Best Smear Campaign
Oak Hill by Steve Cavendish Elections can bring out the worst in people, and in the last set of elections, nowhere was this more true than in Oak Hill, the…
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William Klein + Daido Moriyama at Tinney Contemporary by Laura Hutson Nashville’s art scene hasn’t upped its reputation as readily as the local food and music scenes have, but that’s rapidly changing....
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Woodbine Coffee Co. by Jim Ridley A true neighborhood coffee house is a combination salon, town hall and clubhouse, a getaway and office in one. New father and co-owner Eddie Christy’s…
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The Bluebird Cafe by D. Patrick Rodgers On April 1, the Scene’s own Adam Gold filed a report on our music blog, Nashville Cream, that Nashville’s famed Bluebird Cafe would be closing…
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Best Early Voting Site
Casa Azafrán by Carrington Fox When the gleaming global community center on Nolensville Road served as a polling location this summer, it was as if the building itself — which…
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Best Politician
John Ray Clemmons by Andrea Zelinski While most freshmen state legislators were figuring out where the bathrooms were and how to file legislation — and fishing their bills out of the…
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Best Local Chef TV Appearance
Arnold Myint on Food Network by Megan Seling We’ve seen a lot of local food-making faces on TV — Sloco’s Jeremy Barlow won Chopped, Gigi Butler of Gigi’s Cupcakes appeared on Undercover Boss,…
View ArticleBest Hope for Nashville’s Literary Reputation
Vanderbilt MFA Program in Creative Writing by Jim Ridley A group of scholars and poets put Vanderbilt on the literary map almost a century ago with the publication of The Fugitive; the excitement coming…
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Best Breakfast
Biscuit Love by Steve Cavendish The key to getting an entire brunch menu based around biscuits is that Karl and Sarah Worley cheat — the duo has one set of…
View ArticleBest Historic Place in Need of Saving
Bel-Air by Betsy Phillips Standing at the corner of Donelson Pike and Briley Parkway, Bel-Air is one of the few remaining Greek Revival antebellum homes in Nashville. The house…
View ArticleBest Print Show
Fort Houston’s Turntable Tour Exhibition by Joe Nolan Fort Houston put Nashville’s printmaking scene in context when it hosted ink pressers from all over the Southeast for June’s Turntable Tour. The...
View ArticleBest Big Idea
The Unlikely Company by Steve Haruch When he’s not nurturing health care start-ups with JumpStart Foundry or working on that book that he successfully Kickstartered, Marcus Whitney has been working on…
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Best Ryman Redemption
Ryan Adams by Marissa R. Moss It had been 13 years since the ill-fated request for “Summer of ’69” that put the Ryman on Ryan Adams' shitlist. But just as we’d…
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Best Korean
Korea House by Steve Haruch What more is there to say about this West Side stalwart other than it just never disappoints? You can get a more focused menu (So…
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Ford Ice Center by J.R. Lind The Predators-backed ice rink was a welcome addition for the area’s hockey community, as the demand for ice time had long ago outstripped supply. And…
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Best Debut Full-Length
Bully, Feels Like by Stephen Trageser The world is falling for Bully, and rightly so: They made a masterful rock record, with meaty guitars and a glove-tight rhythm section churning out…
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Best Yoga Studio
Hot Yoga Plus by Abby White It’s kind of funny how the best yoga studio in town is perched above an IHOP, but if there’s anything I like better than a…
View ArticleBest Reason to Go to Barista Parlor
Five Daughters Bakery Doughnuts by Nancy Floyd If comically slow service and pricey coffee steeped in pretension aren’t your thing, come for the doughnuts. Barista Parlor now serves decadent treats...
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Best Musical Revival
Nashville Rep’s Sweeney Todd by Martin Brady Is six years too soon to restage a big musical and call it a revival? No matter. Nashville Rep is clearly locked in to Sondheim’s…
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Best Zine
Huis Clos by Lance Conzett There’s a lot to love about Huis Clos, the monthly newsprint zine that features humor, poetry and art from Nashville’s undercurrent of cartoonists and literati:…
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