D. Patrick Rodgers

Jan 8, 2025 | nashvillescene.com | D. Patrick Rodgers

“If you find that, get me one,” says Ringo Starr. “I don’t know where mine is anymore.”Starr is at home in Los Angeles on a November morning, telling the Scene via video call about his misplaced copy of Ernest Tubb’s out-of-print album Midnight Jamboree. The record, released in 1960, features performances from Midnite Jamboree, the WSM radio show launched by Tubb at his Nashville record shop in 1947 and still airing to this day, though it has since changed locations a handful of times.

Dec 4, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | D. Patrick Rodgers

Share The Metro Board of Parks and Recreation on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve an official name change for Cumberland Park in downtown Nashville. Going forward, the space — which opened in 2012 — will be known as Wasioto Park . “Wasioto” is a Shawnee word that, according to some sources , means “mountains where the deer are plentiful.” It’s also the name the Shawnee people gave to the Cumberland River many generations before white people arrived in what is now known as Tennessee.

Dec 4, 2024 | nashvillescene.com | D. Patrick Rodgers

The Metro Board of Parks and Recreation on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve an official name change for Cumberland Park in downtown Nashville. Going forward, the space — which opened in 2012 — will be known as Wasioto Park. “Wasioto” is a Shawnee word that, according to some sources, means “mountains where the deer are plentiful.” It’s also the name the Shawnee people gave to the Cumberland River many generations before white people arrived in what is now known as Tennessee.

Dec 3, 2024 | nashvillescene.com | D. Patrick Rodgers

After 16 months in East Nashville’s Highland Yards development, Otaku Ramen East is closing its doors.  Owner Sarah Gavigan confirms that while the East Side outpost is shuttering, Otaku’s three other locations — in West Nashville’s Sylvan Supply, in the Gulch and in the Factory at Franklin — are still in business. “We made the difficult decision to close and focus our energy on our other three units that are thriving,” Gavigan tells the Scene.

Nov 26, 2024 | nashvillescene.com | D. Patrick Rodgers

In last week’s Scene cover story, staff reporter Eli Motycka described the existential struggle of Nashville’s tree-canopy advocates — the arborists who are protecting our city’s trees not just from invasive species and other natural threats, but also humans. While rampant development of course poses a threat to our city’s green canopy, sometimes the culprit is simple ignorance.