The four-day Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester has experienced overdose deaths in the past. And this year brings elevated concern since powerful fentanyl is showing up in more recreational drugs that are often used by concert-goers.
It’s busy season for Nashville’s hospitality industry. Here’s how it’s attracting workers despite record low unemployment.
With CMA Fest just around the corner, Nashville restaurants and hotels are contending with record low employment to meet the demand of this influx of customers.
Franklin high school student gets a second chance at national poetry prize
Recent BGA graduate Kendall Grimes started poetry recitation to find some connection to an unfamiliar school where she was one of a few Black students. And she had a knack for it.
Tennessee gospel singer Deborah McCrary, of McCrary Sisters fame, dies at age 67
Deborah and her siblings learned to sing in their Nashville home, at church, and when they sat in on their father’s rehearsals.
Local book drive will deliver hundreds of Asian-themed novels to Nashville schools
The book drive is part of a growing push to make Tennessee more inclusive of Asian Americans.
Southern Baptist Convention will release internal list of ministers accused of abuse
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee announced they will release a list of ministers accused of sexual abuse. A bombshell report revealed the list has existed for a long time — but only internally to protect leadership from legal liability.
‘I thought it was shameful’: Southern Baptists react to bombshell report on denomination’s mishandling of sexual abuse cases
“I thought it was shameful. Because, for one, survivors have been asking for something like that for years apparently and always were being told it’s not possible,” says SBC Executive Committee member Adam Wyatt. “Only to find out that some people had some information on it.”
A mosaic project at Elizabeth Park honors African American women of North Nashville
On Monday, five women were honored in a ceremony at Elizabeth Park, located at the intersection of Arthur Avenue, Jane Street and 11th Avenue North, in the historically Black neighborhood of North Nashville.
Da Mystery of Chessboxin’: What it’s like to face off against a founding Wu-Tang member at a Nashville bar
A friend of the station brings us the fun, weird tale of a game of chess he played against GZA before the hip-hop legend performed in Nashville.
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