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City Cast Nashville

Join Marie Cecile Anderson and the City Cast Nashville team every weekday morning as we bring you the day"s can"t-miss conversation about life in Music City. With the help of local journalists, artists, activists, experts, and everyday residents, we explore this promising, frustrating, still-sorta-small town, where old bumps up against new, natives adapt to transplants, and everybody struggles to navigate the ‘Binge Drinking Tourism Industrial Complex’ that threatens to consume us all. Alongside our

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22:58

Your Guide to September 2025 in Nashville

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/09/02

September always feels like a rebirth after the humid slog of summer, a month full of fairs, football, and fun stuff to do. Host Marie Cecile Anderson, producer Daniel Sumstine, and executive producer Whitney Pastorek have your guide to the best things to eat, see, and hear this month in Nashville.If you’re looking for even MORE options, we’ve featured some great activities and important news stories across the city in recent episodes: Did you know your library card can get you a bunch of free

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31:35

Alleged Council Coercion, Revealing Tunnel Memo, and...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/29

A business owner alleging that District 1 Councilmember Joy Smith Kimbrough asked him for $500,000 in exchange for her support of a project has filed a formal ethics complaint against Kimbrough. City Cast Nashville contributor Nicole Williams joins host Marie Cecile Anderson and executive producer Whitney Pastorek to explain how that works. Plus: The city removed handmade downtown benches; the race for TN-07 has some front-runners; new reporting on the Tesla tunnels puts Mayor O’Connell in the hot

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22:36

Nashville’s Best Free Music Festival

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/28

For 15 years, Musician’s Corner has brought an all-star lineup of artists to Centennial Park for a series of free concerts twice a year. As their fall series kicks off tomorrow, Aug. 29th, host Marie Cecile Anderson is talking to executive producer Justin Branam about this year’s lineup, how the festival endures, and the massive rock star who once got tossed from backstage.TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards

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23:13

How the Nashville Humane Association Helps Humans, Too

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/27

As we wrap up National Dog Month, we’re spotlighting the work of the Nashville Humane Association, whose roots helping animals and humans go all the way back to 1887. NHA community engagement director Taylor Spreitler joins host Marie Cecile Anderson — who recently adopted her pup, Lottie, from NHA — to talk about their rescue process, why they’re pushing back against breed restrictions, and how our current economic uncertainty is impacting their work.Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast

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26:14

Why Electricity Bills in Nashville Might Be Going Up

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/26

There’s speculation that President Trump will seize control of — or privatize — the Tennessee Valley Authority, the country’s largest public utility, which provides energy for everyone in Nashville. How would that work? What impact would it have on jobs? And what does country singer John Rich have to do with it? Ironworkers Local 492 vice president and political director Justin Humbles joins executive producer Whitney Pastorek to explain.Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the

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23:39

Is Downtown Nashville Intentionally Pushing Out Our...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/25

We’re going downtown for a look at how the newly-expanded Central Business Improvement District is impacting the neighborhood, for better or worse. Nashville Scene columnist Lena Mazel joins host Marie Cecile Anderson to explain how private security and “hostile architecture” are impacting our unhoused community, cyclists, and everyone else who ventures through. Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards! You must vote in 20 categories for

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32:48

Metro Council Turns Ugly, Benches Disappear, and...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/22

The return of NASCAR to the Fairgrounds may be on the horizon, and benches are disappearing downtown — with critics accusing the city of creating hostile architecture instead. Host Marie Cecile Anderson, producer Daniel Sumstine, and executive producer Whitney Pastorek are once again wondering who Nashville is actually for. Plus: Metro Council turns nasty, who got paid half a million taxpayer dollars without a contract, and has Cracker Barrel gone woke? Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast

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25:14

Summer Shakespeare and the State of Nashville’s...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/21

The Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Summer Shakespeare run of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” opens tonight at The Yard at oneC1TY. Host Marie Cecile Anderson takes us inside this year’s production to discuss the state of Nashville theater with festival artistic director Jason Spelbring and Nashville Shakes conservatory members Aubrey Bagley, Trey Smith, and Makinley Smith. Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards! You must vote in 20

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22:38

Eat Cheap With Nashville’s Best Happy Hours & Early...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/20

A cheap night out, in THIS economy? It can be done! Host Marie Cecile Anderson is joined by her mother, Linda Anderson, to reveal their secret family list of the best happy hours and early bird specials in Nashville — because you don’t need to be on the AARP mailing list to eat at 5 p.m.** This episode originally aired Oct. 24, 2024 Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards! You must vote in 20 categories for your vote to count. We’re

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28:02

A New Solution for Nashville's Affordable Housing Woes?

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/19

The Cottages at Drakes Creek are being transformed into a limited equity housing co-op, aiming to give residents an ownership stake in their community and, hopefully, provide a new model to address Nashville’s affordable housing crisis. Host Marie Cecile Anderson sits down with Andy Zhu, a principal at MFX Ventures, and Stephen Watts, cooperative housing developer at the Southeast Center for Cooperative Development, to learn more.For more information on the Drakes Creek Cooperative or how to start

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25:17

Nashville Hates Metropolis Parking. Metropolis Is...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/18

We asked for your complaints about Metropolis Parking, and y’all had a lot to say! But just as this episode was coming to air, Metropolis did something pretty cool. Host Marie Cecile Anderson, producer Daniel Sumstine, and executive producer Whitney Pastorek are airing your grievances, celebrating the recent good news, and pondering the eternal mysteries of parking in Nashville. Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards! You must vote in 20

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36:00

Controversial MNPS Decisions, Tunnel vs. Crayfish,...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/15

The route for The Boring Company’s Tesla tunnels might put the endangered Nashville crayfish in Mill Creek at risk, but they’ve started digging anyway. City Cast Nashville contributor Nicole Williams joins host Marie Cecile Anderson and executive producer Whitney Pastorek for this week’s edition of Tunnel Time, and helps us understand the controversy surrounding a school board decision to settle with MNPS employees alleging wrongful termination. We’re also talking “misogynistic” school dress codes,

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21:27

Nashville’s Best Neighborhood Is … Madison?

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/14

Here in Nashville, we’ve got pretty strong feelings about our neighborhoods — and why they’re better than everyone else’s. Acclaimed musician and local treasure Ellen Angelico joins host Marie Cecile Anderson with a guide to the best restaurants, shops, and ways to spend a day in Madison, the still-affordable area just north of East.Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards! You must vote in 20 categories for your vote to count. We’re

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19:30

The Best Rides, Eats, and Exhibits at the 2025 TN...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/13

The Wilson County - Tennessee State Fair starts tomorrow, Aug. 14th, out in Lebanon. Fair President Randall Clemons joins host Marie Cecile Anderson to preview the truly astounding number of food vendors, exhibits, competitions, and entertainment options available this year — including a walkthrough of where bacon cheeseburgers come from, and the ride most likely to make you puke. Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards! You must vote in

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25:47

Nashville's Electronic Dance Music Scene Is Bigger...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/12

If you think EDM (electronic dance music) is just glow sticks and noodle dancing, think again. John Hanna, co-founder of this weekend’s Deep Tropics Music, Art, & Style Festival, joins producer Daniel Sumstine to teach us about the local scene, what EDM can learn from country music, and why Deep Tropics is hailed as one of the greenest festivals in the world. Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards! You must vote in 20 categories for your

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24:29

Why This Nashville News Outlet Is Suing the State of...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/11

The Nashville Banner, alongside the Tennessee Lookout and several other media outlets, is suing the state of Tennessee over a provision of the recently enacted PEACE Act that makes it a crime to come within 25 feet of law enforcement when ordered to stay back. Banner president and editor Steve Cavendish joins host Marie Cecile Anderson to explain why he joined the suit, and why the law has “grave implications” for your First Amendment rights. Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the

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38:18

Tunnel Questions, Loud Cars, and Rezoning The...

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/08

Two rezonings dominated Tuesday’s Metro Council meeting: An Urban Design Overlay in The Nations, and a logistics warehouse on Franklin Limestone Road. What did public comment teach us about neighborhood outreach in Nashville? District 29 Councilmember Tasha Ellis joins host Marie Cecile Anderson and executive producer Whitney Pastorek to explain why she voted no on the UDO, and how she’s hoping to kill the noise from loud cars on our streets. Plus, breaking news about the Tesla Tunnels potentially

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26:27

The Easiest Way to Grow Tomatoes in Nashville

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/07

Tomato Art Fest returns to East Nashville this weekend! To celebrate, BELL Garden’s director of gardens and programs Missy Hamilton joins host Marie Cecile Anderson to teach us how to grow our own ‘maters, even if all we have is a patio and a pot. Plus: Dealing with pests, “woo-woo” gardening hacks, and what’s the best mayo for your tomato sammy? (You better already know.)Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025 Best of Nashville awards! You must vote in 20

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26:27

Free Stuff You Can Get With Your Nashville Library Card

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/06

With school back in session, we’re chatting with Nashville Public Library marketing manager Andrea Fanta, who joins host Marie Cecile Anderson to walk us through all the surprising things you can snag for free with your library card, from art to cake pans. And don't forget, the downtown library branch is still closed due to the parking garage fire, so get out there and explore the other 20 branches!**This episode originally aired April 9, 2025 Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the

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30:17

1-Star Reviews of Tennessee’s Best Parks

City Cast Nashville ·

2025/08/05

Even the most beautiful places in the state have their haters. Host Marie Cecile Anderson, producer Daniel Sumstine, and executive producer Whitney Pastorek are quizzing each other — and you — on some of the best parks in the state and the city of Nashville, based solely off their one-star reviews. Spoiler alert: We’ve pulled all the parks into a list on Overlook Maps for your reference. Don’t look if you haven’t listened! Vote for City Cast Nashville as Best Podcast in the Nashville Scene’s 2025

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