For any Music City groupie, fresh off the minibus or long departed from the Greyhound, the jet-black, brick club on Elliston Place near Centennial Park proves sublime and as historic to Nashville as the AT&T building or the Parthenon. The Exit/In opened its doors 44 years ago and continues to anchor the music scene. Johnny Cash, REM, Keith Urban, […]

“Slow down, temple in 400 feet,” reads a sign on Old Hickory Boulevard. Around the corner an unprecedented sight awaits the drivers. The temple is replete with angular spires, cylindrical pillars and ornamental work. Carved onto the temple’s walls live statues of elephants and stone deities. The 48-foot, five-tiered central tower, or Vimana, tops off […]

May 3, 2015 A nearly 70-year-old doll stands in a quaint Forest Hills ranch-style home as one of its owner’s most prized possessions. In a neighborhood known for its affluence, prized possessions typically look like exotic cars or gilded pens—not dolls. Especially not dolls whose arms have long since fled their body or whose skin […]