From our “Hey Thanks” issue: Audience editor Annie Parnell says thank you to The Store, the Nashville food bank that offers aid — and agency.

From this week’s “Hey Thanks” issue: Audience editor @avparnell.bsky.social finds community through cult classics at the beloved @belcourttheatre.bsky.social's late-night screening series.

This week’s cover story: Our notes of gratitude to the community advocates, health care workers and others who make Nashville special.

Nashville contractors walk off of Music City Loop jobsite, citing months of nonpayment, safety concerns and attempted “poaching” of employees by Elon Musk’s The Boring Company. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...

If you ever wanted to be edited by me, now's your chance. (More importantly: This internship pays well and can be remote.) defector.com/would-you-li...

coming out as kind of a Geese agnostic. this rocks

Wedgewood-Houston residents and business owners tell the Scene AJ Capital has turned the area into a construction site. Will a neighborhood emerge?

Democrat Aftyn Behn outraised her Republican foe Matt Van Epps almost two to one in recent weeks as the two head toward a Dec. 2 special election for Tennessee’s open 7th Congressional District seat.

watched All The President’s Men with Levi and now I keep getting asked if this is what Scene pitch meetings are like

both the Friendship and Total Wife albums from this year reference tree of heaven. need more music that spreads awareness about invasive species

I remember No Small Endeavor from my public radio days! Was very sweet to find out it’s made in Nashville

Available at all locations except Falls Church

Orville Peck’s Appaloosa EP is stunning and easily one of 2025’s best releases. His version of “Maybe This Time” (from Cabaret) works far better than it has any right to. Top to bottom 🤌🏻 My review for @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social 🤠 rainbowrodeomag.com/orville-peck...

this, down to the TikTok audio, tracks so much with what I’ve been thinking/writing about this band and this album lately

I saw them on this tour and they were wonderful.

I wrote about The Smashing Pumpkins’ opulent new ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ reissue, courting nostalgia, the $20 smoothie of it all and what we believe in and what we don’t for @floodmagazine.bsky.social 🌜✨

I went down a wild rabbit hole to verify this quote from James Iha btw. God bless online fan archives

I wrote about The Smashing Pumpkins’ opulent new ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ reissue, courting nostalgia, the $20 smoothie of it all and what we believe in and what we don’t for @floodmagazine.bsky.social 🌜✨

Former Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in Hadley Park Tuesday hours before her scheduled book event at the Ryman.

Creator Shaun Michael McNamara says his ‘Die Hard: A Christmas Carol’ is “a wild, raucous party where adults watch puppets scream the F-word.”

Due to demand, a second night has been added to The Features and Glossary's benefit show. The outstanding Middle Tennessee rock bands are reuniting to support public and community radio.

he’s on bluesky

in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!

driving back to Virginia time to listen to Oregon Hill by Cowboy Junkies again

He’s being celebrated by GQ today, so here’s a reup of my September cover interview with noted man MJ Lenderman for @nashvillescene.com. Among other things we talked multitool masculinity, David Berman’s AMA thread and the hilarious (and sympathetic) appeal of the sad sack

This week's cover story: The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s new exhibit — ‘Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising’ — puts a spotlight on Muscle Shoals’ rise as a hitmaking recording center.

In an exclusive interview with the Scene, Margot McCormack explains her decision to close her acclaimed Margot Café & Bar after 25 years.

yall keep giving me new reasons to hate on IT: Welcome to Derry. becoming too powerful

It seems like a lot of men love this song in a “fantasize about dying in battle” way which makes it even funnier that no, these guys identify with the lake

Tennessee public libraries are launching an “immediate age-appropriateness review” of children’s and teens’ books following a state government directive.

happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day

god I miss Saturn Return

New from me is a quick overview of Nashville (and adjacent) Grammy noms, including how some have pointed out that seemingly no queer people were nominated for country/Americana categories in year of S.G. Goodman 2025

I love what Emmylou talks about when she talks about God

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Me every time my friends’ bands tour through my city: wow this is so You In Weird Cities by Jeff Rosenstock

Fifteen government officials shared one podium on Thursday afternoon to announce a new Nashville-based joint Homeland Security Task Force at the Fred D. Thompson Federal Courthouse.

Predator: Badlands Predator: Adam Raised a Cain Predator: Something in the Night Predator: Candy’s Room Predator: Racing in the Street Predator: The Promised Land Predator: Factory Predator: Streets of Fire Predator: Prove It All Night Predator: Darkness on the Edge of Town

As they look to grow their line dancing class to larger events, queer line dancing group Lavender Roots Dance Co. sees dancing as a vehicle to community.

Did you know Tennessee is the birthplace of the for-profit prison industry? Great, important work here from @julianneakers.bsky.social

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

Reupping for the Wednesday crowd: here’s my @nashvillescene.com interview with Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller about ‘Spyboy,’ which gets a reissue Friday, and the concert doc ‘Spyboy Live at the Exit/In,’ screening tonight at @belcourttheatre.bsky.social. Plus: the divine, Bob Dylan, and dogs

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Virginia is for lovers baby