls connect to lost loved ones

By Blake Farmer

December 18, 2025

Allison Stillwell Young and her wind telephone
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A handful of “wind telephone” booths have popped up around Middle Tennessee in the last few years to create places to commune with lost loved ones.

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: death, East Nashville, obituary

NashVillager Podcast: More East names for Nashville’s east side

By Nina Cardona

December 3, 2025

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What’s in a place name? We’re getting a taste of what we’ll call the city’s soon-to-be new neighborhoods on the East Bank.

Filed Under: Metro, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: East Bank, East Nashville

Todd Snider, whose album ‘East Nashville Skyline’ is essential to roots music, is dead at 59

By Miriam Kramer

November 15, 2025

Nashville musician Todd Snider, known for his blend of humor and songwriting, died on Friday.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Americana, East Nashville, Todd Snider

ICE arrests drivers in South Nashville, sparking outrage from local officials

By Marianna Bacallao

May 4, 2025

Several drivers in South Nashville were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Saturday night, sparking outrage from activists and politicians.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 287(g), Aftyn Behn, Don Aaron, East Nashville, Freddie O'Connell, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Metro Nashville Police Department, MNPD, Nashville police, raid, sean parker, Tennessee Highway Patrol

What it’s like when an entire Nashville apartment community must move

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

February 7, 2025

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Residents of Berkshire Place Apartments in East Nashville are finally moving — years after they were first told their units would need to be vacated — to relocate to the newly built Birchstone Village in Madison.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, East Nashville, Madison, Subsidized housing

Listen: The inspiration for the song ‘Empty Trainload of Sky’ is an East Nashville landmark

By Justin Barney

January 3, 2025

An adult and a kid on in golden hour light standing under a large train bridge
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings live and work in Nashville, and their knowledge of the city shines through in the new song, “Empty Trainload of Sky.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: David Rawlings, East Nashville, Gillian Welch, history, Shelby Bottoms

The songs of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have added to the shared folk canon, but their career is their own

By jewly hight

December 8, 2024

It’s easy to forget how unorthodox they seemed when they first arrived in Nashville in the early 1990s.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Americana, David Rawlings, East Nashville, Gillian Welch, Nashville Artist of the Month, Super Tuesday Tornado

NashVillager Podcast: The logic of illogical Nashville place names

By Nina Cardona

July 17, 2024

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Why isn’t South Nashville the Southernmost part of Nashville? Plus the local news for July 17, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: East Nashville, North Nashville, South Nashville, West Nashville

For one family at East Nashville’s Riverchase development, frustration and mixed messages about where to go next

By Ambriehl Crutchfield

July 7, 2022

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The future for renters at an affordable housing complex in East Nashville continues to hang in the balance. 

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: affordable housing, development, East Nashville, Housing, Oracle, rentals, rezoning, Riverchase

Slammed by tornado and pandemic, a Nashville skate shop reopens, connecting its regulars and first-timers

By Tony Gonzalez

February 16, 2022

Asphalt Beach Skate Shop East Nashville indoor track
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How long does it take to rebuild from a catastrophic tornado? An East Nashville skate shop navigated many challenges to reopen in just shy of two years.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: East Nashville, Super Tuesday Tornado, Tennessee Tornadoes

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