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D. Patrick Rodgers

Nashville

Editor in Chief at Nashville Scene

Editor-in-chief, @NashvilleScene. Critic, journalist, freelancer, drummer, DJ and progressive ranter elsewhere. Tips: [email protected]

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  • 1 week ago | nashvillescene.com | Hamilton Matthew Masters |Hannah Herner |D. Patrick Rodgers

    The U.S. Congressional Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Homeland Security formally launched an investigation on Friday related to a recent executive order from Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell. The investigation, announced on Memorial Day by Republican U.S. Rep.

  • 1 week ago | nashvillepost.com | Hamilton Matthew Masters |Hannah Herner |D. Patrick Rodgers

    The U.S. Congressional Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Homeland Security formally launched an investigation on Friday related to a recent executive order from Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell. The investigation, announced on Memorial Day by Republican U.S. Rep.

  • 3 weeks ago | nashvillescene.com | D. Patrick Rodgers |Logan Butts

    The building at 2102 Belcourt Ave. has held many names over the past century. It was Hillsboro Theatre when it first opened its doors as a silent film house in 1925, and in the decades since it has been known as Belcourt Cinema and Watkins-Belcourt, among other titles. These names reflect changes in ownership as well as changes in programming. The building has hosted not only films, plays and concerts — it was also the home of the Grand Ole Opry for a brief stretch in the mid-1930s.

  • 3 weeks ago | nashvillescene.com | D. Patrick Rodgers

    When Belcourt Theatre historian and archivist Teddy Minton speaks about figures from the 100-year-old institution’s distant past, it’s almost as if he’s speaking to you about friends and acquaintances he knows personally. There’s M.A. Lightman, the Nashville businessman and former champion wrestler who first opened what was then known as the Hillsboro Theatre back in 1925, and Fred Massey, the entrepreneur who purchased the building in 1966 to help its operators dig their way out of debt.

  • 1 month ago | nashvillescene.com | D. Patrick Rodgers

    The Nashville Scene’s 16th annual Iron Fork competition took place Saturday in Centennial Park — this year as part of the Music City Food & Wine Festival, brought to you for the first time by Scene parent company FW Publishing.

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