The More Things Change
For all that’s changed over the past 30 years in Music City, plenty has remained
By D. Patrick Rodgers
A Brief History of Nashville’s Public Transportation
A quick look at the city’s public transit history, from streetcar boycotts to the failed plans of the 2010s
By Alejandro Ramirez
Cover Lovers
Four former Scene art directors (and our current one) on their most memorable covers
Jewels of Jim
Scene writers past and present remember Jim Ridley’s greatest hits
By Erica Ciccarone
Write What You Don’t Know
30 years of mystery, from the Music Row Murder to the Nun Bun
By Steven Hale
It’s Not All Right
A quick tour of some of the screw-ups in Scene history
By Stephen Elliott
Nashvillians of the Year(s)
A look back at all 30 recipients of the Scene’s year-end honorific
By J.R. Lind
The Scene on the Scene
Previous music editors look back at three decades of covering music in Music City
By Stephen Trageser
Nashville’s Culinary Mount Rushmore
Randy Rayburn, Margot McCormack and Deb Paquette look back at 30 years of Nashville’s dining scene
By Chris Chamberlain
30 Years of Plates
A timeline of Nashville’s rambunctious food scene since 1989
By Dana Kopp Franklin
Nashville's skyline in 1989
Missing Something?
These buildings were erected after 1989:
- 505
- The Pinnacle at Symphony Place
- JW Marriott Nashville
- Viridian
- The SoBro
- 1200 Broadway
- Westin Nashville
- 222 2nd Ave. S.
- Phillip’s Plaza
- Skyhouse Nashville
- Icon in The Gulch
- Twelve Twelve
- Omni Nashville
- Encore
- Tri-Branded Marriott
- 1100 Charlotte
- SunTrust Plaza
- Holiday Inn
- Thompson Hotel
- Terrazzo
- Fairfield Inn & Suites
- Broadstone Gulch
- Margaritaville Hotel
- Hilton Tru and Homewood Suites
- Hilton Garden Inn
- Music City Center
- Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Hilton Nashville Downtown
- Cambria Nashville
- Gulch Crossing
- 1201 Demonbreun
- Healthstream Building in Capitol View
- The Cumberland
- Hyatt Place
- and more!
