Happening Now
The main stories going on in Nashville, each with the videos, livestreams, news and links around it.
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Stories in Happening Now
The Champions: A World Bass Championship
A record $3.25 million purse on Old Hickory Lake, with live music and family events around it.
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Dolly Parton Updates
The city's celebration of Dolly, the airport vote, and the SongTeller Hotel opening on Broadway.
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Touring the LST-325, a WWII landing ship
A D-Day landing ship on the Cumberland, open for tours in Hendersonville, Ashland City and Clarksville.
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Tootsie's 66th birthday on Broadway
A free one-night show on Broadway for the honky-tonk the Ryman crowd has ducked into for decades.
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BNA to be renamed Dolly Parton International Airport
The campaign to rename Nashville International, and where it actually stands.
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Inside Nashville's studios
Room by room through the rooms that made the records.
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Datacenters in Nashville
Who is building them, what they cost in power and water, and who pays.
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East Bank: the future of Nashville
Thirty years of building on the other side of the river, tracked from the ground.
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Wags & Walks Nashville
A weekly adoption broadcast from the rescue floor, and what happens after.
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Matthew McConaughey live at the Belcourt
A screening of The Rivals of Amziah King, then a rare live set with The Last Bison.
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Bass fishing downtown
The Cumberland at sunrise, from a boat, under the skyline.
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Batting practice on the Nashville Sounds field
You can rent First Horizon Park and take batting practice on the field. We did, with friends.
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Gary LeVox raises $250K+ for veterans
One night, a full room, and a quarter of a million dollars for Tennessee veterans.
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Brad Paisley surprises Whiskey Jam
Brad Paisley drops in on Whiskey Jam and joins the Jam Fam.
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Hot chicken, ranked
Six plates worth the heat, plus the newcomers.
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Six years after the tornado
The North and East Nashville rebuild, block by block.
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Festival season 2026
Every festival we covered, from Tin Pan South to AmericanaFest.
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Downtown parking and transit
What is free, what is closed, and how to get out afterward.
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Oct 21
CMA's Celebration of Dolly Parton, Oct. 21
I Will Always Love You, the live ABC and Disney+ tribute at the Fisher Center, for her Imagination Library.
Event
Oct 2
What to know about WBE
Our article on the week: the free Fan Festival and expo, the weigh-ins, the concert and the schedule.
Article
Oct 2
Tickets from World Bass Enterprises
VIP packages, concert access and passes, on Eventbrite.
Tickets
Sep 27
Fire in the hole: Sherman tanks and D-Day
Aboard the LST-325, from the tank deck up.
Reel
Sep 25
Behind the scenes aboard the LST-325
Our tour of the landing ship, docked at Sanders Ferry Park in Hendersonville.
Livestream
Sep 22
A WWII landing ship on the Cumberland
Should we be concerned? Not at all.
Reel
Sep 21
Where to tour the LST-325, and when
Hendersonville, Ashland City, then Clarksville through Oct. 12.
News
Sep 20
At Tootsie's 66th birthday bash
On Broadway for the free birthday show.
Reel
Sep 19
Tootsie's 66th: the lineup
Brantley Gilbert, Randy Houser, Montgomery Gentry and more, free on Broadway.
Reel
Sep 17
Dolly Day Nashville, across the city
How the city celebrated her generosity, music and spirit, and how to take part.
Reel
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Drink
Best Bars on Broadway
Tootsie's and the four other honky-tonks on Lower Broadway we send friends to, with when to go and a local move at each.
Food
Best Steakhouses in Nashville
Ten steakhouses worth the splurge, from Bourbon Steak's skyline view to Jimmy Kelly's corn cakes, with what to order at each.
Drink
Our Favorite Happy Hours
Twelve happy hours we keep going back to, with the days, the times, the deal and what to order at each.
Stay
NashvilleTN's Favorite Hotels
The ten hotels locals rate highest, no more than two to a neighborhood, with what to book and what to ask for.
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