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With rents climbing and affordable housing in short supply, renting in Nashville can feel overwhelming. From signing a lease to facing an eviction notice, Elizabeth Leiserson from the Legal Aid Societ...
· 25 min 20 sec
Austin-area students are back in school, but things are looking a little different this year in classrooms. While the new Texas law requiring schools to display the 10 Commandments is on hold at Austi...
· 30 min 32 sec
We made it through the worst of summer weather y’all, congratulations! The kids are back in school, the tourists are starting to come back, and maybe you’re feeling romantic. It’s time to date this ci...
· 33 min 31 sec
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...
· 22 min 58 sec
College is back in session, Cheer Up Charlies was saved from the chopping block, and we’ve made it past 100-degree days. Buckle up for a busy Friday News Roundup, where host Nikki DaVaughn is joined b...
· 30 min 14 sec
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...
· 31 min 35 sec
This weekend, Texas Longhorns play Ohio State University, kicking off The University of Texas at Austin’s football season — and the stakes couldn’t be higher. For the first time ever, UT is ranked No....
· 28 min 16 sec
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...
· 22 min 36 sec
When one bar door closes, another one opens. But is the new ever as good as the old? East Side favorite Nickel City recently landed a spot on North America's Best Bars list, proving that the Austin ba...
· 31 min 6 sec
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...
· 23 min 13 sec
That gasp you heard last Thursday evening? It was Austinites’ surprise at the news that longtime U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett is retiring if Texas’ new congressional district map is upheld in court....
· 32 min 3 sec
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. H...
· 26 min 14 sec
It was the Texas Department of Transportation’s construction of the Congress Avenue bridge in the 1980s that first attracted Mexican Freetail bats to Austin, in droves that caused Austinites to push f...
· 30 min 53 sec
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 Mari...
· 23 min 39 sec
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 Anders...
· 32 min 48 sec
It's not just you, traffic has indeed gotten worse since AISD went back to school this week. But the congestion on the roadways isn't the only thing changing this school year. Starting September 1, tw...
· 35 min 26 sec
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 d...
· 25 min 14 sec
After a 15-year hiatus, “King of the Hill” has been rebooted — and it just may be the very thing that Austinites need to watch right now. As this traditionally liberal city tries to navigate life in P...
· 26 min 10 sec
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 specia...
· 22 min 38 sec
Are we still suffering from a loneliness epidemic, like the U.S. Surgeon General declared in 2023? Well, the experts on friendship that we talked to say, kinda. While things may be getting better, Aus...
· 31 min 54 sec