We Are Music City By Tom Morales Looking southwest at dusk from the roof top bar at ACME Feed & Seed. Lower Broadway runs up the hill from the bottom left with the crosswalk at Second Avenue in the foreground. Photo by Chuck Allen. Nashville, TN | Aug. 24, 2023. What’s Going On Share this …
On January 7, after more than 40 years serving Southern-style meat-and-three favorites to generations of Nashvillians from an unassuming cinderblock shack in Midtown, the legendary Arnold’s Country Kitchen closed its doors forever.
Growing up in Nashville, the Fisk Jubilee Singers were, and remain, a constant presence for the developing Black singer. My own reference for Western classical singing in the Black aesthetic begins with them. In fact, when I first started formal voice study, it was in the hopes of becoming a Jubilee Singer.
Words made this town. Words in novels, history books, and poetry. Ann Patchett, Jon Meacham, and Tiana Clark are names that many readers recognize, their words bound between two covers that are devoured during many sittings.
Welcome to The Nashvillian! We’re so glad you are here for our inaugural issue.
Mental health struggles, burnout, isolation from community, feeling a loss of control over one’s own life. These are the things that we have all had to deal with since the chaos of the pandemic descended upon us.
I love television. I always have. The television is always on in my house or my hotel room, even if it’s background noise.
I recently celebrated the anniversary of one of my most significant life events. Fifty years ago, I officially became a comic book fan.
I’ve been thinking about change a lot lately. Not the kind that rattles in your pocket, but CHANGE. The big kind. The kind that’s always waiting around the corner like a discarded banana peel ready to send you for a tumble; the kind that you might dodge for while or force back temporarily but will return — perhaps in a different form.
