By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — After over a decade of delivering locally famous BBQ to his fans all around Nashville, Shon Slim, owner and operator of the Smoqe Signals BBQ, has announced the impending retirement of the food truck that has supported him in cultivating a dedicated customer base after one last summer of barbecuing. “This is my final summer on my food truck, it’s going away after this summer.” Said Slim with a heavy breath. “So, anybody that’s ever enjoyed my food truck, this’ll be the first time I’ve ever really announced this publicly.” The truck’s retirement after…
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By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Local rapper Brian Brown is coming off of a roll following his most recent circuit of being interviewed by several different locally beloved Nashvillian radio shows, even receiving a surprise birthday celebration from the folks at ACME. “When [they] hollered out that it was my birthday and they brought out the cake and all that … I had no idea they were gonna bring the cake out that was … as big of a surprise to me as it was to anybody else,” said Brown with a laugh while reminiscing about the event. Since…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Lustful Bath is an independent Black-owned beauty, cosmetic, and personal care business that takes pride in using “about 95%” natural ingredients to the delight of its dedicated client base. The company is run by power couple Darryl and TK Davis, with TK conceptualizing most of the products and their packaging, and Darryl handling most of the administrative work, website running, graphic design, and creating of men’s products. The two also work together in conducting the research needed when creating products such as these, research that the two-take great pride in claiming proves how their…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville’s sweet tooth just got some tasty news from one of its favorite locally beloved baker and treat makers, Hi-Fi Cookies. Owned and operated by its warm-hearted head baker Sean with the assistance of his wife Kristin Newsome, Hi-Fi Cookies is a locally Black-owned Nashvillian baking company that has been given an increasingly warm reception from Music City’s citizens since its soft opening in 2016 as a part-time wholesale and catering side gig. Since then, Hi-Fi has faced fast-paced success within its home city, so much so that Sean has recently announced that the…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — “It’s your last stop for wings,” said Chinar Tucker, owner and operator of locally beloved restaurant StrikeOut Wingz when asked what the idea behind her restaurant’s name was. “The last stop, you’re not goin’ nowhere!” In just a few years, Tucker’s StrikeOut Wingz has become a main talking point among local Nashvillians, allowing the restaurant to open several locations and even announce plans of franchising by the third quarter of this year. She didn’t start this big, however, and recently recounted when she was first running StrikeOut Wingz from her first food truck in…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Platinum RIAA-certified Atlantic Records artist SUECO performed an electric set Wednesday at the Basement East, complete with the artist crowd surfing the audience with a literal surfboard, stage diving, and mosh pits. SUECO came to Nashville in the middle of his Wasted Space Tour, where he will be traveling internationally following the success of his most recent music including the album It Was Fun While It Lasted and the album’s hit single POS. It’s during tours such as these, that the artist detailed he has some of his most connecting experiences with the fans…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Working under the locally loved slogan of ‘BBQ so GOOD, PIGS are DYING to GET SMOKED,’ Black-owned restaurant Smokin’ Buttz has been giving their customers the very best in local Nashvillian Barbecue for nearly a decade. “There is nothing that we do that is grilled or anything like that, it is all smoked meat,” said Mylica Cathey, co-owner of Smokin’ Buttz along with her husband John. She went on to describe how she doesn’t believe that smoking meat quickly to order does the food or customer justice and that instead her restaurant prefers to…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Sporting a cheetah-print jacket with matching funky orange and black socks, black 1970s-style pants, black dress shoes, and a quiet smile, former Nashville resident and current Philadelphian musician Ron Gallo sat crisscrossed on the outside porch of the Basement East. In the year 2015, Gallo felt the overwhelming need to get out of Philadelphia for a little while, so he took up an offer made by a friend to rent out a room at his residence and try his hand at the Nashville music scene. It wasn’t until the COVID-19 lockdown onset in 2020…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — The race for the Nashville Mayor’s office is officially underway following the conclusion of the first mayor candidate debate on Tuesday at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The debate included candidate at-large Metro Council member and former nonprofit executive Sharon Hurt; Nashville newcomer and former AllianceBernstein COO Jim Gingrich; Germantown, downtown and Music Row two-term representative Freddie O’Connell; former Gov. Bill Haslam administrator and Sen. Lamar Alexander campaign chief Alice Rolli; former Metro official working on economic development and affordable housing Matt Wiltshire; and state senator representing Sylvan Park to Antioch, Jeff Yarbro. The structure…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Thunderous applause erupted across a sizable and energetic Youth Rally crowd at the end of several speeches Saturday, each one passionately advocating for the fight against John Lewis Way being renamed President Donald Trump Blvd. The protest itself was organized by Safiyah Suara, a local Nashville high-schooler and daughter of Councilwoman Zulfat Suara in participation with the John Lewis March Committee. The rally was organized in an effort to raise awareness on how the bill would impact the residents of Nashville as well as how it would continue Tennessee lawmakers’ agenda to refuse to…