D. Patrick Rodgers
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Editor-in-chief, @NashvilleScene.com. Critic, journalist, freelancer, drummer, DJ and progressive ranter elsewhere. Tips: prodgers@nashvillescene.com
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Local coffee company Barista Parlor is set to close three of its brick-and-mortar locations.
Barista Parlor Shutters Three Locations
Local coffee chain cites high costs, plans to ‘refresh’ remaining East Nashville location
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January 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Local coffee company Barista Parlor is set to close three of its brick-and-mortar locations.
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This week’s cover package: From midterm elections and the Music City Loop to zoning reform and artificial intelligence, here are eight stories to keep an eye on in the coming year.
Stories to Watch in 2026
From midterm elections and the Music City Loop to zoning reform and AI, here are eight stories to watch in the coming year
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January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This week’s cover package: From midterm elections and the Music City Loop to zoning reform and artificial intelligence, here are eight stories to keep an eye on in the coming year.
Here's a cute little thing we at the Scene do each year: Submit a love letter to your sweetheart (or your pal, your mom, your dog, your cousin, yourself) and we'll put it both online and in print in the Valentine's Day issue of the paper.
Sweet Scene
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January 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Here's a cute little thing we at the Scene do each year: Submit a love letter to your sweetheart (or your pal, your mom, your dog, your cousin, yourself) and we'll put it both online and in print in the Valentine's Day issue of the paper.
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APSU has reinstated Darren Michael and paid out a $500,000 legal settlement nearly four months after firing the theater professor for a post related to the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
APSU Professor Reinstated With $500K in Charlie Kirk Cleanup Settlement
Clarksville university backtracks three months after firing Darren Michael for Kirk comments
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January 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
APSU has reinstated Darren Michael and paid out a $500,000 legal settlement nearly four months after firing the theater professor for a post related to the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Holly Carden's Bill Lee illustration for our recent Boner Awards relevant again.
January 7, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Holly Carden's Bill Lee illustration for our recent Boner Awards relevant again.
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Writes @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Historic local headstones carved by legendary artist William Edmondson are crumbling and getting lost.
Headstones Carved by William Edmondson Are Increasingly Endangered
I keep trying to make my peace with these historic local headstones crumbling and getting lost
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January 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Writes @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Historic local headstones carved by legendary artist William Edmondson are crumbling and getting lost.
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“The same bubble lights will always shine on solitary souls like me and my cousin,” wrote late, great Scene editor Jim Ridley of the iconic Southern chain back in 1997. “For us the Waffle House stops the world from spinning.”
Night Spot
Before a few weeks ago, it had been years since I’d darkened the door of a Waffle House. One of the last times had been on a morning two years
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January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“The same bubble lights will always shine on solitary souls like me and my cousin,” wrote late, great Scene editor Jim Ridley of the iconic Southern chain back in 1997. “For us the Waffle House stops the world from spinning.”
Our favorite photos of 2025.
The Scene's Favorite Photos of 2025
The Nashville Scene's talented staff and freelance photographers helped us document all of 2025's important action.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Our favorite photos of 2025.
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This year, I am weirdly onsessed with the year-ends most read news stories. You can find them in different outlets like @nytimes.com or @nashvillescene.com.
My link features the best local stories of 2025 that @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social put together for us.
Have a great New Year's Eve!
My link features the best local stories of 2025 that @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social put together for us.
Have a great New Year's Eve!
The Most-Read Scene Stories of 2025
From Best of Nashville to ICE arrests and layoffs at VUMC, here’s what grabbed our readers’ attention over the past year
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December 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This year, I am weirdly onsessed with the year-ends most read news stories. You can find them in different outlets like @nytimes.com or @nashvillescene.com.
My link features the best local stories of 2025 that @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social put together for us.
Have a great New Year's Eve!
My link features the best local stories of 2025 that @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social put together for us.
Have a great New Year's Eve!
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From Best of Nashville to ICE arrests and layoffs at VUMC, here are the Nashville Scene's most-read stories of 2025.
The Most-Read Scene Stories of 2025
From Best of Nashville to ICE arrests and layoffs at VUMC, here’s what grabbed our readers’ attention over the past year
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December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
From Best of Nashville to ICE arrests and layoffs at VUMC, here are the Nashville Scene's most-read stories of 2025.
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In October, an MNPD officer and a state trooper escorting Cameron Sexton had an altercation on Briley Parkway. Writes @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Why wasn't I told sooner?
This Briley Parkway Cop Fight Is the Gift That Keeps On Giving
In October, an MNPD officer and a state trooper escorting Cameron Sexton had an altercation. Why wasn't I told sooner?
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December 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In October, an MNPD officer and a state trooper escorting Cameron Sexton had an altercation on Briley Parkway. Writes @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Why wasn't I told sooner?
Why does the Nashville Electric Service force me to change my password multiple times per year? Is someone else trying to log in to pay my electricity bill?
December 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Why does the Nashville Electric Service force me to change my password multiple times per year? Is someone else trying to log in to pay my electricity bill?
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Critic's Pick: "Catch 'It's a Wonderful Life' in the Belcourt’s 1925 Hall, where Jimmy Stewart’s megawatt charisma will come pouring off the screen."
Critic's Pick — Holiday Classics: 'It’s a Wonderful Life'
Dec. 19-24 at the Belcourt
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December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Critic's Pick: "Catch 'It's a Wonderful Life' in the Belcourt’s 1925 Hall, where Jimmy Stewart’s megawatt charisma will come pouring off the screen."
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Gold, frankincense AND myrrh? In this economy??
December 22, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Gold, frankincense AND myrrh? In this economy??
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This week's cover story: The 2025 Nashvillians of the Year are the people behind Music City MigraWatch. These everyday citizens document ICE in their own communities.
Nashvillians of the Year: Music City MigraWatch
Everyday citizens document ICE, warn neighbors in effort to resist mass deportations in their own communities
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December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This week's cover story: The 2025 Nashvillians of the Year are the people behind Music City MigraWatch. These everyday citizens document ICE in their own communities.
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Writes @betsyphillips.bsky.social: State law says city historians can't be compensated. This should change.
Metro Should Pay Our City Historian
State law says city historians can't be compensated. This should change.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Writes @betsyphillips.bsky.social: State law says city historians can't be compensated. This should change.
Never did get the opportunity to use the headline "Rollin in the Deep" with this one because ... well. It really just never seemed all that deep.
Metro’s Board of Ethical Conduct dismissed an ethics complaint against Councilmember Rollin Horton after vetting its allegations for more than an hour at a Dec. 17 meeting.
Ethics Board Clears Rollin Horton
Metro’s Board of Ethical Conduct dismissed an ethics complaint against Councilmember Rollin Horton after vetting its allegations for more than an hour at a Dec. 17 meeting.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Never did get the opportunity to use the headline "Rollin in the Deep" with this one because ... well. It really just never seemed all that deep.
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Always a great issue of the Scene.
This week’s cover package: In our annual In Memoriam issue, we commemorate many of the irreplaceable figures Nashville lost in 2025.
In Memoriam 2025
Commemorating many of the irreplaceable figures Nashville lost in 2025
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December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Always a great issue of the Scene.
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This week’s cover package: In our annual In Memoriam issue, we commemorate many of the irreplaceable figures Nashville lost in 2025.
In Memoriam 2025
Commemorating many of the irreplaceable figures Nashville lost in 2025
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December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This week’s cover package: In our annual In Memoriam issue, we commemorate many of the irreplaceable figures Nashville lost in 2025.
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Confusion and skepticism around a city agreement with the Nashville Downtown Partnership, now twice deferred by the Metro Council, leaves $15 million waiting with the business nonprofit for at least five weeks.
Council Defers Mayor’s Security Deal With Downtown Nonprofit
Fearing surveillance abuse, council again defers guidelines for a $15 million grant
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December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Confusion and skepticism around a city agreement with the Nashville Downtown Partnership, now twice deferred by the Metro Council, leaves $15 million waiting with the business nonprofit for at least five weeks.
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From @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Despite conspiracy theories from popular right-wing influencer Candace Owens, state Republicans plan to partner with Turning Point USA to start Club America chapters in Tennessee schools.
Turning Point, the TN GOP and Right-Wing Infighting
Last week, Tennessee Republicans gathered a crowd at the state Capitol to demonstrate how behind the times and disconnected from young conservatives they are by announcing that they’re partnering with...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
From @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Despite conspiracy theories from popular right-wing influencer Candace Owens, state Republicans plan to partner with Turning Point USA to start Club America chapters in Tennessee schools.
Nothing makes me feel more like some sort of corvid than snacking on unshelled pistachios.
December 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Nothing makes me feel more like some sort of corvid than snacking on unshelled pistachios.
In one instance, TDOC’s press release mistakenly refers to Nichols as “inmate Smith,” appearing to confuse the man with Oscar Smith, who was executed in May.
Tennessee’s third execution of 2025 came with controversies over method, and Gov. Lee denying clemency despite moral and religious appeals.
Harold Wayne Nichols Executed by Lethal Injection
Tennessee’s third execution of 2025 came with controversies over method, and Gov. Lee denying clemency despite moral and religious appeals
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December 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In one instance, TDOC’s press release mistakenly refers to Nichols as “inmate Smith,” appearing to confuse the man with Oscar Smith, who was executed in May.