CITY LIMITS: Mayor’s race enters its final days PAGE 9
PERFORMING ARTS: Kindling Arts Festival keeps the fire burning PAGE 28
JULY 27–AUGUST 2, 2023 • VOLUME 42 • NUMBER 26 • NASHVILLESCENE.COM • FREE
Sidewalks and the Mayoral Race
Good News, Bad News
A deep dive on the state of Nashville’s media landscape BY ELI MOTYCKA
Nashville, TN In big headline caps, the July 20 print edition of The Tennessean proclaimed that “Nolansville has ‘Weaver Fever,’” teasing a heartwarming feature on Nolensville Little League star Stella Weaver. Such a glaring headline error means that a few mistakes were made, somewhere along the line. It got past some people and didn’t get checked by other people — a classic newsroom breakdown. PAGE 11
Nashville, TN Nashville’s list of 1,900 miles in critical need of sidewalks is larger than the county’s existing network of 1,328 miles. So how many miles were built in the past 12 months by Metro? Eight. And that’s double what was built in 2020. At this rate, it will take 238 years to complete all the sidewalks needed in the city. Sidewalks are connectors to neighbors, bus stations, grocery stores and schools, and they serve other daily needs PAGE 7
Weaving It In
Downtown Chris Ethridge supplied key components to The Flying Burrito Brothers’ country-rock sound, through his bass and piano playing and background singing on the group’s widely loved and influential 1969 debut The Gilded Palace of Sin. Mississippi-born Ethridge had been in Burrito Brothers co-founder Gram Parsons’ earlier group, the International Submarine Band, and he left the Burritos before their follow-up Burrito Deluxe. But until his death in 2012, he was a PAGE 33
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