Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick opens Friday
The exhibition is on view at Channel to Channel through July 31
Working Girls will show July 28 at the Belcourt
The people who own downtown Nashville, and make the policies for downtown Nashville, don’t tend to live in downtown Nashville
The LeBron James-led sequel is now in theaters and on HBO Max
The October fest will include Robert Jones Jr., Rickie Lee Jones and more
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The latest documentary from Morgan Neville opens this week at the Belcourt
This week’s recommended titles are The Boss Baby: Family Business and Fear Street Part One: 1994
The Nashville author’s third novel is available now
Nashville: A Pandemic Observed — featuring Joon Robin Powell and others — opens this week
The new film from writer-director Michael Sarnoski opens this week at the Belcourt
The weeklong festival will take place at the Belcourt and other venues Sept. 30-Oct. 6
Enjoy this niche ’70s BBC drama about a snooty early-20th-century hotelier
Season 2 of the idealistic and delightful Apple TV+ series lands on July 23
A poem illustrated by Maile Lani
Talking with Wilkie about When Evil Lived in Laurel
Mocha is real. The pandemic is real. The supply chain is real. Other countries are real.
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In his third collaboration with the Scene, the Nashville comic hits the streets to talk about the state legislature, Gov. Bill Lee and more
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Questlove’s Summer of Soul opens this week at the Belcourt and on Hulu
If women want to gather here in Nashville and be messy together, I say welcome
Silas House: Exploring an Appalachian Writer’s Work is available now from University Press of Kentucky
The show, especially the U.K. version, is one of the finest examples of public television's offerings
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Janicza Bravo’s film opens Wednesday at the Belcourt
Critic Jason Shawhan’s stray thoughts and observations on Zola, opening this week at the Belcourt
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Thankfully, this year’s Road Trip Issue (our third) won’t be quite as tricky as last year’s “Social Distancing Edition.” Indeed, in the six fact-finding missions we undertook for this week’s cover package, we got to enjoy so many of the things 2020 was missing: dining out, congregating, inte…
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Dwell in the Italian maestro’s phantasmagoric world June 25-July 15
A Newcomer's Illustrated Observations
This week’s recommended titles include Oxygen, Grease 2 and Voyage of the Rock Aliens
Carter’s thriller The Photographer is out now via Minotaur Books
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Hoback will perform three solo dances June 24-26 at OZ Arts
My motto has always been, 'Try everything at gas stations'
The latest from Pixar is streaming on Disney+ now
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Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It opens this week at the Belcourt
Talking with members of the eight-piece brass band about where they’re from and where they’re going
This week’s recommended titles include Bo Burnham: Inside, Cruella and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Our intrepid reporter follows the clues in this local game of riddles
Or how Courtney Love helped me return to writing after I became a mother
The reissue of Laymon’s debut novel is available now from Scribner
My latest journey into the Dick Wolf Expanded Universe is with Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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It’s a literal fluff issue. Well, and scale, feather and fur issue. In this week’s cover package, we take a look at an organization that pairs service dogs with veterans, tour an exotic bird sanctuary, and find out just what the hell is going on with the practice of horse massage. We also ch…
Horror movies frequently reflect on our most existential fears, as individuals and as a society. But they also often expose us to unsettling images and uncomfortable ideas, helping to drive those fears — it’s only fitting that so many horror movies are about horror movies themselves. Even if…
John M. Chu’s adaptation of Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical opens wide this week
The last in a string of posthumous novels from the Tennessee native will be released June 20
Comedian, musician, host of Chris Crofton's Advice King Podcast and former Nashvillian Chris Crofton asked the Scene for an advice column, so we gave him one. Crowning himself the “Advice King,” Crofton will share his hard-won wisdom with whosoever seeks it. Follow Crofton on Facebook and Tw…
Vodka Yonic features a rotating cast of women and nonbinary writers from around the world sharing stories that are alternately humorous, sobering, intellectual, erotic, religious or painfully personal. You never know what you’ll find in this column, but we hope this potent mix of stories enc…
This week's recommended titles include Seance, Army of the Dead and more
For some women of color, great aspirations and bold voices can feel like a burden, particularly when their families would rather not disrupt the status quo due to log kya kahenge — “what people might think,” practically a proverb in Urdu and Hindi. It can be especially difficult for such bol…
Nashville’s First Saturday gallery-crawling events continue to creep back to normal as we reach the halfway point of 2021. Virtual presentations and talks are waning as real-life displays and happenings return, but social distancing and less-than-festive vibes still hold a significant sway o…
German director Christian Petzold’s Undine is a slippery film. Haunted by a German past that the film talks about at great length — as if trying to psychoanalyze Berlin’s state of mind — it feels unsure of its relationship to the present. It plays like a sister to Petzold’s 2007 film Yella, …
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World is available now from BOA Editions
See all the winners, ‘weirdies’ and honorable mentions of our annual YASNI contest
Exploring the history of one of Nashville’s long-overlooked Black burial spaces