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How this Nashville LGBTQ choir celebrates 20 years of harmony

Char Daston

June 21, 2024

A 30-member choir rehearses in a fluorescent-lit church room festooned with pride flags.
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When Nashville in Harmony was founded in 2004, many of its members had to be discreet. 20 years later, it is known both locally and nationally.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbtq, nonnarrated storytelling, singing

Listen: Peak cicada? First-timers share their appreciation and grievances about the brood

Rachel Iacovone

May 23, 2024

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WPLN News wanted to know how cicada first-timers were feeling as the bugs emerge, so turned to the newsroom newbies for their hopes — and fears.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: cicadas, nonnarrated storytelling, wildlife

Listen: Nashville high schoolers make space for observing Ramadan, educating peers and connecting more deeply with their faith

Alexis Marshall

April 9, 2024

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The Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends this week. This year, students at Overton High school in South Nashville worked with administration to provide more intentional spaces for students to fast and pray.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Islam, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Muslim, nonnarrated storytelling, Ramadan, religion

Cambodian cuisine creates a connection to culture

Tasha A.F. LemleyandKim Green

February 20, 2024

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Sarong Vit-Kory was born in a refugee camp in Thailand in the early 1980’s and then immigrated to the United States. In recent years, she’s begun to explore and appreciate her Cambodian heritage, in part, through learning to cook traditional cuisine

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: nonnarrated storytelling

‘Welcome to Arnold’s’: Inside the revival of a fan-favorite meat-and-three

Char Daston

November 20, 2023

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Nashville’s beloved meat-and-three, Arnold’s, closed in January, but this week, it’s opening its doors again for a series of pop-ups.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: arnold's country kitchen, Business, food, nonnarrated storytelling, pop-up

Listen: The first day feelings at one Nashville elementary school

Alexis Marshall

August 8, 2023

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The first day of school is an exciting — and sometimes anxiety-inducing — event. Listen to WPLN’s audio postcard from Inglewood Elementary.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: first day of school, Inglewood Elementary School, Metro Nashville Public Schools, nonnarrated storytelling

AndréWolfe’s ‘Wolves Don’t Howl They Sing’ is WNXP’s Record of the Week

jewly hight

February 21, 2023

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From the title of AndréWolfe’s new album, “Wolves Don’t Howl They Sing,” to its tone of bruising disclosure and its cover image of a single wild canine turning from the pack to bellow at the sky, he plays out the radical reorientation that he’s undergone with his own musical expression.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: nonnarrated storytelling

Middle Tennesseans call for youth programs and gun control to curb community shootings and school violence

Damon Mitchell

June 12, 2022

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On Saturday, Nashville’s March for Our Lives rally drew hundreds of people from across Middle Tennessee.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: gun violence, March For Our Lives, nonnarrated storytelling

Listen: At Southern Word’s annual BlackLift Poetry House, youth share words about Black history and resiliency

Damon Mitchell

February 28, 2022

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The youth poetry performance brought out more than a dozen residents.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: nonnarrated storytelling

Listen: As Nashville’s rents rise, this mother of 2 considers drastic options

Ambriehl Crutchfield

February 18, 2022

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What’s it like to hunt for an apartment right now? A mother in Franklin has documented her efforts.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: displacement, Franklin, Housing, nonnarrated storytelling, Swiss View apartments

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