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How Nashville is addressing overdoses in its booming tourism district

Catherine Sweeney

April 10, 2025

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Business owners and city officials in Nashville have implemented a program that uses an opioid reversal kit created in West Virginia to bolster harm reduction efforts in the city’s tourism district.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Acme, Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, drug overdose, harm reduction, Lower Broadway, Metro Nashville Police Department, naloxone, Narcan, tourism

What will a Snoop and Dre bar downtown mean for Nashville hip-hop?

jewly hight

April 2, 2025

Country music celebrity bars dominate Lower Broadway, and now Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are opening the Still G.I.N. Lounge.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: hip hop, Lower Broadway, music industry, tourism

For a second weekend, white supremacists gather in downtown Nashville

Paige Pfleger

July 14, 2024

For the second weekend in a row, a white supremacist group carrying Nazi flags took to the streets of downtown Nashville.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: hate groups, Lower Broadway, neo-nazi, white nationalism, white supremacy

Oliver Anthony, complex symbol of viral populism, headlines on Lower Broadway

jewly hight

September 14, 2023

When Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge holds its birthday bash, what stands out most about the lineup is the inclusion of a certain current songwriter, Oliver Anthony.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music Tagged With: country music, Lower Broadway

Party’s over for some transportainment companies as Nashville denies dozens of party vehicle permits

Blaise Gainey

June 30, 2022

For the most part entertainment vehicles have gone unregulated until this past week, when the Metro Transportation Licensing Commission established rules and started awarding permits.  

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: entertainment, Lower Broadway, metro, party buses, party vehicles, transportainment

Rebroadcast: Who is Nashville’s nightlife really for?

Anna Gallegos-Cannon

June 10, 2022

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The honky-tonks on Lower Broadway contribute to Nashville’s economy and its reputation as a destination party city. While “NashVegas” has become a playground for bachelorette parties, locals have pushed back — complaining about unruly tourists and under-regulated party vehicles. Things got so out of hand that the word “transportainment” made its first appearance in The New York Times last year.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Lower Broadway

In Music City, Venues And Musicians Are Mostly On Their Own To Decide How Live Music Returns

Paige Pfleger

April 21, 2021

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Nashville is used to being a music industry leader, but when it comes to reinvigorating a live music scene hit hard by the pandemic, there’s no strategic plan in place. That’s forcing venues and musicians to make tough decisions.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: COVID-19, economy, Lower Broadway, music

Nashville’s Lower Broadway Was So Packed Over Labor Day, The City Let People Party In The Streets

Blake Farmer

September 7, 2020

social distancing Lower Broadway

On Friday and Saturday nights, thousands of people packed the sidewalks waiting to get into honky tonks, where strict capacity limits are in place because of COVID-19. So on Sunday, the city closed the street to give them space for queuing up.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, Metro Tagged With: Coronavirus In Tennessee, downtown Nashville, Lower Broadway, Michael Caldwell

Nashville Police Arrest Homeless Black Man In First Night Of Stricter Downtown Mask Enforcement

Samantha Max

August 6, 2020

The Metro Nashville Police Department issued its first citation for a mask violation on Lower Broadway on Wednesday night. They cited and arrested a 61-year-old Black homeless man, promoting immediate criticism. The charge was later dropped.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice Tagged With: Coronavirus In Tennessee, homeless, Lower Broadway, masks, Metro Nashville Police Department, money bail

Nashville’s Light Enforcement Of Downtown Health Orders Even Has Its Top Tourism Promoter Worried

Samantha Max

August 5, 2020

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In a photo posted to Twitter this weekend, a giant electronic sign on Lower Broadway urges passers-by: “Don’t share our air” in bright orange letters. Right beside it, a maskless group poses for selfies.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Butch Spyridon, Coronavirus In Tennessee, John Cooper, Lower Broadway, masks, Metro Nashville Police Department, Metro Public Health, tourism

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