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Two Nashville restaurants make coveted New York Times list

By Rachel Iacovone

September 24, 2024

The New York Times’ much-anticipated, annual restaurant list dropped Tuesday. And of the 50 featured spots from across the country, two Tennessee establishments made the cut.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Edessa, food, Kurds, Nashville Kurds, new york times, restaurant, restaurants, Wine and Alcohol

Out, About: Centennial Park’s main attraction on summer nights

By Rachel Iacovone

August 30, 2024

On the corner of 27th Avenue North and West End, there’s this unassuming stage — that is, when it’s not being used.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About, WPLN News Tagged With: Centennial Park, food, music, Parthenon

Out, About: The sweet origin of a Nashville ice cream company

By Rachel Iacovone

August 2, 2024

I first had Saturated ice cream from a pick-up window at Brightside Bakeshop in the pandemic. I trekked over to the East location in a cloth mask (#tbt) for the pop-up because I was familiar with owner Lokelani Alabanza’s incredible creations at Hattie Jane’s Creamery.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, NashVillager, Out About, WPLN News Tagged With: food, What Where Whens-day

Out, About: Some last-minute Mother’s Day ideas

By Rachel Iacovone

May 10, 2024

WNXP’s Marquis Munson and I got to talking about this ahead of this week’s What Where When-sday and were so passionate about the fact that, while all moms are different individuals, some similarities in interests can exist. So, we recorded some recs.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About, WPLN News Tagged With: food, What Where Whens-day

Out, About: Take me out to the ball game… for dinner?

By Rachel Iacovone

May 3, 2024

Mack Linebaugh’s recent Sounds feature had kept me from mentioning the team again in a NashVillager I wrote, but then I saw, across the field, my answer to how to plug the home team once more: The Band Box.

Filed Under: NashVillager, Out About, Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: baseball, food, minor league baseball, Nashville Sounds

Out, About: It’s officially patio season

By Rachel Iacovone

April 19, 2024

The temperatures are finally up and the sun is finally out — enough for everyone you know from colder states to try to come visit.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, NashVillager, Out About Tagged With: food

Oh, SNAP!

By Elizabeth Burton

March 21, 2024

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Between the SNAP backlog, rising grocery prices and stagnant wages, it’s getting harder and harder for Tennesseans to put food on the table.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Department of Human Services, food, food insecurity, government benefits, SNAP, Tennessee Justice Center, welfare

‘Mrs. Krishnan’s Party’ immerses audiences in the stage play — and cooking a meal to eat later

By LaTonya Turner

March 5, 2024

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Immersive theater directly engages the audience with the performers, the set and the story. Add to that the ingredients of preparing and cooking a celebratory meal as part of the play and you have the premise of “Mrs. Krishnan’s Party,” which runs this week at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts, food, immersive theatre, Onam, theatre, TPAC

Out, About: Lent is the best excuse for seafood

By Rachel Iacovone

February 9, 2024

I’ve been meaning to weigh in as a coastal Florida native for some time on the city’s seafood options, so what better time than now?

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, NashVillager, Out About, WPLN News Tagged With: Catholic, Catholicism, food, Lent, religion

Three key ingredients for Nashville food pop-ups? Creativity, collaboration and community.

By Alexis Marshall

December 20, 2023

Traditional business strategy is about beating the competition. But In Nashville’s local food scene, you’re likely to see restaurants working together, often in one-time, pop-up collaborations.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts and Culture, entrepreneurship, food, Madison, small business

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