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This Is Nashville — 929 episodes
Alberto Gonzales on retirement, loyalty and the law
The state of surveillance in our city
It's voting time in Tennessee; a primary primer
Microplastics: the invisible agents in and around us
Justin Lee Williams: from realtor to line dancer
Multigenerational living: The future of Nashville housing?
Evolving portrayals of Nashville’s Black history
Buc-ee's v. Dolly's and the economics of TN roadtripping
Allison Russell, 'In the Hour of Chaos'
AI near the zoo, swarm drones and UFOs in nature
Hot chicken fest at 20, parting words from a moderate state rep, sick kids and immigration enforcement
Restricting THC, debating Fisk's data center, and remembering Tay Keith and Rosetta Miller-Perry
HealthQ Special: Caregiving in the Sandwich Generation
Protecting the safe spaces of Nashville's queer community
The Roundabout: The Promise of America at 250
How to be a backyard naturalist in Tennessee
Re-air: NextAge: Proud love and mighty hurdles
Answering your data center questions
American patriots, then and now
Nashville under the microscope
Celene Aubry, the steward of Hatch Show Print
Healthcare Hollow: Uninsured in rural Tennessee
An alternative soundtrack for America at 250
Our racing roots
Perspectives on life and fatherhood featuring David Fischette and Robert Taylor
The Roundaboot: Cowboy boots and country music
The Middle Tennessee of 1776
Taking cues from the black bear and other signal species
Jim Palmer on deconstruction and what's next
Lamar Alexander on his memoir, career and the politics of now
Ask the Mayor, plus Curious Nashville asks why one local school still bears the name of a segregationist
During the World Cup, Samurai Blue calls Nashville home
NextAge: Call and Response
NextAge: Changing how we talk about The Change
NextAge: The Talk 2.0
NextAge: George Rowe and his multi-dimensional life
NextAge: Proud love and mighty hurdles
NextAge: Looking at love from both sides, now
NextAge: Deep connections in the digital age
NextAge 2: The Jugg Sisters will make you blush
Re-air: Opryland’s Lasting Legacy
Class of '26: Highs and loans
From disruptive toddlers and overwhelmed parents to teens in crisis, Tennessee's expanding resources
The wisdom of a seasoned clerk, Brenda Wynn
State legislative wrap-up: immigration, vouchers and preemption
Curious Nashville: Digging in the dirt
Ready for NextAge, Season 2: Love, body, and belonging
Valerie Cordero on helping kids from lower-income families become musicians
Ask the Mayor, plus Curious Nashville ponders, "What would it take to put electrical lines underground?"
Book challenges, censorship and age-appropriate reading
Hallelujah: The Nashville Chorus Scene
Biochemist Billy Hudson on his awards, his Aspirnauts and his own self-care
The Roundabout: moving out, rolling in, and staying put
Tennessee expats
Healthcare Hollow: Federal rural health funding sounds good, so why are there concerns?
Former Titan Kevin Dyson still has something to prove in education
What, where, when to plant: A gardening Roundabout
Two new reports and the critical questions about equity, opportunity and inclusion facing the city
Healthcare Hollow: Linden's reopened hospital shows hope for rural health
From buttoned up to chaotic to human connection: Wu Fei’s extraordinary musical journey
The Roundabout: Dark money, an ousted library director and a Kid Rock fly-by
Restaurant closing time? Not so fast.
The thorny issues that remain: Immigration, vouchers and a $58B budget
R.A. Dickey on redemption, purpose and the unpredictable pitch that changed everything
Busting the algorithm with WNXP
Ask the mayor: taxes, racing, childcare and you
Nashville's buried Native American history and the repatriation movement
Holly Kernan on being lost, falling in love with Nashville, and what public radio is for now
Two Rutherfords and a Taylor: Ask a songwriter
Nuts and bolts: The business of songwriting
The art of the co-write: Luke Dick and Melody Walker
Alice Randall, the griot of country music
Winter Profile Roundup
Educated, experienced and unemployed
Music Citizens, Episode 5: The Tastemaker (Re-air)
Alex and Eiman Jahangir on fulfilling their dreams and prioritizing family
The Roundabout: Property tax pinch and Boring resistance
Navigating Nashville without insurance and an intro to HealthQ
Romance Novels: We're no longer hiding the covers
The redemption story of RaDonda Vaught
The Roundabout: ICE investigation, marriage equality and the Tesla loop
Ask the Mayor: storm response, property taxes, NDOT and parks
Independent theater in center stage
Rissi Palmer on the Black Barbie evolution of country music and other ‘Perspectives’
The Roundabout: DEI backlash, race and redevelopment
Our musical stops on the Civil Rights Trail
Crime is down. Can you feel it?
The Roundabout: How are our kids?
ICE and your rights
The Emotional Anatomy of a Collective Crisis
Chef Ericka Fizer on defying the odds
How we fared with winter storm Fern
10 years of Curious Nashville
Protecting Trees, avoiding scams and filing claims
Scott Hamilton, Olympic Gold Medalist
Finite snow days, National Guard, and toxic gases
Recovery update: Water woes and dampened spirits
Winter storm update: power and emergency management
Middle Tennessee winter storm: coverage and updates
The Roundabout: President Trump's second first year
Our real estate reality check
Live with Maestro Leonard Slatkin
The Roundabout: State legislative preview
The state of pro sports in Music City
Drying out in a drinking town
Ben Slinkard is Kennedy Ann Scott...and vice versa
The Roundabout: U.S. involvement in Venezuela and potential impact on Middle Tennessee
Ask the Mayor: East Bank development, downtown library closure, racing at The Fairgrounds and more
Shapes of America: A radio special about shape-note singing
Facing the new year with Buddhist teacher and punk rocker Mikey Noechel
The best of 2025...features
The best of...The Roundabout
Our most fascinating interviews from 2025
Nashville's Nook and Cranny Holiday Music Traditions
Picturing Nashville: Ray Di Pietro on photographing local history
Middle Tennessee in memoriam, 2025
One mayor, three muppets and eight french horns. It's a This is Nashville Festivus!
Curious Nashville: Why did a Nashville bank release a Christmas album?
Marie Williams on bringing heart to Tennessee’s bureaucracy
The Debt: What Tennessee owes its HBCU (Call-in)
The Debt
Death penalty activists sit down in our studio — one for, one against
Andi Marie Tillman and her hilarious TikTok characters
The Roundabout: ICE raids in churches, Christians and execution, our founding fathers and faith
Music Citizens: The Tastemaker
Our Grand Divisions
Vanderbilt neurologist Britt Stone on coming back around to ‘bush medicine’
Our most popular episode of 2025: The HBCU we never knew
How the Opry and WSM made it 100 years
Whisperin' Bill Anderson, the Grand Ole Opry's longest serving legend
The Roundabout: political pardons, school voucher update, the tightening TN-7 race and more
Navigating tariff turmoil with our artisans and importers
This Is Curious Nashville: Why do we have Chicago-style gyro restaurants?
Music City's benevolent mogul, Mike Curb
In My Place, Episode 19: Homelessness doesn’t just affect you. It hits the rest of us.
Beyond SNAP: Hunger in Tennessee
Veterans Day in Nashville: honoring locals who have served
The ever-evolving life of Bill DeMain: cartoonist, musician, songwriter, music journalist and guide
The Country In Our Hearts, Ep. 4: The Kurdish American Dream
The Country In Our Hearts, Ep. 3: Safety Zone
The Country In Our Hearts, Ep. 2: The Ones Who Face Death
The Country In Our Hearts, Ep. 1: The Enemy Within
The triumphant return of Curious Nashville
Our keeper of the flame, Nina Cardona
In My Place, Episode 18: Losing home again
Tennessee's pandemic chief Dr. Lisa Piercey on her post-COVID career change
The Roundabout: Federal policies, jobs, and healthcare
The rise and resurgence of Christian music
Questioning our transit plans with Sabrina Sussman, plus our Shared Calendar
Charles “Wigg” Walker, legendary R&B and soul artist
The Roundabout: News of the week
Spiders: the friends in our walls
Balancing affordable housing and density
Stuart McWhorter on doing business, divisive politics, and carrying on his father’s legacy
The Roundabout: Congressional District 7 primary, banned books and...how will Vanderbilt answer Trump?
The future of Nashville Pride
Our HBCU We Never Knew and the arts center, artists, and scholars working to keep its memory alive
Tamara Saviano on a fateful firing and finding Americana music
The Roundabout: government shutdown, a special election, BNA traffic
Nuestra ciudad, nuestras historias...our city, our stories
In My Place, Episode 17: It's hard being home
No excuses from Fred Bailey, who grew up unaware he was blind
The Roundabout: Is "Nashville Nice" enough for you to stay?
The G-word (geriatrics) is not a bad word! NEXT AGE episode 6
Small businesses: adapting as costs soar
Joy Flores and the mission to shelter the unhoused
Ask the Mayor + Shared Calendar
Re-air: Opryland's Lasting Legacy
Trapped in Debt: Payday lenders, Tennessee politics, and fallout from the 'flex loan'
From Somali refugee to advocate for asylum-seekers: Abdkadir Mohamed
Special: Reclaiming the banjo
The Roundabout: Substance use, survival, recovery and loss
The opioid that's saving lives in Nashville
Sanctioned harm reduction
From street corners to campsites, the work of Miriam Field, harm reductionist
The Roundabout: News of the Week for September 4, 2025
A look inside Nashville’s brunch culture
Re: Air: We’re twinning! Identical twins in Middle Tennessee
The Roundabout: News of the Week for August 28, 2025
Hope and help for caregivers in Middle Tennessee
In My Place, Episode 16: We're homeward bound!
Demetrius Short on running in suits and pain as preparation
The Roundabout: News of the Week
Next Age Episode 5: Lifelong learning
In defense of fertility treatment
Tom Morales, entrepreneur and restaurateur
The Roundabout: News of the Week
Ask the Mayor, plus Shades of Black Theatre Festival and more community events
When lice happens
Kevin Wilson: On a rural Tennessee upbringing, writing and how fiction is like professional wrestling
The Roundabout: News of the Week
The film scene in Tennessee
Home, herd, rest and refuge: The Elephant Sanctuary turns 30
Garrison Keillor: On the Opry, #MeToo and octogenarian wisdom
Screen rules in our schools
Ear Hustle, plus Choosing Justice Initiative
In My Place, Episode 15: Two steps forward. Now what?
Tia Sillers: GRAMMY-winning songwriter
Public Media at Risk: The Impact and Uncertainty of Federal Funding Loss
Facing eviction in Nashville
Opryland's Lasting Legacy
Pastor Glenda Sutton moves Nashville families through their challenges
Ask the Mayor + The impact of a reduced Metro Council
Music Citizens: The Wrangler
Hospice care: learning what you need to know when the time comes in NEXT AGE episode 4
Candice Lee, Vice Chancellor Athletics & Athletic Director, Vanderbilt University
School vouchers are here. What now?
Kustom Kulture in Nashville
We're seeing double! Identical twins in Middle Tennesee
Tequila Johnson, co-founder of The Equity Alliance
The Country in our Hearts, Ep. 4: The Kurdish American Dream
The Country in our Hearts, Ep. 3: Safety Zone
The Country in our Hearts, Ep. 2: The Ones Who Face Death
The Country in our Hearts, Ep. 1: The Enemy Within
The Scopes Trial at 100
Money Moves for longevity is the focus of Next Age episode 3
In My Place, Episode 14: Puzzle Pieces
Charlie Peacock – singer, songwriter, producer and author
Ask the Mayor, plus the Metro Human Relations Commission at 60
Nashville's underground. Literally.
Bob Clement, career public servant
The snakes in our grass
Theater of War: Rural Tennesseans, Hollywood actors and a live studio audience
J. Percy Priest: Nashville's Lake
Samar Ali, peacemaker
Your Turn to Talk: The $3.8 billion dollar Metro Budget
Happy 35th birthday, Athena!
How do rites of passage mark important milestones?
Maryam Abolfazli, activist and community leader
Latine country musicians navigate the music industry on their own terms
Who Cares? Family caregivers share stories and struggles in our monthly series NEXT AGE
In My Place, Episode 13: The Waiting Period
After moratorium, Tennessee executes Oscar Franklin Smith
All about accents!
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director at the Nashville Symphony
Béla Fleck's Banjo legacy
The Belcourt Theatre celebrates its 100th birthday
Defending our neighbors: advocates for immigrant rights
Ask the Mayor, plus Vivian Wilhoite, Metro Property Assessor
Bill Birdsong Miller keeps finding joy in music
After the Gavel, Part 2: Post-Session Analysis
After the Gavel, Part 1: Legislative Wrap-Up
Re-Air: Tennessee’s wetlands are at risk
A conversation with Amy Grant
Re-air: Paddle, paddle, paddle! Making a splash in Tennessee's scenic waterways
End of school year student check in!
In My Place, Episode 12: Paper Cuts
Steve Swenson, President and CEO, Nashville Public Radio
Khalil's send off!
Fearless aging discussion kicks off a new series about growing older in the 21st century
Music Citizens Episode 3: The Tuner
Be good to each other: Khalil Ekulona on life and his journey to broadcasting
Ask the Mayor, plus Recycle and Reinvest
Hip hop producers & sampling
Civic Sparks: helping ourselves by helping others
Life as a forensic pathologist: Meet Adele Lewis
Spring is here! How well do you know Nashville's parks?
Nothing compares to ukes
'Once it's gone, it's gone.' How some Tennessee farmers are protecting their land for generations to come.
Larry Gatlin, Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter
Severe weather, plus what's new with municipal services
A people’s history of WPLN
Storytime! Checking in with local children's book and YA authors
Stephen Mason, aka Soccer Moses
Near Death Experiences: What dying can teach us about living
Pedestrian fatalities in Nashville: where we stand
In My Place, Episode 11: Building Trust
Ella Brinen, foster care youth advocate
Your Turn to Talk: Tariffs and Tennessee (plus, state leg update)
Scarritt Bennett Center plus NECAT Documentary, It’s All Connected: The Art of Sustainability
The Sewanee Review: The revival of Tennessee's storied literary magazine
Jerome Moore: Exploring social change with Nashville's native son
Want to run for elected office in Tennessee? Here's what you need to know
Covid restaurateurs: Nashvillians who pursued a lifelong dream during lockdown
Johnny Bragg and Higher Love: Healing the Incarcerated Through Music
This Is Nashvillians: Part 2
Re-Air: Lent, traditions and practices
Re-air: Essential pollinators, plus invasive plants
Re-Air: Wildlife rescue in Middle Tennessee
Re-Air: David French: political commentator and writer
Threat assessment laws: Preventing mass violence or traumatizing kids?
Expanding the hip-hop and R&B music industry
In My Place, Episode 10: The Connection
David Plazas: Building trust as a journalist
Your Turn to Talk: Ask the Mayor plus Berkshire Place Apartments
Othered: Lifting Roadblocks to Expungement
Finding joy and friendships with our neighbors with disabilities
For the love of chocolate
Elevating local African American history
Deciding who can and can't work: Professional licensing boards in Tennessee
Abby Rubenfeld: a force for LGBTQ+ rights
Your Turn to Talk: new immigration policy
Black History Month and the arts in Nashville
It's time for some laughs! Our first This Is Nashville stand-up special!
Erica Mitchell, CEO of United Way of Greater Nashville
Your Turn to Talk: Ask the Mayor plus a state legislative update
Tennessee's wetlands are at risk
Respectfully disagreeing: The Conversation Coalition
Mary Gauthier, singer, songwriter and author
Your Turn to Talk: Antioch High School shooting and gun violence
My experience… with an organ transplant
Lunar New Year: The Year of the Snake
Tennessee state legislative preview
The horrors and complexities of human trafficking
Support for families of the incarcerated
Profile: Odessa Settles
Your Turn to Talk: One Small Step with Jad Abumrad
How to find a new career in Middle Tennessee
Talking to strangers with Folx Table
Profile: David French
Re-Air: This is Nashvillians
Re-Air: Mindfulness For The Holidays- Centering with Tai Chi, Yoga and Meditation!
Re-air + Update: Celebrating Kwanzaa in Middle Tennessee
JD McPherson’s Seasonally Sensitive Holiday Extravaganzo
Re-Air: This is Nicheville
Your Turn to Talk: Ask the Mayor + Santas!
Your Turn to Talk: Parking Problems
My experience...in and aging out of foster care in Tennessee
This is Nashvillians
Long-term recovery from the 2023 tornado and Hurricane Helene
Extraordinary Pen Pals
Creating meaningful connections during the holidays
Profile: Singer-songwriters Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
The Financial State of Tennessee State University
Downtown Presbyterian Church and the 100th Annual Waffle Shop
Ever go to concert inside a cave? You can at The Caverns
Profile: Julia Martin, artist and gallery owner/operator
Re-Air: Turkeys? Wild!
Re-Air: 12 Steps Through The Holidays
Re-Air: Pat Boone
Your Turn to Talk: Ask the Mayor, plus Thanksgiving Traditions
Climate change and vulnerable communities
Traveling? What's new at BNA
Profile: Chuck iNDigo
Your Turn to Talk: The Business of Music
The past is present
Emergency preparedness in Middle Tennessee
Profile: Megan Barry
Your Turn to Talk: Post-Election Debrief, Part 2
Your Turn to Talk: Post-Election Debrief, Part 1
Your Turn to Talk: Election Night
Your Turn to Talk: Election Day
Profile: Christina Soontornvat
Your Turn to Talk: Ask the Mayor and Ghost Mayor
Behind-the-scenes with election poll officials
In My Place, Episode 9: Solutions
Profile: Dr. Gangrene and Larry Underwood
Highlights: Music Medley
Highlights: Your Turn to Talk
Highlights: Profiles
Your Turn to Talk: Nashville's Transit Referendum
Wildlife rescue in Middle Tennessee
Re-air: Gettin’ batty!
Profile: Paul Collins
Your Turn To Talk: Navigating our health care system
Tennessee's Political Scandals: 50 Years and Counting
Cryptids of Tennessee
Profile: Lee Camp
Your Turn to Talk: New Americans in New Nashville
First Generation American Cuisine
Celebrating international dance here in Middle Tennessee
Profile: Councilmember At Large Zulfat Suara
The future of Historic Jefferson Stree
Green witches and butterflies
In My Place, Episode 8: The impact of homelessness on residents and business owners
Profile: Rev. Dr. Shane B. Scott
Your Turn to Talk: Nashville's voter support eco-system
Accessible Nashville: stories of inclusion and mobility
Civically engaged young people
Profile: Kristin Mejia
Your Turn to Talk: Ask the Mayor, plus presidential debates
Finding a new career through trade schools and apprenticeships
United Record Pressing celebrates 75 years
Connecting Nashville to its sister city, Erbil
Re-air: How the four-day workweek works
Re-air: Worker safety – A cloud over the construction boom
Your Turn to Talk: Ask the Mayor, plus International Overdose Awareness Day
My Experience: Single parenthood
In My Place, Episode 7: Permanent supportive housing
Profile: Rick Clark
Your Turn to Talk: People power and democracy in action
The history, future and legacy of American Baptist College
The next generation of architects building the new Nashville
Profile: Sara Figal
Your Turn to Talk: Media literacy and consumption
Checking in with the Covenant moms from Embedded: Supermajority
Black Nashville Assembly… assemble!
Profile: Pat Boone
Your Turn To Talk Thursday: Power and accountability, from the president to your precinct
Turkeys? Wild!
Quantum science in Middle Tennessee
Profile: Dr. Learotha Williams
Open Line Thursday: How are you doing this election season?
Nashville's Olympic History
In My Place, Episode 6: Hidden homelessness
Profile: Jeremy Finley
Ask the Mayor and Metro Law Director
A Second Avenue update, years after the 2020 bombing
Nashville's Historical Markers
Profile: Nancy French
Citywide reporter roundup: Entertainment edition
This is Nicheville
Worker safety: A cloud over the construction boom
Profile: María Magdalena Campos-Pons
‘Dynamite Nashville’ pieces together what happened in the Nashville bombings
'Lo Fi' by Liz Riggs takes readers to the time before new Nashville
Paddle, paddle, paddle! Making a splash in Tennessee's scenic waterways
Profile: Dr. Steven Townsend
Music Citizens: A new podcast from WNXP
Writing about the death penalty
Profile: Tonya Abari
Citywide reporter roundup: religion edition
They say diplomacy starts at home- so do diplomats!
In My Place, Episode 5: Upstream homelessness prevention
Re-air: A soldier, a sailor and a marine all walk into the studio…
Re-Air: Tyler Merritt
Ask the mayors
Profile: Big Fella
Kids in action
Kids in service
What it's like to be a kid right now
Profile: Ann Powers
How Metro Arts conflict is impacting artists
Tennessee Pageant and Scholarship Competitions
Re-Air: Long-lasting Love
Profile: State Senator Heidi Campbell
Ask not one, but two, mayors!
What's going on at Metro Arts?
In My Place, Episode 4: The interconnectedness of health care, housing and homelessness
Nashville's farmers market communities
Vietnam veterans of Middle Tennessee
Citywide reporter roundup
Profile: Pastor Greg Bullard
The power of preventative health
How restorative practices are changing some Nashville classrooms
What's going on with TVA?
Profile: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
How the four-day workweek works
Where Tennessee's medieval enthusiasts find community
Service dogs and their handlers
Profile: Stacy Downey
Nashville’s exvangelical movement
The state of local and public media
In My Place, Episode 3: Housing Strategies
En Pointe: Nashville’s dance and choreography scene
Ask the Mayor, plus 'Taking Cover'
Student reporter roundup
Re-air: Demetria Kalodimos
The one about the bras
Is liberty and justice really for all?
A soldier, a sailor and a marine all walk into the studio...
Nashville's freemasons
Long-lasting love
This ain't Texas. This is Nashville.
Navigating College Decision Day
Tennessee practitioners are helping clients heal from trauma
Profile: Tyler Merritt
Ask the Mayor and Votes For Women
Remembering Covenant, one year later
In My Place, Episode 2: Housing First
Re-air Profile: Covenant Mom, Melissa Alexander
Oh SNAP!
Restorative practices in the legal system
Everything you need to know about water filtration
Profile: Rolanda Holman
Roadside attractions in Tennessee
Space and the mysteries of the universe
Lent: traditions and practices
Exploring Vanderbilt University's New Quantum Potential series
Profile: Dahron Anneliese Johnson
Celebrating civil rights activist and beloved Nashville native King Hollands
What's going on with school vouchers?
Making Noise about 'Making Noise' and advocating for Nashville's Black music scenes
In My Place, Episode 1: Homelessness facts and faces
The N-Word: Part 2
The N-Word: Part 1
What is the cooperative model for businesses and beyond?
This week's reporter roundtable. And what is the Music Census?
Special Olympics Tennessee offers year-round programs to athletes
Slow Noodles: how the best dishes take time and show Cambodian resilience
Ask the Mayor & Photographer Jeff Fasano
What's TINA: The Tina Turner Musical got to do with love, power, and resilience?
Profile: Councilwoman Sandra Sepulveda
A new four-part series tells the story of Black gospel music
What’s at stake in the next Sumner County election?
‘Indecent’ at Nashville Repertory Theatre
How to connect across the English-Spanish language barrier
ReAir: Nashville Power Couple Dr. & Rev. Sanders
Lunar New Year
What's the fuss with Fusus?
Elders: Aging and Ageism In Middle Tennessee
In My Place: Housing
Guns from a national perspective
Learning how to safely handle firearms
What We Can Learn in the Aftermath of Gun Violence
Profile: Covenant Mom, Melissa Alexander
Profile: Dr. Gracie King
The World of Dolls
Re-air: Surviving Outside When Temperatures Drop Below Freezing
Diversely Segregated, Nashville Confidential and Reporter Roundup
Nashville Basketball: Acing Hoops in Tennessee
Elements of Hip Hop Culture: Beats & Rhymes
Profile: Singer-Songwriter Crys Matthews
Producer Takeover Week: Elizabeth's Picks
Producer Takeover Week: Katherine's Favorite Episode
Producer Takeover Week: Magnolia's Picks
Mindfulness For The Holidays - Centering with Tai Chi, Yoga and Meditation
Re-air: Dr. Stephen Loyd and Harm Reduction
12 Steps Through The Holidays
December 11, 2023
100 Families Find Home
Nashville Confidential & Diversely Segregated
Inside Council Chambers: Ratify a vote? Pass a resolution? It might be impossible.
Re-air: The latest on cannabis
@ us: We found Big Fella.
Re-air: Composers
Demetria Kalodimos
Radical Hospitality
Best of Riding Shotgun: Music Makers & Nashville Confidential with Chris Crofton
Words are meant to be spoken
November 21, 2023
Profile: Reverend Edwin Sanders and Dr. Billye Sanders
Ask the mayor!
Re-air: Nashville's native roots
The Hollywood strikes are over. What does this mean for Tennesseans?
Imagining Nashville's future
The horror, the horror! A fictional sketch from This is Nashville
Nashville Design Week is broadening the definition of design
Meribah Knight takes us behind the scenes of her new podcast 'The Kids of Rutherford County'
Nicole Williams, Jerome Moore and Chris Crofton walk into a studio
Why Judge Sheila Calloway says Nashville needs a new juvenile justice center
Our Evolving Rituals Around Death
Sugar, we're listening to emo! (again)
Call him, beep him if you wanna reach him!
One way Middle Tennesseans enjoy the fall season: foraging and preserving foods
A dog was killed in Percy Warner Park — and it might've been legal
Advocating for Survivors — Even the Ones on the Inside
Introducing: Inside the City Council Chambers with Nicole Williams
How we're building Nashville now — and for the future
Be ghoul to each other!
'A Most Tolerant Little Town' tells the little-known story of school desegregation in East Tennessee
Take a hike! (And then watch Chef Star Maye on Chopped)
Nashville creatives are doing it for themselves
Carla Christina Contreras on the SAG-AFTRA strike
Gettin' batty!
Formerly incarcerated people want their voting rights back. That's why they're suing Tennessee.
Gimme Shelter — in Madison!
The writer's strike is coming to an end. Now what?
Tennessee's close-knit fiber arts community
New call-in show coming to WPLN wants to hear from the political 'Middle'
What to know about this year's Americana Fest
Dr. Rich Milner on classroom discipline, restorative practices and the opportunity gap
What helps students finish college?
Strong Inside: A courtside look at Nashville hero Perry Wallace
What's next for Freddie O'Connell, Nashville's new mayor
Don't dream it's (almost) over: the mayoral runoff in Davidson County
Mayoral forum with Freddie O'Connell and Alice Rolli
Tea time in Middle Tennessee
How caring for an older relative impacts life, finances and health
How Egyptian Americans in Nashville find community
Driving toward a better bus system for Nashville
Kicking asphalt and dirt, too: running in Middle Tennessee
Bonus: Tennessee special session Day 4 updates
Nashville perspectives on the Maui wildfires
Bonus: Tennessee special session Day 3 updates
Nashville’s body positive movement
Bonus: Tennessee special session Day 2 updates
How the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes are hitting Nashville
Bonus: Tennessee special session Day 1 updates
From ‘Rocky Top’ to ‘Tennessee Waltz,’ corruption scandals are an old song in Tennessee
What’s so special about next week’s special legislative session?
Want to make it as a writer? Try the Killer Nashville Writers’ Conference
Exploring Nashville’s emo past and future
The grind never stops
Talking new music with WNXP
Celebrating 50 years of hip-hop culture
The city's license plate reader pilot program has ended. What now?
Remembering Charlie Strobel, Room In the Inn founder and homeless advocate
The pros and cons of school resource officers
Exploring Metro Nashville police lawsuits and settlements
Nashville’s karaoke superstars
Jerome Moore, host of Deep Dish Conversations, on social change, Nashville and beyond
NECAT
History of brothels in Nashville
How to vote in Nashville, and why
Reimagining the Cumberland River
The cost of disability and chronic illness
What does the vice mayor do?
The future of passenger rail in Middle Tennessee
What the Jason Aldean controversy tells us about the state of country music
Peering into space with Nashville astronomers
The support and brotherhood found in men’s groups
How zoning works in Nashville
Remembering Bishop Marcus Campbell
Major Jackson on poetry, podcasting and finding his voice
Nashville’s ride ecosystem
Revisiting long COVID in Middle Tennessee
Nashville's roller skating culture
The legacy of Nashville hot chicken
Nashville's approach to conservation
Nashville’s short-term rental industry and regulations
Listen to the kids! Here’s how Nashville mayoral candidates handled youth questions – Part 2
Listen to the kids! Here’s how Nashville mayoral candidates handled youth questions – Part 1
What Nashville can do about climate change
Youth perspectives on the mayoral race
Queer traditions in Nashville’s music scene
Overturning Roe v. Wade, one year later
The future of affirmative action in Tennessee
Nashville’s free community resources
Remembering the Nashville sit-ins
Salsa, two-step, bachata… we’re talking partner dancing!
David Poile's legacy with the Nashville Predators
Connecting to the world with Sister Cities Nashville
Getting to know Nashville hip-hop collective Six One Tribe
Reflecting on the People's Plaza protests, three years later
The scoop on Nashville’s ice cream scene
How Nashville entrepreneurs get their business ideas off the ground
50 years of jazz radio and the future of Nashville’s jazz scene
Citizen Nashville: What do Nashvillians want from our next mayor?
Nashville’s tourism honcho Butch Spyridon
Making a living as a musician in Nashville
Outgoing Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean Emilie Townes reflects on her legacy
Celebrating Franklin Pride
How Nashville students have shared in Music City’s songwriting tradition for 44 years — and counting
Swimming pools and water safety
What does AI music mean for Nashville?
Toward a more diverse and inclusive Metro workforce
Navigating into adulthood with disabilities
Re-acclimating to life after incarceration
Rodeo culture in Middle Tennessee
Is arming teachers a solution?
Finding community while unhoused in Nashville
Trees and shrubs of Middle Tennessee
Growing your own food in Nashville
Exploring Middle Tennessee's craft beer scene
Nashville's growing and diverse Latin music scene
Domestic violence in Middle Tennessee: reactions and resources
New housing development and where Nashville newcomers are finding their homes
The state of African American political power in Tennessee
The future of tourism in Nashville
Middle Tennessee’s shifting media landscape
The future of the Metro Nashville Community Oversight Board
Keeping cool on the road in Middle Tennessee
Getting to know Middle Tennessee’s Palestinian community
Celebrating the first ever Bettie Page Day
Looking back at Paul Vasterling's 33-year-career with the Nashville Ballet
Remembering the life and legacy of Z. Alexander Looby
The traditions and challenges of being a Black farmer in Tennessee
How Nashville’s Christian communities are responding to the Covenant School shooting
Celebrating the Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival
Tracking purple martins and other feathered friends
The evolution of gun laws and the gun control movement in Middle Tennessee
How Nashville’s youth are responding to the Covenant School shooting
What the expulsion of two representatives tells us about Tennessee
Checking in on refugee resettlement in Middle Tennessee
Finding community in Nashville’s queer spaces
Opera by Hannibal Lokumbe makes world premiere in a big, bold production with Nashville Symphony
What is the future of Middle Tennessee's trash?
Why Columbia, Tennessee, celebrates the humble mule
Tracing Nashville's hip-hop roots
Community responds to the Covenant School shooting
Diving into North Nashville’s artistic heritage, then and now
The buzz about pollinators
Making it click with Nashville photographers
Margaret Renkl on hope, despair and the diminishing call of songbirds
Allergy season in Middle Tennessee
The legacy of the Rosenwald schools
Alternate Ending, a special hour of This Is Nashville
Knocking down pins with Middle Tennessee bowlers
Keep on truckin' in Middle Tennessee
Jefferson Cowie on the history of freedom and federal power in America
How Tennessee’s rape kit backlog impacts survivors seeking justice
What to know about the 2023 race for Nashville mayor
Tennessee’s 51-year life sentences
The life and legacy of Dr. Matthew Walker
Community members weigh in on the future of Titans stadium
What to know about personal finance and budgeting
What does ‘woke’ mean?
Looking back at the 2020 tornadoes, and tips to stay safe in the next big storm
Exploring Middle Tennessee's food truck scene
What it means to be transgender in Tennessee
'It City,' 10 years later
Kickin’ it with Nashville SC's Hany Mukhtar
What the new Titans stadium plan means for Nashville taxpayers
Checking out what libraries have to offer
Unpacking Tennessee’s third grade retention law
The art of storytelling through comics and graphic novels
Driving the future of electric vehicles in Middle Tennessee
Driving toward a better bus system for Nashville
Jamming out with Nashville’s roller derby skaters
Riding through Tennessee with motorcycle clubs
Sitting down with Tennessee's freshman lawmakers
What Tennessee's rejection of federal HIV testing, prevention funds mean for Nashville
Remembering the Nashville sit-ins
Getting a taste of Middle Tennessee’s hot sauce scene
What’s next for the Fairgrounds Speedway?
What you need to know about eviction in Middle Tennessee
After Tyre Nichols, what should policing look like?
Celebrating local Grammy winners
Parking in Nashville is about to change
Inside Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services
What’s next for Belle Meade Plaza?
Singing the blues in Nashville
The Christian music industry has found a home in Nashville
Mocktails in Middle Tennessee
The historic underfunding of Tennessee State University, and what comes next
The National Museum of African American Music turns 2!
Giving birth while Black in Middle Tennessee
Repeat: Margo Price on music, her memoir and making it in Nashville
Dating and looking for love in Nashville
Divorce: The difficult decision to end a marriage
From homelessness to permanent housing
Why Nashville’s Metro Council has 40 members — for now
Exploring the legacy of Nashville’s Freedom Riders
Urban animals: Caring for the neighbors in our backyard
Living with long COVID in Middle Tennessee
Tennessee's abortion ban, six months later
Who’s influencing Nashville?
Tackling player safety in football
Kicking it with Nashville's sneaker culture
How AI is impacting local artists
Exploring the Tennessee State Supreme Court
In 2022, we made a promise to meet you where you are — and we delivered
Revisiting some of the pins we dropped around Middle Tennessee in 2022
Best of Nashville: Exploring what it means to be ‘Nashville nice’
Best of This Is Nashville: Ghost stories to send shivers down your spine
Best of This Is Nashville: Keeping our communities safe
Best of This Is Nashville: Looking at the changing face of country music and the Black Opry
Best of This Is Nashville: Bridging the gap between old and new Nashville
Celebrating Kwanzaa in Middle Tennessee
What's next for the Metro Arts Commission?
Tackling tough topics during the holidays with family
Celebrating 60 years of WPLN!
Checking in with Jad Abumrad
Nashville's growing hospitality industry
Remembering Nashville's streetcar era
Living on the autism spectrum
Compiling a list of New Year’s resolutions for Nashville in 2023
Celebrating soccer in the Latino community
The role of Black churches in Middle Tennessee
Is this the end of Twitter?
Keeda Haynes on her path to criminal justice reform advocacy
What's different for Nashville's performing arts scene this holiday season
Hunting season in Middle Tennessee
Pandemic to pandemic: 41 years of AIDS
The cost of food is on the rise. Here's how it's impacting Middle Tennessee.
Nashville's role in the slave trade
The state of Nashville’s independent music venues
What is the National Day of Mourning?
Who are the Tennesseans who don’t vote?
On time with Nashville International Airport
The growth of HBCU athletics
Nashville's fierce drag culture
Walking a mile in Nashville's cowboy boots culture
The power of solar energy in Middle Tennessee
Margo Price on music, her memoir and making it in Nashville
Humming along with Nashville’s vibrant composing scene
Rep. Jim Cooper on his 32 years in Congress and his decision to retire
Jewish life in the buckle of the Bible Belt
Seeking treatment for addiction while pregnant
Finding safe shelter for LGBTQ youth
Dropping in on our neighborhood dives
Dr. Jason Martin answers your questions ahead of the Tennessee governor race
What does it mean to be white in Middle Tennessee?
Celebrating Día de los Muertos in Nashville
Nashville ghost stories to send shivers down your spine
The legacy of sculptor William Edmonson
Navigating the disability benefits system in Tennessee
Checking in on Tennessee’s school voucher program
Meet Middle Tennessee's Laotian community
Preserving Tennessee’s traditional arts
From woos to wedding bells: Nashville's wedding industry
Foraging and preserving fall foods in Nashville
The Children’s Memory Garden memorializes Nashville’s youngest victims of violence
Protests in Iran hit home for Nashville’s Iranian and Kurdish communities
The legacy of the Trail of Tears in Nashville and Middle Tennessee
The next generation of music industry workers
Celebrating the written word with the Southern Festival of Books
The music, life and legacy of Loretta Lynn
Rebroadcast: Exploring Middle Tennessee’s native roots and what it means to be indigenous
Hiking through Middle Tennessee
The growth of LGBT-affirming churches
Driving toward a better bus system for Nashville
Meet the pagans and Wiccans of Middle Tennessee
Filmmaking in Nashville
The future of cycling in Nashville
Exploring what it means to be ‘Nashville nice’
Nashville marching bands — their legacy and future
What housing is ‘affordable’ for you?
Growing diversity in Nashville’s tech scene
Sitting in with Nashville’s hardworking session musicians
Bisexuality in Nashville
Nashville neighborhood associations — their successes and struggles
Dr. Alex Jahangir on leading Nashville's pandemic response and beyond
How Mesa Komal brings together food and community
Exploring Americana
Remembering Dr. Paul Kwami, music director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
How Nashville’s small businesses are rebounding from pandemic disruptions
Understanding monkeypox in Middle Tennessee
Checking in with Warner Elementary, two years after ‘The Promise’
What does it take to make it as a songwriter in Music City?
From Kurdistan to Nashville
How the federal student loan forgiveness program will impact Middle Tennessee
Rosetta Miller-Perry, Tennessee Tribune publisher, on Nashville, civil rights and the Black press
Rebroadcast: Baristas lead union push in Middle Tennessee
Getting a taste of Nashville's wing scene
Teacher diversity in Tennessee
Navigating birth control in Tennessee’s post-Roe world
Angela Tucker on adoption, race and centering adoptee voices
Exploring the past, present and future of the Tennessee State Fair
Rebroadcast: Making a living as a musician in Nashville
The Nashville Summer Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 34th year
Practicing vegetarianism for health, environment, community and spirit
Rebroadcast: Thrifters, vintage stores give old clothes new life in Nashville
The power of peer support
Celebrating the tomato and East Nashville’s Tomato Art Fest
The past, present and future of women in baseball
How culture, community and history shape textile arts in Nashville
Sexual assault prevention and resources for survivors in a post-Roe world
Barbershops: A second sanctuary, or the segregated picture of America?
Looking back at Robert Altman’s 1975 movie ‘Nashville’
Back to school with Nashville's teachers
Adventures in Nashville home shopping with first-time buyers
Navigating Nashville’s nightlife scene while sober
Living at risk of Huntington’s Disease
Browsing Nashville’s bookstore scene, past and present
Meet the people who make Nashville laugh
Our bread and butter: Nashville’s changing food landscape
Conserving Tennessee's rare and endangered plants
How gun laws and gun violence impact Middle Tennessee
Here’s the scoop on Nashville’s ice cream scene
What to know about the Aug. 4 election in Davidson County
It’s for the birds!
Growing your own food in Nashville
The mental health variable in police interactions
Looking at the state of pipelines in Tennessee
Nashville's growing need for affordable housing
The state of adoption in Tennessee
Where the sidewalk ends in Metro Nashville
Drinking in the history and culture of Tennessee moonshine
Baristas lead union push in Middle Tennessee
Hoofing It: Getting around Nashville without a car
White supremacy and the state of hate in Tennessee
Rebroadcast: Sexism and the role of women in country music
The unending appeal of vinyl records
Breaking down the Nashville Metro budget
How mediation solves disputes, including between landlords and renters
Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza on faith, activism and embodiment
Examining the local impact of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade
Exploring the living history of Promise Land, Tennessee
Gamer for life
Rebroadcast: Preserving Fort Negley’s past while planning for its future
Keeping cool during Nashville’s record-breaking heat wave
Tennessee’s 51-year life sentences
Let's talk mental health in Middle Tennessee
Nashville has a new Black symphony
Rebroadcast: Who is Nashville’s nightlife really for?
Exploring Nolensville Pike, then and now
The legacy of Nashville hot chicken
Pets: Adopting and caring for four-legged family members
What’s next for Nissan Stadium?
The state of Nashville’s independent music venues
The Southern Baptist Convention report: What it means for abuse survivors and the faithful
What does the future of child care in Middle Tennessee look like?
Talking with students about graduation season in the wake of recent shootings
Rebroadcast: Natural burial and walking toward the end
Getting to know The New Respects
Bucket lists: The goals we hope to accomplish before the end of life
Where can families turn after losing a loved one in a police shooting?
Free speech or hate speech? The role of rhetoric in violence
Rebroadcast: Celebrating Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community, past and present
The long road to quality meat
Exploring North Nashville history through art at Elizabeth Park
The past and present of Centennial Park
Exploring the legacy of Nashville’s Freedom Riders
Sexism and the role of women in country music
Hats, history and horses! Get ready for the 81st Iroquois Steeplechase
Dr. Stephen Loyd: On substance abuse, addiction and harm reduction
Examining abortion access in Tennessee and answering community questions
Meet the people documenting the war in Ukraine and leading local aid efforts
Telling stories through comics and graphic novels
Fresh strawberries and the benefits of seasonal eating in Middle Tennessee
What's next for cannabis, THC and Delta-8 in Tennessee?
What's going on in Tennessee's youth detention centers?
How rising housing costs are pushing Nashville's immigrant communities further away
Kicking off the Nashville SC season with mega fans and Soccer Moses
Observing Ramadan and celebrating Eid al-Fitr in Middle Tennessee
Conexión Américas: 20 years of serving Nashville's Latino community
Checking in with Middle Tennesseans about the COVID-19 pandemic
Emerald ash borers, privet and stink bugs… oh my!
Making a living as a musician in Nashville
Exploring the future of green space in Nashville on Earth Day
After two-year pause, Tennessee resumes executions
Welcoming Afghan refugees to Middle Tennessee
'What We Wish Were True': Tallu Schuyler Quinn's thoughts on life and death
Looking at the changing face of country music as the Black Opry marks its one year anniversary
Nashville murals: Appreciating the art beyond the Instagram photo op
'It's how we used to do it' — natural burial and walking toward the end
Davidson County district attorney candidates answer community questions
The past and present of poetry in Nashville
Reactions and resources: Domestic violence in Middle Tennessee
Rounding the bases on baseball in Middle Tennessee
Exploring Middle Tennessee’s native roots and what it means to be indigenous
Crunching budgets and getting curious about Bell Road
Rebroadcast: Keeping our communities safe
Preserving Fort Negley’s past while planning for its future
Checking in on the Nashville Predators
Margaret Renkl on hope, despair and the diminishing call of songbirds
The Little Pantry That Could closes while others work to keep serving Middle Tennessee
Voting in Middle Tennessee, and why it matters
Exploring Music City's visual arts scene
A 'State Of The Kids' address
Keeping our communities safe
What it means to celebrate Newroz in Middle Tennessee
Celebrating Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community, past and present
Curious Nashville returns!
Measuring the impact of Middle Tennessee’s trash problems
Revisiting license plate readers in Nashville
Thrifters, vintage stores give old clothes new life in Nashville
Surviving outside when the temperature dips below freezing
Book-banning bills have potential to reshape the future of school libraries in Tennessee
Diving into North Nashville's artistic heritage, then and now
Navigating Nashville when you have a disability
Nurses are burning out as year three of the pandemic begins
Who is Nashville's nightlife really for?
Revisiting the March 3, 2020 tornadoes two years later
Tennessee school funding, and housing the unhoused
Bridging the gap between old and new Nashville
Coming March 1: This Is Nashville