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Lifelong Activist Stages One-Man Protest Against War in Iran On Monday morning, an 88-year-old anti-war activist set up a chair and three signs outside the entrance of the Fred D. Thompson Courthouse and Federal Building to protest the joint U.S.-Israel bombing...

On Monday morning, 88-year-old anti-war activist Karl Meyer set up outside the entrance of the Fred D. Thompson Courthouse and Federal Building to protest the joint U.S.-Israel bombings of Iran.

This is a great one from Betsy. Even before I moved to Nashville I was hearing about the fairgrounds issue and my immediate thought was “oh so it’s a class thing.” Fascinating to see this play out while like, Carhartt and camo are going designer

A woman imagines her own skull. Text reads: "thinking about my beautiful and iconic skull".

It probably looks amazing.

What's your favourite album cover? Doesn't have to be your favourite album, just a cover you ever get tired of looking at

What's your favourite album cover? Doesn't have to be your favourite album, just a cover you never get tired of looking at.

11:11 and Nashville Radical Library Offer Queer Ramadan Events The two Nashville organizations are presenting events for the LGBTQ community to observe the Muslim holy month

11:11 Art Collective and the Nashville Radical Library are offering a recurring Queer Ramadan event for the LGBTQ Muslim community to observe the holy month.

Grid of albums by Mandy, Indiana; Damien Jurado; Joanna Gruesome; Life Without Buildings; Nihilist Cheerleader; Doechii; Rico Nasty; Roc Marciano; Stars; Teethe; Bill Callahan; Boyish; Empire! Empire! I Was A Lonely Estate; and Friendship

fittingly all over the place

Blackburn Coordinated With NES CEO for Special Treatment During Ice Storm Senator used office to coordinate personal restoration timeline with Teresa Broyles-Aplin for Brentwood residence

According to emails reviewed by the Scene, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn coordinated a personal power restoration timeline with NES CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin during Winter Storm Fern.

It’s 60 degrees outside and I can feel a Bull Durham rewatch coming on

The Hanson brothers in Slap Shot, sitting in their uniforms with bloody faces

Fictional athletes that would or would not have accepted a Trump WH invitation. Obvious place to start, and I'm sorry but definitely yes they would have gone:

this conversation is interesting to me because personally I think my cultural criticism comes in part from early immersion in and then fascination by fandom spaces and how they operate. like sometimes the call to meaningfully cover this stuff is coming from inside the house

Golden age panel as our hero, who wears a red cloth mask over his eyes – – in fact, I even think his name is the Fiery Mask – – stares downward at a beautiful blonde woman whose eyes are also transfixed on our hero as he says, “By holding your hand I transmit protective powers to your body!“

Clavicular, the Radical Submissive In 2026, hypermasculinity has one master: the algorithm. Here, John Paul Brammer examines Clavicular's algorithm worship.

For Playboy, I wrote about Clavicular, masculinity, and the digital image www.playboy.com/read/enterta...

I’ve never identified more with one of these

Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Cease Gender-Affirming Surgeries Patients received surprise messages Friday saying health care system will no longer offer gender-affirming surgeries

VUMC patients received surprise messages Friday saying the health care system will no longer offer gender-affirming surgeries.

read the review my editor called “hilarious”

everything I had to say about the Baz Luhrmann Elvis doc, I said here

A ★★★★½ review of Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) I was waiting for this movie to come out forever and it lived up to what was hoping for. dreamy and funny and oddly soothing and I much prefer the NPR TikTok guy when he’s not explaining things to me....

just a delightful movie

genuinely so much to love about this ridiculous movie. there’s real-life background lore involving Scientology and the Mafia. At one point Shatner yells “CORBIS! GODDAMN YOU!”. and it’s on Tubi. hard to beat

read the review my editor called “hilarious”

Ernest Borgnine preaching satanically

William Shatner in a cowboy hat, pointing

if, like me, you’re thrilled to hear William Shatner is making a heavy metal album, might I recommend you watch THE DEVIL’S RAIN, where he plays a cowboy fighting a Satanic priest played by Ernest Borgnine (featuring consultation from and a cameo by Anton LaVey)

State House Passes Bill Targeting Same-Sex Marriage Rep. Bulso argues SCOTUS ‘invented’ same-sex marriage right in 2015

The Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that aims to undermine same-sex marriage.

The cover of American football’s forthcoming LP4 album, which shows bare tree limbs against a deep red skyline

they’ve left the house, i repeat, they’ve left the house

‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’ — the new “cinematic experience” from director Baz Luhrmann, opening wide this Friday — is not exactly a concert documentary. It pulls from previously lost footage of the musician’s late-career Vegas residency and 1970s tours, but it begins, like a trailer for itself, with a lengthy montage of the familiar beats that led up to it: Elvis’ childhood, his rise to fame, his shaking hips. When he gets arrested, huge letters appear on the screen: “ELVIS ARRESTED.” When he gets drafted, we see “DRAFTED.” Later, when his movie career begins, we see the word “HOLLYWOOD,” which promptly explodes.

just waiting for someone to hit me with a “you don’t get it, he’s saying that Elvis blew up in Hollywood”

It’s a shame because there really is some great footage of this weird era of Elvis that could have been made into a smart movie

‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’ Spoon-Feeds Us a Stale Story Baz Luhrmann’s new archival footage ‘cinematic experience’ opens wide Friday

it’s been a while since I got to write a good negative review. here’s this one, about the annoying and sometimes baffling ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert,’ for @nashvillescene.com

black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind

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Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (2025)

Mary Halvorson: guitar & pocket piano
Adam O'Farrill: trumpet
Jacob Garchik: trombone
Patricia Brennan: vibraphone
Nick Dunston: bass
Tomas Fujiwara: drums

Everyone should listen to more Halvorson
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/about-...

longshot taking it here, but...looking for someone to do some in-person library research for me in NYC. one or two day project with fast turnaround, obviously paid. is this you, someone you know, a student of yours? lmk!

British folk icon Labi Siffre, 80, announces first new album in 28 years Kanye West, Eminem and Jay-Z are just a few of the artists who have sampled Siffre’s songs over the years

everything is grim, but at least we're getting new Labi Siffre www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Buchanan Street Overlay Delayed by Public Pushback New rules for Buchanan Street businesses spark questions about North Nashville’s future

A controversial commercial overlay for Buchanan Street will return to the Metro Planning Commission on Feb. 26 after being deferred in January.