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annie parnell 👽 @avparnell.bsky.social · 23h

I am quickly becoming the Scene’s Tyler Childers correspondent. Here I am with some thoughts on his weekend shows at Geodis, plus country music mythmaking, maybe also the divine a little bit

The New Country Church of Tyler Childers

The tour behind ‘Snipe Hunter’ brought fans together on several levels at Geodis Park.

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 1d

Writes Betsy Phillips: I need one thing I can count on for amusement — so don't scare The Boring Company off with your facts and your logic.

Perhaps We Should Let The Boring Company's Music City Loop Fail

I need one thing I can count on for amusement — so don't scare The Boring Company off with your facts and your logic

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

I’m too old to post those words

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky: The most exhausting people in your AP History class
Twitter: Crypto dorks and literal Nazis
Facebook: Your aunt reposting AI videos of gorillas doing the Cha Cha Slide
Instagram: Influencer wasteland
LinkedIn: Project managers
Threads: No one knows, and science can't tell us

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 3d

The Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate has adopted a resolution recommending the school reject a recent offer from the Trump administration that would give preferential funding.

Vanderbilt Faculty Senate Opposes White House Compact

University members approve resolution recommending university reject Trump deal

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 3d

Feline Friday

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 3d

I was on today's episode of City Cast Nashville talking 7th District special elections, Metro Council and, of course, Best of Nashville. Thanks @whittlz.bsky.social and company for having me.

City Cast Nashville

Daily News Podcast · Updated Daily · Join Marie Cecile Anderson and the City Cast Nashville team every weekday morning as we bring you the day's can't-miss conversation about life in Music City. With ...

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quinn hills 🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnhills.bsky.social · 4d

so proud of our queer little crew :)
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Nashville Scene
Best Repertory Series Queer Qlassics
ANNIE PARNELL
4 HRS AGO

Illustration of a person painting a mural that reads “Nashville Scene”

When The People's Joker screened in the Belcourt's Queer Qlassics series, director Vera Drew handed out stickers on the sidewalk — and my partner and I ran into Grammy nominee Aaron Lee Tasjan (whose latest album explores coming out) in the popcorn line. That's just the surface of the community and happy chaos of this July series, which featured a Q&A with Drew, a local queer film history seminar, and screenings of tearjerkers (Brokeback Mountain) and camp oddities (D.E.B.S.) alike. Its focus on "stability in hostile times" is especially important now — and so was its revolutionary sense of joy.

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 4d

The @NashSevereWx.com team has the city's vote for Best YouTube Channel! See who won second and third place in our readers' poll and check out the rest of our 2025 Best of Nashville Media & Politics winners here.

Media & Politics

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t understand this bit.

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 4d

I've asked him for a link. He is not really on social (smart).

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 4d

I think Eli very clearly lays out how it's more complicated than YIMBY/NIMBY!

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 4d

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

This will be resolved in about 90 seconds, art director had to fix a URL issue. You picked a bad time to click lol

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

Some of the categories have been around since day 1, back in 1989. Just because the Belcourt is the undisputed champ doesn't mean we're going to ditch the category!

All good, no worries.

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway your complaint has been registered lol. Everyone's entitled to their take. 🫡

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

Probably needless to say here but we sort through a LOT that we don't ultimately include. 274 writers' choices is significant (actually down a few dozen from years past), but obviously isn't every institution/individual/business in Nashville, so "everyone gets a trophy" is pretty hyperbolic!

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 5d

I especially love the photo.

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Best Historian

Linda Wynn — the Tennessee Historical Commission’s assistant director for state programs — is a historian’s historian. Not only is her own work impeccable, she’s also responsible for a lot

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

Ouch thanks a lot gang.

We work hard on it for months. I think the writers’ contributions are phenomenal this year. Readers’ poll? I always have significant qualms with what folks select there but it is what it is.

Anyhow cant please all the people all the time. Thanks for reading anyhow.

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

It’s so good, and run by solid people. Keep up with em on IG!

www.instagram.com/saapsaapbbq?...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

Obviously we don't tamper with the readers' poll votes (we work our asses off on the writers!) but yeah that one was ... not my favorite to see lol.

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

There are more! A few more I wrote and about 270 more by our staff and contributing writers, along with our annual readers’ poll. Good stuff, hope you'll check it out. /end

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

We wrote Dusty Slay up as Nashville’s Best Comedian back in 2019 — and his new special ‘Workin’ Man’ is so good I had to give it to him again.

Best Comedian

Alabama-born longtime Nashvillian Dusty Slay is no stranger to the pages of the Scene’s Best of Nashville issue. We named him our Best Comedian in the 2019 writers’ choices, and

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 5d

I wanted to throw a little love the Nashville Humane Association’s way. Their 24/7 microchip-scanning station in West Nashville is a very valuable resource.

Best Resource for Lost Pets

Losing a pet can be an extremely stressful situation — for both the pet owner and their furry little friend. Fortunately, when a good Samaritan stumbles across a lost pet,

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