By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville Comic Con made a splash on its first day with anime lovers, comic heads, and fantasy enjoyers alike. The convention touted quite an impressive booking this year, showcasing many powerhouse names such as Jonathan Glapion, Johnny Yong Bosch, Steve Downes, Grey Delisle, Chuck Norris, Will Friedle, and many more. The convention also featured autograph booths for each one of its invited guests so they could meet and have their pictures taken with fans. Attendees even got to see some of their favorite celebrities speak on the convention’s main stage, as well as line…
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By Logan Langlois Creative Soulz, the independent Black-owned business striving to prop up other small Black-owned businesses, is one of the go-to places for small startups looking for assistance with printing or branding. The company’s owner, Thomas “TK” Kelly, says that strives to match each of his client’s budgets and needs with a deal that is best for them, and will deliver them both “quality and affordable” designs tailored to help the business reaffirm and spread awareness of their brand. Creative Soulz garnered significant local buzz, especially considering that the business has only existed since August of 2019, and has…
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…
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…