Try driving past Nashville’s newest bar three times, cursing at Siri for leaving you stranded on a deserted side street and your gas light flickering on just as you realize you’re idling in front of a strip club. And it’s raining. Where this new bar might be tucked away is anyone’s guess, but luckily, the […]

Trek through the muddy meadow. Wipe the dried grass off the bottom of your shoes. The thick air smells of fresh manure and sawdust. Fields of open grass surround neat meadows. There is not a weed in sight. There is only the blood curdling sounds of screaming goats. Hundreds of sure-footed creatures calmly graze around […]

The library nestles next to the Davidson County Clerk’s office, in a building with green awnings that blends into the foliage around it.   Inside, it’s a state building. Cinderblock walls. Static carpet. Orange wooden furniture.   People often wander in on accident. Thinking the space an extension of the clerk’s office, they ignore the […]

Antique Archaeology’s intimate space of American History and the live country, bluegrass and blues sound make for a nostalgic, laid back root beer float kind of Sunday in the South. It’s a small, welcoming walk-through and part of Marathon Village at 1200 Clinton St., Suite 130 right near 8th Avenue South. T-shirts and baseball cap […]

It doesn’t take much to try and find live music when you’re in downtown Nashville. Weary travelers may not know that a less chaotic, enticing display of musicians lies just a few streets over from Broadway: The Listening Room. When entering the dimly-lit, young-adult-staffed music joint right across from the town’s new Ascend Amphitheater, it’s […]

He was an older man, 60 to 70 years old. His overworked and calloused hands were grasping his homemade apple pie. “These pies were made with the finest and freshest apples of all Tennessee,” he said to his browsing customer, who pulled out his wallet and exchanged his $12 for this divine creation. The creator […]

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 […]